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Another common example is using left nostril (chandra nadi) pranayama to lower blood sugar or right nostril (surya nadi) pranayama to relieve bronchospasm without looking for the real cause of the patient’s diabetes or asthma. When we do this, how are we any different from the modern doctors who prescribe anti-diabetic and sympathomimetic agents for these patients? Where is the true potential of yoga therapy in this type of approach? Where is the effort to find and deal with the primary cause? Without a transformation of attitude or lifestyle, can it be yoga therapy?

Sometimes inexperienced yoga therapists are so taken by the available tools—from asanas, pranayama, chanting, meditation, mudras, etc.—that they lose the view of the person in front of them and get lost in choosing the best “option for the given disease/or symptom.” This was very apparent in my discussions with yoga therapy students where I had to repeatedly steer them towards the client as a person rather than the condition the client suffered from.