How can yoga processes and philosophy practiced at Shreyas help ease depression, grief, sleep disorders, and physical ailments like backache and chronic pains?
According to yoga, almost all psychosomatic disorders are caused by “stress” – an inability of the body/mind system to cope with the demands made on it – both professionally and in personal life. Whilst western medicine and psychiatry deals with stress with medicine that induces the release of “feel good” hormones, this does not eliminate the problem. Yoga encourages us to deal with stress at the physical (with proper diet & Asanas -physical postures), physiological (with Pranayama-breathing practices), mental & intellectual level (with meditation) – and is therefore referred to as a holistic healing science. The root cause of stress lies in our inability to see the world as one unbroken stream of consciousness flowing through everything and everyone – Mistaking ourselves as being separate from the world, we compete with the world for our happiness. We feel that there is a limited pot of happiness and someone else’s happiness limits ours and vice versa. Finding that so much of what we
