Yoga and Natural Health
Holistic medicine goes beyond the "patient" paradigm of "doctor make me better", but actively involves the individual in his or her own self-healing process. Yoga is a powerful way to take responsibility for your health into your own hands.
Yoga is deeply connected to holistic health. The Sanskrit root of the word "yoga" is "Yuj" or "union". Yoga is a return to wholeness. The heart of yoga lives in realizing the path by which we unite our finite self with the infinite. The vision of yoga is an unbroken awareness of our oneness with Spirit. This new consciousness evolves through yogic practice aimed at developing an ever-increasing awareness of the various levels of our experiences: physical, emotional, energetic, spiritual and so forth.
Yoga teaches that obstructions keep us from consistently experiencing our self as truth, bliss and consciousness (known as Satchitananda in Sanskrit). There are both obvious and subtle obstructions. They create disharmony, which is considered the root cause of disease. In other word, hidden conflicts and unacknowledged suffering, deep feelings of alienation, despair, loneliness and separation that lodge themselves as mental disturbance, emotional trauma, and physical disease prevent us from experiencing uninterrupted satchitananda in our daily lives.
Yoga is not a replacement for any other kind of therapy, whether acupuncture, massage, homeopathy, nutrition, etc. Rather, it complements and synergizes with any of these, and adds new benefits as well. Whether for health maintenance or recovery from a serious illness, yoga is a valuable ally for health.
I will gladly work with you and your practitioner to create a yoga program that meets your unique needs. If you have serious health concerns, be sure to consult with me prior to enrolling in a class or one-on-one tutoring so that I can tailor the practice of yoga to your personal healing.