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| Online Publication Date: 11 Nov 2009
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Postures are stances we take in the world, be they by way of beliefs we hold in communications we make with others or in the asanas we practice in yoga. Yoga Therapy is a view or stance we take in helping another. As there are many paths leading to the top of the mountain, there are many paths in Yoga Therapy - each possessing its unique view and approach. In thinking about the word posture I was stimulated to write the following essay which addresses the underlying ground of all postures - consciousness.
Aranya, Swami Hariharananda, Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali, trans. by P.N. Mukerji, University of Calcutta, 1981.
Kurtz, Ron, Body-centered Psychotherapy: the Hakomi Method, Life-Rhythm, Mendocino, CA 1990.
Swami Venkantesananda, Enlightened Living, Chiltern Yoga Trust, South Africa, 1975.