Yoga for Times of Change
This book is now available! You can order it at the Penguin Random House site as well as from a wide range of bookstores and vendors. If you would like a signed copy of the book, call Books, Inc., in Berkeley, California at (510) 525-7777.
Also available now are the companion videos that Barrie Risman created to go with the book.
Here is a brief overview of the book along with endorsements from well-known people in the yoga community. An interview with Nina about the book and the importance of relaxation is available here.
A Brief Overview of Yoga for Times of Change
Written during the pandemic, this book describes how yoga can help you adapt to and accept change, including changes in your personal life as well as changes in your community or even world-wide changes. It offers a wide range of both ancient and modern techniques that allow you to return yourself to balance when you’re experiencing emotional, physical, and mental challenges, and to fortify yourself for the future.
The practices are simple and down to earth, suitable for all ages and body types, and include simple yoga poses and sequences, breath practices, relaxation practices, and meditations. The book also provides many yoga techniques you can use to make peace with change through accepting your ever-changing self and the ever-changing world in which you live.
Topics include • the nature of change • basic yogic techniques for coping with change • stress • anxiety • mild depression • anger • grief • ways to practice yoga when you’re experiencing physical changes • using breath practices and meditation to be present with whatever is happening • making peace with change and taking skillful action
Praise for Yoga for Healthy Aging
How to be still and listen is the manual that Nina has gifted us. From beautifully crafted restorative poses to the descriptions of navigating the internal world with breath and mindfulness, Nina leads us into the necessary space in which we can live and thrive. This is a necessary map with all of the required tools for us to unearth peace and joy.
Yoga for Times of Change is definitely coming out at a timely moment. More than ever, we need tools and practices to help us cope with stress, anxiety, grief, and life’s transitions. Whether it’s calming down before I’m about to lose my patience with my teenage son, managing a to-do list that always seems to number in the hundreds, or getting myself back to sleep when I’m up in the middle of the night with anxious thoughts, I know firsthand the power of yoga to be a constant, reliable support during times of change and challenge. As a woman, a mother, a partner, as well as a student and teacher of yoga and meditation, I’m delighted to see that this accessible and well-documented book of yoga and meditations written by a compassionate and well-versed teacher is now available to all.
Yoga for Times of Change is a wonderfully heartfelt and authentic book offering a rich collection of techniques to help us navigate the ups and downs of this thing called LIFE. Whether you are looking for ways to cope with stress, anger, anxiety, or depression, this book contains a wealth of profound yogic tools for transformation. Best of all, they are presented in a way that makes them easily accessible even for those without any previous yoga experience.
Change is often overwhelming and completely unavoidable, so we all need the guidance of a good map to help us find our way. In Yoga for Times of Change, Nina Zolotow shows us how to apply yoga’s ancient teachings to our modern and often chaotic lives. Weaving together strands of yoga—the philosophy and practice along with real world examples—she provides a map that is not only beautiful, but that is also tremendously useful.
Change is inevitable. Yoga for Times of Change skillfully delivers the tools to help create the equanimity and awareness that will support us in riding the ebbs and flows of life. Keep this one close.
Written in the soothing voice of a calm, strong and compassionate yoga teacher, Nina Zolotow draws wisdom from ancient yoga texts, knowledge from Western psychology and neuroscience, and understanding from her own journey through disturbed mind toward balance. Yoga for Times of Change is a wise and honest book that offers us profound insight and safe practice. It’s a treasured addition to my library!
What a thoughtful, informed, compassionate, and helpful book this is! Both wide-ranging and finely tuned at the same time, the guidance Nina Zolotow gives readers here is based on her continuing physical and contemplative yoga practice, empathy, and illuminating insight. She brings to her work elucidating perspectives from contemporary psychologists, psychiatrists, yoga teachers, spiritual teachers, therapists, writers, poets, bloggers and, importantly, her own personal experience and yogic self-inquiry. I am also impressed by the way she integrates, supports, and illumines these perspectives through frequent and effective reference to and quotations from important texts in the history of yoga philosophy from the traditions primarily of Vedānta, Classical Yoga, Nondual Shaiva Tantra, and Buddhism. In an accessible, personal, intelligent, honest, informed, and encouraging manner, she gives readers authentic, deeply yogic ways to move through difficult yet inevitable times of change in their lives.
Yoga for Times of Change is packed with excellent recommendations and accessible choices of yoga postures, tools and techniques to help readers face challenging times. Nina’s sensible suggestions reinforce the need for each of us to choose carefully what to practice and when to practice based on personal lifestyles and energy levels. This book is a well-written breath of fresh air for anyone seeking self-care during times of change.
Yoga for Times of Change is not so much for yogis seeking enlightenment as it is for those of us looking to carry life’s burden’s more lightly. It’s full of practical, adaptable, real-world solutions. Highly recommended!
Sample Chapter
Below, we have provided a sample chapter from Yoga for Times of Change so you can get a sense of what to expect from the book. Please scroll down. In the bottom left corner of the chapter inset you will find a set of Arrows & Zoom Tools. Page through the 16 pages or zoom in/out as desired. Enjoy.