Aggie Stewart

Yoga as Self-Care for Healthcare Practitioners (eBook, ePUB)

Cultivating Resilience, Compassion, and Empathy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An introduction for healthcare practitioners on using yoga to help manage stress and reach one's full potential. The importance of self-care to prevent burnout and stress is increasingly recognised within healthcare professions, and is being incorporated into education and training programs. This book gives students and practitioners across healthcare disciplines the tools they need to face various challenges on a multitude of interrelated fronts and help process the stress that these bring.

It covers the foundations of yoga practice, and how the different building blocks can be combined to develop resilience, compassion and empathy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857013538
• Artikelnr.: 57201135

Autorenporträt

Aggie Stewart is a yoga teacher and yoga therapist and former Accreditation Manager at International Association of Yoga Therapists. She has been teaching on this subject since 2009 and has taught at Brown University in Providence, RI and teaches now at University of Illinois at Chicago medical school. She has written on the topic in Yoga Therapy Today.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Essence of Self-Care. 1. We are Multi-Dimensional Beings:
The Holistic Foundation of Yoga Practice. 2. Intention - The Driving Force
behind Personal Practice. 3. Quieting the Body. 4. Cultivating Energy to
Support Resilience. 5. Bridging the Physical Body and the Thinking Mind. 6.
Mastering the Mind. 7. Enlarging Our Spirit. 8. Creating Responsive Yoga
Practices. 9. Choosing Practice Components