Yoga as a therapy
“As you start to walk on the way – the way appears” – Rumi
Ammonite Pavement – Lyme Regis
I have recently successfully graduated from Yoga Campus, Islington with a diploma in Yoga Therapy. The right training at the right time for me as I continue to explore yoga as a way of helping people to help themselves. The understanding that all bodies are very different and there isn’t one yoga to fit all.
This has been a wonderful journey covering so many aspects of the mind – body union. This course has enabled me to understand more fully how the mind influences the body and the body influences the mind.
What is yoga therapy
Yoga is always evolving and yoga as a therapy, or yoga chikitsa in sanskrit, is an ancient practice. Drawing on the wealth of the yoga tradition; philosophy and practices. Choosing, adapting and modifying those ancient practice elements that will be the most effective and efficient for any given individual at a particular time to help them heal, grow, transform in whatever way they are seeking to do in their life at this time.
Yoga therapy helps with all layers of the Self. Physical body being only one of the layers. Many clients coming to therapy in the initial instance for a physical ailment and then finding greater comfort in body by releasing discomfort from the mind.Yoga therapy gives you a focus, grounding or energising you depending on your needs and helping to calm and control emotions whilst building strength, flexibility and mobility where appropriate. Many western medicines depleting the body and the mind. Yoga therapy is also used to create space to rest, enabling restoration and renewal. During yoga therapy, a personal yoga practice is devised that is wholly geared towards the needs of the individual. |