How to Facilitate Self-Reflection, Personal Development, and Coping with Stress: Yoga and Yogic Breathing for Increasing Health, Healing and Wellbeing

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The aim of this chapter is to reflect on the therapeutic potential of yoga, and especially yogic breathing for health, healing, and wellbeing. We will do this by focusing on how a university course with yoga theory and practice as the central element could contribute to people’s ability for Swadhyaya (self-reflection or self-inquiry), awareness about their need for personal development and self-care, as well as offer strategies for coping with stress. Our point of departure will be the yoga as a fourfold awareness model developed by Dr. Swami Gitananda Giri, founder of the Gitananda Rishi-culture Yoga tradition. The model focuses on how yoga can facilitate awareness about the body, emotions, mind, and meta-awareness (meta-cognition) and their interrelationship, in addition to acknowledging lack of awareness. These insights are relevant for coping with stress, personal development, and selfcare and can be used for teaching students in health care professions courses as well as health professionals. In the chapter, we aim to illuminate the overlap between yoga and yoga therapy and to illustrate how even yoga in educational settings can manifest yoga’s therapeutic potentials.

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