by Rolf Jost
As Ayurveda is becoming more and more popular in the West, slowly words like Ayurveda Massages, Ayurvedic Wellness Program, Ayurvedic Skincare Products are appearing in the popular press and mainstream shops. What is still quite new even to people who have heard of Ayurveda in it’s various appearances is the use of Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy. Already the term Yoga Therapy is for many an unknown option of treatment. So what exactly is the meaning of Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy? This article offers an amalgamation of different perspectives presented through time as well as recently. Important contributions to the line of thought set out in this article have been made by important people in the field of Ayurveda and Yoga as well as regarding the close relationship between the two sciences – such as Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr. Robert Svoboda, David Frawley and Mukunda Stiles.
Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy has been receiving more and more attention lately. The question arises as to what the definition of Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy is, as well as a need to describe its implications and purposes. Ayurveda and Yoga have always been so called sister sciences. They both go back to a similar paradigm – based on Vedic parameters of ‘thinking’ or ‘seeing’ (Darshana) – and one could even go as far as to state that both Ayurveda and Yoga most importantly lean on the foundations laid down by the Sankhya Philosophy of Kapila. Although one could definitely make this statement with regards to Ayurveda, Yoga of course has strong connections also with its ‘own’ Yoga Darshana, with Vedanta, and to some extent also with Mimamsa. With regards to Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy, it is useful – in order to understand its highly practical use for ‘common’ people – to stay within the main paradigms of the Sankhya Darshana. Sankhya philosophy offers a most profound mixture of an all round cosmovision on the one hand, and a purely practical description of the material world – as it is being ‘used’ by normal human beings on a daily basis – on the other hand. Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy in a way is a modern ‘concoction’ of old, classical Ayurvedic and Yogic principles combined within the practical scope of helping people in supporting good health and well being, basically an expansion of Ayurveda itself – but focusing on some basic modalities offered by Yoga in its accessible form. Whereas classical Yoga as developed for Yogis tends to focus much more on further development of the mind within the framework of a healthy body with a very strong Agni – which circumstance is definitely not a given one for most people in our era!
“Ayurveda is the healing branch of yogic science. Yoga is the spiritual aspect of Ayurveda. Ayurveda is the therapeutic branch of Yoga.”
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As Ayurveda is becoming more and more popular in the West, slowly words like Ayurveda Massages, Ayurvedic Wellness Program, Ayurvedic Skincare Products are appearing in the popular press and mainstream shops. What is still quite new even to people who have heard of Ayurveda in it’s various appearances is the use of Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy. Already the term Yoga Therapy is for many an unknown option of treatment. So what exactly is the meaning of Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy? This article offers an amalgamation of different perspectives presented through time as well as recently. Important contributions to the line of thought set out in this article have been made by important people in the field of Ayurveda and Yoga as well as regarding the close relationship between the two sciences – such as Dr. Vasant Lad, Dr. Robert Svoboda, David Frawley and Mukunda Stiles.
Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy has been receiving more and more attention lately. The question arises as to what the definition of Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy is, as well as a need to describe its implications and purposes. Ayurveda and Yoga have always been so called sister sciences. They both go back to a similar paradigm – based on Vedic parameters of ‘thinking’ or ‘seeing’ (Darshana) – and one could even go as far as to state that both Ayurveda and Yoga most importantly lean on the foundations laid down by the Sankhya Philosophy of Kapila. Although one could definitely make this statement with regards to Ayurveda, Yoga of course has strong connections also with its ‘own’ Yoga Darshana, with Vedanta, and to some extent also with Mimamsa. With regards to Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy, it is useful – in order to understand its highly practical use for ‘common’ people – to stay within the main paradigms of the Sankhya Darshana. Sankhya philosophy offers a most profound mixture of an all round cosmovision on the one hand, and a purely practical description of the material world – as it is being ‘used’ by normal human beings on a daily basis – on the other hand. Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy in a way is a modern ‘concoction’ of old, classical Ayurvedic and Yogic principles combined within the practical scope of helping people in supporting good health and well being, basically an expansion of Ayurveda itself – but focusing on some basic modalities offered by Yoga in its accessible form. Whereas classical Yoga as developed for Yogis tends to focus much more on further development of the mind within the framework of a healthy body with a very strong Agni – which circumstance is definitely not a given one for most people in our era!
“Ayurveda is the healing branch of yogic science. Yoga is the spiritual aspect of Ayurveda. Ayurveda is the therapeutic branch of Yoga.”
Read more: click here
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