Article: Yoga aids healing process

Manveet Kaur
New Straits Times
12-28-2004
Yoga aids healing process
Byline: Manveet Kaur
Edition: 2*

BY now, it's no secret that yoga is a holistic way to becoming more physically fit and spiritually attuned. But did you know that yoga can actually help in disease-management or healing chronic problems?

"Yoga supports the process of healing because it can be used along with medication or therapy," says Dhilip Kumar, 55, who learned firsthand about the healing power of yoga when it helped him recover the use of his legs, after a heavy piece of machinery fell on his back, causing extensive spinal injury.
"Despite undergoing multiple surgeries, the doctors actually told me I would never be able ...

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