by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Aug 12, 2024 | Cardiovascular & Circulatory, LGBTQ+ Communities, Subtle Body, What Is Yoga Therapy?
Every August 14, IAYT’s Global Yoga Therapy Day (GYTD) brings together an international community to share about the practice and profession of yoga therapy as it evolves. The event also provides professional development for yoga therapists and a window...
by Deb McDermott | Aug 4, 2023 | Subtle Body, Veterans & Military, Yoga Therapy in Healthcare
Has your doctor mentioned whole health to you yet? The movement toward whole health, or whole-person health, is being led in the United States by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and the Veterans Administration (VA). Other...
by Deb McDermott | Feb 9, 2023 | Subtle Body, What Is Yoga Therapy?, Yoga Therapy Tools & Techniques
Yoga philosophy understands healing and health somewhat differently than Western models do. A primary model for understanding the work of healing in yoga is the panchamaya kosha, or five-sheaths, model, which holds that different aspects or layers of our experience...
by Deb McDermott | Jan 27, 2023 | Breath & Nervous System Regulation, Research & Evidence-Informed Practice, Subtle Body, What Is Yoga Therapy?, Yoga Therapy Tools & Techniques
Yoga therapy is an emerging profession in the West, so perhaps the most common question yoga therapists receive is “What IS yoga therapy, anyway?” (yogatherapy.health has a section devoted to the answers.) Put simply, yoga therapy is the specific...
by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Jan 22, 2021 | Subtle Body, What Is Yoga Therapy?, Yoga Therapy Tools & Techniques
By Beth Gibbs Working with the panchamaya kosha model, also referred to as the five layers of self-awareness, can be an effective way of beginning a healing journey. We may describe and often work with the koshas separately, but ultimately they are one interrelated...
by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Dec 20, 2018 | Meditation, Musculoskeletal Concerns, Scope of Practice, Subtle Body, What Is Yoga Therapy?
By Diane Finlayson The yoga philosophy that informs the way yoga therapists view the individual comes from a text called the Taittiriya Upanishad. Its second chapter describes a way of considering the human system that incorporates five interconnected “sheaths”—the...
