Contributed by Amy Weintraub
VIDEO: Using Yoga to Calm the Revved-Up Client
The Yoga Breath’s Universal ApplicationRich Simon interviews Amy Weintraub about the use of yoga in therapy. Read more
Bringing The Mental Health Benefits Of Yoga To Your Clinical Practice
Amy Weintraub Demonstrates How Easily It’s DoneAmy Weintraub shares a quick 3-minute tutorial on how to breathe to calm the stress response system. Read more
Yoga in the Therapy Room
Centering the Uncentered ClientRecently, therapists have begun to use simple, no-mat yoga practices to help clients whose minds are racing or fogged. Read more
Take a Breath
Using Yoga to Create a Sense of Well-Being in Your OfficeA variety of easy-to-use yogic breathing techniques can add a new dimension to treatment with depressed and anxious clients. Read more
Amy Weintraub
Amy Weintraub, MFA, ERYT-500, is the author of Yoga for Depression and the founder and director of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute in Tucson, Arizona, where she maintains a Yoga therapy practice. Amy is a senior Kripalu teacher and Mentor, and serves as the LifeForce Facilitator for the Psychotherapy Networker Symposia. She leads professional trainings and workshops in LifeForce Yoga internationally, including Kripalu Center, Omega, Mt Madonna, the Crossings, national medical conferences, the University of Georgia Medical School. She was also a 2007 Colloquium Speaker at the Boston University Graduate School of Psychology.
Amy writes frequently on the subject of yoga and mental health for national magazines and psychotherapy journals and is often interviewed in newspapers, on national radio programs and in magazines. She is featured on the first home video practice to address mood, LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues-Level I (DVD), and the CD Breathe to Beat the Blues. Amy maintains an archive of research and news on Yoga and mental health on her web site: www.yogafordepression.com.
Amy has participated in advanced Yoga trainings in the United States and India, including Kripalu Center in Lenox, with the Desikachar Family in the U.S., the Lakulish Institute in Gujarat, India, the Vivekanandra Kendra in Bangalore, India, and Vedanta studies at the Narayana Gurukula in Tamil Nadu.