On episode 38 of Outside The Studio: Yoga for Your Mood

Making Yoga accessible to people in all phases, stages and ages of life is part of Amy's current passion and offering through her recent creation: Yoga for Your Mood: 52 Ways to Shift Depression and Anxiety. Amy Weintraub is a celebrated Yogini, creator of Life Force Yoga and bestselling author. Today we dive into what inspired Amy to teach yoga, and how it ties into her history of anxiety and self-medicating to weening off of pharmaceuticals and stepping into her dharma as a yoga teacher and writer.

What we talk about...

The evolution of a yoga practice; what did it look like decades ago?

How to use Yoga for healing Anxiety and Chronic Depression

What is Yoga with sound? What is Mantra or chanting and why do we do it in a yoga class?

Practice or watch a few breathing and visualization exercises with us!

How to use Yoga for Your Mood: 52 Ways to Shift Depression and Anxiety

What is Breath of Joy and how to do it (watch on YouTube for visual representation)

The science behind Pranayama and Mantra and the effect on the nervous system

Show Notes + Resources

Amy Weintraub, C-IAYT, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, is the founder of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute, an acclaimed yoga therapist, and a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health. In 1999 Amy wrote “The Natural Prozac”, Yoga Journal's first article addressing yoga and depression. She is the author of Yoga for Depression, Yoga Skills for Therapists, the new card deck, Yoga for Your Mood: 52 Ways to Shift Depression and Anxiety, and numerous articles and book chapters. She guides thousands of practitioners and yoga and mental health professionals around the world. Her Silver Nautilus Award winning novel Temple Dancer was released in 2020. She thrives in Tucson, Arizona, where she mountain bikes, dances, writes, and creates.

Find more about Amy and her workshops, books, and practices at amyweintraub.com.

Transcendental Meditation (TM)

https://www.tm.org/

Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health

https://kripalu.org/

Yoga for Depression by Holger Cramer, Ph.D.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/da.22166

Movement, Mantra and Meditation class with Tessa Tovar

https://www.mindbodyonline.com/explore/fitness/classes/in-studio-movement-mantra-meditation-root-whole-body-portland-or#147608973-2021-11-09

Scholarly studies regarding yogic chanting and Om

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21654968/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29752573/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26445019/