Emotional Yoga: How the Body Can Heal the Mind - Paperback

by Bija Bennett (Author)

Drawing on her extensive training in yoga therapy, dance, and meditation, Bija Bennett has created a groundbreaking yoga program that takes full advantage of the body-mind connection.

Based on the classical eightfold path of yoga, Emotional Yoga offers a broad range of simple body-mind techniques that can positively affect our emotional well-being, including the dynamic interplay of movements, breathing exercises, meditations, lifestyle skills, rituals, gestures, and healing sounds. Each technique is presented in a way that is true to Bennett's background in the tradition of Viniyoga, which allows the reader to adapt the program to his or her specific needs.

Author Biography

Bija Bennett is poet, performer, philosopher, and athlete of the inner self-- and outstanding communicator who is able to convey the tenets of mind-body health in remarkably accessible and engaging and ways. An internationally renowned yoga therapist with a Master's Degree in Dance from UCLA, Bija is the author of Emotional Yoga (Simon & Schuster) and Breathing into Life (HarperCollins). A visionary leader for the post-modern spiritual set, Bija created YogaAway, LLC, an international wellness brand for the hospitality and spa industries, and has worked closely with Deepak Chopra, MD at his Ayurvedic health center and co-leading his seminars around the world. She is currently at work on The Dad Project, an art and film project featuring consecrated conversations between fathers and daughters.