Benefits of Yoga: Professional and Personal. For Therapists and Patients.

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The relevance of yoga therapy to healthcare?

"Yoga therapy consists of the application of yogic principles, methods and techniques to specific human ailments. In its ideal application, yoga therapy is preventive in nature (as is yoga itself) - but it is also restorative in many instances, palliative in others and curative in many others." - Art Brownstein, MD, International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)

Yoga therapy's offerings can benefit healthcare practitioners, both professionally and personally. This article will discuss both aspects.

Across domains, from reducing depression, anxiety and chronic pain, to improving self-care habits and quality of life, yoga therapy has emerged as a valuable complementary modality in healthcare settings. With an expanded scope of practice including yoga therapy skills, healthcare professionals can champion wellbeing for their patients, their colleagues - and themselves.

Potential benefits of yoga and yoga therapy in healthcare

By tailoring yoga's tools of posture, breathing, mindfulness, meditation, and reflection to an individual, yoga therapy can affect physical functioning and nervous system regulation - and can leverage neuroplasticity and mind-body bi-directionality toward whole-person improvements in wellbeing and quality of life.
Bringing person-centred, bio-psycho-social approaches to numerous conditions
Reducing demand on healthcare systems, by helping people manage stress and make habit changes, to prevent or remediate lifestyle-related diseases
Providing health professionals with yoga skills to care for themselves and each other, as well as patients

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