Healing Breath and Mudras: Channel the Power of Yoga for Connection and Wellbeing - Paperback

by Christine Burke (Author)

Discover how to heal both body and mind using only your breath and your hands.

"Christine's artistry as a yoga teacher is evident on every page... [Her] voice, enthusiasm, and knowledge here are contagious. When reading these pages, you'll feel as though you are practicing with her. It will be a fun, uplifting, healing, and even powerful practice with Christine as your guide." - LA Yoga Magazine

In Healing Breath and Mudras, Christine Burke shows how you already have all you need to heal both physical and emotional conditions and improve your overall wellbeing. Breath awareness has been linked to calming the body and brain, regulating blood pressure, improving memory and immune function, preventing heart attacks, and easing chronic pain and asthma. Mudras are known as 'yoga for the hands' they are hand poses and positions that channel energy and offer a point of focus during meditation. Christine teaches you a range of breathing techniques and reveals the background behind mudras and how best to use them, then offers breath and mudra practices for 36 conditions, divided into body and mind. Each practice also includes an accompanying "jewel thought" meditation.

Author Biography

Christine Burke is a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance at the 800-hour-plus level. She opened Liberation Yoga in 2004, which has since appeared in the "Top 20 Yoga Studios In The World" by Travel + Leisure magazine and "Best Yoga Studio In LA" by LA Weekly. Her teaching has been featured in the LA Times, LA Weekly, Yogi Times, LA Yoga, Westways, Great Yoga Teachers, and many online magazines. Her first book, The Yoga Healer, won the Soul and Spirit magazine award for "Best Yoga Book of The Year." She lives in Los Angeles.