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When today we find our yoga therapists making the same mistake in merely treating manifesting symptoms without remedying the “real” cause, Dr Bhavanani prefers to call this yogopathy! It may be useful in some cases, but it misses the true strength of yoga therapy—the opportunity to address the root cause of the problem.

An example of this yogopathy trend is when we use shavasana (Corpse Pose) to manage patients with hypertension, quoting research that has shown that it reduces blood pressure. We seem happy just to bring the blood pressure down for the time being! The transformative yoga therapy would first assess the primary cause of the patient’s hypertension. Based on such an assessment, it would recommend multilevel solutions suitable for this particular client, choosing from lifestyle changes, and yogic techniques to move and cleanse the body and manage the mind and thought processes, for the client to practice over time. Without an attempt to find and deal with the root cause, it remains merely yogopathy.