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- Our quality of life depends on our state of mind as well as on our body.

Mr. Lalonde pointed out in 1974 that the vast majority of the premature death and disability was the direct result of choices people had made. As an example smoking had become one of the most important public health problem.

From the Health Concept of Mr. Lalonde, the main points that influence the health of a person are:
Human biology
Environment
Lifestyle
Health care organization

So if health is our hands, we have the responsibility to do something, but...
What can we do?
Which improvement is in our hands?
How can we go better?
Can we act on the determinants of health?

Clearly we can improve and deal with our lifestyle, much easier than to change the hospitals, the environment or the genetic heritage.

The influence of lifestyle in our health is almost a 50%.

Yoga was developed to be another tool towards a correct way to live and to help people improve their lives. The yoga strategies are mainly personal and for the self, as:
Self - Health promotion
Study of own life
Self Control
Examination of the human being as a whole (physical - mental - social - spiritual)
This yogic health program can combine with diverse approaches as: yoga and (rest - proper diet - exercise - water)

The yoga method focus is multidimensional and positive in its approach. Just as A. Maslow, the famous psychologist, suggested that we may better focus on what is right about people as opposed to their deficiencies, we may focus on optimal well-being and assist people in the pursuit of same. Discrimination is the key to take the risks out of living.

This is the business of this yoga education program. As the Ottawa conference told in 1986, health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their own health. To build the health future is also in oneself.

Of course there are many prerequisites for health, as:
Peace,
Shelter,
Education,
Food, income
Stable eco-system
Sustainable resources
Social justice
Equity

But to do what is in our close environment, in our nearest circle is the first before we plan to change the world. If the society build a healthy public policy, create supportive environments, strengthen community action, develop personal skills and to reorient the health services anyhow it will be late for us, we need to take immediate care of our personal health program.

We need to help ourselves to understand what health promotion is in our life. To believe its effectiveness and to maintain our allegiance to its core values and principles. Maybe then we will be able to do it better.

Yoga can help people to learn how to live better. What people do for themselves in the way of a healthy lifestyle has a much greater impact on their chances of survival than anything physicians are likely to accomplish.