The Viniyoga Therapy DVD series presents Gary Kraftsow's acclaimed, expert use of therapeutic yoga techniques to promote lasting healing, health and self-transformation.

Accessible • Efficient • Effective

Viniyoga Therapy for Depression is based on Gary's book Yoga for Wellness and nearly 40 years of experience with one-on-one client care. Gary’s approach on this DVD combines specific yogic methods in an integrated way to address depression in each of the physiological, cognitive, emotional and behavioral domains, providing the possibility of lasting healing and self-transformation for the sincere practitioner.

The DVD features two main sections: the Lectures section, where Gary discusses the major symptoms of depression and the therapeutic methods adapted to alleviate them; and the Practices section, which features two complete therapeutic practices unique to this DVD.

Designed for everyone—even if you've never practiced yoga before!

Yoga Therapy and Viniyoga™

Viniyoga therapy recognizes that human experience plays out on a vast multidimensional field characterized by continual change. These dimensions—thought, mood, behavior, the body’s physiology and anatomy, our family, society, physical environment, and the surrounding cosmos—can be thought of as nine “cities” or spheres of existence that overlap and interpenetrate one another. Viniyoga therapy offers the means to develop the physical energy, mental clarity, emotional stability, and determination to respond to the variable conditions in each of these domains in the most appropriate and effective way. This DVD achieves these goals for conditions of depression through two efficient practices:

• Practice #1 is designed to create physiological balance

• Practice #2 invites the practitioner to experience directly their ability to shift their mood and alter their self-concept.

Practice #2 also features the use of ‘mantra japa’ or chanting, which is one of the most profound methods of the yoga tradition for physiological and psycho-emotional transformation. The meaning of these Sanskrit mantras are simple and universal, reminding us that our true nature is not defined by our momentary thoughts, feelings and circumstances.

Special Note on Anxiety and Depression

Symptoms of anxiety and depression can often manifest together in the different domains of our experience (for example, depressed mood with physiological anxiety) or our symptoms may fluctuate between those of anxiety and depression. The Viniyoga Therapy DVDs for Anxiety and Depression can effectively be used together as a toolkit of appropriate methods depending upon your changing needs.