"Passion or interest of the people doing yoga increases. It is related also to lifestyle. Awareness of the increase in non-conventional health care. Because conventional medical doctors generally only treat the physical," said Yudhi Widdyantoro,yoga instructor from Tirtayu Clinic
Especially in the developed countries, interest in people to yoga continues to increase thanks to the publicity and discussion in the media. In addition, other factors are no less important role is that more public figures who participate yoga.
According to Yudhi, in every yoga movement there was indeed a useful therapeutic effects to help the healing. There are several important points every time someone doing yoga. Among them will get peace of mind and thoughts. That, said Yudhi, such as the workings of the brain and mind, more complementary with conventional non-medical activities.
Increasingly high interest of the community to yoga, according to Yudhi, at least it can be seen clearly from the number of participants that fosterage yoga classes every year. From observations done since 1991, the number of participants in the class can still be counted on the fingers. And if anything, mostly from the expatriate community.
But the increased interest in yoga actually began to look at the economic crisis that hit Indonesia in 1997-1998. "It's not just the economic impact, but also have an impact on one's psyche. And then, start an alternative health,where yoga is there, start looking for people," he concluded.
