Here, I reproduce my write-up "Short Note on Yoga Therapy or Yogapathy and Acrostic" on International Yoga Day-2022 (June 21), which goes as follows.
Over the years Yoga has become a cross-curricular and multi-disciplinary area of knowledge and application, and Yogapathy has found a place in medical sciences.
Kishore (2017) [1] holds that disorders, dysfunctions and ailments are seen as the result of a state of short or prolonged malfunctioning of the body-mind system resulting into imbalanced internal conditions of an individual and yoga can help in mitigating the disorders.
Here is an acrostic on YOGAPATHY to understand the term quickly.
YOGAPATHY: AN ACROSTIC
Y: Yoking and harnessing mind and body by uniting them to work as a source of wellness and health
O: Organizing yoga intervention by expert after psychic diagnosis for the prevention and treatment of medical conditions of client
G: Generic yogic techniques, asanas and props modified to be used with a protocol
A: Analysis of patient on body, mind, social heath and spiritual health levels is precondition before
P: personalized programs of asana, pranayama, dhyana and meditation programs designed after diagnosis of person including psycho analysis
A: Assisting patients to recover and get rehabilitated through designed yoga interventions
T: Therapeutic yoga as a tool to restore mobility and flexibility to injured areas of the body and address a variety of ailments including chronic backache, high blood pressure, immunodeficiency and insomnia.
H: Holistic health, treatment and recovery plan with expertise in medical yoga
Y: Yes to supplementary inputs from medical yoga for effective and efficient use of pharmaceutical drugs which often treat symptoms and not the causes of diseases
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