Yoga as a Therapy: The Healing Power of Yoga to Support your Wellbeing During and After Corona Virus

Contributing Author in Surviving to Thriving: When Life Gives You Lemons (2020) ~ Edited by Jaqueline Rose

With the boom of yoga in the wellbeing industry, the essence of its practice is easily masked by disproportionate popularity of slimline smoothies, luscious leggings and the promotion of a ‘yoga body’. Despite this commercialisation marking yoga on everybody’s map, the masses that practice mainly view yoga as a physical activity. The shapes, the ‘peak pose’, the ‘asanas’. However, underlying the carefully crafted sequences and yoga studios sprawling urban landscapes and rural retreats, are the values that offer yoga as a way of living, an art form.

This chapter explores yoga as a therapeutic tool for self-healing, as part of collective healing. The philosophical roots of yoga are detailed and scientific research is discussed to evidence the positive effects of yoga on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Rebuilding connection and hope through yoga following the traumatic global impact of the corona-virus leads to consideration of how to practice yoga, who yoga is for and moving forward to ‘come back home’ through yoga.

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