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Today, 14 months later after starting yoga therapy, I am in a very different place. Despite living with a chronic illness, I am mentally and emotionally much stronger. My mind is steadier and I am more in touch with my body and my emotions. I try to ride the waves rather than sinking. I have the ability to return far more quickly and easily back to stability when I go out of kilter. Yoga therapy is and continues to be a major part of my healing journey. (S.L.)
Another client wrote:
I stopped taking insulin in the second week of [the] Beyond Cancer retreat. Now, after [a] due medical test doctors confirmed that my diabetes has been reversed. I am not taking any medicine or insulin for the last…6 months and sugar level is absolutely well under control. Credit for this also goes to your wonderful retreat at Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute. (R.T.)
What about spirituality and health?
More research has also emerged on spirituality since 2000. Three systematic reviews of academic literature identified more than 3000 empirical studies on spirituality and health.15, 16, 17 One of the obstacles to defining the protocols of research on spirituality is the difficulty of separating spirituality from religion. “Spirituality traditionally was regarded as a core part of religion. However in [the] last decades spirituality definition became much broader,” writes Harold Koenig.18 On the other hand, the general population at large still regards spirituality exclusively as an inherent part of religion. This is reflected in the following. The WHO wanted to modify its 1948 definition of health—“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease”—and add “spiritual wellbeing.” However, due to many protests, the definition stayed as it had originally been created.