Therapeutic yoga
It is well known: practicing yoga is a very good way to practice physical activity while relaxing. The benefits of yoga are recognized and this makes this discipline very popular around the world. Between meditation, postures and breathing exercises, yoga practitioners build up their muscles while focusing on their chakras.
From this perspective, yogatherapy is a discipline that aims to relieve the physical and mental by using the basic principles of yoga: Asanas (postures), Pranayama (breathing) and stretching. It adds a philosophical dimension that allows you to regain vitality and to be Zen in your life.
What is therapeutic yoga?
Yoga is an art born in India a long time ago, which is not the case with yogatherapy, which was born in France and developed there as a therapeutic discipline. Discover the origins and characteristics of yogatherapy, this healing yoga.
Yogatherapy is a discipline that combines the concepts of traditional yoga with elements of sophrology and philosophy. In short, a yogatherapy session consists mainly of yoga postures coupled with complete relaxation sessions. This alliance of yoga and modern medicine can be summarized as follows:
"The association of traditional and millennia-old methods with neuroscience and scientific and medical studies has shown the validity of this comprehensive care in many areas of health".
Therapeutic is mainly used to treat patients suffering from physical or mental disorders, but it can also be used to prevent such problems. Yogatherapy cannot be used exclusively for treatment, but as a complement to medical treatment, it can help you to be healthier and feel better.
This discipline was created in 1970 by Dr. Bernard Auriol who had the idea of associating psychoanalysis with oriental approaches such as yoga. After proving the beneficial effects of his method, he instituted it and today there are two yogatherapy organizations in France: the Institut de Yogathérapie (IDYT) and the Fédération Française de Yogathérapie (FFYT).
The benefits of therapeutic yoga for body and mind
Just like yoga, yogatherapy, in its regular practice, brings many benefits to the anatomy as well as to the nervous system. Discover the benefits of yogatherapy in a long-term treatment for the sick and healthy!
The benefits of yogatherapy on the physical body
Yogatherapy is a discipline that is accessible to everyone, regardless of age or physical and psychological condition. It is very useful to maintain one's body, but also to get rid of physical ailments, to strengthen muscles and thus feel good about one's body!
Some of the health problems that yogatherapy can treat independently of modern medicine include back pain, chronic pain and problems with the body's internal organs. If combined with medical treatment, it can help to cure sciatica, heart disease or relieve hypertension.
Healing one's psychic state through therapeutic yoga
One of the great advantages of therapeutic yoga is that it acts on the mind: it helps to manage stress and relieve psychological ailments in order to live better every day. Yogatherapy allows to get rid of several difficult psychological states:
• Stress management,
• Insomnia,
• Sleep apnea,
• Chronic or occasional migraine,
• Anxiety attack,
• Hyperactivity.
Practicing therapeutic yoga in addition to the effects of traditional medicine therefore helps to alleviate many mental problems and can be useful in countering the effects of more serious illnesses such as Parkinson's disease for example.
Patients for whom yogatherapy is intended
Yogatherapy is a health treatment through sport and sophrology that is intended for many people and can be of benefit to everyone. Find out what the main targets of yogatherapy are and for whom its exercises are intended!
Yogatherapy: a discipline suitable for everyone
If yogatherapy is mainly used to cure illnesses using yoga, it is also open to everyone. Indeed, it is not necessary to suffer from a pathology to participate in a yogatherapy session. You can very well sign up to relax fully while practicing Hatha Yoga or Yoga Nidra.
There are only advantages to practicing this discipline even if you don't feel any significant disorder in you. Its aspects of fitness and breathing work can help you in your daily life and prevent future health problems.
Patients with physical or mental disorders
The main interest of yogatherapy is to help treat or at best to relieve health problems, whether physical or psychological. The yoga teacher's treatment consists of treating the whole being, not excluding any aspect in order to feel better at all levels.
Among the physical and mental disorders and conditions that can benefit from yoga therapy are :
Chronic anxiety,
Patients suffering from sleep disorders,
People with mild physical problems,
People who have problems with their respiratory capacity,
Pregnant women with prenatal yoga,
Patients with heavy medical treatment.
In short, yogatherapy is beneficial on many levels and should not be neglected in the treatment of many physical and psychological ailments!
Participate in a yogatherapy session
It has been possible to take yogatherapy classes in France for a very long time but they are often unknown to the general public and yet they can be of service to more than one person. Find out how it is possible to participate in an individual, group or workshop yogatherapy session!
Participate in a yogatherapy session
Yogatherapy is a discipline that is practiced in slots of 1 hour, 2 hours or even more for specific workshops. As a general rule, the session takes place individually, between the patient and the therapist so that he can best adapt the exercises to the pathology of his student. It is this personalized treatment that makes yogatherapy an ideal discipline for self-care.
However, it is also possible to take group yogatherapy classes in order to receive the teaching of therapeutic yoga in a group setting. These group sessions are generally done with predefined groups (groups of friends for example), in a company or in a yoga workshop.
Finally, yoga centers regularly organize thematic yoga therapy workshops. They can focus on a specific area to work on (meditation, breathing, body alignment, chakras, etc.) or on a specific type of patient (children, the elderly, pregnant women, etc.).
