YOGA for AMPUTEES: The Essential Guide to Finding Wholeness After Limb Loss for Yoga Students and Their Teachers

Ce livre est passionnant et parfait. Je ne suis pas enseignante de yoga mais pratiquante et doubleamputée transtibiale depuis peu. L'auteure étudie les problèmes physiologiques mais aussi psychologiques des élèves. Le livre est rempli d'empathie et de poésie. Les photos des positions sont très précises, ainsi que les explications jointes : de quoi pouvoir commencer à travailler seule, avant d'intégrer un cours adapté.Vraiment un très beau et bon livre, un livre " aidant ".

Excellent book lots of pictures to help achieve

Awesome fat tome that had so much great information about a whole range of yogic concepts including yogic philosophy, meditation, pain/PTSD issues, asanas obviously, and glimpses into the psychology of living as an amputee, including personal journeys of the model yogis. That part is so important to me as a teacher currently living with all my limbs. Most of the poses have directions for bother lower and upper limb amputees etc. It’s so well written and insightful that I am giving it 5 stars, but I am having 2 slight problems. 1) It seems like most of the pictures (which are very small) are of people practicing with prosthetics on—and frankly they LOOK pretty much the same as people practicing with limbs, so it’s not that much of a leap of the imagination from the written descriptions (which DO contain specific tips, but they aren’t so much things you can see in a photo). The things I need help picturing are the variations that are discussed using props/walls etc. especially for folks who choose to remove their prosthetics.2) The sun salutation showing doing it without a lower leg prosthetic looks like it would take some serious core strength. I am very impressed at the yogi model’s ability and it’s rad to see people achieving at this level, but I can’t really imagine your average person to pulling that off at the beginning at least. I was really hoping for more suggestions/photos on modifications I guess.There IS a whole section—with photos—about getting up from and down to the floor I just wish there was A Lot more like this.In short buy the book. The information is priceless, and it’s 431 pages long so it’s a great price per page! Know, however that you are going to have to really read a lot of descriptions without a ton of visualHelp for many of the modifications.

I’ve done yoga for 33 years. When my leg was amputated 2 months ago, I wanted to see how to do yoga, in my new condition.With clear text and great images, it’s hard to think that there could be a better book anywhere on this topic !

Lots of information, would be nice to see more pictures without the use of a prosthetic