Yoga as Therapy - Combining Classical and Evidence Based Approaches

August 22nd, 2020 

9 am PT / 11 am CT / Noon ET

In the west, Yoga is popular as a fitness practice. However, yoga goes beyond physical fitness alone and has therapeutic value in addressing physical and mental ailments owing to its healing capacity. 

Yoga Vasishta is an ancient text that explains the role of the mind and habitual tendencies (vasanas) in causing chronic diseases and ailments. Modern research also confirms that mental stress causes chronic psychosomatic ailments.

Yoga therapy is a fast growing field with many studios and institutions taking up yoga for therapeutic applications to address psychosomatic ailments. 

In this webinar, we will look into the role of the mind in causing chronic conditions and a research based approach to healing through yoga.

In this webinar you will learn about:

• The role of mental stress (Sanskrit: Manovega) in causing psychosomatic ailments
• Clinical research on yoga and its therapeutic applications
• Holistic Yoga courses offered by Hindu University of America