Lift Your Mood—Release Creative Blocks

— "Living well means aligning with the divine flow of creativity, so that what you do is what you love." Valeria Teles interviews Amy Weintraub — the author of "Yoga for Depression: A Compassionate Guide to Relieve Suffering Through Yoga." More than 25 million Americans are treated with antidepressants each year, at a cost in excess of $50 billion. But the side effects of popular prescription drugs may seem nearly as depressing as the symptoms they're meant to treat. Amy Weintraub, Veteran yoga instructor, offers a better solution—one that taps the scientifically proven link between yoga and emotional well-being as well as the beauty of ancient approaches to inner peace. Addressing a range of diagnoses, including dysthymia, anxiety-based depression, and bipolar disorder, Yoga for Depression reveals why specific postures, breathing practices, and meditation techniques can ease suffering and release life's traumas and losses. She also reflects on her own experience with severe depression, from which she recovered through immersing herself in a daily yoga routine. Amy is the founder of the LifeForce Yoga® Healing Institute, an acclaimed yoga therapist, and a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health. Author of the best-selling Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists, she teaches and guides thousands of practitioners and therapists around the world. She thrives in Tucson, Arizona, where she mountain bikes, dances, writes, and creates. In 1999 Amy wrote The Natural Prozac, Yoga Journal's first article addressing yoga and mental health. Her latest offering, Yoga for Your Mood Deck: 52 Ways to Shift Depression and Anxiety, will be released by Sounds True in the spring of 2021. To learn more about Amy Weintraub and her work please visit: https://www.amyweintraub.com /   — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life to the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.