Best Practices for Yoga with Veterans

Best Practices for Yoga with Veterans

Editor: Carol Horton, Ph.D

Best Practices for Yoga with Veterans is a vital resource for yoga teachers, yoga service organizations, veterans and their families, veterans’ organizations, VA administrators, and anyone interested in bringing yoga and mindfulness to veterans in ways that are safe, effective, sustainable, socially equitable, and responsive to military experience and culture.

The second book in the Yoga Service Council and Omega Institute’s Yoga Service Best Practices series, Best Practices for Yoga with Veterans is the product of a unique collaborative process involving 30 contributors with expertise not only in yoga, mindfulness, and meditation, but also veterans’ affairs, military operations and culture, traditional and integrative medicine, clinical psychology, trauma therapy, social work, nonprofit management, and more.

Best Practices for Yoga with Veterans synthesizes this wealth of knowledge to produce over 100 Best Practice guidelines for teaching yoga in ways that will enable all veterans – regardless of age, gender, physical ability, or health status – to experience it as a means of supporting physical, psychological, and emotional health, well-being, and resilience.

Key topics addressed include adapting yoga to military culture, working with trauma, hiring and training yoga teachers, developing yoga programs and curriculum, understanding gender issues, and working with incarcerated veterans, in the VA, and with families of veterans.