Integration of yoga in modern healthcare system: A dream to reality
January 1, 2018 DOI: 10.4103/bjhs.bjhs_14_17 (opens in new tab) via Semantic Scholar
Summary
AI-generated from the abstractThis minireview outlines the historical and contemporary integration of yoga, a 5,000-year-old Indian tradition, into various sectors including student physical training programs and modern healthcare systems. The authors describe yoga as a union of individual soul with supreme consciousness and highlight India's steps to incorporate it into daily life. The review emphasizes positive outcomes from these integrations across diversified fields, suggesting that yoga's inclusion in education and healthcare yields benefits. The text provides an overview rather than specific data or results.
Study at a glance
| Characteristics | Review |
|---|---|
| Intervention | Yoga |
| Keywords | Psychology Medicine |
| Key finding | Argues that yoga has been successfully integrated into education and healthcare systems with positive outcomes. |
Abstract
Yoga means union of the soul of the individual with the supreme consciousness. It is a 5000-year-old Indian source of wisdom whose importance is accepted by the whole world. India has taken several important steps to amalgamate the tradition of yoga with everyday life through implementation in student's physical training program to inclusion in modern healthcare system. This minireview will throw light over the development of integration of yoga in several diversified fields and its positive outcome.