Yoga Therapy
Yoga comprises a wide range of mind/body practices, from postural and breathing exercises to deep relaxation and meditation.
Yoga Therapy tailors these to the health needs of the individual. It helps to promote all-round positive health, as well as assisting particular medical conditions.
Yoga Therapy is particularly appropriate for many chronic conditions that persist despite conventional medical treatment.
The applications of Yoga Therapy range anywhere from maintaining health, to recovering from illness. The first stage of healing involves the movement of vital forces in the system. Practitioners of many Eastern forms of medicine believe that every illness involves a certain level of energy blockage. By promoting the flow of prana, or vital force, yoga combats those blockages, restoring the basic condition for health.
In its ideal application, Yoga therapy is preventive in nature, as is Yoga itself, but it is also restorative in many instances, palliative in others, and curative in many others.
By combining different techniques such as massage, stretching or alterations of the circulatory patterns, yoga promotes specific changes in muscles, joints and organs altering the vital functions of the body. A good example would be the way Yoga Therapy can help overcome panic attacks : by practicing a balancing breathing technique, a sense of control is gained, combating the fear and
anxiety produced by its loss.
Yoga Therapy tailors these to the health needs of the individual. It helps to promote all-round positive health, as well as assisting particular medical conditions.
Yoga Therapy is particularly appropriate for many chronic conditions that persist despite conventional medical treatment.
The applications of Yoga Therapy range anywhere from maintaining health, to recovering from illness. The first stage of healing involves the movement of vital forces in the system. Practitioners of many Eastern forms of medicine believe that every illness involves a certain level of energy blockage. By promoting the flow of prana, or vital force, yoga combats those blockages, restoring the basic condition for health.
In its ideal application, Yoga therapy is preventive in nature, as is Yoga itself, but it is also restorative in many instances, palliative in others, and curative in many others.
By combining different techniques such as massage, stretching or alterations of the circulatory patterns, yoga promotes specific changes in muscles, joints and organs altering the vital functions of the body. A good example would be the way Yoga Therapy can help overcome panic attacks : by practicing a balancing breathing technique, a sense of control is gained, combating the fear and
anxiety produced by its loss.