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Another notable initiative is the Integrated Cancer Project (I-CAP)27 submitted by the Network for AYUSH Cancer Care, Standing Research Committee, and Indian Yoga Association to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. In an 80-page document it recognizes the need to improve awareness, affordability, and access to care for Indian cancer patients. It further outlines detailed comprehensive strategies to deal with these challenges, and recommends setting up a center for excellence in yoga in oncology, with the mandate to further evaluate and understand the mechanism of interventions of yoga for cancer patients.

India is perhaps today the most advanced country in accepting yoga therapy by its government body and applying yoga therapy as a complementary modality in preventing or healing NCDs. In the West the approach is notably different, with the profession still not well recognized or regulated by government. There remains much confusion and many misconceptions around yoga therapy, and we will now attempt to clear these up in the next chapter, which is dedicated to yoga therapy, its principles, and its application.