Yoga Therapy: Theory and Practice

235 Pages·2015·5.26 MB·English

by  Ellen G. Horovitz

Yoga Therapy
Yoga Therapy: Theory and Practiceis a vital guidebook for any clinician or scholar
looking to integrate yoga into the medical and mental health fields. Chapters
are written by expert yoga therapy practitioners and offer theoretical, historical,
and practice-based instruction on cutting-edge topics such as the application
of yoga therapy to anger management and the intersection of yoga therapy
and epigenetics; many chapters also include Q&A “self-inquiries.” Readers will
find that Yoga Therapy is the perfect guide for practitioners looking for new
techniques as well as those hoping to begin from scratch with yoga therapy.
Ellen G. Horovitz, PhD, is professor and director of the graduate art
therapy program at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. She is the
author of seven books, served on the American Art Therapy Association’s board
of directors and as president-elect, and is past media editor of Arts & Health:
An International Journal of Research, Policy and Practice.
Staffan Elgelid, PhD, is an associate professor of physical therapy at
Nazareth College in Rochester, New York and has served on the board of the
North America Feldenkrais Guild, the advisory board of the International
Association of Yoga Therapists, and on the editorial board of several journals.
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Yoga Therapy:
Theory and Practice
Edited by Ellen G. Horovitz
and Staffan Elgelid
First published 2015
by Routledge
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and by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,
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© 2015 Ellen G. Horovitz and Staffan Elgelid
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material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been
asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright,
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All chapter introductory images except for that of Chapter 5 were
produced by Paolo E. Marino
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Yoga therapy : theory and practice / [edited] by Ellen G. Horovitz
and Staffan Elgelid.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Horovitz, Ellen G., editor. II. Elgelid, Staffan, editor.
[DNLM: 1. Yoga. QT 260.5.Y7]
RA781.7
613.7’046—dc23
2014040305
ISBN: 978-1-138-81615-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-81616-9 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-74629-6 (ebk)
Typeset in Baskerville
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For Karen Armstrong and Janet Rock: you contain me in spirit and word.
Without you, this book would never have seen the light of day.
E.G.H.
To my friend Matt: My involvement in this book could not have happened
without your guidance and support through the years. You let me find the
right direction at SYTAR 2011 and life has not been the same since!
S.E.
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
List of Contributors x
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
ELLEN G. HOROVITZ
SECTION I
History, Philosophy, and Regulation of Yoga Therapy 5
1 Yoga: History and Philosophy in the West 7
RICHARD ROSEN
2 Yoga Therapy, Defined 18
STAFFAN ELGELID AND ERIN BYRON
3 Regulating Yoga Therapy: Acceptance in the West 28
DANIEL D. SEITZ
4 Organizational Yoga Therapy: The Unfoldment
of Institutional YogaMind in the World 40
MATTHEW J. TAYLOR
SECTION II
Models of Practice 47
5 Yoga and Neuronal Pathways to Enhance Stress
Response, Emotion Regulation, Bonding, and
Spirituality 49
PATRICIA L. GERBARG AND RICHARD P. BROWN
viii Contents
6 Emotional Detox and Hot Yoga 65
BENJAMIN LORR
7 Relaxing Into the Self: Why We All Need to Learn
to Let Go 75
JUDITH HANSON LASATER
8 How the Yoga Lifestyle Transforms Stress 85
ROBERT BUTERA AND ERIN BYRON
9 Yoga Therapy for Our Healers: How to Give to Self
to Give to Others 94
JOANNE WU
10 Yoga, Is It Learning or Therapy? Comparing Medical
and Educational Models 110
STAFFAN ELGELID
11 Family Yoga Therapy and Art Therapy: New Models
of Treatment 122
ELLEN G. HOROVITZ
12 An Ayurvedic Lifestyle and Diet: An Internet-Based
Study 144
LISA CONBOY, HILARY GARIVALTIS, ERIN E. CASPERSON,
AND SCOTT BLOSSOM
13 Yoga and Mental Health: The Crumbling Wall 151
AMY WEINTRAUB
14 Yoga for Anger Management 163
SHERI KREHER
15 Music of Yoga/Yoga of Music 178
FRANÇOIS RAOULT
16 My Other Yoga: A Patient’s Journey through Healing
On and Off the Mat 188
FRANCES SOMMER ANDERSON AND “LAURA” (PSEUDONYM)
Appendices 202
Index 211
Illustrations
Tables
5.1 Correlates of Stress and Counteracting Stress with
Regulatory Systems 56
11.1 Elvira’s FEATS Analysis 132
12.1 The Outcomes of the Two Ayurvedic Questionnaires: 1)
Current State of Being, 2) Base Constitution 147
Figures
9.2 Professional Quality of Life Scale (PROQOL) 99
11.2 Chronosystem patterns of the individual 124
11.3 Genogram of Elvira’s family system 129
11.4 Elvira’s KFD: (upper left), mother, (center left) Moriarty,
(upper right) father, (lower figure center) Elvira 131
11.5 Dyadic communication 135
11.6 Mother and Elvira in dyadic yoga therapy (faces digitized
to protect identities) 136
11.7 (Left) Elizabeth’s straight and narrow path, (right) Elvira’s
black heart 137
11.8 Mother and Elvira’s combined yogic bracelet (clay) 138
11.9 Top: Elvira, Moriarty and Mother hula-hoop and
below in savasana (faces have been digitized to protect
identities) 139
11.10 Clay pinch pots by mother (bottom), Elvira (top left) and
Moriarty (top right) 140
11.11 Mother and Elvira in coupled therapeutic activity 141