🔵 Yoga-Therapy Clinic-1 (General)

WE OFFER

*	(I). PRIVATE CLINICAL YOGA SESSIONS — FOR INDIVIDUALS AND SMALL GROUPS IN A TRANQUIL STUDIO. (A). Individuals Yoga Sessions (B). Group Yoga Sessions
*	(II). GENERAL CLINICAL YOGA PRACTICE.
*	(III). SPECIFIC YOGA-THERAPY.

(I). PRIVATE CLINICAL YOGA SESSIONS — FOR INDIVIDUALS AND SMALL GROUPS IN A TRANQUIL STUDIO.

(A). Individuals Yoga Sessions

• Therapy & Wellness : To attend an ongoing Specific disease/ Ailment, viz. Hypertension, Diabetes, Obesity, Musculoskeletal disorders (Joints and Spine), Asthma, Gastrointestinal ailments, Cancer, Post-oprative Surgical conditions, Stress, Depression &c. Personaly conducted by a highly qualified ‘physician-yogacharya’ !
• Prenatal: Adapting to corresponding Trimester of the Pregnancy — A holistic pardigm for a healthy Mother-Baby ! Conducted by the senior trained, experienced, and compassionate teacher/s !
• Yoga for Special Child:
• Restorative-, Yin- and Chair-Yoga for Seniors ! —
• Custom Approach to Your Yoga Practice ! — If you’re brand new to yoga, experiencing discomfort, pain or injury; want to learn modifications and to use props; enhance your group class experience; and/or just craving a little one-on-one attention, we are available to craft hour-long sessions specific to your current needs. Conducted by very gentle, trained, qualified and experienced teachers in a peaceful serene atmosphere !

(B). Group Yoga Sessions

• Standard Yoga Class (at an Assigned Studio Time) — Standard Yoga Class : Adults, Children, Seniors.
• Corporate Yoga (Yoga for Employees at the Work Place): A growing number of businesses are finding that offering Yoga to their employees is a low-cost, preventive and holistic healthcare measure, making the discipline a resonating success with human resource teams looking for strategic returns on their wellness investments.

(II). GENERAL CLINICAL YOGA PRACTICE

(1). General Goal:

• Yoga prepares you physically and mentally for the integration of your physical, mental and spiritual faculties so that you become healthier, saner and more integrated members of the society and of the nation.
• Yoga helps in self discipline and self-control, leading to immense amount of awareness, concentration and higher level of consciousness.
• Yoga can start at a very early age and continue till our last breath. Yoga enhances every activity of life, viz. academic, professional, social, spritual, &c. . . .Yoga techniques provide improved attention, better stamina and co-ordination, heightened awareness and balanced attitude for social activities. Yoga practices are built around concepts like conditioning (preparation), synchronization, concentration, relaxation, self-reliance.
• Yoga teaching/learning should be experience based, i.e. you should gain direct experience of the subject. As Yoga deals with life, yogic concepts should be integrated into life situations at the physical, psychological and spiritual levels of your personality.
• As Yoga experience is subjective – any mechanical means of evaluation may not provide a good guideline. An experienced teacher would notice your progress through your behavior and activities.

(2). Therapeutic/ Healing Goal:

1. Yoga improves posture, increases the intake of oxygen and enhances the functioning of all body systems like respiratory, digestive, endocrine, reproductive, excretory systems etc.
2. It’s effects on the emotions are equally beneficial by calming down the mind.
3. Yoga also cures behavioral disorders, nervous breakdown and manic depressions.
4. Asanas enhance muscle strength, coordination, flexibility, agility and range of motion.
5. Yoga gives you the capacity to face up the life’s challenges. When you respect your body, you tend to do things that will enhance its vitality.
6. Yoga helps to maintain the acid-alkaline ratio. Which is crucial to good health. It should be 80% alkaline and 20% acidic. Over acidity can be harmful for bones and tissues, leading to fatigue, dulled mind, headaches, depressions and arthritis.
7. Yoga is highly recommended for the people in competitive, stressful working environments.
8. After a good practice of Yoga, the mind becomes vibrant.
9. Much healing can be done, but it takes practice and consistency.
10. In Yoga, one should concentrate on a total awareness of our energy and how it flows. One should learn how body and mind works together.
11. The benefits of Yoga are numerous, including physical fitness, stress control, general well being. Mental clarity and greater self-understanding. People of all ages can practice Yoga, even physically challenged people can also adopt.
12. Yoga can be seen not only as a way to get into shape but also as a tool for self healing.
13. Practicing Yoga ultimately leads towards long-term health and well-being.
14. Yoga Teaches the Secret of Alchemy:
    1. How to transform the misery and painful emotions into more creative and nourishing energies.
    2. How to take responsibility for our own healing and happiness in everyday life.
    3. How to get clarity of mind to take decisions even in complex and stressful situations of life.
    4. How to experience the joy of liberated energy, the joy of living a whole life; a life of totality.
    5. How to increase our ability to deepen our self-awareness and strengthen our intuitive power.
    6. How to improve our skill to relate to all that surrounds us.
    7. How to connect to our inner wisdom and life purpose.

