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In summary, this is valuable reading on many different levels, providing a grounding in a traditionally yogic perspective on diagnosis and treatment, personal accounts of lapses in medical treatment from both retreat participants and the authors, the specific outline of a pair of residential retreats with first-hand accounts of participants, and a detailed account of the practices used. It is a work embodying careful thought about the nature of yoga therapy, a generous-hearted sharing of an approach that worked, and it shows a way of moving healing back towards the whole and holy person which, after all, is the goal of yoga writ large.
Stephen Parker PsyD, Licensed Psychologist and C-IAYT,
Adjunct Assistant School Professor of Counseling and Psychological
Services, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, and author of
Clearing the Path, the Yoga Way to a Clear and Pleasant Mind:
Patañjali, Neuroscience and Emotion (Ahymsa Publishers, 2017)
PART 1
UNDERSTANDING YOGA AS THERAPY
As with any emerging field, yoga therapy is going through growing pains. The International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) in the US, Australia Yoga Therapists, and other local organizations are doing valuable work in defining the scope and direction of this professional field, but there is still much confusion among the public about what yoga therapy is, and what it is not.