Product Description
The definitive book of yoga therapy, this groundbreaking work comes to you from the medical editor of the country’s premier yoga magazine, who is both a practicing yogi and a Western-trained physician. Beginning with an overview of the history and science of yoga, Dr. McCall describes the many different techniques in the yoga tool kit; explains what yoga does and who can benefit from it (virtually everyone!); and provides lavishly illustrated and minutely detailed instructions on starting a yoga practice geared to your fitness level and your health status. Yoga as Medicine offers a wealth of practical information, including how to:•Utilize yogic tools, including postures, breathing techniques, and meditation, for both prevention and healing of illness•Master the art of becoming more in tune with your body•Communicate more effectively with your doctor•Adopt therapeutic yoga practices as either an alternative or a complement to surgery and to expensive, sometimes dangerous medications•Practice safely Find an instructor and a style of yoga that are right for you. With twenty chapters devoted to the work of individual master teachers, including such well-known figures as Patricia Walden, John Friend, and Rodney Yee, Yoga as Medicine shows how these experts have applied the wisdom of this ancient holistic practice to twenty different conditions, ranging from arthritis to chronic fatigue, depression, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, infertility, insomnia, multiple sclerosis, and obesity. Defining yoga as “a systematic technology to improve the body, understand the mind, and free the spirit,“ Dr. McCall shows the way to a path that can truly alter your life. An indispensable guide for the millions who now practice yoga or would like to begin, as well as for yoga teachers, body workers, doctors, nurses, and other health professionals.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 38 reviews)

Excellent book by Patrick C. Kennedy (Colorado)

5 Stars
September 18, 2009
The book Yoga as Medicine is excellent. It provides information in an easy to understand manner. Information is easy to find.

Good information on the benefits of yoga by To_all_believers (Somewhere, U.S.A)

5 Stars
September 09, 2009
This book is a great introduction to the practice of yoga. It also discusses specific applications for various ailments. I especially enjoyed the author's use of research data to illustrate the substantial physiological benefits of a regular routine.

Excellent book. I would give it 6 stars if I could. by Kanibal (Canada)

5 Stars
July 10, 2009
This book is fantastic. It is well-written and summarizes what is known about how yoga can be used to improve your health and even as therapy. It includes scientific facts and also the experiences of real people. I wish this book would be handed to every person that has been diagnosed with a life threatening disease. What a shame that medical doctors are only trained to treat symptoms and not find the cause of the problem. Human beings should be looked at from a comprehensive point of view when treated for a disease. There is almost no information from a scientific point of view (at least up to the standards of the Western countries) regarding the interactions of the body and mind. This book changed my life...For starters the chronic insomnia that I had for many many years is gone just practicing Shavasana (Body scan) every night in bed.

Molded by M Twain (Dublin Ireland)

1 Stars
July 07, 2009
This book was under all critique. It was completely molded and dreadfully wrapped. So I am not able to read it. It cost me enough too!

Good info, but chaotic organization by MamaDog

3 Stars
May 16, 2009
I'm sure there is a lot of good information in here, but I just can't get through it because of the organization of the book. Other books are so better presented (Yoga for Arthritis and other of that author's books, for example). Yoga as Medicine is sort of a collection of different "big" yoga teachers around the world and how they approach specific conditions. I just prefer a more straightforward approach of 'this is the issue, these are the facts, and here's what you can do about it.' I don't like the story/case study style that seems very limiting to me. Also, I don't like the collection style where one author is writing the overall book but referencing the information as "So and so says this" and "Gary recommends this pose for...." I find it disjointed and disorganized. I just want to read the information and learn and I don't care who said it and for whom the series was created. In summary, you have to do a lot of work in getting through the book. I've read some pretty huge "technical" yoga, anatomy and physiology books so I'm not afraid of the effort. I just think there are better options out there.

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