Yoga Therapy & Integrative Health: An Interprofessional Series

Modern healthcare is evolving towards greater collaboration, interdisciplinarity, and a comprehensive understanding of living organisms.
Yoga therapy—as practiced in the Health as a Whole method—is fully in line with this vision.

Based on:

• neurofunctional rehabilitation,

• 3D breathing,

• biomechanics,

• regulation of the nervous system,

• body awareness,

It offers concrete, safe tools that complement medical, paramedical, and psychophysical practices.

This interprofessional series explores how yoga therapy can enrich existing approaches by clarifying:

✔ Where we are similar
✔ Where we are different
✔ Where we complement each other

The 5 articles in the series

1. Yoga Therapy & Physical Therapy: rehabilitating the body together

Summary:
Discover how yoga therapy optimizes physical rehabilitation by regulating the nervous system, supporting functional breathing, and transforming motor patterns.
A clear look at the natural bridges between the two practices.

2. Yoga Therapy & Massage Therapy: Movement and Touch, a Natural Complementarity

Summary:
Touch releases from the outside; movement releases from the inside.
Explore how yoga therapy prolongs the effects of massage, supports lasting relaxation, and develops physical autonomy between sessions.

3. Yoga therapy & osteopathy: two paths to physical harmony

Summary:
Osteopathy and therapeutic yoga both work with fascia, mobility, and regulation.
Learn how 3D breathing, interoception, and conscious movement prolong and stabilize the effects of manual work.

4. Yoga therapy & Occupational therapy: optimizing daily life and independence

Abstract:
Discover how yoga therapy supports participation in daily activities by improving breathing, posture, nervous system regulation, and energy.

5. Yoga Therapy & Psychotherapy: connecting the mind, emotions, and body

Abstract:
The head understands; the body integrates.
Explore how yoga therapy supports emotional regulation, interoception, and internal security—as a complement to talk therapy.

This series aims to contribute to modern integrative healthcare: a more collaborative, more somatic, more hum
.

Yoga therapy does not replace anything.
It complements, enriches, and amplifies what already exists.
This is how we are building the healthcare of tomorrow together.

• What is yoga therapy?

  Yoga therapy is a neuro-functional rehabilitation approach that uses breathing, conscious movement, and body awareness to regulate the nervous system, restore mobility, reduce pain, and support emotional balance.
  It is based on biomechanics, physiology, the neuroscience of stress, and modern somatics.

• How does yoga therapy differ from traditional yoga?

  Yoga aims to promote overall well-being through postures, breathing, and relaxation.
  Yoga therapy, on the other hand, is an individualized, structured, science-based intervention that targets specific therapeutic goals: functional breathing, pain, tension, stress, mobility, sleep, emotional regulation, etc.
  It can be easily integrated into medical and paramedical approaches.

• Is yoga therapy complementary to medical care?

  Yes.
  Yoga therapy does not replace any medical or psychological treatment.
  It acts as a complement, creating the internal conditions necessary for medical, physiotherapeutic, psychological, or osteopathic interventions to be more effective and better integrated.

• How does yoga therapy support physical therapy?

  By improving movement coordination, breathing, stability, posture, and nervous system regulation—factors that are essential to rehabilitation.
  It also helps reduce compensations, pain, and protective tension, facilitating progress in physical therapy.

• How does yoga therapy prolong the effects of massage therapy or osteopathy?

  3D breathing, micro-movements, and body awareness contribute to:

  • keep tissues hydrated and mobile

  • reduce voltage drops

  • integrate gains into everyday life

  • Preventing relapses
    Touch frees you from the outside, yoga therapy frees you from the inside.

• How does yoga therapy support occupational therapy?

  It optimizes:

  • breathing

  • posture

  • energy

  • stress management

  • Internal coordination
    These elements facilitate activities of daily living (ADL) and enhance functional independence in work, school, and home settings.

• Can yoga therapy be integrated into psychotherapy?

  Yes, as a complement.
  Yoga therapy offers a bottom-up approach (body → nervous system → emotions → cognition) that supports presence, internal security, and emotional tolerance.
  It is particularly useful in contexts of stress, anxiety, trauma, and mental overload.

• Is yoga therapy safe?

  Yes, when performed by a trained professional.
  The Health as a Whole approach Health as a Whole based on:

  • the right amount of effort,

  • slowness,

  • functional breathing,

  • self-regulation,

  • respect for boundaries,

  • and trauma-informed principles.
    It is suitable for all levels and conditions, within the scope of its competence.

• Who is yoga therapy for?

  To anyone who wishes to:

  • improve your breathing,

  • reduce pain,

  • reduce stress,

  • regain mobility,

  • support his rehabilitation,

  • strengthen your emotional balance,

  • developing health autonomy.
    It is also aimed at professionals wishing to enrich their clinical practice.

• How Health as a Whole the Health as a Whole approach Health as a Whole to integrative health?

  By creating a concrete bridge between:

  • biomechanics,

  • physiology,

  • breathing,

  • psychology,

  • somatic,

  • the movement,

  • and prevention.
    It supports complementarity between disciplines and embodies the vision:
    "building tomorrow's healthcare together."

• Where can I learn more or get training?

  Yoga ReSource offers:

  • professional workshops,

  • training programs,

  • conferences,

  • and free resources to discover the Health as a Whole approach.