The Centered Heart

De: Susi Amendola

“Instead of trying to find time in your day for self-care, yoga-therapist Amendola suggests scheduling your life around your practices, aiming for a stress-free, healing existence. Under her expert guidance, this not only seems enticing but possible.” - Booklist, Starred Review

"An excellent starting point for those of all abilities and in all walks of life looking to create habits that support their cardiac and spiritual health.” - Library Journal
Gold Medalist, Relaxation and Mindfulness Category, Living Now Book Awards, 2024

Stress is often the first domino in chronic illness and disease. Too often, however, doctors have little training or information to offer patients about managing stress.
In The Centered Heart, yoga therapist, stress management expert and senior trainer for Ornish Lifestyle Medicine, Susi Amendola, navigates the intricate relationship between stress management and overall health. She invites readers into transformative experience with the ancient and time-tested somatic practices of yoga that have been shown to improve cardiac outcomes as well as outcomes from many of the chronic diseases that plague our society.
Developing a daily stress management practice that includes gentle movements, breathing, relaxation, meditation, imagery, compassion, and a connection to nature gradually shifts awareness to an internal locus of control. Practitioners will feel better, connect with their innate inner wisdom, and come to understand that through lifestyle choices they control they can be their own first line of intervention.
While we may not be able to affect what is happening around us, with the wisdom and insights offered in The Centered Heart, we can make a difference in the quality of our own lives, change the way we react to stress, calm our hearts, and reclaim our health.

©2026 Susi Amendola (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Reseñas de la Crítica

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, PhD, associate professor of Religious Studies, Native American Studies, and Medical Humanities faculty at the University of Nebraska-Omaha)