Full Description
Yoga and Eating Disorders bridges the knowledge and practice gaps between mental health providers and yoga practitioners who work with clients suffering from disordered eating. Combining the wisdom of 20 experts in eating disorders treatment and yoga practice, editors Carolyn Costin and Joe Kelly show how and why yoga's mind-body connection facilitates treatment and recovery. This invaluable resource for mental health and yoga professionals, as well as individuals and family members struggling with eating disorders, explores the use yoga in therapy, ways yoga teachers can recognize and respond to disordered eating, recovery stories, research into yoga's impact on symptoms, and much more.
Contents
Section I: Why and How Yoga Helps Heal Eating Disorders. 1 Yoga: A Healing Journey from Personal to Professional. 2 Yamas and Niyamas on the Journey to Recovery from Eating Disorders. 3 The Koshas: A Guide for Accessing Authentic Self. 4 Yoga as an Adjunctive Treatment for PTSD. 5 Yoga and Samskaras: Breaking Through Eating Disorder Patterns. 6 What the Research Does and Doesn't Say. 7 Personal Story: The Light and the Parasite. Section II: Shadow and Risk. 8 The Shadow Side of Yoga. 9 Yoga Teaching, Yoga Therapy and Making Informed Choices. 10 Personal Story: From Darkness to Light. Section III: Using Yoga in Eating Disorder Therapy. 11 Yoga-Mind Psychotherapy: Integrating Yoga with Psychotherapy for People with Eating and Body Image Disorders. 12 Yoga for Emotions: Tools For Healing From Eating Disorder Behaviors. 13 Embody Love: How Yoga Teachers Help Prevent and Treat Eating Disorders and Negative Body Image. 14 Nourish Yoga Workshops for Recovery. 15 Three Approaches: Client Perspectives on Strong, Restorative and Partner Yoga Classes. 16 Personal Story: Athletes, Yoga and Eating Disorders. Section IV: Integrating Yoga in Eating Disorder Treatment Programs. 17 Opening The Door To Yoga: Guidance and Guidelines. 18 How Yoga Teachers Can Incorporate Yoga into a Treatment Program. 19 The Red Tent: Establishing Sacred Space in Treatment and Beyond.
