Here yoga is seen as a restorative and preventive that is applied as a therapy to help people with emotional problems or poor health. Yoga Therapy is an holistic healing art. It invites presence and awareness, rather than prescribe treatments. According to traditional Indian medicine known as Ayurveda, using yoga practices can help those diseases that are chronic and cannot be resolved by medicine alone. These practices can both respect the problems or disease in the individual and support his or her intention to influence the way he or she is affected in similar situations in the future. Yoga as a therapy also presumes that you are willing to accept some responsibility within you situations. This approach is also known as the yoga of rejuvenation and prevention. Yoga as a therapy starts with very simple exercises. Yoga as a therapy consists of a combination of-

Relaxation Methods:

In yoga therapy relaxing is the main element. It is the way of recharging body and helps to ease physical and mental tension. Relaxation techniques help us to co-ordinate with the stress causing situations and encourage us to critically observe our habitual patterns of behaviour.

Breathing Techniques:

The various breathing exercises in yoga can be practiced anytime and at any place. It creates awareness and increases concentration. Thus, providing the mind with peace and calmness. These techniques also help the body in relieving tensions.

Physical Postures:

The physical postures consist of simple movements and held postures, which promote a general sense of health and well-being. Simple yoga postures stretch and strengthen muscles, improving mobility, flexibility, respiration, circulation, digestion and elimination

Yoga as a therapy can help in treating wide range of chronic diseases like arthritis, asthma, cancer, diabetes, depression, high blood pressure, HIV and AIDS, Low Back Pain, mental illness, injuries and women’s health problems.