Psychosomatic healing through Yoga asana practice

The term psychosomatic still remains somewhat of an enigma, as a large portion of the allopathic community has either rejected or failed to correctly understand the enormous influence the mind has over the body. The term’s prefix, psycho-, of course refers to the conscious and subconscious elements of the human mind. The suffix, –somatics, pertains to the soma, or the “living body” [1]. The soma might be more clearly defined as the entirety of the physical body (excluding the germ cells) distinct from the psyche, as one would perceive their own body [2]. Therefore, psychosomatics is …read more