I was first struck by major grief at the age of 19 when my mother, my best friend, died of a stroke at age 52. The journey into the grief that followed my mother’s departure transformed my life, and it continues to do so today… https://yogaparaduelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/yt2014_yogagrief.pdf
Abby Saloma was physically and mentally crushed from caring for her mother, who was dying from ovarian cancer. To make things worse, the then 27-year-old was hours away from the District of Columbia yoga studio that had helped her cope with her mom’s diagnosis. https://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/articles/2015/01/07/yoga-a-treatment-for-grief
For the better part of a decade, Susan Marchionna has arisen every weekday morning in her Berkeley, California, home and done a modest asana practice: a few seated stretches and a few Sun Salutations, and some additional standing poses, with occasional variations in the 20-minute routine. https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/the-longest-goodbye
This summer I did something I have been wanting to do for years: I went to a Yoga for Grief Relief weekend workshop with Antonio Sausys. http://jenwellbeing.com/2015/10/13/yogaforgriefrelief/
Integrated Health Yoga Therapy (http://www.ihyt.org/) faculty member Antonio Sausys’s first book Yoga for Grief Relief: Simple Practices for Transforming Your Grieving Mind and Body (New Harbinger Publications, June 1 2014) conducts an evidence-based yet deeply personal exploration of grief, then draws from his own trail-blazing work in yoga therapy to offer a step-by-step, illustrated guide …
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My timing to review this book could not have been better. I experienced my second-ever difficult trauma a few months ago and I’ve been in full grieving mode.
Today, SevenPonds speaks with Antonio Sausys of Yoga for Grief Relief. Antonio has extensive experience in both modern, body-oriented psychotherapy and ancient yogic teachings; he also is a somatic health practitioner and yoga instructor specializing in yoga for grief relief.