Yoga for Bipolar Disorder

I’ve made the decision not to withhold information for profit.

That seems to be the health paradigm we’re working in these days — one person is sick and needs access to information or care. Another party has this information or service but withholds it unless a transaction is made.

Our lack of a national health plan speaks volumes of this, but lately yoga teachers have caught on, too, and I have certainly been guilty of charging prices just within the top limits of “reasonable” just because I know people are desperate enough to pay.

This isn’t the yogic path. In the old days, yogis lived on alms or had wealthy patrons who kept them in clothes and food so they could practice and teach the public.

I think many more yoga teachers would teach by donation if there wasn’t the fear that their own needs wouldn’t be taken care of.

So I’m breathing through some fear to state that I’m going to share all that I know about yoga and bipolar disorder here on this blog (in the big picture, that’s not much, anyway), free to the public.

(If I do ever offer a product, it will simply be a synthesis or reorganization of the information you find here, or in the case of video, a longer work of higher visual quality.)

To pull this off, I need your help. So if you find this resource useful, please make a donation if you can. Donations can also keep the site free of Google ads — I’d rather not have pharmaceuticals or crappy ebooks advertised here.

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A complaint I hear a lot is that people feel too depressed to exercise, even though they know it’d help relieve some of the symptoms of bipolar depression.

I know those awful feelings of depression all too well, so I can totally sympathize. I’m not about to beat you up with one of those “make yourself do it” speeches. We all know it’s not about willpower. (You know that, right?) (more…)

Welcome to the Yoga for Bipolar blog. Here I’ll update you on developments in the forthcoming releases of the Yoga for Bipolar audios and workbook, as well as keep you apprised of new research findings and more.

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