Remedial Yoga/Corrective Yoga Therapy

Corrective yoga, or remedial yoga therapy is a powerful tool to treat, improve and even cure a wide variety of illnesses and disease.
Remedial lessons are done on a one-on one basis. In the hands of an experienced and properly trained yoga therapist its principles, although similar to those taught in ordinary classes, is adapted to suit the individual needs of the client. Individual attention always makes it easier to locate and address problem areas.

Yoga practices are ideally suited to remedial application.
All yoga automatically assists with the correction of disease patterns where the disease has already set in, or preventing manifestation of potential illnesses. Yoga offers relief or cure of common disorders, from depression, curbing hyperactivity or lethargy, curing bronchitis, asthma, sleeplessness and assistance with gaining control of ones emotions, including anxiety, fear and other negative behavioral traits. Yoga can do much to rehabilitate an ailing or injured body, strengthen the mind help one gain a new lease on life. Improved posture, greater mobility, more effective breathing and an enhanced sense of well-being is the natural outcome of yoga practice.

Not all persons are, however, capable to do all the exercises in even a beginner's class; as illness, injury or stiffness may prevent him or her from doing the kind of yoga that the fit and strong can. Remedial yoga exercises are often especially adapted to make them accessible to individuals limited by their condition. A surprising amount of seemingly difficult postures can be done in a chair, lying down or using props like cushions and walls for support. In this way yoga can be enjoyed by handicapped, older and unfit individuals in accordance with their capacity.

Practice of any yoga is a means to self-empowerment - the awareness aspect intrinsic to yoga practice makes it ideal to provide any practitioner at any level with the means to become aware of problem areas, and then learn methods to remedy the situation with own effort. Although not all conditions can always be fixed yoga can do much to alleviate any disability, or help the individual to come to terms with and accepting the condition.

Because all yoga has the health of the whole, body, mind and spirit, as its focus remedial yoga will more often than not benefit the practicing individual in more ways than bargained for. The patient with a lung problem might, for example, not cure the lung's condition only or completely, but through the breathing exercises inadvertently learn to handle a stress better. So called "miracle cures" of disease pronounced incurable may simply be ascribed to a drastic improvement of general health that can contribute to dramatic revitalisation of the whole being.

Remedial yoga may also be useful for healthy, capable individuals, as the more advanced yoga practitioner may well, as with any other person, exhibit particular flaws or disabilities that are not easily corrected, or may be corrected more easily, by a skilled remedial yoga therapist.

Examples of adapted yoga postures

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