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Yoga Saved My Life
- Author
- Sasha Bates
- Narrator
- Sasha Bates
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 9 June 2022
- Run Time
- 6 hours 37 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Why do you feel so much better after a yoga class?
What is it that takes yoga beyond being merely a way to physically exercise the body, and instead renders it a tool for effectuating deep and lasting emotional change?
In Yoga Saved My Life psychotherapist and yoga teacher Sasha Bates demystifies both yoga and psychotherapy, exploring the links between them and showing how each can be transformational. This sits alongside personal stories from members of the Fierce Calm yoga community - people who have experienced all manner of difficulties, whether due to neglect, addiction, abuse, anxiety, depression, stress or any of the other myriad ways in which we all struggle with modern life. Here they tell their stories of finding yoga, and thereby discovering a path through the beliefs and behaviours that had been holding them back and keeping them miserable.
If you've ever wondered why you feel so much better after a yoga class, then the explanations of how any why yoga works will enlighten you. Written using down to earth language and in a warm conversational tone, you will come to see how yoga is doing what psychotherapy does: providing a safe, containing, reflective space in which you can access your unconscious, develop self-awareness and find ways to relate to yourself better. This new relationship with your self offers new ways to work with the automatic habits you do without thinking, but which hold you back, practically and emotionally.
(P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Critics Review
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Yoga Saved My Life shows us gently and persuasively that healing the mind is as important as healing the body, and yoga is a great way of doing this
Vex King
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During this very ugly moment in global history, we all need as much support as possible. Thankfully,
Sasha Bates has gifted us with a magnificent jewel, exploring the physical and psychological benefits of yoga and so much more besides. This extremely readable and engaging book offers essential life-saving wisdom and calm.Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London, and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health, Regent’s University London
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Such a wonderfully enjoyable - and practical - book. A lovely guided voice making sense in a crowded space.
Liz Earle MBE
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Sasha takes everyday issues of modern life - stress, anxiety, depression, insecurity, overwhelm - and clearly unpacks them psychotherapeutically while revealing how the practice of yoga can help us grow in tolerance, agency, purpose, and compassion.
Sandra Gillespie, Somatic Therapist, London, UK
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Sasha demystifies yoga and gives a refreshing antidote to the off-putting public face that yoga sometimes presents.
Karen Russell, senior yoga teacher, and adaptive and sports yoga teacher
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Details
- Author
- Sasha Bates
- Narrator
- Sasha Bates
- Duration
- 6 hours 37 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 June 2022
- ISBN
- 9781529356892
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Yoga (as a philosophy), Complementary therapies, healing and health, Yoga for exercise
Synopsis
A ground-breaking book that explores the therapeutic power and transformative effects of yoga for health and wellbeing, with astonishing real-life stories by people for whom yoga has played a large part in helping them heal.Why do you feel so much better after a yoga class?What is it that takes yoga beyond being merely a way to physically exercise the body, and instead renders it a tool for effectuating deep and lasting emotional change?In Yoga Saved My Life psychotherapist and yoga teacher Sasha Bates demystifies both yoga and psychotherapy, exploring the links between them and showing how each can be transformational. This sits alongside personal stories from members of the Fierce Calm yoga community - people who have experienced all manner of difficulties, whether due to neglect, addiction, abuse, anxiety, depression, stress or any of the other myriad ways in which we all struggle with modern life. Here they tell their stories of finding yoga, and thereby discovering a path through the beliefs and behaviours that had been holding them back and keeping them miserable.If you've ever wondered why you feel so much better after a yoga class, then the explanations of how any why yoga works will enlighten you. Written using down to earth language and in a warm conversational tone, you will come to see how yoga is doing what psychotherapy does: providing a safe, containing, reflective space in which you can access your unconscious, develop self-awareness and find ways to relate to yourself better. This new relationship with your self offers new ways to work with the automatic habits you do without thinking, but which hold you back, practically and emotionally. (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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