Head and Heart: Yoga therapy and art therapy interventions for mental health

The book "Head and Heart: Integrating Yoga and Creative Art Therapy for Mental Health and Well-Being" is a comprehensive resource for yoga teachers, mental health professionals, and health practitioners interested in incorporating yoga and creative art therapy into their practices. It offers a theoretical framework, practical techniques, and case studies to deepen understanding of the integration of these approaches and their impact on mental health and well-being.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 248 pages
\n Publication date: 30 June 2021
\n Publisher: Handspring Publishing Limited
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Envisioned as a comprehensive resource for yoga teachers and all mental health and health professionals, Head and Heart is designed to deepen their understanding of how yoga and creative art therapy interventions can influence mental health approaches, best practices, and efficacy of treatment. Whether you assist the therapeutic or healing processes, aspire to incorporate both yoga and creative art therapy interventions into your practice, or are a yoga therapy practitioner or teacher, and creative art therapist or teacher looking to deepen your knowledge of integrating yoga and creative art approaches into yoga, mental health, and well-being, this book is for you.

Western psychological processes, compared to the Klesas, V?ittis, Kosas, Gu?as, Do?as, Nadi System, Cakras, and the Yamas and Niyamas, make this book accessible even to those unfamiliar with yogic philosophy and psychology. Throughout, you will find practical guidance on various aspects of yoga and creative art therapy, including clearing exercises, warm-up techniques, yogic breathing for mood management, modifications and sequencing of poses, assessments (for the mind and body), digital and telehealth applications, yoga prop usage, and co-morbid, clinical cases (children, adolescents, and adults).

Practical reflection exercises are offered in the Introductory chapter and chapters 3-6, summarizing and reiterating the clinical material for the reader. These exercises provide an opportunity for expansion toward oneself and/or one's clinical caseload, fostering an interoceptive research (going within) that facilitates an expansion towards self and others.

No matter what form your creative opening takes, this book will be your guide in exploring art, yoga, and well-being. Its interoceptive approach encourages self-exploration and fosters connections with others, leading to a deeper understanding of oneself and the world around you.

\n Weight: 956g\n
Dimension: 220 x 275 x 19 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781912085835\n \n