Yoga Therapy for Parkinson's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis

Jean Danford’s long and in-depth personal experience and continuing enquiry into how best to incorporate the beneficial practice of yoga into the lives of those with Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis, provides a wealth of practical and detailed information in this invaluable guide. Encouraging a view of the whole person, the therapeutic yoga in this book covers a wide range of suitable techniques from postures to meditation, with guidance on differing situations and circumstances to meet individual needs; crucially important as effects vary widely from person to person. Jean Danford not only shows that the challenges of movement and co-ordination need to be well accommodated but more importantly that the possibilities of yoga practice extend far wider than postures, with the potential for profound benefit to the lives and health of those using these yoga practices and following the intrinsic aim of yoga in seeking to go beyond the restrictions of body and mind.

Jean Danford is a registered yoga therapist and Founder and Principal of the Real Yoga training school. She is an accrediting officer for British Council for Yoga Therapy and has diplomas in Postural Integration, Healing and a Cert FE. She has worked with client groups affected by Parkinson’s disease for approximately 10 years, with the support of the Parkinson’s UK charity.