The Yoga of Healing

Author: T K V Desikachar
Arjun Rajagopalan/
Publisher: Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 104
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788187847275

Description

This work examines eight systems of healing - Allopathy, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Pranic healing, Reiki, Yoga and Psychoanalysis - their approach to sickness, their intrinsic healing power and their limitations.

Western medicine dismisses traditional systems of healing as being unscientific and not open to general scrutiny; traditional systems view allopathy as being too reductionist and more interested in the parts rather than in the individual as a whole. The lingering reality, however, is that no single system of healthcare - traditional or modern, is able to provide comprehensive answers to sickness and disease that have plagued mankind over the ages.

Yoga expert T K V Desikachar and allopathic surgeon Dr Arjun Rajagopalan anchor a series of dialogues with specialists in the various fields. What emerges is the need for a synthesis - a mixing and merging of the positive aspects of all the systems; a need to discover a cohesive path towards holistic healing.

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