Blog: What’s Happening in Yoga Therapy
Psychology Today: “How to Recharge Your Mind and Body with Therapeutic Yoga”
As this article notes, "Yoga is one of the most sought after and used forms of complementary medicine." "[P]eople who seek the use of yoga to address back pain report after six months of practicing yoga significantly less disability, pain, and depression than patients...
Yoga therapy: A multidimensional approach to the multidimensional experience of chronic pain
By Tina Paul Globally, one in five people is impacted by chronic pain, and the number increases with age. That’s 1.5 billion of us—meaning you, me, and someone we love will likely be affected by chronic pain in the course of our lifetimes. Whereas acute pain from...
Stress-fest
Back in the 1930s, endocrinologist Hans Selye first used the term stress as we know it today—basically to indicate the way the body-mind system responds to any challenge. Since then, the pressures most of us face every day have changed dramatically. Our understanding...
A little push to begin
In case you need some encouragement to get started with yoga therapy, here are a few reminders of what the practices are all about. This article from the American Osteopathic Association outlines some of the physical and mental benefits that come with yogic practices:...
Adjunctive yoga therapy for weaning off psych meds: A therapist’s notes on discontinuation of psychotropics
By Cheryl Hurst Patients taking psychotropic medications—prescription drugs like antidepressants and antipsychotics—shouldn’t suddenly stop taking them because of their potential withdrawal effects. Physicians significantly reduce the risk of unpleasant and...
Finding your true self
By Anne Platt I noticed “Mark” the moment he walked into my class. Heavy beard, baseball cap pulled down over his eyes, silent, wary, and very much disconnected from his fellow soldiers. He didn’t want to be there, and we both knew it. He set his yoga mat in the...
YOGA SAFETY FIRST
Ann Swanson, MS, LMT, C-IAYT, adapted these recommendations from “Yoga as a holistic treatment for chronic illnesses: Minimizing adverse events and safety concerns,” by yoga researcher Shirley Telles and colleagues. For yoga practitioners ...without health conditions...
Yoga therapy + neurobiology = Less pain?
By Ganesh Mohan A combined neurobiology and yoga perspective offers an innovative way of addressing chronic pain, which affects an estimated 50 million U.S. adults. Because many people experience debilitating consequences from their pain and medication alone doesn’t...
Support for a yoga journey
Yoga therapists are a prolific bunch, partly because we often have been so changed by the practices ourselves that we want to find ways to share them with as many people as possible. These recent texts offer guidance for those wishing to incorporate yogic wisdom into...
Helping kids with cancer stay active: Yoga in pediatric oncology
By Tyla Arnason Imagine hearing, “It’s cancer,” come across a desk at you. Now imagine that the doctor is speaking about your child. Although it may be impossible to wrap your head, much less your heart, around these words, they’re a reality for many parents each...
