How yoga therapy works: Part 3—Increasing awareness
A foundational principle of yoga is that by becoming more self-aware we will heal, realize our essential wholeness, and live in ways that support that wholeness. Yoga therapy is a process for this transformation, and it starts with learning to pay attention in...
The safety of yoga therapy
Safety, in relation to health, is usually about physical safety: Will I get hurt doing these movements? Will this medication or supplement cause harm? The work of Drs. Peter Levine and Bessel van der Kolk to understand trauma response and healing has brought the...
How yoga therapy works: Part 2—Frameworks for understanding
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...
