Blog: What’s Happening in Yoga Therapy
Filling the gaps after cancer treatment: Patient empowerment through yoga therapy
By Lee Majewski As I recognized from my own cancer experience, there is a huge gap in medical cancer care—a gap yoga therapy can fill nicely. (Read more about how yoga therapy complements medical care in my previous post.) Typically, after surgery cancer patients...
What is yoga therapy? Lessons from my experience with cancer
By Lee Majewski My friends often ask me, “What is yoga therapy?” Initially, I struggled to find the words to explain this emerging healthcare field. From years of experience running retreats for cancer and chronic disease patients, I knew that yoga improved people’s...
Cardiac rehab: How yoga therapy can help
By Jennifer Lenders Although patients new to intensive cardiac rehab (ICR) often arrive thinking of yoga as a stretching class for flexible people, they soon find that yoga therapy is not only accessible to all but also helpful in supporting healing and lifestyle...
Yoga therapy in pediatric mental health
Yoga therapy scientifically applies the tools of yoga to target stress, emotional symptoms, and problem behaviors in children and adolescents.
The “pleasant surprise” of yoga therapy’s effects
Matthew Taylor, a past president of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, offers a brief history of contemporary yoga therapy as part of 30 Years of Social Change by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Taylor describes how yoga therapy actually goes far beyond...
Healing Our Backs with Yoga: An Essential Guide to Back Pain Relief
BOOK REVIEW: Healing Our Backs with Yoga: An Essential Guide to Back Pain Relief, by Lillah A. Schwartz Review by Steven Weiss In her comprehensive book, Lillah Schwartz explores back pain and its many causes. She provides sequences of asana (postures) that...
What does a yoga therapy conference look like?
The Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research is coming up in mid-June, so here’s a peek inside yoga therapy’s largest annual international conference.
Yoga therapy & yoga class: A few key distinctions
By Tina Paul
Although a yoga class can be therapeutic, there are some differences between attending a general yoga class and receiving yoga therapy. To add to the confusion…
What is yoga therapy?
When I tell people I am a yoga therapist, they inevitably ask, “Wait, what is yoga therapy?”