(III). SPECIFIC YOGA-THERAPY

“Yoga therapy is the process of empowering individuals to progress toward improved health and wellbeing through the application of the teachings and practices of yoga.” — IAYT. 

🔵 Yoga is a scientific system of self-investigation, self-transformation, and self-realization. The teachings of yoga are rooted in the Vedas and grounded in classical Indain scriptureal texts and the rich oral tradition. This tradition recognizes that the human being’s essential nature is unchanging awareness that exists in relationship to and identification with the changing phenomena of the empirical world. The yoga tradition views humans as a multidimensional system that includes all aspects of body; breath and mind, intellect and emotions and their mutual interactions. Yoga is founded on the basic principle that intelligent practice can positively influence the direction of change within these human dimensions, which are distinct from an individual’s unchanging nature or spirit. The practices of yoga traditionally include, but are not limited to, asana, pranayama, meditation, mantra, chanting, mudra, ritual, and a disciplined lifestyle. Yoga therapy is the appropriate application of these teachings and practices in a therapeutic context in order to support a consistent yoga practice that will increase self-awareness and engage the client/ student’s energy in the direction of desired goals.

🔵 The goals of yoga therapy include eliminating, reducing, or managing symptoms that cause suffering; improving function; helping to prevent the occurrence or re- occurrence of underlying causes of illness; and moving toward improved health and wellbeing. Yoga therapy also helps clients/ students change their relationship to and identification with their condition. Yoga therapy is informed both by its sister science, Ayurveda as wella as by by contemporary health sciences. The efficacy of Yoga therapy is supported by an increasing body of research evidence, which contributes to the growing understanding and acceptance of its value as a therapeutic discipline. Yoga therapy is the adaptation of yoga practices for people with health challenges. Yoga therapists prescribe specific regimens of postures, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques to suit individual needs. Medical research shows that Yoga therapy is among the most effective complementary therapies for several common aliments. The challenges may be an illness, a temporary condition like pregnancy or childbirth, or a chronic condition associated with old age or infirmity — Robin Monro. 

🔵 Yoga therapy is a self-empowering process, where the care-seeker, with the help of the Yoga therapist, implements a personalized and evolving Yoga practice, that not only addresses the illness in a multi-dimensional manner, but also aims to alleviate his/her suffering in a progressive, non-invasive and complementary manner. Depending upon the nature of the illness, Yoga therapy can not only be preventative or curative, but also serve a means to manage the illness, or facilitate healing in the person at all levels — TVK Desikachar & Kausthub Desikachar.

(I). “Yoga Therapy: Perspectives & Principles” — Richard Miller, Ph.D.! 

Yoga therapy may be defined as the application of Yogic principles to a particular person with the objective of achieving a particular spiritual, psychological, or physiological goal.

The means employed are comprised of intelligently conceived steps that include but are not limited to the components of Ashtânga Yoga, which includes the educational teachings of yama, niyama, âsana, prânâyâma, pratyâhâra, dhâranâ, dhyâna, and samâdhi. Also included are the application of meditation, textual study, spiritual or psychological counseling, chanting, imagery, prayer, and ritual to meet the needs of the individual.

Yoga therapy respects individual differences in age, culture, religion, philosophy, occupation, and mental and physical health. The knowledgeable and competent yogin or yoginî applies Yoga Therapy according to the period, the place, and the practitioner’s age, strength, and activities. 

* The application of Yoga therapy —It is from one or more of following three perspectives:

1. The use of Yoga to gain a sense of power, i.e. to develop muscular power, the power to concentrate, the power to do difficult postures, the ability to work over and extended period of time, etc. This is called the application of shakti-krama (शक्ति-क्रम).
2. The use of Yoga to heal specific problems, such as eliminating impurities in the organs (doshas/ दोष) or energy centers (cakras/ चक्र) and channels (nādīs/ नाड़ी) of the body. This is chikitsâ-krama (चिकित्सा-क्रम).
   * If sickness is present, it needs to be cured (chikitsâ/ चिकित्सा).
   ** If sickness is not present, protection is necessary (rakshana/ रक्षण).
   *** If sickness is not present and one has learned how to protect oneself, training is necessary (shikshana/ शिक्षण).
3. The use of Yoga to go beyond the physical to understand what is beyond the limited sense of self; to know one’s true self as unchanging Witnessing Presence (Purusha/ पुरुष) of all that is changing (prakriti/ प्रकृति). This is called the application of âdhyâtmika-krama/ अध्यात्म-क्रम).

** The main principles of this form of Yoga therapy —

• Teaching what is appropriate to the individual (yukta-shiksana).
• Differences in different people must be respected (bheda).
• Teachings must consider the situation, place, or country from which the student comes (desha).
• Each person needs to be taught according to his or her individual constitution, age, disposition, etc.(i.e., obese, lean, young, old, etc.) (deha).
• The method of instruction depends on the time of year, the seasons, etc. (kâla).
• Depending on the occupation of the student, he or she will need to be taught different things (e.g., a runner would be taught differently than a philosopher) (vritti).
• One must understand the capacity of the client/ student, how much endurance he or she has, how much memory, how much time to study or practice (shakti).
• The teaching must conform to the direction of the mind (i.e., it must take a person’s interests into account, such as exercise, devotion, God, chanting, etc.) (mârga)

(II). All yoga is potentially therapeutic and healing

( https://yogatherapy.health/what-is-yoga-therapy/ )

Although all yoga is potentially therapeutic and healing, yoga therapy is the specific application of yogic tools — postures/ exercises, breathwork, meditation techniques, and more — to address an individual’s physical, mental, and emotional needs. Many people first learn about yoga through its physical practices.

