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One of the critical issues the authors tackle convincingly in conceiving holistic yoga therapy is the frequent disinclination of scientifically oriented yoga therapy to embrace the importance of spirituality to healing. This occurs despite a considerable body of empirical evidence which demonstrates that spirituality strongly potentiates healing. Here spirituality is understood as practices which facilitate a relationship with the highest levels of consciousness, rather than confusing it with religion, which comprises specific, culture-bound prescriptions for the nature of that relationship. This is particularly true in addressing the isolation, exhaustion, and hopelessness that patients are often left with at the conclusion of their prescribed medical treatment. In the case of Majewski’s experience of her own cancer and that of retreat participants, she notes how often this isolation and hopelessness pushes patients towards ending their lives. The deeper one goes into the layers of embodiment presented by yoga through the system of koshas, the more extensive the spiritual healing effect can become. A similar argument was made by quantum physicist Amit Goswami PhD in his book, The Quantum Doctor, as he constructed a quantum model of healing that demonstrates how allopathy, homeopathy and Āyur-veda can all work in collaboration if one understands the levels at which those healing systems work.