Stress Less and Improve Your Heart Health
How can the ancient sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga help us to improve our overall well-being and especially our heart health? Author of the book The Centered Heart: Evidence-Based, Mind-Body Practices to Stress Less and Improve Cardiac Health and yoga teacher Susi Amendola shares how these practical and research-proven tools can improve our heart health and quality of life.
Susi is the author of “The Centered Heart: Evidence-Based Mind Body Practices to Stress Less and Improve Cardiac Health" and is an Internationally Certified Yoga Therapist who brings over 40 years of experience utilizing Yoga and lifestyle practices to help others heal. In 1983 she founded Yoga Now in Omaha, Nebraska where she currently teaches classes and directs the annual 200-Hour Yoga Certification program. Susi has developed yoga-based stress management programs for schools, businesses, and hospitals throughout the country. Presently, Susi is a National Senior Trainer of Stress Management for the prestigious Ornish Lifestyle Medicine program for reversing heart disease. Susi has contributed over 150 articles to the online publication Ornish Living Magazine
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THE YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS: Laurel’s discussion with Susi Amendola about the incredible benefits that people with heart disease attain with the practice of yoga—the physical postures, meditation, a healthy plant-based diet, breath awareness and ethical living— is a very important topic. As she said, most people don't realize the amount of stress we are almost continuously under in this western society. This takes a toll on our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. I really appreciated that she shared how more and more top medical studies show the benefit of these practices for our overall health and wellness whether we have heart disease, or any disease or are interested in prevention of disease. The practices of Yoga have become a standard of care for patients with cardiac disease. In her parting words of inspiration Susi said: "We have a lot more agency in our own healing than we may have imagined. These practices allow us to center in our heart, which connects us to our own inner wisdom, our own inner healer."
DR. TRUJILLO’S COMMENTS: It was a pleasure to discuss Susi Amendola’s new book The Centered Heart: Evidence-Based, Mind-Body Practices to Stress Less and Improve Cardiac Health with her. It’s important to recognize how much scientific evidence there is that yoga improves cardiac health, including yoga postures (hatha yoga), breathing exercises (pranayama) and meditation. I particularly enjoyed our discussion of how yoga practices increase the resiliency of our nervous system and reduce stress. We also discussed how practicing yoga allows us to more easily listen to our own inner wisdom and put it into practice in our lives.