Communication Across Disciplines:
YOGA & Mental Health

Yoga can be viewed as a scientific system designed to purify the body and the mind from toxins accumulated due to poor lifestyle choices and negative thinking patterns. A system rooted in thousands of years of empirical reasoning and evidence of its results, the goal of all Yogic practices is not only to be free of mental illness, but to achieve a state of mind that rests in equanimity in the face of the tumultuous emotions, desires, and suffering that are to be found in this world.

The major aim of this website is to start a discussion between two sciences of the mind: psychology and Yoga. Its goal is to provide a forum for understanding in more depth and detail how Yoga works as a science unto itself and as a complement to western psychologies understanding of the mind.

Yoga and Mental Health provides information for Yoga practitioners, students and psychologists on how the science of Yoga may be beneficial in transforming mental illness into a lifelong path towards mental health and spiritual wellbeing.