Yoga and Psyche

Product Description Has yoga improved your health and expanded your awarenessbut emotional and relationship issues continue to challenge you?Or have you found psychotherapy helpful . . . yet you yearn for further spiritual discovery? With Yoga & Psyche, Mariana Caplan invites you to explore these two profound domains of transformation and learn how they so effectively complement each other. In this compelling guiderich with original research, clinical findings, Dr. Caplans own personal experiences, and many direct, hands-on practicesshe takes you on an in-depth exploration of this emerging terrain. Along the way, you are invited to become a participant in the evolution of this emergent field. Using the core principles and practices of trauma healing, yoga therapy, somatics and somatic therapies, depth psychology, and neuroscienceseamlessly combined with yoga postures, breathwork, meditation, and visualizationYoga & Psyche will help you to: Apply the insights of psychology in a practical way to your own yoga practice, teaching, professional work, and personal life Discover how to use psychological inquiry to amplify yogaturning it into a powerfully effective free therapy on the mat Delve into the many emotional layers of asana and yoga practice for trauma healing and recovery Experience step-by-step exercises to transform your yoga practice and experience greater calm, clarity, and emotional well-beingYoga & Psyche is emerging as a go-to reference guide to the joining of these two fields, now being adopted in yoga and somatic teacher training programs and university psychology classes nationwide. If youre seeking healing, transformation, and greater moments of daily joy and fulfillmentor want to help others do sothis comprehensive guide provides the compassionate, practical, and groundbreaking guidance you need. Review As we gain greater understanding about the bodys response to psychological wounding, the integration of psychotherapy with body-based introspective wisdom traditions is producing new, more effective pathways to healing from trauma. This book is an important contribution to that endeavor. It is clearly written and comprehensively researched, providing a valuable resource of information and insight. Judith Blackstone, PhD, founder of the Realization Process and author of Belonging Here, The Intimate Life, and The Self-Acceptance ProjectSeamlessly weaving yoga, neuroscience, somatics, and psychotherapy with the latest research, Marianas work is accessible, practical, and intelligent. She integrates yoga and psychology through personal stories and hands-on practices to generate the possibility for clear transformation. Elena Brower, author of Art of Attention and Practice YouMariana Caplan is a highly integrative thinker and writer, and in her new book, Yoga and Psyche, she has given us an extremely useful, detailed, and much needed look at the current interface between the worlds of psychotherapy and yoga. These two worldsand their oft-differing views about the nature of human possibilityhave been interacting much more frequently over the past several decades, but not always with clarity. Dr. Caplan brings this much-needed clarity in her very comprehensive new book. She skillfully examines the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience, trauma theory, and physiology in ways that shed tremendous light on the real challenges that face the contemporary practitioner of yoga, meditation, and the contemplative arts. All of us in the field should be most grateful for this book, which will certainly become a must-read in the field. Stephen Cope, Senior Scholar-in-Residence at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and author of Yoga and the Quest for the True Self and The Wisdom of YogaI now keep this book beside my mat in my yoga room for reference, as these exercises can be repeated to deepen my practice over time. Hilary Wiltshire, Bad Yogi MagazineIn this clear, comprehensiv