Body & Brain Yoga Essentials

Book excerpt: Body & Brain Yoga is a brain-based approach to comprehensive wellness. Overall health starts with a healthy brain, since it regulates all bodily functions, emotions, and thoughts. It uses the 5-step approach of Brain Education to activate the brain through a deep mind-body connection. This approach makes this connection through the subtle energy talked about in Asian medicine. Ilchi Lee developed this dynamic mind-body training system by combining the 5000-year-old wisdom of Korea with modern scientific understanding of the brain. With a Body & Brain Yoga practice you can: -develop a strong and flexible body. -boost your energy and vitality. -bring balance back into your life. To help you develop your practice, the Body & Brain Yoga Essentials DVD provides a complete 90-minute guided training session demonstrating the key practices of Body & Brain Yoga, including deep stretching exercises, meditative breathing techniques, and energy awareness practices. This session features a special 15-minute Brain Wave Vibration training, a simple and effective stress relief technique. In addition, the DVD contains a 10-minute bonus segment of Body & Brain Yoga Energy Breathing, a set of five breathing postures to restore vitality. The training sessions on this DVD are taught by top Body & Brain Yoga instructor, Dawn Quaresima. Dawn is the regional director of Body & Brain Yoga centers in the Eastern Region of New York and has been a Body & Brain Yoga instructor since 2005. She has taught many advanced energy workshops both locally and nationally. Note: Not all exercise is suitable for everyone. Consult your doctor before beginning this or any exercise program. The instruction presented is in no way intended as a substitute for medical counseling.