Highly Recommended! I have worked with Susi Amendola for 30 years. Her dedication, skill, and love have mentored hundreds of participants as well as many teams of health professionals in our lifestyle medicine program. This inspiring book guides the reader through their healing process with empathy, warmth and wisdom and will be of service whether you are at the beginning of your healing journey or if you have a seasoned yoga practice.
— Dean Ornish, MD, founder and president, Preventive Medicine Research Institute; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; author of Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease
Beautifully written and filled with actionable information, this book is required reading for anyone with a family or personal history of heart disease. This book leaves you both empowered and inspired to make changes essential for both quality of life and better health outcomes.
— Amy Rothenberg, ND, author of You Finished Treatment, Now What?: A Field Guide for Cancer Survivors
An invaluable resource! From her own compelling journey of self-healing through the ancient tools of yoga and Ayurveda, to her incomparable experience working directly with heart patients for many decades,this book will be an invaluable resource for the practical and useful application of these research-proven tools for improving heart health and overall well-being.
— Baxter Bell, MD, author of Yoga for Health Aging
This beautiful, luminous book can change your life and heal your heart. It feels like an act of grace.
— Michele Marie Desmarais, PhD, author of Changing Minds: Mind, Consciousness and Identity in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra and Cogntive Neuroscience, associate professor of Religious Studies, Native American Studies, and Medical Humanities faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
This book is a blessing for everyone. .Susi Amendola is a phenomenal human being who has lovingly empowered thousands of individuals in their journey from “disease” to “ease” for the past three decades. She is a living example of the wholesomeness of Yoga. In this book, she guides care-seekers through a holistic health-enhancing program that consists of postures, breathing, relaxation, meditation, imagery. At the same time, she reminds us of the power of compassion and the need for connection to Nature that is essential for healing to manifest. This book is a blessing for everyone who wants to move from distress and suffering to health, wellbeing, and joy.
— Ananda Balayogi, DSc, author of Yoga Therapy as a Whole Person Approach to Health, director of the Center For Yoga Therapy Education and Research (CYTER), Professor of Yoga Therapy at Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University
A book for True Healing! Emanating from Susi’s compassionate wisdom and vast experience we are gently yet effectively ushered through a glorious path of natural healing.The life-altering practices of Yoga offered here are innovative yet ancient in their offerings.Through her telling in “The Centered Heart” we become the recipient of formidable personal experience, years of study and practice, as well as student observation. This triad of power, encompassing body, mind, and emotions, unleashes radiant health. From this we are inspired to live a robust and fulfilling life touching the one spirit in all. Thank you, Susi, for this healing Gem!.
— Nischala Joy Devi, teacher, author of The Healing Path of Yoga, Secret Power of Yoga, co-founder of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, founding director of Stress Management for Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease