Yogic Therapy : Its Basic Principles and Methods - Paperback

Really speaking, therapy is not a field of Yoga in its proper sense. Even so, Yoga has necessarily to do with health activities. How these two are related, and in what way, we shall try to see in the following pages.

The term 'Yoga' is used to indicate both the 'End' as well as the 'Means'. In the sense of the 'End', the word Yoga signifies 'Integration', at its highest level. All the means that subscribe to help reach this goal also constitute Yoga, - in the sense of' Yukti', the means or technique. All the practices, whether high or low, that are calculated to help the progress of the aspirant towards such an integration are together known by the name 'Yoga' . Yoga is thus an integral subject which takes into consideration man as a whole. It does not divide him into water-tight compartments as body, mind, spirit, etc.