Monday, January 28, 2008

Growing interest in yoga as health therapy

Here's an article that in NY Newsday about yoga therapy.

The article does an adequate job talking about what yoga therapy is, but then towards the end of the article, here's a paragraph that I think is just 'off' in the way that yoga therapy is finding it's way into the marketplace (my bold):

As to where she's going, Page admits it'd be easier to make a living teaching downward-facing dog to dues-paying health club members instead of to patients in hospitals or clinics, or students at schools in low-income communities. Still, she believes in the "healing power of yoga" and is confident that eventually doctors will refer patients to a yoga therapist as routinely as they do a physical therapist today.
If we are not going to ensure that our yoga therapists are compensated more highly than yoga teachers in gyms, then how can we expect them to get trained at a high enough skill level to offer quality care?