The UK’s Prince Charles has said that yoga contributes to “health and healing” and can help “conserve precious and expensive health resources”.
The comments were made in a written statement to the 2019 Yoga in Healthcare Conference – held for the first time this month at London’s University of Westminster.
The Prince of Wales said: “For thousands of years, millions of people have experienced yoga's ability to improve their lives.
“The development of therapeutic, evidence-based yoga is, I believe, an excellent example of how yoga can contribute to health and healing.
"This not only benefits the individual, but also conserves precious and expensive health resources for others where and when they are most needed."
Prince Charles has long been an advocate of complementary medicine and therapies, and his charitable foundation recently announced a plan to fund yoga and meditation for prisoners in an effort to “improve young offenders’ wellbeing and restore hope and positivity towards the future, with a view to reducing the likelihood of reoffending”.
At the event, Duncan Selbie, chief executive of Public Health England, said that some of the additional funding from the NHS Long Term Plan – which outlines how the NHS will improve care in the UK over the next decade – would be spent on yoga classes.
The NHS Long Term Plan, announced last month, includes increased funds for social prescribing, wherein health professionals can prescribe non-medical activities.
Prince Charles says yoga can contribute to 'health and healing' / Credit: Shutterstock/765355024
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The UK’s Prince Charles has said that yoga contributes to “health and healing” and can help “conserve precious and expensive health resources”.
The comments were made in a written statement to the 2019 Yoga in Healthcare Conference – held for the first time this month at London’s University of Westminster.
The Prince of Wales said: “For thousands of years, millions of people have experienced yoga's ability to improve their lives.
“The development of therapeutic, evidence-based yoga is, I believe, an excellent example of how yoga can contribute to health and healing.
"This not only benefits the individual, but also conserves precious and expensive health resources for others where and when they are most needed."
Prince Charles has long been an advocate of complementary medicine and therapies, and his charitable foundation recently announced a plan to fund yoga and meditation for prisoners in an effort to “improve young offenders’ wellbeing and restore hope and positivity towards the future, with a view to reducing the likelihood of reoffending”.
At the event, Duncan Selbie, chief executive of Public Health England, said that some of the additional funding from the NHS Long Term Plan – which outlines how the NHS will improve care in the UK over the next decade – would be spent on yoga classes.
The NHS Long Term Plan, announced last month, includes increased funds for social prescribing, wherein health professionals can prescribe non-medical activities.
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JK Wellness, the beauty, spa and wellness division of JK Group UK and Ireland, has launched a
full-body LED light therapy unit combining red light and near-infrared light technology.
Heightened stress and poor sleep are believed to accelerate the ageing process twice as
quickly. To help combat this, Yon-ka has released Serum CBD along with a 90-minute face and
back sleep therapy ritual.
British spa and skincare giant Elemis is making a grand entrance into London's retail scene,
handpicking Covent Garden's Seven Dials for its inaugural standalone store.
Freddie Moross, founder of wellness music provider Myndstream, has announced plans to launch
Spiritus – a brand new breathwork series by Grammy Award-winning musician and composer Peter
Kater – onto the company’s music streaming service, The Stream.
Austrian-based Full Balance has created a Big Foot massage board for communal spa areas which
guests stand on to "closely mimic the experience of professional reflexology treatments".
Industry event organisation Spa Life is gearing up for the first-ever Spa Life Scotland
Convention, due to be hosted at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow from 28-30 April.
We Work Well founders Monica Helmstetter and Lucy Hugo have called on ISPA members to join
their annual SpasPushingLimits charity hike in Phoenix, Arizona, on 22 April.
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