Yoga As Medicine: Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing

“The definitive book on yoga therapy, this groundbreaking work comes from the medical editor of the country’s leading yoga magazine, who is both a dedicated yogi and a Western-trained physician.

Dr. McCall starts with an overview of yoga’s history and science, detailing the various techniques in the yoga toolkit. He explains the benefits of yoga for everyone and provides richly illustrated, detailed instructions on beginning a yoga practice tailored to your fitness level and health status. “Yoga as Medicine” is packed with practical advice, including how to:

– Use yogic tools like postures, breathing techniques, and meditation for preventing and healing illnesses.
– Develop a deeper awareness of your body.
– Communicate more effectively with your doctor.
– Integrate therapeutic yoga practices as alternatives or complements to surgery and expensive, sometimes risky medications.
– Practice yoga safely.

The book also helps you find the right instructor and yoga style. With twenty chapters dedicated to individual master teachers like Patricia Walden, John Friend, and Rodney Yee, it shows how these experts have applied yoga’s holistic wisdom to treat conditions ranging from arthritis and chronic fatigue to depression, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, infertility, insomnia, multiple sclerosis, and obesity. Dr. McCall describes yoga as “a systematic technology to improve the body, understand the mind, and free the spirit,” guiding readers on a transformative path.

This indispensable guide is perfect for the millions who practice yoga or wish to start, as well as for yoga teachers, bodyworkers, doctors, nurses, and other health professionals.”