Abstract
“Yoga means Union” and “Tourism unites and Yoga provides health, happiness and harmony”. These two renowned quotes itself depicts the Role of Yoga-tourism in promoting healthy life style, holistic approach for happiness and global harmony. This study is connected to health tourism describing how techniques of Ashtang yoga are beneficial for healthy life style. The researcher has tried through this paper to bring awareness and change in life style of people through traveling for health i.e. health tourism; Ashtang Yoga being most important technique to achieve holistic health. Health tourism is continuously growing day by day. An Ashtang Yoga technique ensures peace and happiness along with integrated health. The researcher has presented the insight in context of Indian literature but it holds universal appeal. This study shows the importance of key techniques to increase healthy life style through health tourism with especial reference to Ashtang yoga.
Highlights
Health tourism is fastest growing sector worldwide
A day’s tourists are more sensible of the value of health. They are aware about physical fitness, purity of mind and standard life style
Health tourism is an emerging sector those tourism developed by the competing tourism promoting countries in order to attract tourists traveling with the premier goal of getting healthcare
Summary
Peaceful mind and healthy life style, a tourist travel one place to another place. Maharshi Patanjali is a great sage combined this path into a Darshan (Philosophy) in his Book PatanjalYoga Sutra In which he has formulated Yoga as Eight Limbs or Eight Fold path as ‘Yam Niyam, Aasan, Pranayam, Pratyahar, Dharna, Dyan and Samadhi’. A tourist wants peace, health and happiness from the tourist destination, the sutra of MaharshiPatanjali showing the path of yoga is needed most in health tourism. The second limb based on the observations, which check that body and mind are not corrupted and polluted once they have been making pure These two limbs are most valuable assets for a disciple as well as for Ashtang Yoga & Health Tourism health tourist.
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