Dangerous Yoga ?

[Guest guest]

Dangerous Yoga

 

The report by Sharmila Ganesan captioned ‘Dangerous

Yoga (Suday Times of India, June 24, 2007) is a timely

warning to innumerable patients who land up with

disturbing injuries. It is not only because of mass

produce of mediocre gurus but also due to

well-established Yoga institutes and Yoga clinics

mushrooming all over the country and abroad.

 

During my visit to USA, I found many persons even in

New York and New Jersey suffering a great deal due to

such wrong practices of Yoga, more so, because Yoga

has become a big money-making business. When not done

properly, Yoga often becomes a ‘FUTILE EXERCISE’.

 

Yoga means to connect with your higher self that

automatically corrects your lower self, the body

beautiful. Why blame Dhirendra Brahmachari, even many

such patients from a well-known Yoga clinic have

suffered more even after several month’s treatment and

after spending a fortune.

 

But let us be optimistic. There are some unfailing

simple spinal yogic exercises that have helped all

such patients by rejuvenating/rehabilitating their

backbone that is the key to all round good health,

that is, physical, mental and even spiritual.

 

Unfortunately, the media highlights controversial

developments like some Bikram Choudhary taking out a

US patent for his yogic exercises done in a chamber

heated to 45 degrees centigrade. But what excellent

research is done in our own country even if it may be

worth a Nobel Prize does not get reported by the

Indian media.

 

For example, the Pune-based Save India Association

(SIA) has set up a global pain relief centre called

the Spinal and Nervous Rehab Centre that has treated

thousands of those who have been suffering in spite of

all treatments including Yoga. The list of such

patients who have benefited is endless including ace

cricketer Chandu Borde, a senior physician at Apollo

Hospital, Delhi (Col. Dr. Akhil Mishra M.D. Medicine

and D. M. Nephrology, a senior nurse working for

Mangeshkar Hospital, Pune, a former professor of

surgery at the BJ Medical College, Pune (Dr. K. G.

Datar, M.S. whose own spinal surgery had failed and

many others who all got well by the simple yogic

exercises for the spine discovered by one such patient

who had lost all hopes of recovery. All this advanced

yogic research is available for free at www.atbsnr.com

 

If you or Sharmila Ganesan could make it known to the

world, it would solve the problems created by mediocre

gurus, helping millions the world over.

 

Who knows, India might claim a Nobel Prize for such a

yogic discovery making our country a world guru in

pain relief and for promoting good health?

 

S. M. Acharya,

Founder President, SIA,

155 St. Patrick’s Town, Pune 411013, Tel:

020-26870204, Cell: 0-94223 14693, Email:

<smacharyaWebsite: <ww.atbsnr.com>.

[Guest guest]

This is something that is disturbing me as well.

 

I have been watching as people give workshops on holistic living and am shocked

and horrified with what they are teaching and how gullible the attendants are.

 

I attended a workshop yesterday in which an ayurvedic doctor was telling people

to inject soap and glycerin into the anus to promote bowel movement.

 

He also give gulika of tylenol three with codeine for pain relief and capsules

of boric acid and ammonia sulphate for cholesterol breaking.

He prescribed an oil made of camphor, ghee and silicylic acid for my daughter

with vitiligo.

 

Another man came to the temple where my husband is the pundit and he had come

from Delhi.

 

He told the highly educated attendants that he had been blessed by his guru with

a mantra and a healing touch that he would pas on to them by chanting the mantra

and looking into their eyes.

 

He told the people that once he looked at them they would have healing touch and

would be able to touch any one and heal any of their physical problems.

 

They believed him. All of them doctors and Phd in science!

I was shocked.

 

He also told the grandparents of a midget that if the grandma held his arms and

grandpa held his feet and pulled he would become tall.

 

I find these tricksters are presenting people with such dramatic promises and

quick fixes that people are being distracted from the true paths that could

actually help them.

 

I think there ought to be some regulation of holistic practitioners in the west

otherwise people who are tired of allpoathy are going to get seriously led

astray.

 

SM Acharya <smacharya wrote:

 

The report by Sharmila Ganesan captioned ‘Dangerous

Yoga (Suday Times of India, June 24, 2007) is a timely

warning to innumerable patients who land up with

disturbing injuries. It is not only because of mass

produce of mediocre gurus but also due to

well-established Yoga institutes and Yoga clinics

mushrooming all over the country and abroad.

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