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The research data on yoga, spirituality, and health supports the notion that yoga enhances transformational processes, including spiritual and transcendent states. Furthermore, that these transformational states and processes may be singular to yoga practice and philosophy. Yoga is unquestionably a spiritually transformational discipline. It may also be the only secular science and complementary discipline offering a spiritual roadmap, which is beneficial and vital to the transformative healing of human beings.

Modern medical sciences have recognized the importance of the spiritual component in healing.47 In recent years, we have seen the emergence of tools for spiritual assessment, such as the FICA-Spiritual History Tool or HOPE-Questions for Spiritual Assessment.48 For those who are connected to religion, spiritual guidance is accessible through the chaplaincies available in many hospitals or through churches. However, those who are not connected to any particular religion usually have no means to improve their spiritual health as part of healing. Yoga therapy’s capacity to influence spiritual well-being presents a unique opportunity to offer the solution within a medical setting, where there is none offered to non-believing patients at the moment.