Yoga as a Healing TherapyThe future of Yoga is a Healing Therapy and there are no doubts about it.
Yoga is a highly spiritual science based on scientific knowledge that moves either side by side with medical science. On the other hand it can also exist independently of medical science.
This is owing to our sound system of etiology, diagnosis and pathogenesis of illness and ailments. Likewise there is a complete system by itself within yoga.
Regrettably, a lot of folks in the West still think of Yoga as a science of occultism, mysticism, black magic, witchcraft.
In fact, many of them still attribute it to a religious aspect of life. This is why the science and art Yoga has fallen out of the domain of scientific exploration and investigation. Then again, at the present time we the world of Yoga is doing a lot of work in India, and in the West.
A lot of people are working very hard to write down under their practical experiences and are coming out with the prescription 'Practise Yoga' for their clients and friends. Not all have to know how the postures work; so long as they know what Yoga can do, it is enough. The results are what matter and the results are there for all to see. The work is also being carried on in a lot of European countries. There is particularly growing awareness in Czechoslovakia and Poland as a lot of people there are known to be working in collusion with the medical experts.
All over the world Yoga is now getting recognized as a Science - and an Art – in its own right, the kind of recognition that was once accorded crazily to the martial arts. In fact, we are confident that this systematic approach to Yoga will bring about greater results and greater benefits for humankind. |