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Embodied Resilience Through Yoga: 30 Mindful Essays about Finding Empowerment After Addiction, Trauma, Grief, and Loss
30 Amazing Stories of Resilience to Help You Heal, Connect, and Thrive
Featuring thirty personal essays about finding resilience through yoga, this inspiring book supports your journey to self-acceptance and empowerment. Susanna Barkataki, Zabie Yamasaki, Jan Adams, Michael Hayes, Amanda Huggins, Sarah Harry, Alli Simon, and many other renowned practitioners present extraordinary stories of overcoming addiction, working through trauma, and learning how to heal from grief.
Topics of loss and hardship are often swept aside in conversations about mindfulness and yoga, but this remarkable book offers profound wisdom on how your practice can help you carry on during challenging times. Explore unique perspectives on trauma related to gender, identity, and body image. Discover uplifting messages of recovery, awakening, and belonging. This anthology encourages you to reconnect with your body and transform it into a trusted ally that provides strength you didn't realize you had.
Includes a foreword by Hala Khouri, MA, cofounder of Off the Mat, Into the World.
Featuring thirty personal essays about finding resilience through yoga, this inspiring book supports your journey to self-acceptance and empowerment. Susanna Barkataki, Zabie Yamasaki, Jan Adams, Michael Hayes, Amanda Huggins, Sarah Harry, Alli Simon, and many other renowned practitioners present extraordinary stories of overcoming addiction, working through trauma, and learning how to heal from grief.
Topics of loss and hardship are often swept aside in conversations about mindfulness and yoga, but this remarkable book offers profound wisdom on how your practice can help you carry on during challenging times. Explore unique perspectives on trauma related to gender, identity, and body image. Discover uplifting messages of recovery, awakening, and belonging. This anthology encourages you to reconnect with your body and transform it into a trusted ally that provides strength you didn't realize you had.
Includes a foreword by Hala Khouri, MA, cofounder of Off the Mat, Into the World.
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336 pages, Paperback
Published August 8, 2020
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August 22, 2020
This book contains a collection of essays focusing on how people used yoga to heal. There are sections on addiction, healing pain, loss, identity issues and family. People shared their vulnerabilities and journeys with yoga; however, the essays seemed too short to allow a connection. As a hug fan of yoga, enjoyed reading about the role yoga played in their life. It was a gentle reminder that I need to make more time for yoga in my life.
This book also contains meditation sections which would be best in audio format.
Overall, I would have preferred fewer longer essays.
Thank you Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This book also contains meditation sections which would be best in audio format.
Overall, I would have preferred fewer longer essays.
Thank you Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
September 7, 2020
Yoga for Healing
This collection of short essays about the power of yoga to heal and transform is written by a multitude of people covering a diversity of human experience: male, female, and transgender; gay and straight; white people as well as those of color; people of size, etc. The thread that ties these people and this book together is that the people have experienced some form of trauma—whether outright physical or emotional trauma or something more insidious—and have found healing and reintegration through yoga. Sometimes, the essays are intensely personal, sharing the trauma to help illuminate the future healing. As such, if you have experienced traumas like sexual assault or physical abuse, you might find some essays hard to read. If, however, you can do so, you might find a pathway to healing that could help. The essays are all relatively short and offer insights to the author's personal pain or struggles as well as universal takeaways that could be helpful to anyone. All in all, I found this to be a fantastic book that oozes self-acceptance, self-love, warmth, and understanding.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
This collection of short essays about the power of yoga to heal and transform is written by a multitude of people covering a diversity of human experience: male, female, and transgender; gay and straight; white people as well as those of color; people of size, etc. The thread that ties these people and this book together is that the people have experienced some form of trauma—whether outright physical or emotional trauma or something more insidious—and have found healing and reintegration through yoga. Sometimes, the essays are intensely personal, sharing the trauma to help illuminate the future healing. As such, if you have experienced traumas like sexual assault or physical abuse, you might find some essays hard to read. If, however, you can do so, you might find a pathway to healing that could help. The essays are all relatively short and offer insights to the author's personal pain or struggles as well as universal takeaways that could be helpful to anyone. All in all, I found this to be a fantastic book that oozes self-acceptance, self-love, warmth, and understanding.
I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
December 15, 2020
Struggled with the decision of 3 or 4 stars. Decided on 4 due to some overwhelmingly beautiful essays and extremely important voices. I found some essays to be overly sensational and lacking depth though I suppose that is the nature of anthologies. Loved the inclusivity of marginalized voices as well as the reflection questions at the end of each section. Inspired and grateful for learning and expanding my knowledge of yoga.
From my favorite essay:
"When I told him about my experience with homelessness earlier on in life, he invited me to see how my practice might shift if I invoked the feeling of being home in downward dog by concentrating on the connection between my feet and the earth. My practice has literally never been the same ever since. Now, the simple act of walking while placing my awareness in my feet brings me back to a potent feeling of returning home. My practice over time has slowly shifted from an agonizing chore to a rejuvenating dance of self-love and remembrance that brings me time and time again to the felt experience of liberation and home inside of myself." -Dr. Sará King
From my favorite essay:
"When I told him about my experience with homelessness earlier on in life, he invited me to see how my practice might shift if I invoked the feeling of being home in downward dog by concentrating on the connection between my feet and the earth. My practice has literally never been the same ever since. Now, the simple act of walking while placing my awareness in my feet brings me back to a potent feeling of returning home. My practice over time has slowly shifted from an agonizing chore to a rejuvenating dance of self-love and remembrance that brings me time and time again to the felt experience of liberation and home inside of myself." -Dr. Sará King
August 29, 2020
Thank you Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I enjoyed these short essays about how yoga helped people recover from trauma, addiction and loss. I also appreciate the essay cautioning people to be careful not to become obsessed with yoga, there can be a fine line.. I would imagine people for whose addiction and mental health issues lead to yoga, it can become a compulsion.
Yoga teachers and those who practice yoga will enjoy this book!
I enjoyed these short essays about how yoga helped people recover from trauma, addiction and loss. I also appreciate the essay cautioning people to be careful not to become obsessed with yoga, there can be a fine line.. I would imagine people for whose addiction and mental health issues lead to yoga, it can become a compulsion.
Yoga teachers and those who practice yoga will enjoy this book!
July 4, 2021
Fantastic!! as were the first two anthologies. I'm a big believer in books finding you at the right time and I really needed this collection of essays to propel me forward in my healing right now. And to remind me why I always come back to the mat. I'm left feeling inspired and connected to my intuition.
May 17, 2020
FULL REVIEW HERE!!!!
As much as I learned through reading this book, the most powerful lesson I gained was that everyone deserves access to the potential life-changing tools of yoga. Not all of the stories had a major impact on me, but many of them allowed me to challenge my views of myself, my experiences, and how I view yoga.
As much as I learned through reading this book, the most powerful lesson I gained was that everyone deserves access to the potential life-changing tools of yoga. Not all of the stories had a major impact on me, but many of them allowed me to challenge my views of myself, my experiences, and how I view yoga.
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