Mindful Body
How to build emotional strength and manage stress with body mindfulness
How can body awareness help you change your mind and experience of life?
How does your mind live in your body? How can body awareness help you change your mind and experience of life? Successful author and practicing psychotherapist Noa Belling offers a practical, personal way to use your body as a direct path to mindfulness and mindful living. By waking up to how we hold life experience in our bodies, we have the power and choice to improve physical, mental and emotional health, promote vitality, build emotional resilience and generally improve quality of life. Supported with psychological and neuroscientific studies, this book provides you with many opportunities to practice body mindfulness and experience your physical being as an empowering and intelligent resource.
Noa Belling holds a Masters degree in Somatic (or body-mind) psychology through Naropa University, which is the birthplace of the modern mindfulness movement. Her background includes over a decade of teaching applied somatic psychology skills as well as running a private psychotherapy practice. She is the best-selling author of The Yoga Handbook, Yoga: A union of mind and body (Struik); and Yoga for Ideal Weight and Shape (New Holland Publishing and Juta Publishers). Her books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide and are translated into many languages.