Yoga as a therapy emerged in the first half of the twentieth century. Pioneer, Swami Kuvalayananda applied critical scientific methods to approach yoga practices as therapy for medical conditions.
Yoga is a method to turn the mind inwards and achieve deeper and deeper internal awareness. "Awareness is half the solution to the problem
The essence of yoga therapy is both as preventative and as a curative. Daily practice of a complete yoga programme can restore the natural balance and harmony, bringing positive good health to all parts of life - physical, mental and spiritual.
Yoga therapy in its present form is a new discipline, created by the marriage of traditional yoga with modern medicine.
Yoga therapy is also known to be highly beneficial in terminal cancer, blood pressure ailments, heart problems, reduces varicose veins and improves circulation of blood, corrects bad body posture, improves muscle and joint flexibility, build bone, relieves and cures painful ailments like arthritis, back pain and is able to decompress the spine.
Yoga therapy can also treat infertility successfully, regulate the side effects of menopause, regulate periods and reduce or even eliminate menstrual abdomen pain, improves capacity of lungs, improves asthma conditions, reduces sinusitis, controls acidity, helps digestion, help in clearing and regulating movement of bowels.
Yoga therapy is applicable to a great variety of conditions, including anxiety, low back pain, arthritis, hypertension, heart conditions, hyperventilation, asthma, irritable bowel syndrome, diabetes, multiple scelorosis, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.
In Yoga therapy the deep relaxation reduces the panic element in an attack so that one can turn the mind inwards to relax their bronchus, during an attack. The relaxation of the voluntary muscles slowly extends to the involuntary muscles too.
Yoga therapy is not a substitute for medication; but it is a vital adjunct to the surgical procedures, psychotherapy and medication
Yoga therapy can also promote positive health for pregnancy and childbirth, mothers and babies, children, reproductive health in women and men, and the elderly.
Yoga therapy, in many instances, causes the symptoms to subside. So, the possibilities of relapsing are minimized or totally eliminated.
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy is a holistic healing art based on the ancient science of Yoga combined with elements of contemporary body-mind psychology
