Ingrid Kollak Release Date: 01 December 2008 Format: Paperback / softback Pages: 216 Category: Nursing Publisher: Elsevier Australia ISBN: 9780826138323 ISBN-10: 0826138322
"Yoga for Nurses provides the means for nurses to support and enhance our ability to care for ourselves. It gives nurses information and strategies to deal with the physical and mental imperatives found in our daily work life." --Jill Howie Esquivel, RN, PhD University of California, San Francisco (From the Foreword)
Don't let mental stress, chronic pain, and fatigue disrupt your professional and personal life any longer.
Dr. Ingrid Kollak's Yoga for Nurses offers a tested therapy, proven to alleviate physical and mental pain, stress, and fatigue. As a yoga expert and a registered nurse herself, Dr. Kollak can show you how yoga is able to prevent and cure common ailments such as chronic neck and back pain, headaches, sore eyes, and lack of sleep.
With this book, you'll learn how yoga works physically to reduce pain by stretching and strengthening muscles made tense from your normal, repetitive work routine. Kollak also shows you how yoga works on a mental level to provide an exceptional anti-stress program.
This book, written "by" a nurse "for" nurses, presents a series of yoga exercises and practices that will allow you to regain your strength, reduce your physical pain, revitalize your mind, and transform your entire work experience.
Key Features: Author is both a yoga expert and registered nurse Includes large print photos, detailing how each exercise should be done Contains different levels of yoga exercises, from easy-to-learn to advanced Exercises can be used both at work and in the home A fun, rewarding read