Yoga for Anxiety

Yoga for Anxiety What is Anxiety? Anxiety is a natural response of your body to stress. It’s a feeling of fear or uncertainty about what’s to come or what will happen next. Based on general observation from day-to-day life we can say that the first day of school, going to a job interview, or giving…

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Yoga for Stress

Yoga for Stress In this article series, on yoga for stress, we will talk about the scientific evidence-based yoga therapy as promoted by Vedamrita. Physiology of Stress     This image represents the bodily reaction that any stressor will generate in the body and as a response, Adrenaline and cortisol will be released as per…

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Introduction to Yoga Therapy

Yoga Therapy Notes - A Comprehensive Introduction

Introduction to Yoga Therapy Yoga therapy is difficult to define, in part because of the tremendous depth of the tradition itself, and just like Yoga, yoga therapy as a discipline can be also be approached in so many different ways. Nonetheless, just like any other scientific discipline to better understand Yoga therapy accepted socially, it…

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Who Was Patanjali and Why Is He Important to Yoga?

Who Was Patanjali and Why Is He Important to Yoga? If you have taken enough yoga classes and you’ll eventually hear one of your teachers quote from the book named Yoga Sutra, which is the guidebook of classical, or raja (royal), yoga. Written at least 1,700 years ago, it’s made up of 195 aphorisms (sutras,…

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