Yoga is a four-thousand-year-old psychology developed in India. It is the oldest system of personal development in the world. Yoga is an effective, natural remedy for mental health issues.
Through a combination of simple breathing techniques, postures, movements and deep relaxation, you can help your patients become calmer and more centered. Basic mindfulness helps cultivate strong minds that live in the moment and tolerate difficult emotions. Understanding how to work with our energy flows allow us to heal disturbances within.
Recent research indicates that thought can actually occur in the body, and molecules of emotions can be stored away in the form of peptides. Yoga has the ability to affect the quantity and quality of the peptide production in the body through the stimulation of physical movement. More than eleven million Americans are currently practicing yoga on a regular basis. Yoga is steadily gaining popularity in the west as a holistic healing modality. The practice of yoga and mindfulness helps reconnect individuals to the natural world through awareness, organic movement and sound…. OM.
According to Dr. Herbert Benson, MD, and his colleagues, their extensive research indicates that mind/body medicine is so effective, that it is becoming the third healing modality in healthcare, taking the place of surgery and pharmaceuticals.
Empower your clients to believe that they have the capacity to influence what is happening inside of them. Learn to create a simple, effective plan to treat the whole person-mind, body and spirit.
Yonna Swingholm– “Treating the Whole Person- Practical Yoga and Mindfulness for Clinicians”
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Learning about yoga can provide clinicians with a plethora of great techniques for working with clients. Breathing techniques are essential in yoga teachings as well as in cultivating change for people. The practice of yoga can teach clinicians different breathing techniques and what that type of breathing does physiologically. Yoga can also help teach clinicians how to scan a clients physical body and recognize where that person has energy holdings. These holdings, more than likely, are do to emotional stressors. Bioenergetics approaches then provides deeper analysis of these holdings. For more on Bioenergetics check out….
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