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Amy chats with Amy Weintraub,The founder of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute, Author of the bestselling Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists: Effective Practices for Mood Management, has been a pioneer in the field of yoga and mental health for over 20 years. She trains health and yoga professionals at notable international venues and offers workshops for every day practitioners. The LifeForce Yoga protocol is being used in residential treatment centers, hospitals and by health care providers around the world. They discuss depression and some types of depression, Tools to use to help with handling depression, Amy’s background and her favorite tools,

They talk about the following:

·        Amy’s Weintraub’s newest product, the MOOD Card Deck, and ways that it can be used

·        Amy’s experience with depression and how yoga changed her life

·        The ability of a Yoga Therapist to manage a client who is in an agitated state

·        The difference between a lethargic type of depression and an anxiety-based depression and how to work in two very different ways

·        Tools to help with a lethargic based depression and an anxiety-based depression

·         Amy’s favorite practices and lifestyle changes to help with her own depression/ moods

·        What Amy hopes to give to the world as a yoga therapist

·        What one can expect from receiving yoga therapy if they have depression

·        How Amy deals with disappointment or sad situations in her professional life

·        Yoga mantras for health and healing of depression

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