Holistic Health - Yoga and Other Therapies

Holistic health is an alternative instead of using medicine. Some forms of holistic health are: yoga, spiritual prayers, nutrition, light therapy, meditation, and massages. All of these make a balance of the bodies systems, which are emotional, mental, spiritual, as well as physical. Holistic medicine recognizes the body is superbly equipped to resist disease and to heal injuries. And when you do get a disease, the first instinct is to see how you can strengthen those natural resistance and healing agents so they can act more effectively against the disease.

Taking a holistic approach to your life helps to create a balance in your family relations, work environment, and your personal, business and community life. Yoga is a very good way of relieving stress, getting your thoughts out and a way to relax. During yoga, you learn breathing exercises, how to balance more efficiently, physical traits, and meditation to allow the body to attain a state of health and well being.

Now there are many types of yoga. There are: anusara, ashtanga, bikram, hatha, intagral, ishta, iyenger, jivamukti, kali ray tri yoga, kripalu, kundalini, power, restorative, sivananda, svaroopa, viniyoga, vinyasa, and white lotus yoga. The difference between all of the different types is how you do them; there is more breathing techniques, postures, bigger work outs, spiritual and ethnical aspects.

In St. Charles and St. Louis there are many places where you can take yoga classes. There's Blue Bird Yoga at 416 S. Main Street, in St. Charles, Clayton Yoga at 4 South Central Avenue, and Candle River Yoga at 8390 Delmar Blvd.