YOGA just another brand to sell YOGA?

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#1

All my life I thought that yoga is a synonym to therapy. Yoga is an organic and holistic approach to all illness.

Asana cures body, meditation cures the spirit and mind, pranayama - to cure lung problems, etc.

How come Yoga therapy? Is it teaches something new or is it just another brand that sells “yoga”.:???:

OM

CityMonk

#2

I don’t know that there’s one answer to this. Of course the term CAN be both of the things you mention.

However, my sense is that over time the nature of Yoga offered here in the west has become watered down by pop culture, mass media, people of fame, and poorly trained or undertrained teacher. Therefore the power of yoga (therapy) has to be distinguished from a choreographed class at the local gym. In short, there’s very little yoga in yoga these days.

Some will still use the term as marketing (alone) just as some use the term “all natural” to market food. Where there is money to be made there are unethical capitalists not far behind.

#3

Well, agree, makes sense. So the answer is just a brand, BUT because of pop culture, mass media…etc…:slight_smile:

#4

Well, many years and many IAYT meetings have gone by to properly define yogatherapy.

But you are right, Citymonk, yogatherapy is yoga in the sense that it employs the techniques of yoga (asana, pranayama, meditation, etc). The differences are:

  • the student has health issues (is suffering more than the rest of us)
  • the teacher needs to be better qualified
  • the setting is usually an individual lesson, sometimes a lesson for a very small group of people with similar ailments

Personally, I’m not interested in “selling” yoga. I’m involved in yogatherapy because of a heartfelt mission to share yoga techniques with others to reduce suffering in the world.

#5

Thanks, that makes sense, I should have thought about it…

#6

To be true there are many things in this world that we should not give with a desire for getting money.If done they create lots of sins.
Giving knowledge, Healing, Art etc… are few things that must be given without that attitude. Only donations or alms can be accepted.No body has to teach these things. But people do not know this only because they have no access to their conscience. All things are decided by their deluded intellect out of fear. Out of this fear they ask “Then how can we live” . My answer to such fear is that " Nature support those who live according to the laws of nature"

#7

Hi InnerAthlete,

However, my sense is that over time the nature of Yoga offered here in the west has become watered down by pop culture, mass media, people of fame, and poorly trained or undertrained teacher. Therefore the power of yoga (therapy) has to be distinguished from a choreographed class at the local gym. In short, there’s very little yoga in yoga these days.

Some will still use the term as marketing (alone) just as some use the term “all natural” to market food. Where there is money to be made there are unethical capitalists not far behind.
I don’t quite understand you. When I click the links in your signature, the first one takes me to your website where you offer Yoga “for all athletes from NFL players to NASCAR drivers”. The second one wants the visitor to invest money (from 1.000 to 100.000 $) and in that fancy flash-presentation you list facts about how the market is growing and that you’re now “offering a slice of the pie”.

Are you claiming that you’re not watering down the nature of Yoga?

I, just by the way, see no problem in doing so, watering it down. The actual Yoga is not for everyone, and watered down Yoga is still better than no Yoga at all. Use Yoga for what Yoga is not intended to, as long as noone gets hurt. But why claim (or at least imply) to teach the real Yoga for it’s actual purpose if you don’t? In my sense that’s hypocrisy. :open_mouth:

PS: Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t find you telling in your ad what you actually would need 100.000 $ for. What would you do with such a lot of money anyway?

PPS: Are purna Yoga-teacher really “The most qualified teachers in the world.”? How’s that measured?

#8

Just a reminder what original post was about
All my life I thought that yoga is a synonym to therapy. Yoga by itself is an organic and holistic approach to all illness.

Asana cures body, meditation cures the spirit and mind, pranayama - to cure lung problems, etc.

How Yoga therapy come in to life? Is it teaches something new or is it just another brand to sell “yoga”.

OM

CityMonk