In yoga therapy, students experience the benefits of yoga in the individualized, respectful, safe and compassionate context of the yogic teacher-student relationship. Yoga therapy sessions are individual and are fifty to sixty minutes long.
Issues commonly addressed are: anxiety, depression, eating disorders and disordered eating, digestive disorders,infertility, back problems, sleep disorders, physical injuries, pregnancy management, cardiac diseases, and eye conditions, among others.
The yoga therapy work supports anyone seeking physical, mental, energetic, and spiritual wellness and health in life.
Work with couples and families is are also offered through yoga therapy.
Procedures include:
:: Relaxation practices
:: Auric cleansing
:: Energy distribution
:: Chakra balancing
:: Personal recommendations
:: Counseling
:: Flower essences (if necessary)
:: Ayurvedic guidance
:: Individual yoga series
The two main goals of Divya Jyoti Yoga Therapy are INTEGRATION AND UNITY.
1. INTEGRATION (with the internal and external worlds):
1.1 Body > students experience their bodies as familiar, helpful, enjoyable and sacred. They learn to accept the changing nature of their bodies and to cultivate love and respect towards their uniqueness.
1.2 Energies > students acquire a balanced energy level and learn how to maintain their optimum level of energy through self-maintenance practices.
1.3 Emotions > students are enabled to view emotions as teaching partners, rather than something to fight or to flee from.
1.4 Intellect> the mind is converted into an asset through which they can experience themselves and others both objectively and intuitively. Students learn to become aware of their thought process.
1.5 Personality > students gain an integrated sense of themselves as individuals, while having their perception anchored in their positive internal resources.
1.6 Spirituality > students learn to trust Life and themselves.
2. UNITY: The word “yoga” in Sanskrit means unity- in this state, all the aspects of the being are united and the individual is able to be established in one’s true Self, in non-duality, where there is no conflict.
“Although everything germinates in darkness, movement and growth are towards light. Under the cover of the earth, a seed sprouts in the darkness. A fetus grows in the darkness of the womb and makes its way toward the light. So also every action of man should move toward light. In this process, action loses its dark shadows and becomes pure. Anger, jealousy, greed, craving, pain, pleasure, and misery generally germinate in the dark shadows of consciousness. They are all energy. Because they are imprisoned by different centers, they create tension and due to tension, man gets dissipated and decays. If this energy is channeled into the Cosmic Law as life force, every life will run its full course smoothly, without impediment. Life will be holy, the holiest of holies.” (Kashyap, The Shoreless Ocean, 2005, p.136)
