It's tough to find the time and energy to take care of yourself during college. Feeling stressed and overwhelmed can threaten your chances of creating a healthy, balanced life. Don't Panic! shows you how to use yoga techniques to cope-and even to thrive.
Developing positive habits can have a resounding effect on not just your physical wellness but also your mental and emotional health. These tips and practices will lead to improved productivity, as well as better retention of studied material.
While there are instructional yoga books aimed at veterans, corporate employees, and pregnant women (among many others), college students face a unique set of challenges, and you need a specialized solution. For example, Don't Panic! explains off-the-mat yoga practices to address eye strain and shoulder tension. Another chapter explains how to access positive thoughts. And a section on breath offers stress-reducing techniques that work quickly to nourish the entire body.
Build healthy habits that will stay with you for a lifetime. There's no getting away from college's challenges, but this invaluable guidebook will give you the tools to handle them with ease.
About the Author: Bonnie Quiceno has been teaching yoga for sixteen years, and she created the Yoga Study Hall program at Florida International University. She's taught this workshop to students from every continent. For the past fifteen years, Quiceno has also taught yoga at an assisted-living facility. Both environments led to her developing techniques that use chairs, walls, and anything else readily available to help her students. This approach highlights the importance of doing yoga off the mat and illustrates how yoga is effective for all ages. Quiceno believes that no matter what your circumstances are, yoga can help increase your flexibility of body and mind.
Prior to teaching yoga, Quiceno was a dancer and choreographer for thirty years, practicing ballet and various other styles. She is also a Reiki practitioner, BodyTalk practitioner, and licensed massage therapist. Quiceno lives in Miami Beach, Florida.
