Discover Yoga as a Full-Spectrum Path to Well-Being
Applying Therapeutic Yoga in Integrative Health offers a grounded exploration of how therapeutic yoga can support physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health, rooted in traditional wisdom and informed by modern science.
This book brings together decades of clinical, educational, and scholarly experience. It is designed for readers who want to understand yoga as more than posture: as a whole-person system that can inform integrative care, professional practice, education, and personal well-being.
Inside the Book
Five interconnected themes carry the reader from classical yoga philosophy into contemporary therapeutic and integrative health practice.
Patañjali’s Eight-Limb Path
A living framework for regulation, discernment, relationship, attention, and healing.
Nervous System Regulation
How posture, breath, attention, and meditation influence resilience and autonomic balance.
Whole-Person Health
Yoga as a system supporting body, mind, emotion, meaning, connection, and spirit.
Science Meets Tradition
Traditional yogic models placed in dialogue with modern research and clinical evidence.
Clinical Application
Practical guidance for individualized, trauma-sensitive, ethical, and integrative care.
Why This Book Matters
Too often, yoga in Western settings is reduced to physical posture or general wellness. This book offers a broader view: yoga as a structured, time-tested system for working with body, breath, mind, behavior, relationship, attention, and meaning.
By grounding therapeutic application in the eight-limb path while also explaining relevant physiology and clinical principles, the book helps readers understand not only what yoga practices may be useful, but why and how they may support health and well-being.
Amy Wheeler: Experience Across Yoga Therapy, Higher Education & Professional Leadership
The book reflects decades of work at the intersection of clinical yoga therapy, university education, professional standards, curriculum development, and integrative health.
School of Integrative Health
International Association of Yoga Therapists
International Association of Yoga Therapists
California State University, San Bernardino
About Amy Wheeler
Amy Wheeler, PhD, C-IAYT, is a yoga therapist, educator, author, and leader in the field of therapeutic yoga. Her career spans clinical practice, higher education, curriculum development, professional leadership, and integrative health.
Applying Therapeutic Yoga in Integrative Health is her first book and reflects a long-standing commitment to helping yoga therapy take its place within thoughtful, evidence-informed, whole-person care while maintaining a clear connection to yoga’s traditional roots.
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