(ISSN 2573-4393)
OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. It covers all evidence-based scientific studies on integrative, alternative and complementary approaches to improving health and wellness.
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Special Issue
Yoga Therapy and Its Role as a Complementary Healing Modality
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2022 (Open) Submit Now
Guest Editor
Vidhi Sadana, Yoga Therapist (Biography)
Rheumatology Unit, Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK.
Research interests: yoga, yoga therapy, behavioural interventions, recovery, mental health
About the topic:
Yoga Therapy is a self-empowering process, where the care-seeker, with the help of the yoga therapist, implements a personalised and evolving yoga practice, a unique practice that includes an appropriate selection of tools from among the wide range of possibilities Yoga has to offer.
A wide range of conditions can be alleviated or managed through Individualised Yoga therapy. Yoga therapy not only addresses illnesses with a multi-dimensional approach - physical, energetic, mental, behavioural, and emotional-, but also aims to alleviate suffering in a progressive, non-invasive and complementary manner. Depending on the nature of the illness, Yoga Therapy can be preventative, curative, or a means to manage illness, or it can facilitate healing in the person at all levels. It is a non-invasive and holistic approach to healing that includes a wide range of Yoga therapy tools including postures, breath regulation, meditation, dietary recommendations, lifestyle suggestions, chanting, visualisations / affirmations, special energetic seals, symbolic gestures and guided self-inquiry. Yoga therapy practices are tailor-made to suit the needs and capacities of each student and honour not only the conditions they suffer from, but also their own experience of their illnesses and in their unique context of life.
High quality research is needed to create an evidence-base for yoga therapy’s integration as a complementary healing modality and to inform practices and policies that will support an individual’s physical, mental, emotional and behavioural health. Potential topics include but not limited to-
- Feasibility studies aimed to prevent and manage long-term conditions and mood-disorders.
- Secondary data analyses of multi-level factors associated with chronic and mood-disorders.
- Mixed method studies that investigates the potential role of yoga therapy in managing symptoms of long-covid.
- Efficacy and effectiveness studies that focus on role of yoga therapy in managing medically unexplained symptoms such as chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.
- Mechanistic studies to guide future basic and clinical research, targeting use of yoga therapy in treatment of stress-mediated psychological disorders.
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Vidhi is a Clinical yoga therapist; mentor for yoga therapy training in Krishnamacharya tradition. She holds a MSc in Public health from Kings College London.
Mirela Olympia Fagarasan Palmer
Luigi Fontana, MD, PhD