He is a research scientist and yoga practitioner. Please contact for information and advice. The Trust's yoga therapy training programme is run from its head office in Cambridge. Although general yoga classes can often help people resolve mild health problems, they may be ineffective, or even harmful, for those with more serious conditions. With yoga therapy the individual and their circumstances, as well as the nature of their condition, can be taken into account and the yoga tailored to their particular needs.
Yoga therapy retains the basic principles and aims of yoga.
Even though people may come with the specific intention of solving their health problems, they will benefit in larger ways as well, if guided properly. Indeed, yoga therapy will be relatively ineffective if a holistic approach is not taken. Every yoga therapy session should include a balanced set of practices that calm and vitalise the whole system, as well as those which act specifically on its diseased parts. Yoga therapy in its present form is a new discipline, created by the marriage of traditional yoga with modern medicine. It was there that he and his colleagues started to use the methods of modern medical science to study physiological effects and therapeutic applications of yoga.