iRest Program For Healing PTSD: A Proven-Effective Approach to Using Yoga Nidra Meditation and Deep Relaxation Techniques to Overcome Trauma - Softcover

Miller, Richard C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626250243 ISBN 13: 9781626250246

Publisher: New Harbinger, 2015

Synopsis

In The iRest Program for Healing PTSD, clinical psychologist and yogic scholar Richard C. Miller-named one of the top 25 yoga teachers by Yoga Journal-offers an innovative and proven-effective 10-step yoga program for treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The deep relaxation meditations in this book will help readers overcome the common symptoms of PTSD, such as anxiety, insomnia, and depression, and maintain emotional stability so that they can return to living a full, meaningful life.

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About the Author

Richard C. Miller, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, author, researcher, scholar, and meditation teacher. For over forty years, he has devoted his life and work to integrating the teachings of Yoga, Tantra, Advaita, Taoism, and Buddhism with Western psychology.
Miller is founding president of the Integrative Restoration Institute and cofounder of the International
Association of Yoga Therapists. He was a founding member and past president of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology, and serves as a senior advisor to the Baumann Foundation.Foreword writer Eric B. Schoomaker, MD, PhD, is a retired US Lieutenant General, as well as former US Army Surgeon General and Commanding General of the US Army Medical Command. He is an internal medicine physician with a PhD in human genetics. While in uniform, he held many assignments, including command of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, the Army's
Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick, MD, an Army academic medical center, a community hospital, deployable medical brigade, and two Army regional medical commands. Schoomaker is the recipient of numerous military awards, including those from France and Germany, the 2012 Dr. Nathan Davis Award from the American Medical Association for outstanding government service, and an Honorary Doctor of Science from Wake Forest University.

Foreword writer Audrey Schoomaker, RN, is project coordinator for a research study in therapeutic yoga for the Defense and Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management. She is an experienced yoga instructor with diverse experience in the field of healing as an Army nurse, nurse educator, and certified mind-body medicine practitioner.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Harbinger
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1626250243
• ISBN 13: 9781626250246
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224