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Yoga as Therapy

Yoga therapy is a yoga practice, which uses yoga breathing techniques or pranayama, postures or asanas, hygienic duties or kriyas, appropriate diet, reflection, which treat mental, emotional, and physical illness.

Yoga therapy is for better health. For illustration of yoga therapy is the yoga breathing techniques. With regular forms of work out, breathing does play a part, but not as much as with yoga. You learn to breath the correct way with your yoga exercise and this makes all the difference to helping you improve your health. Yoga breathing exercises are very useful and to get the benefits need not take hours of practice a day. You only need a several minutes and this will keep your mind and body healthy.

The most general type of modern Yogic therapy has been relief from an existing illness. We can use a combination of regular medical practices and Yoga therapy for neurological disorders, such as: Stroke, Ataxia, Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. Up till now, there are many other neurological disorders, diseases, and ailments.

In the future we hope that Yoga will be integrated with standard medical therapies. Yoga therapy is cost efficient, and with no negative side effects.

Yoga therapy for insomnia

It is quite possible that the Indian teaching of locking out all unwanted thoughts contains important hints for all those people who suffer from insomnia. There are as many methods to overcome sleeplessness as there are causes for it. Among older people and those confined to bed who suffer from it, one reason is very often a lack of activity. While their mind longs for rest, their body is not tired enough and wants to be active, perhaps only to relieve a disturbance of circulation. In such cases a quarter of an hour of deep abdominal breathing will often bring about the necessary degree of tiredness and thus the much desired sleep.

Another frequent cause of insomnia is the heavy demand made on the digestive system through overeating. According to Indian texts this causes pressure on the solar plexus. While we in the West seek relief mainly through bought remedies, the Eastern people rely on abdominal breathing. Hence the advice of Yoga experts to decrease the pressure on the solar plexus by at least 15 minutes of energetic abdominal breathing. The strong massage of the abdomen lessens and shifts the pressure. As breathing relieves the pressure, sleep becomes possible.

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