YOGA AND THE 21st CENTURY

3. Yoga and Psychology

Question:
Can Yoga practice be beneficial for someone doing psychotherapy or psychoanalysis?

Desikachar:
Many people involved in psychotherapy or analysis also practice Yoga very seriously.
That means they derive some benefit from it. The opposite is also true
– some people who practice Yoga or who teach can need psychotherapy or analysis.
In the West, without any doubt, there is reciprocity in these fields.

– TKV Desikachar – Yoga and the 21st Century 1999

TKV Desikachar was in France in 1999, for a symposium on “Yoga and the XXIst Century”. The purpose of the symposium was to consider the role of Yoga for the coming century in the three fields of Health, Psychology and Spirituality. These Posts are from an introductory interview around the Relevance of Traditional Teaching, Yoga and Health, Yoga and Psychology and Yoga and Spirituality.