Yoga Therapy & Mental Health

Resting in peace: Easing the inevitable with yoga’s corpse pose

Resting in peace: Easing the inevitable with yoga’s corpse pose

How comfortable are you with death? If you’re like many Westerners, you may not be very comfortable at all—or you may not give your own inevitable final rest much thought. Even if you’ve practiced yoga and enjoyed the usual class conclusion of...
How yoga therapists work: Restoring humanity and integrating yoga therapy into serious psychiatric care

How yoga therapists work: Restoring humanity and integrating yoga therapy into serious psychiatric care

By Anneke Sips When I entered nursing school in 1998, I also stepped into psychiatry—and, almost simultaneously, into yoga. Those early years were a strange kind of initiation: learning how to steady myself amid human crisis while finding ways to quiet my inner world,...
Humanitarian healthcare with yoga therapy: Lessons from a refugee camp

Humanitarian healthcare with yoga therapy: Lessons from a refugee camp

By Mounia Moalla As healthcare providers, we often encounter patients whose needs extend beyond the realm that traditional medical interventions can touch. A few years ago, I had the opportunity to explore how yoga therapy could complement conventional healthcare in...