Why yoga?
Yoga has many benefits that can help improve health. It is something positive we can do for ourselves allowing us to maximise healing and move towards wellness.
Exercise can be very tiring for many people with MS whereas yoga normally increases energy and helps us deal with symptoms. It calms the mind and emotions, relieves stress and restores the natural breathing process essential for good health. It also maintains or increases strength and flexibility, improves bladder and bowel function and keeps the body moving whatever the level of disability. More information can be found on the Yoga for Health and Education Trust website, www.yoga-health-education.org.uk under ‘Remedial/Therapeutic Yoga’.
Why is a remedial/therapeutic yoga class recommended?
People with MS often find a general yoga class too tiring and therefore counter-productive. In remedial classes postures can be adjusted to suit individual needs for all kinds of problems and chronic fatigue ensuring that we get maximum benefit from our yoga practice to help improve our condition and well-being.
Remedial/therapeutic Yoga Teachers
Suzan is trained as a remedial/therapeutic yoga teacher with the Yoga for Health Foundation now the Yoga for Health and Education Trust
Is yoga helpful for people with MS?
Yoga is recognised as being valuable in the management of MS by the MS Society.
More than 5,000 people with MS took part in yoga courses specifically designed for them at the Yoga for Health Foundation in Bedfordshire, many of them returning repeatedly as they found it so valuable. Unfortunately, after 28 years, the Foundation closed in March 2006 when the lease expired and the property was sold. The Yoga for Health and Education Trust is continuing and developing this valuable work and hopes one day to have a centre. Visit www.yoga-health-eduction.org.uk for more information.
Taken from Multiple Sclerosis Q / A June A Skeggs www.yoga-health-eduction.org.uk updated Oct. 2011
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