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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LA YOGA SPOTLIGHTS THE COMPASSION-BASED HEALING
OF YOGA AND GRIEF

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – LA Yoga magazine recommends Yoga and Grief: A Compassionate Journey Toward Healing as resource for those who seek a healthier way to grieve loss.

Former hospice nurse and yoga teacher Francesca Aster calls the book by Gloria Drayer and Kathleen Doherty a meaningful addition to any yoga teacher’s library and suggests it as a gift for any loved one who is grieving.

The award-winning book combines yoga postures, meditations and breath work with a compassion-based healing approach that speaks about grief in a kind and conscious voice, Aster notes.

“I commend these women for exploring the journey of loss and grief,” she writes, “a subject that is rarely acknowledged in our culture.”

Drayer wrote the book for that very reason. When her mother was dying, she turned to the tools she used as a yoga instructor and retreat leader to get through it. But she noticed a void. “Most people steer away from grief,” she says.

Aster speaks from her perspective as a hospice nurse when she says, “I was humbled to experience the compassion and love put forth so beautifully by these authors.”

Drayer sees the book as a resource for a necessary part of life, not only for those who lose someone through death, but those who experience divorce, end of a career or diminishing health as they age. The gentle techniques are available to yogis and non-yogis alike. “Yoga, if we allow it, can release the tension, the grief, the depression in the body, if we allow ourselves to be with it.”

Link to LAYoga review: http://layoga.com/editorial/book-review-yoga-and-grief/

 

Available for interviews

Gloria Drayer, co-author of Yoga and Grief: A Compassionate Journey Toward Healing, is available for interviews about ways to bring the gentle techniques of yoga into hospice work, divorce healing, aging or life transitions. Please contact her at

gloria@yogasimpleandsacred.com

505.275.6638

Find Gloria Drayer on Facebook at facebook.com/yogasimpleandsacred

and Twitter at @gloriaddrayer

Where to find the book

Order the book at yogaandgrief.com, Balboa Press (balboapress.com) or online stores everywhere.

Yoga and Grief: A Compassionate Journey Toward Healing

by Gloria Drayer and Kathleen Doherty

(Balboa Press, 2014)

$9.99 ($3.99 as ebook)

ISBN-10: 1452591202
ISBN-13: 978-1452591209