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The four-pronged systematic arrangement (vyuha) model of yoga therapy is foundational to this tradition and is based on Maharishi Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. The steps involved in the process are: a complete and comprehensive understanding of the problem and the individual having the problem (heyam); establishment of the cause of the problem (hetu); the therapeutic goal of healing (hanam); and the selection and utilization of tools to bring about the desired goal (upayam). These are established through four ways of evaluation (pariksha) that involve: observational analysis of the client (darsanam); palpation and touch-based analysis (sparsanam); a detailed interview with the client (prasnam); and pulse examination (nadi pariksa).

Swami Gitananda Giri claimed that yoga therapy is virtually as old as yoga itself—the “return of mind that feels separated from the Universe in which it exists” represents the first yoga therapy. Yoga therapy could be termed “man’s first attempt at a unitive understanding of mind-emotions-physical distress and is the oldest wholistic concept and therapy in the world.”19 To achieve this yogic integration at all levels of our being, it is essential that we take into consideration the multidimensional aspects of yoga: a healthy life-nourishing diet, a healthy and natural environment, a holistic lifestyle, personal and social behavioral ethics (yamas and niyamas), bodywork through asanas, mudras, bandhas, and kriyas, breath work through pranayama, and the cultivation of a healthy thought process through Jnana Yoga and Raja Yoga.