Definition of Yoga Therapy

As defined by the IAYT, "Yoga Therapy is the process of empowering individuals to progress toward improved health and well-being through the application of  the teachings and practices of Yoga." The practice of  Yoga Therapy requires specialized education and skill development with a wide variety of clients. Yoga is a lifetime practice,  which along with its companion science, Ayurveda, continues to evolve and adapt to the environmental and cultural context in which it is practiced. Currently Yoga Therapy has aligned with contemporary health sciences, and is finding its way into hospital and medical settings. Yoga Therapy has an important role to play since it encompasses an understanding of  human nature and has a holistic approach as opposed to viewing clients as having compartmentalized  and isolated  health  challenges. Instead, Yoga Therapy seeks to change the relationship of the client to his/her illness and to explore the fundamental causes of imbalance and disease. Yoga Therapy is aimed at reducing suffering, improving and maintaining function, and improving  overall health and well-being. ​
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Yoga Therapists

​have  specialized training  and  achieve a  set of standards, practice requirements,  and ethics as defined by international  organizations. Accreditation has been developed over the past ten years and is currently becoming formalized as  a set number of  hours of  education and  practicum. 

The Yoga Tradition

views humanity as multi-dimensional, with  the  essential  systems of  body, breath, mind, and emotions, overseen by a distinct, unchanging True Nature which views the  other systems as they change and transform in their essentially impermanent nature. The True Nature is the permanent, unchanging aspect  that constitutes wisdom, and informs the  healing and transformation of the  other systems.