Practicing innate healing

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Friends,

It looks like the medicos have already started to farm yoga for the

benefits it offers to patients. Why chiropractic has refused to

embrace yoga is beyond me. In order for yoga to become a mainstream

branch of health care, it needs an institutional setting to harvest

it's empirical fruits. Chiropractic is the most natural fit for yoga,

but so far no college has stepped up. In spite of WSCC's recent move

to include massage therapy in it's institutional offerings, yoga is the

much more potentially rich element.

For those who have been involved in both yoga and chiropractic, the

understanding that yoga is the functional path for engaging our innate

healing potentials is self-evident. Soon the health care industry will

understand that recognizing and practicing the conscious control of our

autonomic nervous system is one of the most powerful forces for health

and healing available to humanity. What a shame that the profession

long associated with innate healing is not leading the field in

bringing human innate healing forward.

Sears

NW Portland

Chronically Ill Patients Turn to Yoga for Relief

Medical professionals have embraced meditative practices like yoga in

managing illnesses. Studies have shown that yoga can, among other

things, reduce fatigue in people with multiple sclerosis and lower

anxiety in patients with cancer, heart disease or hypertension. In a

recent preliminary study at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston,

people with chronic insomnia who practiced yoga daily said that they

were sleeping significantly better and for longer periods. "

" We begin seated in a chair, " said Mathis, who runs Unity Yoga

in Mountainside, N.J., and who offers a weekly class for people with

osteoporosis, " then do movements, raising arms over the head,

stretching to the side. " The class also does poses while standing

against a wall. " The premise is that you're returning the spine to its

natural alignment, " she said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/15/fashion/thursdaystyles/15Fitness.html