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    Yoga for Healthy Knees: What You Need to Know for Pain Prevention and Rehabilitation
    Yoga for Healthy Knees: What You Need to Know for Pain Prevention and Rehabilitation
    Yoga for Healthy Knees: What You Need to Know for Pain Prevention and Rehabilitation
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    Yoga for Healthy Knees: What You Need to Know for Pain Prevention and Rehabilitation

    By Sandy Blaine

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    A gentle, easy-to-learn yoga program designed to treat persistent knee pain and improve overall knee health, from a longtime yoga practitioner and instructor

    Drawing on her expertise as a yoga teacher who has used yoga to recover from knee pain and to keep her knees healthy, Sandy Blaine presents a comprehensive yoga program to help you:

       • understand common knee problems that cause pain and limit mobility
       • establish safety guidelines to help you get started
       • use props, such as blankets and towels, to support your body and your mind
       • practice poses for pain prevention and rehabilitation
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShambhala
    Release dateAug 9, 2016
    ISBN9781930485631
    Yoga for Healthy Knees: What You Need to Know for Pain Prevention and Rehabilitation

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      This is exactly what it says, how to reduce pain in your knees and prevent pain in the first place, quite useful if the pain is minor, only theoretical if the pain is greater.

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    Yoga for Healthy Knees - Sandy Blaine

    001

    Table of Contents

    Title Page

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    Part One - Factors in Common Knee Problems

    Part Two - Practicing Yoga for Knee Care

    Guiding Your Practice

    Poses for Healthy Knees

    Putting the Poses Together

    Knee Therapy Practice

    Healthy Knees Maintenance Practice

    The I-Don’t-Have-Time-to-Practice Practice

    Part Three - Everyday Knees

    Resources

    About the Model

    About the Author

    Index

    Copyright Page

    E-mail Sign-Up

    Praise for Yoga for Healthy Knees

    Yoga for Healthy Knees is a highly readable and practical guide for those seeking information about safe yoga practice for their knees. A must-read for anyone interested in knee rehabilitation and for yoga teachers, too.

    —Cybèle Tomlinson, codirector of the Berkeley Yoga Center; author of Simple Yoga

    Sandy Blaine’s Yoga for Healthy Knees is doubly interesting. It describes how she overcame her own knee pain using yoga poses. It also teaches the reader about safe movements and specific poses that can protect and improve their own knees as well. I recommend this book for its clarity, organization, and positive attitude of healing.

    —Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D, P.T., yoga teacher; author of 30 Essential Yoga Poses: For Beginning Students and Their Teachers

    001

    To those who have passed on the gifts of yoga throughout millennia: my yoga teachers—past, present, and to come—and to their teachers.

    Acknowledgments

    I am so excited and grateful to have had the opportunity to write my first book. I have many people to thank for helping me bring this work to life.

    First and foremost, I thank publishers Donald Moyer and Linda Cogozzo for their support and guidance along the way. In addition, Donald has been one of the primary teachers in my life. I thank him for teaching me that yoga in the style of B. K. S. Iyengar is a mindfulness practice, and for mentoring me throughout the years with a generosity of spirit that I will always be grateful for.

    Many other wonderful yoga teachers have guided me along the way. What I have learned from each has contributed to shaping my own evolving practice and this book. In particular, I appreciate Amy Cooper, John Friend, Judith Hanson Lasater, Tim Miller, Jill Edwards Minye, Leigha Nicole, Sarah Powers, Erich Schiffman, and Mary Lou Weprin.

    I gratefully acknowledge Wendy Lichtman, my wonderful writing teacher. In addition, I appreciate all the women and fellow writers who have been in her writing groups with me. I have participated in Wendy’s classes on and off for several years, and the list of writers in these groups is too long to name here. Know that I carry your stories and lessons with me. I especially thank Joan Steinau Lester for sharing her time and editing skills as I worked on various writing projects throughout the past few years.

    Thank you to my dear friend and wordsmith extraordinaire, Clive Chafer, for his support, contributions, and last-minute brain-storming.

    Thank you also to Judith Hanson Lasater and Cybèle Tomlinson, who were the book’s first readers outside of the publishers, for their support, insight, and contributions.

    I express my gratitude to those whose work you see in these pages: photographer David Martinez, for his beautiful work; model and yogini Deborah Ramelli, who is also both my friend and my teacher; editor and producer Linda Cogozzo; makeup artist France Dushane; caterer Jeff Mason; photographer’s assistant (and wall supporter) Charlie Nucci; production assistant Star Griffin; studio manager Aneata Hagy; and last but not least, Dice, the Wonder Dog, for his uplifting presence. All of you made it such a supportive and successful day.

    I appreciate Hugger-Mugger Yoga Products and Marie Wright Yoga Wear, who generously donated their props and their clothing, respectively, to the photo shoot.

    My heartfelt thanks go to my business partner, Betsy Weiss, the codirector of the Alameda Yoga Station. From Betsy, I have learned so many invaluable lessons about teamwork and the meaning of partnership. Without her, there would be no Alameda Yoga Station, the place in our little corner of the world where I have been most able to explore the path of teaching and to make a living in a way that (I hope) gives back more than it takes from the world.

    And most important, I acknowledge the many students who have come to my classes throughout the years. Thank you for allowing me to share my practice with you and for being my most inspiring teachers.

    Introduction

    I never expected to be a yogi, to have a serious yoga practice, or to write this book. I originally showed up at yoga class on a whim, simply searching for some kind of exercise I could enjoy without doing further damage to my injured knees. I was prone to knee problems due to fairly common congenital musculo-skeletal patterns; these problems had been exacerbated by the dance and tumbling classes that I loved as a child. The result of this combination was that, by my early twenties, I suffered from multiple traumatic injuries that had left me in chronic pain.

    Protecting my knees and being physically limited for a lifetime was a daunting prospect. I had gone through extensive physical therapy,

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