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.” (IAYT, 2024)
Yoga therapy may be defined as the application of Yogic principles to a particular person with the objective of achieving a particular spiritual, psychological, or physiological goal. The knowledge applied most respect individual differences in age, culture, religion, philosophy, occupation, and mental and physical health.
Yoga therapy is of modern value and represents a first effort to integrate traditional yogic concepts and techniques, with Western medical and psychological knowledge. Traditional Yoga is primarily concerned with personal transcendence, whereas Yoga therapy aims at the holistic treatment of various kinds of psychological or somatic dysfunctions ranging from back problems to emotional distress. Both approaches, share an understanding of the human being as an integrated body-mind system, which can function optimally only when there is a state of dynamic balance.