Managing negative mental health by regulary yoga training

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Psychology - Miscellaneous, grade: keine, Bayurveda Akademie (Bayurveda Akademie), language: English, abstract: I chose the subject Managing Negative Mental Health by Regulary Yoga Training"e; because it'smy field of expertise In my job as an Addiction Therapist, Psychological Counselor andYogateacher I work with mental disbalanced, addicted and psychological sick people. Everyday Igive lectures on mental health and hold group therapy and yoga lessons. I evaluate my work andstudy the writings of Western therapists and Eastern Yoga Masters on Yoga Psychology. Because of this I come to the conclusion that specific Yoga exercises are very helpful inmanaging negative mental health. Research at several European, American and Indianuniversities is going on. I am convinced that the ongoing scientific studies will show again positiveresults of yogic treatment. In the future Yoga will become very important for public health caresystems. In my opinion it make sense to begin with teaching Yoga in schools. Children should betrained in mental pureness, concentration, physical fitness and self-discipline by Yoga. By thisway we would prevent many problems such as troubles, difficulties of learning, and psychologicalproblems of children. In India Yoga is a part of University programs. Students can graduate inYoga, Yoga Philosophy, Education etc. at several Universities such as SVYASA University,located in Bangalore. It is my purpose to establish the Science Yoga as a part of academicUniversity programs. Therefore I create a concept of a Bachelor-, Master- and Doctoral programin the field of Contemplative Psychology. Actually I offer these programs to the public atBayurveda Academy, Germany, an affiliate of several international universities and yoga schools. In the following work I want to give an overview about the most important fields of my inspectionsin the field of Yoga. The citated resp. used literature is listed under References . [...]