Yoga for Emotional Balance: Simple Practices to Help Relieve Anxiety and Depression

An integrative approach to healing anxiety, depression, and chronic stress through yoga and breathing exercises

Emotional balance is within your reach--when you cultivate the intelligence of both your body and mind.

Bo Forbes, a psychologist and yoga teacher, offers some of her most important teachings and practices, including:

- Restorative yoga sequences designed to balance anxiety and lift depression
- Breath and body-centered exercises to calm your mind and energize your body
- Simple ways to understand your emotional patterns
- 3 main obstacles to emotional well-being
- 5 tools for building emotional balance

Rooted in classical yoga yet supported by psychology and science, the techniques in this book will help you create progressive and lasting change.

Author: Bo Forbes
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 03/08/2011
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.43w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781590307601
ISBN10: 1590307607
BISAC Categories:
- Health & Fitness | Yoga
- Self-Help | Self-Management | Stress Management
- Self-Help | Mood Disorders | Depression

About the Author
Bo Forbes, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and integrative yoga therapist whose background includes training in biopsychology, behavioral medicine, and stress management. She is the founder of Integrative Yoga Therapeutics, a system that specializes in the therapeutic application of yoga for anxiety, insomnia, depression, immune disorders, chronic pain, and physical injuries. Forbes conducts teacher trainings and workshops internationally, and writes frequently for magazines such as Yoga Journal, Body + Soul, and the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. For more information, visit her online at boforbes.com.