ABSTRACT
In the West, healing is associated with medical science and its link to any spiritual tradition is often completely ignored. Healing and spirituality were intimately connected. Yoga suggests an eightfold method whose aim is the integrative healing of the person. Yoga believes in the indissoluble connection of the body and mind to a common spiritual source. A modification in the mind can bring a corresponding change in our body. Yoga suggests many physical postures that cater to the health of the body. According to Yoga, our breathing is the pulsation of the life force in us. It is our direct link to cosmic energy. Yoga also emphasizes the connection between breathing and gravitational pull. In the system of Yoga, the perfection of the body and mastery of the mind are not goals in themselves, but only means to a higher goal of the realization of the true self.
