Systems: Iyengar Yoga

Health equals the following:

• spiritual welfare
• social welfare
• physical welfare
• resource welfare
• community welfare
• moral welfare
• psychological welfare
• political welfare
• ecological welfare
• cultural welfare

Individualized therapeutic protocols, centering on the practice of ASANA (physical postures) in a precise and therapeutic way, intersecting with a modern, biomedical perspective.---health and sickness result from SCIENTIFICALLY EXPLAINABLE BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES.

Health is defined as complete physical, mental and social well-being. 

HEALTH IS MORE THAN NOT BEING SICK.

Traditional Foundations:

• (yoga sutras): 
• wholeness consisting of a complete grasp and command over the processes of being and becoming aware.
• human being is a part of prakriti (nature) and purusha (pure spirit)
• first step is to seek SAMADHI
• (BG) acting according to ones true nature, or dharma (individuals are all different)
• (tantra/HYP) asana is perfect firmness of the body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.

Principles which distinguish Iyengar Yoga Therapy

1. alignment of the body with effort to develop a technique that always hits the right note, and common using the instruments of props ...which were invented and pioneered by BKS Iyengar, to provide better support for the joints and body in yoga asana.
2. an appropriate SEQUENCE of poses to make entire and healthful melodious phrases that gradually harmonize the body
3. a timing or recommended interval that each pose should be held in the same way that it is both the length of the notes and and the intervals between them that makes each melody distinct

Role of the therapist

• help patients with their specialized knowledge on how to use alignment and props within posture to eliminate suffering.
• health is the ability to to find an abundant and profound joy in the face of our ultimate extinction, and requires that the therapist help the patient understand more about existence, both personal and cosmic
• iyengar yoga uses the body's fund of physical welfare to persuade the consciousness to align itself with all the other welfares that extend beyond the mortal frame. (extend to manifest divinity)

Removing Suffering:

• the essence of yoga therapy is VAIRAGYA (detachment)  and the insistence that the impact of pains and discomforts can be persuaded to recede in consciousness- cease to drain overall energy

Regimens are outlined in LOY

and in Yoga Kurunta (rope wall)