Yoga Therapy in Greece

Yoga Therapy to war zones and refugee camps, can be the most important and fulfilling karma yoga that we have experienced in our lifetime. Being on 2 humanitarian missions in my life so far, giving what you know to people in real need, is one of the very few things in life which can give such deep and enduring satisfaction.
As humans who value human life, as yoga practitioners who live the yamas and the niyamas starting with ahimsa (non violence) and as yoga therapists who care for people in need, we should promote and support ahimsa louder, with statements and practices, we should call for and work for peace and human rights touching the ears of the people in charge and the hearts of the people in need.

The more we move, the better and longer we live.
This is shown once again in one robust systematic review in one of the most prestigious scientific journal, the LANCET.
The available evidence indicates that physical activity is associated with lower biological age.
Physical activity is well known that enhances mental and physical wellbeing as well as longevity reducing age-related diseases.
Physical activity enhances longevity by enhancing mitochondrial function, reducing oxidative stress, improving vascular perfusion, and attenuating chronic inflammation, mechanisms that preserve cellular homoeostasis and delay senescence. More specifically, higher levels of physical activity are generally associated with lower DNAm age showing a dose-effect. [DNA methylation (DNAm) clocks are emerging as reliable biomarkers of ageing, capturing age-related changes in physiological and molecular systems.]

Proud to be a Speaker at the congress of Society of Integrative Oncology Europe, sharing the evidence based role of Yoga Therapy in supporting patients with cancers. I also introduced ways that oncology patients can be supported by the integration of yoga elements by health proessionals and by the integration of yoga therapists in prehabilitation and rehabilitation of cancer patients.
I must say that the Italian model of integrative oncology is the most advanced in Europe, with the German and the British following, while the Greek is completely absent, yet.

Who can be called Yoga Therapist?
Υoga therapists individuals who have done a long training from a yoga therapist and can give goga therapy doing the assments and progressively develop a personalized practice.

Our 1st year graduates are yoga therapists and are called yoga therapists since they complete a 350 hours yoga therapy training, during which they learn the assesments and the development of personal practices that address specific needs of individuals. They also conclude 80 hours of yoga therapy practice with clients, case studies, yoga therapy assignments and attending all the lectures.
Concluding the 2nd year of our IAYT Accredited yoga therapy studies, they are eligible to take the test by IAYT and be called C-IAYT. In the 2nd year they go deeper in mental health and they also learn how to give yoga therapy in a group setting to individuals with common conditions and needs.

There is regulation from the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) that to be called C-IAYT, certified by IAYT yoga therapist someone needs to have completed 800 hours training from an IAYT Accredited Yoga Therapy School but there is no regulation about being called yoga therapist after the 1st year of training.

Μιλώντας με μεγάλη χαρά και τιμή στο Πανευρωπαικό Συνέδριο integrative ογκολογίας στη Ρώμη για τον ρόλο της Θεραπευτικής γιόγκα στην υποστήριξη ασθενών με καρκίνο.

An amazing sangha of Yoga Therapists deepening in their yoga therapy studiea and having so much to offer!

Why thousands of people around the world study yoga therapy?
Because they realize the benefits of yoga but also the limitations of it when it is applied in the same way to different needs of mind and body. In a yoga therapy training and particularly in an IAYT Accredited Yoga Therapy Training that meets very high standards an lasts at least 2 years we deepen in mind, body and spirit needs and tendencies and in how to modidy the yoga tools according to the time, energy level, age, conditions and aspirations of individuals and of special groups.
A yoga therapy training is promoting self awareness, compassion, ways to connect and build therapeutic relationships and mostly how to evaluate the body, the breath, the mind and provide what is needed and makes a difference from the 1st session.
In Yoga Therapy Greece IAYT Accredited Training we integrate yoga therapy, physiotherapy, neuroscience, psychology, yoga philosophy
and many years of experience.
For more information please vidit our website and read our students' testimonials. https://yogatherapygreece.com/

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Thank you for choosing to study Yoga Therapy, to study with us in Yoga Therapy Greece, to study something that supports he mental and physical wellbeing of us and of others.
Thank you 1st year students for continuing in the 2nd year of IAYT Accredited Yoga Therapy Training and deepening in what so many people need and appreciate.

What Yoga Therapy can do for people with Parkinson's disease?
We focus on a better posture, balance, transfers, walking as well as less depression or anxiety.
We strengthen the back muscles and to open the chest since they have low mood, restricted breathing capacity and tendency for kyphosis.
We also enhance inhalation to build up prana/ energy due to fatigue and the hypokinetic character of Parkinsons, keeping IN=EX in a morning practice, unless there is hypertension.
We also focus on bringing awareness to extremities.
We definitely incorporate stronger and expansive asanas such as warrior I, in movement and with many repetitions as in Physiotherapy.
Rhythmical cues through loud chanting can be given in order to keep them awake and alert and facilitate movement.
This is a taste of what we teach in our IAYT Accredited Yoga Therapy Training. For more information please visit our website https://yogatherapygreece.com/trainings/online-accredited-yoga-therapy-training-805-hour-2024/

What yoga can offer to cancer patients, addressing specific side effects of the treatments they go through.

Yoga & Yoga Therapy for every treatment of Cancer - Yoga Therapy Greece A summary of Evi’s Dimitriadou presentation the British Society of Integrative Oncology on the role of Yoga Therapy to Cancer Patients and survivors. Cancer and Cancer treatment-related side effectsCancer patients and survivors not only experience the disease, but they also sufferfrom cancer treat...