The Centered Heart: Evidence-Based, Mind-Body Practices to Stress Less and Improve Cardiac Health

“Instead of trying to find time in your day for self-care, yoga-therapist Amendola suggests scheduling your life around your practices, aiming for a stress-free, healing existence. Under her expert guidance, this not only seems enticing but possible.” – Booklist, Starred Review

“An excellent starting point for those of all abilities and in all walks of life looking to create habits that support their cardiac and spiritual health.” – Library Journal

Gold Medalist, Relaxation and Mindfulness Category, Living Now Book Awards, 2024

Stress is often the first domino in chronic illness and disease. Too often, however, doctors have little training or information to offer patients about managing stress.

In The Centered Heart, yoga therapist, stress management expert and senior trainer for Ornish Lifestyle Medicine, Susi Amendola, navigates the intricate relationship between stress management and overall health. She invites readers into transformative experience with the ancient and time-tested somatic practices of yoga that have been shown to improve cardiac outcomes as well as outcomes from many of the chronic diseases that plague our society.

Developing a daily stress management practice that includes gentle movements, breathing, relaxation, meditation, imagery, compassion, and a connection to nature gradually shifts awareness to an internal locus of control. Practitioners will feel better, connect with their innate inner wisdom, and come to understand that through lifestyle choices they control they can be their own first line of intervention.

While we may not be able to affect what is happening around us, with the wisdom and insights offered in The Centered Heart, we can make a difference in the quality of our own lives, change the way we react to stress, calm our hearts, and reclaim our health.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (May 7, 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1538183242
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1538183243
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.8 x 0.85 x 8.85 inches