Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 26 Sept 2008
Ethical Decision-Making for Yoga Teachers and Yoga Therapists
Ethical Decision-Making for Yoga Teachers and Yoga Therapists
Page Range: 31 – 37
Any therapeutic profession, including Yoga therapy, must establish a systematic way to make ethical decisions. This article proposes a model of ethical decision-making drawn from psychotherapy, a field that—like Yoga therapy— recognizes relationship as a healing instrument. The model proposed is based on an easily remembered mnemonic that is both practical and easily internalized for real-life decision-making. A real case study using this method is presented and discussed, and hypothetical ethical dilemmas in Yoga therapy are offered for further consideration.
Keywords: Yoga; psychotherapy; ethics; decision-making
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