Yoga for Emotional Balance: Simple Practices to Help Relieve Anxiety and Depression [Paperback]

An integrative approach to healing anxiety, depression, and chronic stress through yoga and breathing exercises

Emotional balance is within your reach—when you cultivate the intelligence of both your body and mind. 

Bo Forbes, a psychologist and yoga teacher, offers some of her most important teachings and practices, including:

   • Restorative yoga sequences designed to balance anxiety and lift depression
   • Breath and body-centered exercises to calm your mind and energize your body
   • Simple ways to understand your emotional patterns
   • 3 main obstacles to emotional well-being
   • 5 tools for building emotional balance

Rooted in classical yoga yet supported by psychology and science, the techniques in this book will help you create progressive and lasting change.“Forbes clearly and compassionately explains anxiety and depression and helps readers understand the process of healing. We can all benefit from these teachings.”—LA Yoga


“This book is excellent—it ’s timely, clear, and full of tools for creating emotional balance. I particularly love the restorative yoga sequences. They are close to miraculous, and everyone can do them.”—Lilias Folan, PBS host and author of Lilias! Yoga Gets Better with Age

“Forbes has crafted a knowledgeable, realistic guide to addressing the physical and psychological aspects of anxiety and depression, explaining how we can use the body and mind in concert with each other to heal³à