A common misconception is that it’s all about stretching or movement. In fact, yoga therapy can help people who can’t move at all, as well as active individuals! The yogic model of health is unique because it addresses every aspect of life rather than considering each body part or system separately. Yoga therapy is a safe way of working with the natural capacity of your body and mind to optimize well-being.

A general public Yoga class can certainly ease everyday aches, pains, and mood complaints. But a Yoga therapy session, whether one-to-one or in a small group, goes much further because it is tailored to the individual.Yoga therapists have in-depth training to help them assess and keep their clients safe. They work with you to address your specific goals while considering any limitations you might be experiencing. The practices your Yoga therapist recommends could include:

• Movement ranging from gentle to vigorous
• Breathing techniques
• Meditation or visualization practices
• Physical postures that address specific areas of discomfort or musculoskeletal imbalances
• Any combination of tools like these !

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(III). Practice and Benefits of Yoga Therapy !

Yoga therapy practice can resemble physical therapy, rehabilitative therapy, and/or psychotherapy.
Unlike a standard yoga class, yoga therapy sessions are typically conducted in one-to-one or small group settings. Yoga therapy can be provided as an adjunct therapy to complement other forms of treatment, or it can be used to directly treat a specific issue. Yoga techniques range from simple to advanced, and can be accepted by people of all ages.
Potential benefits from yoga therapy include stress reduction, psychological well-being, improved diet, and efficient functioning of bodily systems.
Yoga therapy not only effectively reduces anxiety, but offers improvement across several dimensions of physical and mental health.

(IV). What to Expect from Yoga Therapy ?

When a person decides to initiate yoga therapy, the therapist will first conduct an initial assessment. This assessment is designed to do the following:

• Identify health problems
• Assess lifestyle and physical capability
• Discuss reasons for seeking therapy
• Create a course of treatment
  Once the treatment plan is established in the first consultation, the frequency of sessions is agreed upon and sessions are scheduled. From this point, therapy sessions will most likely include the following components:
• Breathing Exercises (Prayanama): The therapist guides the person in therapy through a series of breathing exercises ranging from energizing breaths to balancing breaths.
• Physical Postures (Asana): The therapist teaches the person in treatment appropriate yoga poses that address problem areas. For example, the ‘Legs Up the Wall’ pose is used to treat things like anxiety and insomnia.
• Meditation: Relaxation and mindfulness are the focus of meditation when it is combined with yoga poses.
• Guided Imagery: The yoga therapist attempts to calm the body and mind by providing a guided visualization intended to bring inner peace.
• Homework: An important element for any yoga practice is to find a way to incorporate it into daily life. Yoga therapists provide instructions on how to use what has been learned in treatment at home.

(V). Who Offers Yoga Therapy ?

The most well-known professional title to describe a yoga therapist is ‘Certified Yoga Therapist (CYT)’, credentialed as ‘C-IAYT’ by the ‘International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)’
Most well-trained yoga therapists have a strong knowledge base in:

• Yoga philosophy, techniques, and education
• Therapeutic yoga techniques
• Anatomy and physiology
• Diet and nutrition
• Basic understanding of medical care and first aid
• Basic understanding of business ethics.

When deciding on a yoga therapist, it is important to know that there are many types. Some are yoga teachers, yogis, and gurus while others are psychotherapists, psychologists, and physical therapists. The most crucial thing is to find a therapist who has solid experience and training, and with whom you can develop a positive therapeutic relationship.

(VI). Issues Treated Yoga Therapy ?

• Yoga as a therapy uses yoga postures (Asanas), breathing exercises (Pranayama), meditation, and guided imagery to improve mental and physical health. The holistic focus of yoga therapy encourages the integration of mind, body, and spirit.
• Yoga therapy is a growing field with scientific evidence for its therapeutic efficacy.
• It is used to treat existing mental and physical health issues, but can also be used as a self-care strategy for prevention and maintenance.
• It is well established as a treatment for depression and anxiety. It also shows promise for the treatment of posttraumatic stress (PTSD) and schizophrenia. In addition, yoga therapy is a suitable treatment modality for children with autism.
• It is also emerging as an effective treatment for substance abuse issues. Yoga positively impacts the parts of the mind and body susceptible to addiction. Yoga boosts the neurotransmitter GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) level which is found to be statistically low in people who experience substance abuse, anxiety, and depression.
• As regards physical health issues, yoga therapy can be effectively used to treat back pain, heart conditions, asthma, chronic fatigue, hypertension, multiple sclerosis, and side effects of chemotherapy.

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