Yoga

The Ancient Yogis understood that in order to reach the highest stage of God Conciousness we need to possess a healthy physical body.

The masters of this technique teach us that we are more than mear skin and bones, we are a finely balanced system of energies. Once we reach this height of understanding and accept that we are this system of energies then we will attain personal growth.

Yoga is best used as a preventative medicine. Some of its practices have immense therapeutic value, helping sufferers of varying physical conditions such as back pain, arthritis and scoliosis.

Ideally the practice of yoga should be incorporated in ones efforts towards maintaining good health and thus prevent degenerative diseases.

Yoga can be recognised as an indepth approach to healing, for it goes to the root of all disease. When our body and mind are out of balance we fall ill. In order to restore healthiness through healing we need to trust in life, removing obstructions within us that tend to manifest as ill health.

Our diseases are symptoms of our sense of being isolated, separated, alientated or having a feeling of uneasiness.
Once we become aware of these feelings we then feel a need for wholeness.

We can begin to experience an intellectual understanding that we are not separated from life but are interconnected with every living thing and being in life. This can lead us to experiencing a feeling of wholeness, of unity, of oneness.

From the Ancient Language of Sanskrit comes the word 'Yoga', meaning 'to unite, to join'. Yoga is a means of restoring the condition of wholeness. Even when we experience illness we can feel healed in our relationship to life as yoga is radical spiritual therapy. The word 'Therapy' is taken from the Greek word 'Therapeuein', meaning 'to heal, take care of'.

In India the people's traditional medical and healing system is known as 'Ayurveda', meaning 'Science of Life'. Yoga has had a close connection with Ayurveda for holding the same viewpoints, that the body and mind interact with each other.

Both Yoga and Ayurveda believe that a wholesome life is attainable when one is morally sound and happy and recommend the development of tranquility and self-knowledge.

The medicine of the West is rediscovering the interconnectedness of disease, health and wholeness.