Instructor: Acharya Harilalji
This advanced course is designed for those who wish to deepen their knowledge of yoga and to practice yoga therapy. Students will learn the basic concepts of yoga therapy: Panchakosha Tattwa (the five sheaths of life), aadhi (stress), vyadhi (disease), and aadhija vyadhi (psychosomatic ailment). They will be introduced to the techniques used in Yoga Therapy and Yogic Physiotherapy: breathing movements, asanas, pranayamas, shat kriyas (cleansing exercises), cyclic relaxation, prana chanelling, and various meditation techniques.
Yoga therapy works on many levels to erase psychosomatic ailments and eleviate such diseases as asthma and allergy, back pain, knee pain, head ache and migraine, arthritis, anxiety and depression, and muscular dystrophy. After consultation with the patient, the therapist recommends and teaches various techniques. The patient then practice on his/her own until the illness is controlled or cured.
Yoga Vasishta, Taitariya upanishad, Prasna Upanishad, Yoga Sutra, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Gheranda Samhita, and Bhagavad Gita are among the scriptures that provide the theory, as well as the practices, used in Yoga Therapy. This course places emphasis on experiencing the wisdom of yoga, rather than merely acquiring information
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