Amy Wheeler

This deeply compassionate and inclusive resource explores the practice of yoga therapy, mindfulness, and somatic enquiry with children and young people who have complex needs. Suitable for working with ages 5-18, the book explores a wide range of conditions - including sensory processing disorder, autism, Down syndrome, hypermobility, scoliosis, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Chapters also include comprehensive theory on the nervous system, child development from the age of 3+, the benefits of expressive arts, and regular reflective prompts for the adults. It is supplemented with over 100 photographs to ease learning and is an invaluable resource for therapists working with children and teens with complex needs.

Applying Therapeutic Yoga in Integrative Health is more than just a book—it is an invitation to actively participate in a journey of growth and transformation. This comprehensive resource highlights that yoga is more than postures—it is a powerful therapeutic system that belongs in the future of healthcare. This book bridges ancient wisdom with modern science, offering clear and practical guidance for using yoga as complementary care for well-being in a way that aligns with evidence informed approaches in neuroscience, psychology, and integrative health. For healthcare professionals, yoga therapists, and seekers alike, this book offers a path beyond symptom management toward balance, connection, and transformation.

Applying Therapeutic Yoga in Integrative Health is more than just a book—it is an invitation to actively participate in a journey of growth and transformation. This comprehensive resource highlights that yoga is more than postures—it is a powerful therapeutic system that belongs in the future of healthcare. This book bridges ancient wisdom with modern science, offering clear and practical guidance for using yoga as complementary care for well-being in a way that aligns with evidence informed approaches in neuroscience, psychology, and integrative health. For healthcare professionals, yoga therapists, and seekers alike, this book offers a path beyond symptom management toward balance, connection, and transformation.

Consisting of curated interviews with yoga pioneers including Gail Parker, Heather Mason and Neil Pearson, this book shows the transformational benefits of personal yoga practice and uncovers a collective deepening, resulting from accumulated practice and conscious application at scale. These interviews were collected with the 'presencing approach', used by the author in the dialogue and the interview process itself. The yoga narratives that form the heart of the book are inspirational stories from elders who have created transformational change in their own lives, or incorporated yoga into a bigger vision to benefit society and the planet. The book also presents a toolkit of actionable steps for readers to create social action and/or change. A unique example of moving from the 'me' consciousness to the 'we' consciousness, Yoga Radicals invites readers to join pioneers on a path of social action through personal transformation.

Presenting ways in which Restorative Yoga can contribute to healing emotional wounds, this book invites yoga teachers, therapists and practitioners to consider the psychological impact of ethnic and race-based stress and trauma. It aids in the process of uncovering, examining, and healing one's own emotional wounds and offers insight into avoiding wounding or re-wounding others. The book describes how race-based traumatic stress differs from PTSD and why a more targeted approach to treatment is necessary, as well as what can trigger it. It also considers the implications of an increasingly racially and ethnically diverse and global yoga community, as well as the importance of creating conscious yoga communities of support and connection, where issues of race and ethnicity are discussed openly, non-defensively and constructively. By providing a therapeutic structure that assists those directly and indirectly impacted by ethnic and race-based stress and trauma, Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma provides valuable tools for aiding in the processing of stressful experiences and in trauma recovery.