Therapeutic Yoga

Today,interest in health consciousness is attracting people from all over the world to earn better health in body and contentment in mind. The search for health and happiness has opened new avenues in the alternative systems of medicine,as conventional medicine is not helping people to gain fitness and mental poise. Secondly people are looking towards natural ways of approach in health and happiness.This search has brought Yoga into the limelight and has earned a place in the medical system with it's therapeutic value in keeping the inner body and inner mind clean and clear to lead a life of benevolence. Particularly,the evolutionary aspects of yoga,namely asanas,pranayamas and dhyana cultivate moral health,social health,physio-psychological health and psycho-spiritual health. The book explains a therapeutic approach of yoga,on the lines explained above.The author Dr.J.T.Shah has given a new dimension with colour codes as ready reference for a practioner to understand the position of the organs,endocrine glands,muscles and joints and then to chose the asanas for a work out to keep the various systems of the human body in balance,harmony and concord. --From the Foreword by Yogacharya B.K.S.Iyengar