Rodmell Press: Yoga: Yoga for Fibromyalgia

Yoga for Fibromyalgia:
Move, Breathe, and Relax to Improve Your Quality of Life
Shoosh Lettick Crotzer
Foreword by Deirdre Carrigan

ISBN-13: 978-1930485167 | $14.95
paperback | 128 pages | 7" x 9"
43 color photos

Rodmell Press Yoga Shorts
Written by yoga teachers, the Rodmell Press Yoga Shorts Series gets right to the heart of yoga practice for specific ailments and conditions.

Advance Praise

"Shoosh Lettick Crotzer has written a wonderful guide for women with fibromyalgia. It is not only clear that she understands the health issues of patients, but also clear that she understands the benefits of empowering women to take charge of their health. I love the emphasis on how to apply principles of yoga to everyday life. This book is packed with practical advice and I will recommend it to my patients."

—Leslie J. Crofford, M.D., Univeristy of Kentucky; Gloria W. Singletary Professor; Chief, Division of Rheumatology and Women's Health; Director, Center for the Advancement of Women's Health

"Shoosh is a healer. She shares techniques and gifted insights honed and focused for a lifetime. In Yoga for Fibromyalgia, she gives practical ways to relieve pain, improve mobility, and restore health. Share it with a loved one in need."

—Ganga White, author of Yoga Beyond Belief: Insights to Awaken and Deepen Your Practice

"This book offers clear and relevant yoga and lifestyle information to those suffering from fibromyalgia. But it offers something even more important: hope that things can get better. Highly recommended for yoga teachers, for experienced yoga students, and for those people just beginning to practice."

—Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D., P.T., author of 30 Essential Yoga Poses: For Beginning Students and Their Teachers

"Shoosh Lettick Crotzer understands that most people with fibromyalgia can benefit from a gentle approach to yoga. In this book, she teaches a variety of helpful poses and visualization techniques; suggests practice routines to meet your changing needs; and, most important for healing, guides you toward making yoga part of your everyday life."

—Timothy McCall, M.D., medical editor of Yoga Journal; author of Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing

"This book is an inviting introduction to yoga for fibromyalgia sufferers. With a well-considered series of gentle stretches and breathing and relaxation exercises, this program is beneficial even for more debilitated beginners and forms a foundation for those students ready to move on to other active yoga poses."

—Julie Gudmestad, P.T., director, Gudmestad Yoga Studio, Portland, Oregon; author of Yoga Journal's "Anatomy" column

"Ms. Crotzer's breathing and awareness techniques are excellent for increasing focus and mental clarity, which facilitate coping not only with fibromyalgia but also with general stress. She has done a terrific job of adapting traditional yoga poses, some of which can be done in a chair. And the book's instructions and photos make the poses easy to follow. I particularly like the sections called "Everyday Yoga" (at the end of each pose), which give examples of how to use the poses throughout the day. Her yoga sequences can clearly help people with fibromyalgia in a way that is gentle and does not cause pain."

—Jeanne Melvin, M.S., OTR/L, FAOTA, author of Fibromyalgia Syndrome, Getting Healthy; in practice at Solutions for Wellness, Santa Monica, CA

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