Medical yoga association works for the welfare of the community by organising events camps workshops lectures on public health and wellbeing.
It's mainly involved in promoting Medical yoga therapy as a tool of treatment to avoid costly and complex surgeries and other medical procedures by giving an alternative to them in the form of Medical Yoga.
Apart from promoting Medical yoga it also supports natural healing methods such as Naturopathy, acupressure, Marma chikitsa,Abhyanga, Detox and cleansing therapies, reiki, pranic healing etc.
MYA also supports and conducts educational courses, programs and lectures for the benefit of the needy.
It provides guidance and scholarships to the below poverty line candidates who want to take up their carrier in Yoga and yoga therpay.
It's involved in promotion of traditional indian system of education with a modern out look. It supports and promotes scientific research in ancient healthcare methodologies followed over centuries.
Mental peace and contentment is integral to a healhy body. Here thoughts have a very important role to play. Hence the traditional Indian cultural values and social system of harmony with nature and fellow beings also play an important role in maintaining mental as well as physical health.
Not just the indian values and culture but MYA also support like-minded cultures and civilizations across the globe.
Yoga Courses supported by MYA
When it comes to treatment through yoga its absolutely essential to understand the human body in detail. Most of the yoga aspirants are going yoga classes for some or the other health issue. Be it some body pain, some ailment or to eliminate stress.
Due to this high demand , thousands of yoga teaching institutes have come up and they are running 300 - 500 hrs courses.
Even those who have enrolled in longer courses like Masters in Yoga are also hardly aware of the Action of body muscles and pathophysiology of diseases in depth. Hence to produce high quality yoga trainers and yoga therapists MYA approves of these courses:
Train the trainers programme:
Yogasanas are an integral part of the yoga practice. Understanding the movement of the human body in different yoga postures and how the bones muscles joints and ligaments respond to a particular asana is covered in Yoga Anatomy course in 6 days of intensive course.
Only for qualified yoga trainers to understand the movements in different yoga postures in detail.
This advance course is for yoga trainers who wish to take their knowledge to the next level and understand pathology and treatment of the common ailments in detail. Students also learn to read the MRI films, X rays films {not just the reports), blood tests etc at their own through Restorative yoga course
Medical Yoga treatments
MYA believes in treating and curing ailments with scientific and modern approach of Yoga theory. Yoga therapist must understand the MRI, x rays, blood tests etc to diagnose and prescribe a therapeutic yoga sequence.
MYA approves of the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders like
Neck pain
Lower back pain
Knee joint pain
sciatica etc at medical yoga centre.
Other yoga therapy centres are invited to understand the methodology and learn it and apply
it at their centres. To book an appointment please email your institution's name and the
visiting team members credentials along with their photos.
