Javier Salinas

The therapeutic side of Yoga Javier Salinas

Yoga is a holistic practice that has certain tools in different areas: physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual; that helps the individual to prevent and effectively combat stress, anxiety and depression, disorders whose frequency has been increasing in recent years due to the demands of daily life. That is why it has become essential to treat these mental conditions through comprehensive techniques that not only seek to alleviate their symptoms with medications, but at the same time, they seek answers to existential and spiritual problems. With this book you will know what anxiety, stress and depression are; their types, to differentiate these disorders by their symptoms, the causes that generate them and how to prevent them. Through yoga therapy you will learn what postures (asanas) to perform in case of anxiety, to calm the nervous system, in case of depression, more energetic asanas to increase vitality and finally to relieve stress, meditation techniques to release mental tensions, gain calm and how to free yourself from unpleasant sensations through the power of conscious breathing. Yoga has become a practice recommended by psychologists within a psychotherapy process since yoga helps to manage distorted emotions, thoughts, and beliefs that intensify the ego's action on us and cloud self-knowledge. Anxiety, depression and self-awareness. Stress are curable disorders that their treatment can be aided by the practice of yoga therapy that provides endless benefits both physically and mentally, with which the practitioner will regain self-confidence, increase the level of consciousness, create harmony internally and improve your relationship with the world.