Yoga Psychotherapy
Yoga Psychotherapy is a combination of simple yoga asanas along with specifically designed affirmations. These affirmations are customized according to the issues of the client and the use of breath work aligns with the brain to release unhealed patterns.
Yoga psychotherapy, as previously noted, is practical and addresses the specific themes and problems that brought the client to therapy. Later in treatment, there may be time for more general philosophizing and intellectual discourse, as clients move from the resolution of specific problems to strategizing for future well-being.
However, treatment is pragmatic and serves to reduce client suffering. While yoga psychotherapy is guided by the principle of practicality and initially targets the specific internal and external conditions responsible for suffering, it is not simply a means to reducing and eliminating suffering.
But Yoga psychotherapy is also a form of “positive psychology,” which has become increasingly popular among forward-thinking mental health professionals. Nearly all Western psychotherapeutic paradigms are similar in that they are designed only to reduce negative experiences, such as depression, panic attacks, psychosis, or marital conflict.
Yoga psychotherapy, in contrast, is capable not only of reducing distress due to specific symptom constellations but also provides means for directly increasing the experience of positives, such as love, creativity, and interpersonal connection.
