Comments on: Healing from the Horrors of War: The Amazing Effects of Yoga on PTSD

By: Keynes!

Keynes! — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 07:36:00 +0000

“In the dominant Western culture where better living is prescribed through Chemistry, van der Volk offers an alternative solution based on Eastern practices through an inward journey of the body and mind, with breath and movement to cultivate insight and awareness, as he believes this trauma is physical and lives in the body.”

Yoga was developed from western bodybuilding, gymnastics and the profits from a chemical factory.

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, the inventor of yoga, was heavily funded by Maharaja Krishna Raja Wodiyar IV.

The Maharaja was enormously wealthy and was a fan of gymnastics and bodybuilding and got Tirumalai Krishnamacharya the contortionist to incorporate it into Yoga. The Maharaja was also the founder of Mysore Chemical and Fertilizers Factory. Yoga, after all, was developed from the profits of a chemical factory.

We can even take the case of Bikram Choudhury who became famous for his hot yoga. His yoga was so hot that five women are now suing him for sexual harassment and sexual assault. Bikram trained under the famous bodybuilder Bishnu Charan Ghosh.

By: puniselva

puniselva — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 20:29:00 +0000

”Western culture where better living is prescribed …..”, ” an alternative solution based on Eastern practices ……”, …… are not truly valid now:

in this globalised world many Easterners receive economic gains, eg aid and trade, from the West but averse human rights as ”Western culture”

By: puniselva

puniselva — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 19:16:00 +0000

Sadly ”they may discern and recognize the safety and security of their home and loved ones, far away from the terrors of the past” isn’t true: the State Terror towards the ethnic minorities has not yet died down: they can see it clearly in the North and, to a less extent, in the East: just look at the power of the Civil Security Department and the Civil Military Coordination of Jaffna over that of the Local Government bodies.
Furthermore the hatred towards the ethnic minorities instigated by the attitude of the government expressed through its words and actions still envelopes the mindset of a significant section of the ethnic majority.
Therefore what is true for a society at the end of a war isn’t true for Sri Lanka because only ”open” military assaults ceased in 2009.
We thus need much, much more than Yoga to cure PTSD in Sri Lanka: State Transformation.