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If we want to use the transformative potential of yoga therapy, we need to shift our paradigm from a focus on disease to health promotion, from pathogenesis to salutogenesis. Salus (Latin) means health and genesis (Greek) means source, hence salutogenesis means the source of health. In order to move our habitual pathogenic orientation as yoga teachers, therapists, and at the same time as clients, to a salutogenic orientation, we need awareness to change:

• The goal, from better medical intervention to improvement of our natural and created environment.

• Focus, from curing chronic disease to client ownership, to act in a way helps cause health.

• Norms, from paternalism and entitlement, to empowering clients to cultivate health.

• Orientation, from fixing parts of the system, to healing by bringing all systems into harmonious coherence.

According to Antonovsky,23 at the heart of salutogenesis lies a sense of coherence (SOC), “a pervasive, long lasting and dynamic feeling of confidence” that: