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Synopsis This is a book about yoga, a holistic system for creating and sustaining balance and harmony on all the levels of our being body, mind, emotions and spirit. It’s about yoga’s boundless potential for healing, for bringing about beneficial change on all these levels. It’s about how yoga can serve us as a source of inner strength in times of stress and difficulty. The author has called it the Healing Power of Yoga because in the thirty-four years since her first lesson, yoga has proved its transformative healing power over and over again. It has been an unfailing source of strength and spiritual nourishment, most profoundly helped her through the anxious, stressful, painful period of diagnosis and mastectomy surgery. In the longer term it has played a continuing role, the key in her healing. The book draws on her experience of yoga, and on her work with others who are dealing with life-changing illness, to explore how the yoga practices of body movement, breathing, relaxation and meditation contribute to healing. The simple yet be practised by everyone, for inner strength and inner peace.