A New Direction for Yoga Therapy? A Physician's Perspective

The first annual SYTAR conference by IAYT was full of energy and hope for the future of Yoga therapy. Yoga therapy is now a professional discipline with a variety of standards and a blossoming research base. I will address the opportunities and pitfalls for the development of Yoga therapy from the perspective of a practicing physician who uses Yoga in his own life and prescribes Yoga for his patients. I am not a Yoga therapist, but I have been fortunate to learn much about Yoga therapy while co-writing Yoga Rx with Larry Payne.