Yoga for the Creative Soul
Exploring the Five Paths of Yoga to Reclaim Your Expressive Spirit
by Erin Byron

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Combining expressive arts and yoga therapy, Yoga for the Creative Soul is an invaluable guide to healing emotional wounds and creating a joyous life. Through drawing, writing, dancing, humming, and cooking—as well as yoga postures, meditation, relaxation, breathing, and self-enquiry—this book helps you cultivate your true intentions and live your deepest values. With helpful tips for daily practice and a quiz to support you in identifying areas of imbalance, author Erin Byron shares techniques that you can personalize to meet your specific needs. Discover how to bring color, movement, and melody into everyday moments with the five paths to self-realization. Engaging a process of personal transformation and learning how to take control of your life are gifts you can give yourself with Yoga for the Creative Soul.

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"This book is a gem for waking up your creative self using the principles and practices of yoga therapy." ~Rachel Krentzman, author of Yoga for a Happy Back "Erin Byron's clear voice will draw you in. Her invitation to gently and playfully access your creative capacities demands your full attention. What a delightful thinker and writer." ~ Markus Alexander, PhD, Director of the World Arts Organization "Yoga for the Creative Soul is an invitation to discovery through creative self-expression and its many vehicles...It is a call to delight in the transformative and liberating power of yoga by laying down the self-conscious fear-based ego and picking up the valuable art of play-driven vulnerability and authenticity." Ginger Garner, author of Medical Therapeutic Yoga

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ERIN BYRON has a Master of Arts degree in Counselling Psychology in the fields of Yoga Therapy and Expressive Arts. They have thirty years’ experience in the field of post-traumatic stress recovery, and fifteen years of training and supervising health providers. Erin has taught yoga for twenty-five years, and trained and certified hundreds of yoga teachers, yoga therapists, and meditation instructors. They enjoy playing the clarinet, swimming, drawing with chalk pastels, restoring colonized landscapes, and contributing to social and ecological justice. Erin lives in Ontario, Canada, with loved ones, native plants, and animals. Other books by Erin Byron include Safety in the Body (FriesenPress, 2024), Yoga Therapy for Stress and Anxiety (Llewellyn, 2015, with Robert Butera and Staffan Elgelid), and Yoga Therapy for Arthritis (Hachette, 2018, with Steffany Moonaz).

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