In India, nearly a century ago, a practice called yoga therapy began. Although it is not as old as the practice of yoga itself, this complementary therapy is being embraced by wider circles of people, convinced that it has had a strong effect on their wellness.
Yoga therapy is, in a way, the integration of ancient yogic practices with the more modern practice of medicine, and finds a middle ground between mainstream and complementary therapies to help improve both mental and physical wellbeing.
There are various different interpretations of yoga therapy, but the one thing that they all have in common is an understanding that the mind, body and spirit have to be integrated and taken into account in order to heal the whole person. The best way to understand yoga therapy is to think about it as a way to replace all bad aspects of your life with other, more positive ones. For example, it can help you to replace bad habits with new, better ones. Yoga therapy starts with the movements that you make on the yoga mat and extends through every aspect of your life, such as how you live, how you treat others and how you live.
The main aim of yoga therapy is to make sure that you live a simple, clean and healthy life, using the techniques of yoga to help make you as healthy in mind, body and spirit as possible.
Yoga therapy is now blooming as a professional therapy, with trained yoga therapists becoming more and more commonplace. Yoga therapy is now often personalised, with a yoga therapist working with an individual client to find what they need to improve their life in any way possible and to restore their wellness in any area of their life where it is lacking. Therapists will provide clients with personalised routine to help improve any physical or emotional ailments that they may be experiencing.