{"id":1088,"date":"2017-05-08T17:01:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T17:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yogadirectorycanada.com\/community\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2021-04-26T18:50:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T18:50:09","slug":"yoga-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yogadirectorycanada.com\/community\/yoga-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Personalized Approach for Your Active Lifestyle<\/h2>\n

By Kristen Butera<\/a>, Staffan Elgelid<\/h3>\n

Human Kinetics Publishers Canada<\/em>
\nwww.humankinetics.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Yoga Therapy: A Personalized Approach for Your Active Lifestyle<\/i> is a comprehensive and practical guide for identifying and incorporating yoga movements into a new or existing routine. This detailed resource offers descriptions and images of awareness exercises and proven poses as well as providing techniques to help you create a personalized practice for better health and performance.<\/p>\n

Comprehensive and accessible, Yoga Therapy <\/em>demonstrates the most effective poses for mobility, strength, recovery, and balance as well as techniques to aid relaxation and help with stress management.<\/p>\n

Kristen Butera,<\/b> a professional yoga teacher and yoga therapist, is the co-owner of the YogaLife Institute in Wayne, Pennsylvania. She is the editor of the regional magazine Yoga Living<\/i>. Kristen started studying yoga in the year 2000 and has since accumulated more than 3,500 hours of professional education in a variety of yoga styles and movement modalities. She specializes in training yoga teachers and yoga therapists and is the co-creator of the 250- and 500-hour Teacher Training programs and 820-hour Comprehensive Yoga Therapy training programs at the YogaLife Institute. Kristen is known for creating dynamic and interactive learning environments that empower students of all ages and levels to explore a variety of potential practices and apply yoga lifestyle principles toward living a richer, fuller life.<\/p>\n

Staffan Elgelid, PhD,<\/b> is a physical therapist, Feldenkrais practitioner, and yoga therapist with RYT-500 and C-IAYT certifications. Elgelid has presented internationally on a variety of topics and created programs on core strengthening, including the SmartCore Training<\/i> DVD. He is an associate professor of physical therapy at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, where he teaches soft tissue work and health and wellness. Elgelid is a faculty member for the Comprehensive Yoga Therapy training program at the YogaLife Institute. He has written several articles on yoga therapy for the International Journal on Yoga Therapy<\/i> and Yoga Living<\/i> magazine. He has extensive experience as a presenter and moderator at professional conferences and continuing education workshops. Elgelid is coeditor of Yoga Therapy: Theory and Practice<\/i>, written for clinicians and scholars looking to integrate yoga into the medical and mental health fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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