Yog Niketan Dham

Yoga Therapy or Yogic Chikitsa

Yoga Therapy, All forms of yoga are known to have therapeutic advantages for the human body, mind, and soul. Ever since the evolution of yoga arose around 5,000 years ago, yoga therapy has been established itself in Indian civilization deeply.

Yoga Therapy was mainly practised by yogis and yoga gurus worldwide. It specifically focuses on recovering the deformities and healing aspects of yoga through applying different instruments such as correcting the body posture, breathing techniques, and meditation practices.

Indian philosophers mentioned three kinds of sickness and these were:

  • Spiritual Problems
  • Mental Problems
  • Physical Problems

Yoga therapy course takes into account every aspect of the human life – physical, emotional, and mental. Even most of the people take their first steps towards yoga through physical practices, here it is important to remember that the yogic lifestyle is much more than a few stretchings and poses.

Lower Back Problem

Shoulders and Spinal cord

Upper back settlement and for Shoulders alignment

Reiki Healing

Lower Back Problem
Shoulders and Spinal cord
Upper back settlement and for Shoulders alignment
Reiki Healing

How does Yoga Therapy work?

Yogic Chikitsa is the onliest therapy that treats the whole body as a whole rather than focusing on an individual body part or system. It works on the body’s innate capacity, and the mind can develop inner strength.

While regular yoga classes are suitable to lift your mood and ease joint aches and pains, a private yoga therapy session goes further beyond as it considers you as an individual.

Mainly, there are Four principles of a Yoga Therapy session for curing a particular body part, and these are:-

  • Align the physical body.
  • Stretching the body parts.
  • Motion to the part.
  • Deep pressure on Acupressure points.

During YTTC in Rishikesh, India, we employ Yoga Therapy as the primary practice to work on recovering many health issues, and it works exceptionally well in fixing these ailments:-

  1. Freezing shoulders;
  2. Herniated disc problem;
  3. Spinal stenosis;
  4. Sciatica;
  5. Shoulders Arthritis;
  6. Knee Arthritis.
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What is Yoga Therapy?

Ayurveda states, “Ya Kriyavyadhiharni sa Chikitsa nighadhayate”, meaning that the process of curing different ailments in the human body by using various tools, treatments, and kriyas is known as Yogic Chikitsa or Yoga Therapy. Yogic science plays a symbolic role in the practice of yoga therapy. It includes the following resources of yoga to heal patients:

Yama Niyama

Limbs of Yoga

Shatkarmas

Yogic Cleansing

Asanas

Yoga Posture

Pranayama

Yogic Breathing

Bandhas and Mudras

Energy Locks

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Dhyana

Meditation

What are the benefits of Yoga Therapy?

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The health benefits of yoga therapy are above and beyond the scope of physical wellbeing. After regular dedicated practice and determination, a lot can be improved and healed. While a lot is yet to come regarding its therapeutic characteristics, the following are some of the scientifically proven health benefits of yoga therapy:

  • Yoga Therapy supports in promoting relaxation and reducing stress in the human body.
  • It helps in controlling and curing fatigue, depression, anxiety, and other such mental health issues that can obstruct quality of life.
  • Regular practice of yoga therapy may help in reducing inflammation. While normal inflammation is not so harmful, chronic inflammation can lead to several severe ailments such as heart diseases, cancer, as well as diabetes. Yoga is known to reduce inflammatory markers from the human body.
  • Yoga practitioners with years of expertise are known to have a lower blood pressure rate that prevents several heart conditions such as attacks and strokes which are common conditions caused due to high blood pressure.
  • Researchers have been proven that people who live a yogic life have better cholesterol levels. In fact, the progression of heart diseases in these patients are known to reduce as well.
  • Chronic pain conditions such as arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other bone and muscle injuries are known to have been treated by the regular guided practice of traditional yoga.
  • Pranayama which is known as yogic breathing exercise, improves better breathing control among humans. This, in turn, is well known to strengthen the vital capacity meaning that such people have very less chances of suffering from lung diseases, asthma, and other related conditions.
What does Yoga Therapy do?
  • Breath awareness, control and techniques.
  • Visualization and meditative approach.
  • Physical movements and postures ranging from mild to vigorous.
  • Particular practices that target areas of discomfort or cater to musculoskeletal disproportions

Additionally, we also offer you a chance to practice and learn several other forms of alternative therapies such as:

  • Ayurveda
  • Acupressure
  • Reiki treatments
  • Pranic healing (Prana treatment);
  • Mantra practices
  • Yagna practices or fire rituals