Yoga for Fibromyalgia: Move, Breathe, and Relax to Improve Your Quality of Life [Paperback]

Fibromyalgia is characterized by widespread pain in muscles, ligaments, and tendons, as well as fatigue and multipletender points (places on the body where slight pressure causes pain). Although mainstream medicine has yet to devise a successful plan for treating fibromyalgia, yoga offers sensible strategies for managing—and sometimes overcoming—the pain. Written by a yoga teacher and suitable for both yoga novices and veterans, this book is grounded in simple movements, breathing techniques, and guided visualization and relaxation sessions. Readers learn to reduce stress and manage fibromyalgia through eight sequences: four for pain relief, one to diminish fatigue and improve sleep, and three for maintaining body awareness and general flexibility. The author's simple, supportive language and mixture of theory, practice, and the latest scientific data offer hope for one of today's most challenging health conditions.Shoosh has been teaching yoga since 1974 and specializes in working with students with special needs, including those with MS, arthritis, Fibromyalgia Lymphedema, and cancer. She has a masters’ degree in Diagnostic Education. In 1994, while teaching for the National MS Society, she founded the production and distribution company Mobility Limited and wrote and produced the videoYoga for MS. She also wrote and producedYoga for Arthritisin partnership with the Arthritis Foundation in 1997, and she produced and distributes the therapeutic dance video written by Sherry Lebed Davis,Focus on Healing through Movement & Dance for Breast Cancer Survivors. Shoosh has given workshops and made presentations on yoga and arthritis at international rheumatology conferences and is especially interested in working with lymphedema. She also has two YouTube videos:Lymphatic Flow Yoga SeriesandYoga Seated Sun Exercises.

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