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More than 25 million Americans are treated with antidepressants each year, at a cost in excess of $50 billion. But the side effects of popular prescription drugs may seem nearly as depressing as the symptoms they’re meant to treat. Veteran yoga instructor Amy Weintraub offers a better solution-one that taps the scientifically proven link between yoga and emotional well-being as well as the beauty of ancient approaches to inner peace.

Addressing a range of diagnoses, including dysthymia, anxiety-based depres­sion, and bipolar disorder, Yoga for Depression reveals why specific postures, breathing practices, and meditation techniques can ease suffering and release life’s traumas and losses. Weintraub also reflects on her own experience with severe depression, from which she recovered through immersing herself in a daily yoga routine.

Yoga for Depression is the first yoga book devoted exclusively to the treat­ment of these debilitating conditions. Amy Weintraub will help readers see their suffering and themselves in a vibrant new light.

This book belongs in the hands of every person who experiences depression and in the library of every therapist who works with people suffering from depression.

Richard C. Miller, Ph.D., cofounder of the International Association of Yoga Therapists

In a world obsessed with psychopharmacology, this book is a refreshing reminder that, in some cases, the tools that we have to cure depression reside not in a pill but in our own bodies, if we are willing to try.