The Integrated Approach Of Yoga Therapy (IAYT)

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Yoga influences all aspects of the person: vital mental, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. It offers various levels and to relax, energize chronic pain, reduce anxiety and depression fruitfully and improve the quality of life perceived (Vallath 2010).
The Integrated Approach of Yoga Therapy (IAYT) includes holistic lifestyle for positive health at physical, mental, emotional, and intellectual levels which therefore helps individuals to reduce and deal with the aspects of chronic pain, depression etc. effectively and improve mindfulness and the quality of life perceived. Chronic low back pain and depression are the two most common health problem (Currie & Wang, 2004). There are so many research has been conducted on CLBP and depression.

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