If you are at all open or curious to learn about an ancient holistic way of healing and supporting the body, this book is for you. Zinman is clearly an expert and looks so glowingly healthy at 50 years old, one may wonder just how much benefit we too can get from incorporating some yoga into our lives."&;Diabetes Daily
Rachel Zinman, an internationally renowned yoga teacher and writer, was floored when she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 42, despite her lifelong dedication to a healthy lifestyle which included a decades-long practice of yoga. In Yoga for Diabetes, Rachel shares her personal journey and her hard-won wisdom gained from her own experience of yoga and diabetes. Finally we have a book written by an accomplished yoga teacher with diabetes herself who points the way to regaining health and well-being for people of all ages and types of diabetes.
In Yoga for Diabetes, regardless of your current state of health, or type of diabetes, you can look forward to learning how to:
- Reduce stress in minutes and thus improve your overall health index
- Achieve healthier and more stable blood glucose levels
- Find the secrets to adapting a yoga practice to suit your constitution and individual needs
- Find deeper meaning in life and thus a holistic healing affecting multiple levels of your well-being
Rachel Zinman was diagnosed with diabetes in 2008. It took six years for her to accept her diagnosis of type 1
LADA diabetes. She started yoga in high school when she was 17 and by the age of 19 she was hooked. Rachel is passionate about the deeper aspects of yoga and its ability to heal and inspire. She has spent the last 30 years practicing enthusiastically as well as teaching nationally (in Australia) and internationally since 1992. Rachel was a professional dancer from a young age and trained as a Waldorf educator teaching in both Australia and New York City.