Protect Your Energy: // A Gentle Guide to Nurture Your Nervous System, Cultivate Rest, and Honor Your Needs

Make vital shifts in how you use your energyand how you restby understanding your nervous system through gentle guidance and practices.

This book is a balm to my nervous system.Alex Elle, author ofAfter the Rain

We live in a world of morework more, earn more, do morebut as Zabie Yamasaki writes, The truth is sometimes what our nervous systems need isless. InProtect Your Energy, Zabie helps us connect to our inner wisdom to make the powerful changes we need to reclaim control of the thousands of ways our energy is depleted each day.

Protect Your Energyhelps us compassionately learn to listen to the messages our bodies are sending us through our nervous system. With evidence-based practices drawn from Polyvagal Theory, as well as yogic philosophy and personal experience, Zabie shares practical wisdom to help us turn inward to effect small but vital changes that make living in our fast-paced culture more sustainable.Protect Your Energyoffers:

Reflections to help us understand both where we are and where we want to go
Restorative and accessible practices to help us understand our energy drains and honor our capacity
Support to set and hold supportive boundaries, unwind burnout, and much more.

Zabie shares, You hold the wisdom, beauty, and power you need to find relief. And amid all of the noise, your connection to your body and nervous system is your most important teacher.

Zahabiyah (Zabie) A. Yamasaki, MEd, RYT,is an award-winning trauma-informed educator, yoga trainer, and sought-after consultant and speaker, as well as the founder of Transcending Trauma through Yoga. Her work has been featured on CNN, NBC, and more. Her yoga as healing program is implemented at several universities including the University of California (UC) system, USC, Stanford, Yale, University of Notre Dame, and Johns Hopkins University. She is the author ofTrauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault,Trauma-Informed Yoga Affirmation Card Deckand flip chart, and two childrens books.

• Publisher: St. Martin’s Essentials / Sounds True
• Publish Date: April 21, 2026
• Pages: 240
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9781649633224
• Dimensions: 8.9 X 6.0 X 17.8 inches | 0.6 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Self-Help, Health