Your Peace Diet: Using Yoga Principles to reduce stress and anxiety
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Stressed out? Anxious? Or just looking for more peace in your life? Find out how you can use Yoga Principles to create a healthy, calm and peaceful life.
In Your Peace Diet Learn:
•How to Care for and Honor yourself through supporting your Dosha (Your dominant body type according to Indian Holistic Medicine)
•To balance your body systems through Diet, Lifestyle and Beginner Yoga Poses
•About the one thing you can do to stop anxiety in its tracks. You can do this anywhere at any time!
•Which of your Chakras (your energy points in your body) may be out of alignment because of stress and anxiety and how to do a basic Chakra meditation to help balance them.
•About the ancient art of Vaastu (increasing the energy in your home) and how your environment affects your ability to relax
•How your thoughts DO create your world and how you can re-write your past and re-create your future!
Lakshmi Gosyne
Lakshmi Gosyne is a graphic designer, writer, self-published author and teacher. She was born in Trinidad and Tobago, lived in Canada for 24 years before moving to New Zealand. She worked as a preschool and primary school teacher for many years before writing articles on her yoga and meditation hobby. These articles paved the way for an e-book and book called Your Peace Diet: Using Yoga Principles to Reduce Stress and Anxiety. Her work with children helped her create Jungle Walk: A Yoga Story for Kids. She has also helped many clients with their website design, marketing and copy. She currently lives in Auckland with her husband.
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Your Peace Diet - Lakshmi Gosyne
YOUR PEACE DIET:
USING YOGA PRINCIPLES TO REDUCE
STRESS AND ANXIETY
LAKSHMI GOSYNE
Copyright © 2011 by Lakshmi Gosyne
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Yoga Principles
What are Yoga Principles?
The Book is the Tool, You are the Guru
Chapter Two: Applying Yoga Principles to Stress and Anxiety
Stress is your Friend, or it was before Modern Living
How Stress affects your life, health and happiness
Measuring what causes your stress
Unhealthy Responses to Stress
Chapter Three: The Physical Plane – Your Body
How does Your Body feel every day?
The three Doshas: Vata, Pitta, and Kapha
Vata Dosha
Pitta Dosha
Kapha Dosha
Exercise: A way to reduce anxiety and release stress tension
Hatha Yoga: Physical exercises to reduce stress
Standing Downward bend or Uttanasana
Downward facing Dog or Adho Mukha Svanasana
Child's Pose or Baalasana
Bridge pose or Setu bandha Sarvangasana
Corpse Pose or Shavasana
Belly Breathing: Your link between planes
Chapter Four: The Physical Plane – Your Environment
What do you see every day?
Vaastu, what your physical world does to your mental world
What is Vaastu?
What you can do to create a calm, peaceful environment using Vaastu
Your Entrance, the Gateway to your Home
Your bedroom, Your Relaxation Sanctuary
Chapter Five: The Physical Plane – Your Rituals and Routines
What do you do every day?
Rituals and Traditions
Rituals
Traditions
Routines
Creating your Sacred Space
Space clearing
Designing your