Happy Ending Productions announces its latest book:
Yoga for a Grieving Heart

Inspired by the healing benefits of Yoga experienced in her own life, Gentle Yoga co-author Lorna Bell has combined her passion for Yoga practice with a hospice-oriented understanding of grief.   With her skills in adapting poses to mobility-challenged students, this hospice nurse simplifies yoga's application to everyday people.  Finally, a HERE AND NOW mood elevator for those suffering from all kinds of loss.  

This book will introduce you to:

YOGA PHILOSOPHY:  A respect and reverence for all living things, compatible with any religion.

A GRIEVING HEART:  Understanding the differences between normal grief, complicated grief and pathological grief; Depression, how it differs from grief, when to seek professional help;  Understand grieving as: 

•   Accepting the reality of the loss
•   Experiencing the pain of the loss 
•   Adjusting to an environment without the person in their lives    

THE BODY MIND CONNECTION:  How the poses translate to inner health & mood.

THE BREATH AS A BRIDGE:  How to use a few simple breathing techniques to harness energy, cleanse, calm and control a public display of private emotions.

THE POSES:  Grief resides in certain areas of the body.  It causes us to sob, become restless, apathetic, and experience changes in sleep, mood, appetite, posture, and mental focus.  By using the poses that open the throat and heart areas, we are able to "unstick" these clogged nerve centers and begin healing.  Students of all ages, real people, demonstrate the poses with varying degrees of difficulty, which can be adapted to even the most sedentary person.  
  
MEDITATIVE HEALING:  Cultivating the Zen Mind, with affirmations and a positive mindset will nurture a "Gratitude Attitude."  Quotations from the great philosophers create insights into this human condition of sorrow, setting the mood for thought-provoking personal growth.