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Hope: How Yoga Heals the Scars of Traumaby Helen Cushing (Swami Ahimsadhara Saraswati) | 215 pages
Trauma sufferers everywhere are searching for solace and solutions. Hope: How Yoga Heals the Scars of Trauma provides a powerful and innovative plan for recovery. Helen Cushing (Ahimsadhara) is a yoga teacher and writer with more than a decade of experience in teaching yoga to war veterans, refugees and others with post-traumatic stress disorder. She lectures and consults in Australia and internationally. |
Hope explains how yoga heals the nervous system and helps regulate thinking, emotion and behaviour with:
- gentle yoga postures to relieve physical tension
- yoga breathing techniques for calmness and anger management
- yoga nidra, systematic relaxation for stress and insomnia
- simple meditation program for mindfulness and inner peace
- new mental attitudes for letting go of past pain
- practical lifestyle adjustments for healthy living
- 4 week yoga plan for trauma survivors.
Book extracts
Yoga: the peace-maker
"This is not only a book for people interested in yoga, it is a book for people interested in recovery from trauma. Trauma is a peace-stealer; yoga is a peace-maker. Trauma can leave you stuck in a holding pattern; yoga creates change. Stuck trauma damages one’s relationships with life; yoga nurtures those relationships."
"This is not only a book for people interested in yoga, it is a book for people interested in recovery from trauma. Trauma is a peace-stealer; yoga is a peace-maker. Trauma can leave you stuck in a holding pattern; yoga creates change. Stuck trauma damages one’s relationships with life; yoga nurtures those relationships."
From war to inner peace
"As those who have travelled the path from war to inner peace will attest, yoga works if you practise it, and every individual has a unique journey to travel. It is as simple as that. I do hope this book will inspire you to join us on that journey, step by step, towards, hope, healing and new-found joy."
"As those who have travelled the path from war to inner peace will attest, yoga works if you practise it, and every individual has a unique journey to travel. It is as simple as that. I do hope this book will inspire you to join us on that journey, step by step, towards, hope, healing and new-found joy."
Maximising harmony
"Healing the nervous system and managing the mind is the most important task facing anyone recovering from the debilitating condition of PTSD. Then comes the rest of life. In yoga we consciously adopt ways of living that support our overall aim of maximising harmony."
"Healing the nervous system and managing the mind is the most important task facing anyone recovering from the debilitating condition of PTSD. Then comes the rest of life. In yoga we consciously adopt ways of living that support our overall aim of maximising harmony."
What is hope?
"Hope is a small word with a big meaning. What is hope? Hope is a feeling that good will happen even when it seems impossible. Hope is the opposite of despair, so it is your greatest friend whenever despair seems to be taking over. Hope saves you from the finality of negativity because it generates energy and enthusiasm. Hope means that you never completely accept defeat, externally or internally. Hope is faith that goodness will find way and somehow prevail, even if you can't see how."
"Hope is a small word with a big meaning. What is hope? Hope is a feeling that good will happen even when it seems impossible. Hope is the opposite of despair, so it is your greatest friend whenever despair seems to be taking over. Hope saves you from the finality of negativity because it generates energy and enthusiasm. Hope means that you never completely accept defeat, externally or internally. Hope is faith that goodness will find way and somehow prevail, even if you can't see how."