Celebrate the connection between yoga & healing!

For centuries, the science of Yoga has been used to enhance physical and emotional well-being. Even though it has been applied with therapeutic intention for thousand of years, Yoga Therapy is only just now emerging as a discipline in itself.

Now, the therapeutic potential of yoga is being rediscovered in the modern world. Yoga is beneficial for health in ways that modern science is just beginning to understand.

More health care practitioners are starting to include yogic techniques in their approach to healing—and more yoga teachers give a therapeutic intention to their teaching. People who have never tried yoga before are starting to consider including Yoga in their treatment plan. When yoga is practiced with therapeutic intention—Yoga Therapy—it can prevent, or aid recovery from, physical and mental ailments.

As the global awareness of yoga continues to grow, the practice is projected to move from current "conscious-image" phase focusing mainly on the benefits of various postures, to a deeper, more multi-faceted understanding of the wholeness of yoga. As yoga techniques are researched and new data is gathered, it becomes easier for science and the medical establishment to understand and accept the benefits of Yoga Therapy.

More than following just one style or branch of Yoga, Yoga Therapy feeds from virtually all styles and branches and its applications range anywhere from maintaining health, to recovering from illness—in some cases, even those considered incurable.

The International Yoga Therapy Conference is a forum that explores the specific and profound ways in which yoga can aid in maintaining good health or recovery from illness. The information also fills a vital role in public health and wellness education, bridging the gap between the yoga and the medical establishment, a much needed connection.