Suza Francina

Book review by Irene Alleger, Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine November, 2007.

Book Description and Excerpts

Excerpts from The New Yoga for Healthy Aging

For Immediate Release

“Yoga philosophy teaches that the years after midlife are an ideal time for psychological and spiritual growth. I’ve written this book for those who reject the notion that aging is an inevitable process of decline and who wish to explore yoga’s ascending path to physical and spiritual transformation.” - Suza Francina, author, The New Yoga for Healthy Aging

A comprehensive guide for older students and their teachers. One in five Americans is now moving toward the age bracket of "sixty and beyond." This milestone is the perfect time to begin or renew a yoga practice.

Yoga Teachers featured in The New Yoga for Healthy Aging

Yoga is a gift for older people. One who studies yoga in the later years gains not only health and happiness, but also a freshness of mind since yoga gives one a bright outlook on life. One can look forward to a satisfying, more healthful future rather than looking back into the past. With yoga, a new life begins, even if started later. Yoga is a rebirth which teaches one to face the rest of one's life happily, peacefully, and courageously. -- Geeta S. Iyengar, YOGA, A Gem For Women

It's surprising that there is so little out there that explores the benefits that Yoga can have for women at this time in their lives. Francina's book is not only sorely needed, it's long overdue.
—AllSpiritFitness.com, May 2003

Kurzbeschreibung
Ungezwungen wird hier mit konkreten Yogaübungen und in einzelnen Porträts gezeigt, wie Menschen mit typischen Altersbeschwerden nicht nur fertig werden, sondern sie auch meistern können. Die einzelnen Kapitel widmen sich spezifischen Themen und legen dar, wie Yogaübungen auf diese Themen antworten: Alterungsprozess, Menopause, Osteoporose, Arthritis, chronische Schmerzen, Herzerkrankungen. Dabei stützt sich die Autorin vor allem auf die Forschungsarbeiten von B.K.S. Iyengar.Eine unverzichtbare, mutmachende Stütze für alle älteren Yoga-Übenden – ein für die deutschsprachige Yoga-Szene revolutionäres Buch, das alle Qualitäten eines Standardwerkes hat.

Portuguese edition of Yoga and the Wisdom of Menopause

Hoje em dia, um contingente jamais visto de mulheres que estão entrando na menopausa ou passando por ela buscam informações e meios úteis com essas mudanças físicas, emocionais e espirituais. Se você é uma dessas mulheres, Yoga e a Sabedoria da Menopausa vai mostrar como é possível encarar a menopausa como um acontecimento positivo, tanto do ponto de vista físico quanto espiritual, usando o yoga como catalisador.