The teachings of Yoga are central to the way of life in Prakriti Shakti. As the birds sing their wake-up songs for the viridescent hills, we greet the rising sun with ‘Surya Namaskar’ or Sun Salutation. In the fresh and crisp morning air, with ‘Pranayama’, we pay obeisance to ‘Praana’ or the vital energy. The blissfulness of these dawns help you embrace each day of your healing journey with renewed fervour. In the shade of whispering trees, our doctors guide you through meditations that let you experience a place of deep awareness. The time in Prakriti Shakti prepares you to make Yoga a part of your everyday life. Based on your mental and physical health, our doctors create a personalised Yoga schedule for you, with ‘asanas’, ‘kriyas’ and meditations that can restore and improve your health and fitness.
Yoga complements and enhances naturopathic healing. Together, Naturopathy and Yoga form a complete healthcare system that heals the body, mind and spirit. By combining the various aspects and types of Yoga based on their unique therapeutic outcomes, the doctors at Prakriti Shakti have developed a set of treatment regimens to facilitate healing from within and treat specific health conditions. The regimens are created by integrating five distinct types of Yoga - Soukya Yoga, Samana Yoga, Dharana Yoga, Dhyana Yoga and Shudhi Kriyas. The below sections introduce you to these types of Yoga.
Swasthya Yoga is practised to keep all your systems in optimal health. At Prakriti Shakti, Swasthya Yoga sessions begin with the first lights of dawn and each day, the exercises focus on a particular system in the body. Pranayama, a yogic practice of controlling the breath, is a major part of the Swasthya Yoga sessions. Understanding your breathing patterns and knowing how to breathe in the correct way are essential for lasting good health. Under the guidance of our doctors, you learn breathing techniques which help you forge a close bond with a calm and relaxed, yet deeply aware place that resides within you.
‘Bandhas' are included in Swasthya Yoga to revitalise your brain centres, the ‘nadis' and the ‘chakras’. ‘Bandhas’ are "body locks" in Hatha Yoga that increase the blood circulation, strengthen and rejuvenate the organs and alleviate stress. To promote brain activity and relax the nerves, our doctors help you perform ‘Dynamic Mudra’. Performing the various ‘Asanas’, taught in detail by our doctors, improves your flexibility, strength and balance.
Samana Yoga is practised as personalised yoga sessions designed for each patient based on his / her physical and mental health conditions. ‘Samana’ means healing or relief. Samana Yoga at Prakriti Shakti is a healing regimen created to become a part of your life. After developing a thorough understanding of your body and mind, our doctors combine yogic practices that address your medical requirements and fitness goals. By training you individually to practise these therapeutic exercises in the correct manner, our doctors help you comfortably develop a fitness regimen that can be performed daily in your own space.
Our doctors also make sure that your Samana Yoga sessions are enjoyable so that, it becomes a refreshing and uplifting activity that you look forward to in your daily schedule. It is a way to continuously revive your relationship with your body and mind, even after you finish your treatment programme at Prakriti Shakti.
Dharana Yoga sessions are dedicated for the teaching of guided relaxation techniques which help you in understanding and experiencing a restful yet alert state of mind. The essence of Dharana Yoga is to develop a deep concentration of the mind. What we try to achieve through ‘Dharana', which is the sixth stage or limb of Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga, is “the binding of the consciousness to a single point”. It quiets the mind, helps in gaining control of the thoughts running through the mind and lets you arrive at a peaceful place within yourself.
In your daily life, as you try to juggle numerous tasks and struggle to keep up the constant fast pace, practising ‘Dharana' becomes a gruelling exercise. Your time at Prakriti Shakti is a way of cocooning and getting away from these distractions and taking the time to train your mind. ‘Yoga Nidra’, Mind Sound Resonance Technique, Cyclic Meditation and Pranic Energisation Technique are the practices taught by our doctors during Dharana Yoga sessions to help you reach this state of total focus.
Through Dhyana Yoga, our doctors teach you how to meditate and stay in a state of peace with correct breathing. With the practise of ‘Dharana’, you train the mind to focus on a point and then comes ‘Dhyana’, the seventh stage or limb of Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga in which you meditate on this point of focus. ‘Dhyana’ is derived from a Sanskrit word ‘Dhyai’ which means ‘to think of’. Prakriti Shakti provides you the perfect setting for this reposeful contemplation. Here, you are blessed with resourceful people who can initiate you into and guide you through this deeply meditative process.
These Dhyana Yoga sessions let you develop a deeper understanding of yourself. Our doctors handhold you through this gradual process of gaining control of your mind and teaches you to channelise this power to awaken and strengthen the self-healing capacity of the body. ‘Dhyana’ lets you discover calmness, placidity and contentment within yourself.
Shudhi Kriyas are natural cleansing procedures which help in internal purification. ‘Neti’, ‘Dhouti' and ‘Nauli’ are the ‘Kriyas' used by our doctors to purify and reinvigorate the vital organs of the body. ‘Neti’ is the cleansing of the nasal passages. ‘Neti' alleviates respiratory diseases like sinusitis, allergy and asthma and throat infections. It has a soothing effect on the brain, eyes and ears. ‘Dhouti' is the cleansing of the alimentary canal. ‘Dhouti' is performed to remove undigested food from the stomach and thus prevent the accumulation of toxins in the body.
It is a natural cure for gastritis and acidity. ‘Nauli’ is the purification of the abdominal organs. ‘Nauli Kriya’ is performed to massage all the organs in the abdomen and thus maintain good health and vitality. Being a cure for digestive disorders and a way to eliminate toxins from the digestive tract, 'Nauli Kriya’ boosts the immune system. It is practised based on individual needs and during certain phases of the treatment. Based on your medical conditions, our doctors prescribe specific Kriyas and train you to do it in the correct manner.
