Yoga is a comprehensive mind-body practice that is particularly effective for self-regulation, mood management, fostering resilience, and promotion of wellbeing. Inherently, yoga is a system for improving mental health and alleviating suffering at the deepest levels.  Consequently, yoga’s potential as a key component of integrative and complementary mental health is now being recognized internationally.  This book serves as a reference, but also as a bridge between yoga therapy and healthcare, helping to add to the process of growing integration. It provides a professional resource for mental health professionals interested in the potential for yoga interventions that facilitate the therapeutic process, and who want to learn ways in which yoga can catalyze and deepen this process across a broad spectrum of mental health approaches. Similarly for yoga professionals with a focus on mental health and wellbeing who want to expand their understanding of how yoga relates to mental health approaches and their knowledge of best practices.

Look through Yoga for Mental Health here…

The format is designed for consistency and ease of reading. Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the yogic viewpoint of mental health and wellbeing, and the psychological and neurological rationale for yoga’s usage in mental health conditions.  Each subsequent chapter is organized into a clinical overview of mental health conditions, followed by sections on current research and the rationale for incorporating yoga into the treatment of the condition, recommended yoga practices, and future directions.

Reviews on Amazon include the following from Sara Nothley, clinical psychologist and yoga teacher:

This is an absolutely fantastic book: interesting, clearly written but also very well researched, based on cutting edge clinical evidence. I am a clinical psychologist and yoga teacher and this book is the perfect marriage of the two disciplines. Highly recommend this to anyone with an interest in yoga or mental health.

Heather Mason joined Elizabeth Larkam on Moved to Learn! last year to discuss yoga and the pandemic and how yoga can and should be part of our societal recovery. Watch and listen here…