Melanie Salvatore-August - Yoga to Support Immunity: Mind Body Breathing Guide to Whole Health

Praise for Yoga to support Immunity

This book is for anyone who wants to lovingly, persistently, and mindfully step forward into their best life. While Yoga to Support Immunity is certainly a powerful resource for wellness, recovery, and health, it is also a whole-life and spirit-awakening that supports seekers to shine the light of their awareness into the nooks and crannies of daily living. Melanie Salvatore-August irresistibly beckons you to make the practical real-life changes that will nourish your body and soul.

Rachel Scott, MSc, MFA, E-RYT 500, YACEP, author, yoga teacher, and educational expert

Melanie Salvatore-August offers us a widening view of what it means to be resilient and well by bolstering our immunityphysically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Her program in Yoga to Support Immunity brings the ancient healing art of yoga to help us meet todays complex challenges by supporting our own innate healing powers and expanding our well-being.

Jillian Pransky, author of Deep Listening: A Healing Practice to Calm Your Body, Clear Your Mind, and Open Your Heart

At a time when strong immune systems and optimal health are needed more than ever, along comes the clear and compassionate voice of Melanie Salvatore-August in her newest book, Yoga to Support Immunity . With simple, step-by-step instructions, the author leads her readers toward small, daily choices which improve immune function and cultivate whole body health. A brilliantly designed guide to vitality and resilience through yoga!

Darnell Cox, MA, RYT, holistic nutritionist and health coach

Yoga to Support Immunity is a meditative guide to ease chronic stress, calm the nervous system, and heal the body. Melanie Salvatore-August offers a generous and grounded approach to yoga at its besta steady, reliable reinforcement for holistic health and vitality, body and mind.

Sarah Hays Coomer, NBC-HWC, NSCA-CPT, author of The Habit Trip , Physical Disobedience , and Lightness of Body and Mind

A delightful guide for exploring the benefits of yoga as a path to being healthy, whole, and complete. Full of information in an easy-to-follow format, Melanie complied a program that is perfect for the individual to develop a practice on their own or in a group. I am happy to add this guide to the resources I recommend to my students and teachers.

Jenni Maiwald Wendell, founder and creator of Just Be Yoga LLC and The Luminary Farm

As physicians, we are deeply trained in the scientific method and critical analytical thinking as we approach patients and clinical situations. Practicing with Melanie Salvatore-August, I learned of deeper understandings in the realm of the experiential and intuitive yoga practice, a more subtle yet powerful approach to healing, but one that does not exclude our Western medical knowledge. In the pages of Yoga to Support Immunity , Melanie teaches a deep wisdom of the body and lifes energies that we can each understand and use for our growth and well-being.

Dr. Dale Poppert, MS, MD, FACEP

Mind, Body, Breathing Guide
to Whole Health

Author Melanie Salvatore-August
Artist Sebastian Alappat

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Copyright 2021 by Melanie Salvato re-August.

Published by Yellow Pear Press, an imprint of Mango Publishing, a division of Mango Publishing G roup, Inc.

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Yoga to Support Immunity: Mind, Body, Breathing Guide to Wh ole Health

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication number: 2021936163
ISBN: (print) 978-1-64250-572-6, (ebook) 978-1-6 4250-573-3
BISAC category code HEA025000HEALTH & FITN ESS / Yoga

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Liability Statement: Always consult a physician before you begin a new exercise or breathing regime. The content in this book is to be of support only. It is not to replace medical supervision, advice, or prescriptions. There are inherent risks in any new regime, and you are fully responsible for your health and safety. The publisher and the author make no guarantees concerning the level of success you may experience by following the advice and strategies contained in this book, and you accept the risk that results will differ for each i ndividual.

To all of my teachers, especially Mom, Dad, Rafael, Giovanni, Casciato, and Roman.
I am forever grateful for every bit of you
and our precious time together.

Contents

Anuloma Viloma and Nadi Shodhanam/ Alternate Nostril Breathing
(without and with Breath Retentions)

Gardabha-Simha-Bhujanga-Bidala Kriya/ Donkey, Lion, Snake,
and Cat Cleansing

There are some people in this world whose presence expands your own sense of self. These are the people who meet you at the heart, who validate you, who speak with honesty and compassion, and who stand firmly yet humbly in their own light. Melanie Salvatore-August is one of these people. She has always been a truly radi ant being.

I first met Melanie when she was the manager of Yoga Works in NYC. These were in my early years of teaching, before my husband and I opened the ISHTA Yoga studio in 2008. Mel and I would often exchange words between my classes. They were kind words that always left me with a sense of lightness, whether it was around the topic of yoga anatomy or what to order for lunch. She conveyed a sense of confidence that was comforting and nonintimidating. I knew she lived a life of meaning, and I admired it deeply.

Now, over fifteen years later, I reflect on my relationship with Melanie as a sort of sisterhood from afar. Although we currently live on opposite sides of the country, there is an unspoken camaraderie between us that is genuine and unique, especially for women who are in the same industry. As fellow lululemon ambassadors, Melanie and I have always shared a common sense of purpose in the work we do as yoga teachers. She developed her own organization, Fierce Kindness, through which she raised awareness of the harmful effects of bullying that pervades our culture. I served on the board of Exhale to Inhale, a nonprofit organization that provides the healing powers of yoga to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Regardless of where we were or what we were embarking on, we cheered each other on from the sidelines. Even if I questioned my own place in the world, Melanies generosity of spirit reminded me how much I mattered. I know that that generosity is a gift she shares with everyone she comes in con tact with.