Yoga Therapy for Headache Relief

Headaches are one of the most common and aggravating health problems we experience. More than 40 million Americans suffer from serious or chronic headaches sometime during their lives, and Americans consume over 30,000 tons of over-the counter painkillers each year!

Co-written by an experienced medical doctor and an acclaimed professional yoga teacher, Yoga Therapy for Headache Relief is the first book that uses yoga as a comprehensive, permanent alternative solution to the standard-often only marginally effective-treatments.

Topics covered include: the different types of headaches and how to tell them apart; how yoga can help them; two safe, effective routines-one short, the other longer -detailing which yoga postures to use for best results; additional alternative techniques that may be helpful; other prescription and non-prescription medical therapies worth considering; and a bibliography for further reading.

Effective Solutions for Overcoming HeadachesYoga Therapy is a revolutionary new approach to working with some of the most common physical and mental ailments. Combining yoga postures with the latest in conventional and alternative medical treatments, each book in the Yoga Therapy series presents a fresh, effective approach to healing.

Yoga Therapy for Headache Relief contains extensive information on how to use yoga postures as an aid in healing, useful conventional and alternative treatments to supplement your practice, plus a variety of additional tips, techniques, and tools. Yoga Therapy is easy-to-use, succinct, and requires no prior knowledge or practice of yoga.

Dimensions: 6 1/4" x 6 1/4"
Details: Hardcover, 159 pages
Author: Dr. Van Houten

Testimonials

I have suffered from headaches ever since I was a child. They call them clusters;' several headaches over a few days ranging from a dull ache to a full-blown can't-bear-the-light, vomiting migraine. Looking down the Pain Relief aisle at the grocery store, I am clearly not the only one suffering from this issue. But you can only take so many aspirin, Tylenol, Advil, Excedrin cocktails before you realize that you have to find a more holistic approach to healing your own pain. Yoga can help back pain, creaky hips and hurt knew - but headaches? This book answers that question with a resounding "Yes!" Not just for stopping headaches right as they begin, but to help prevent them with better techniques of posture and improved flexibility in the neck, shoulders and back areas. Breathing deeply, there are also basic techniques of meditation and stress management. These slow, simple exercises are easy for anyone, certainly necessary for anyone computer or desk bound, and essential for someone who is prone to headaches like me. Less pills, more relief, all in this little book."
—Vision Magazine

About Dr. Van Houten

Dr. Van Houten was trained in medicine at UC San Francisco, which is considered one of the top medical schools in the US.

He founded Sierra Family Medical Clinic in the 1982, a rural community medical clinic in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in Northern California as a family practice, which also serves a significant indigent population.

As a family physician, he is widely considered a pioneer in integrating behavioral and mental health into every-day medical practice and his practice has a full time consultant for behavioral health and lifestyle management training on staff.

Committed to "evidence based medicine", he recommends yoga postures, relaxation training, and attitude modification routinely for a variety of health problems along with standard medical therapies.

Sought out by patients internationally for consultation, he has a tremendous reputation for delivering cutting-edge health care with insight, kindness, and compassion.

About Gyandev (Rich) McCord

Gyandev is the worldwide Director of Ananda Yoga and the Ananda Yoga Teacher Training programs at The Expa—nding Light Yoga & Meditation Retreat. He has a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Applied Mathematics and has taught internationally on the subjects of yoga, meditation and yoga philosophy for over 16 years. He also served as General Manager for Ananda Publications and Dawn Publications for three years and as a Management Consultant for four years in the Silicon Valley.

Gyandev has served on the Board of Directors of the Yoga Alliance, the group of yoga schools and traditions which has recently developed comprehensive standards for yoga teachers in the United States. He is also an accomplished storyteller, focusing on epic dramas from mystic traditions.

Gyandev's philosophy about yoga practice is that, "It should give valuable benefits on many levels - physical, mental, emotional - and that its highest purpose is to tune practitioners into their own body's subtle energy flows. This allows a practitioner to experience the full spiritual dimension of each posture, thus expanding the benefits of yoga beyond the body, into the mind and soul."