Centre for Integrative Medicine

In addition to using firmly orthodox methods of diagnosis and treatment, integrated medicine (or integrative medicine, as it is known in the United States) is the practise of medicine that includes components of complementary and alternative medicine into comprehensive treatment plans.

Integrative medicine treats the whole person by combining therapy and dietary modifications. It uses an evidence-based strategy to enhance your health and wellness and places a focus on your entire being, including your mind, body, and soul.

Integrative medicine involves treating patients not just with physical means but also with spiritual, emotional, mental, and environmental ones. The basic rule is that all elements of the patient are taken into account when treating sickness, including whenever available natural and less invasive options. Integrative medicine treats the whole person by combining therapy and dietary modifications. It uses an evidence-based strategy to enhance your health and wellness and places a focus on your entire being, including your mind, body, and soul.

Vision

To nurture and promote research activities in the utilization of modern medicine together with Ayurveda and Siddha medical with Yoga.

Mission

· The Centre for Integrative Medicine and Research is committed to contributing to the growing body of scientific research in the field of integrative health.

· Our focus is on evaluating integrative treatments that address multiple, whole-person aspects of wellness—biological, psychological, social and spiritual.

Objective:

· The Centre for Integrative Medicine and Research is a facility providing integrative solutions encompassing traditional medical systems and modern medicine to address health concerns.

· To facilitate research collaborations, good quality research programmes with national and international grants, research publications.

· To provide expertise and training to physicians (including modern medicine practitioners and AYUSH practitioners), researchers and PhD candidates.

· To serve the community / society with Yoga and Ayurveda.

Division of Yoga, CIMR

The Division of Yoga was started according to the vision and mission of Padmashree Dr. T M A Pai, the main architect of the worldwide famous Manipal Institutions. The Division was established in January 1980 at Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal.

The aim of the division is to provide yoga practice to the public to improve health and Yoga Therapy to the patients who are suffering from various kinds of disorders along with all modern facilities of treatment available in the hospital.

It trains students to develop skills of Yoga Therapy, to serve the people of the society. It helps to fulfil the need of society to create individuals who are experts in the field. The division has started M.Sc. in Yoga Therapy, since 1998 onwards.

2015 onwards named as Division of Yoga and working under Centre for Integrative Medicine & Research (CIMR), MAHE, Manipal.

Advantages

It aims to develop the skill to apply Yoga techniques in the treatment of health disorders along with proper classical knowledge of Yoga as well as laboratory studies. Students who are trained here may run their own Yoga centers, join hospitals or colleges to work as an expert in Yoga Therapy or as lecturer in Yoga Therapy. The course also concentrates on research in the field of Yoga science and Yoga Therapy.

Mission

1.      To improve teaching, therapy and research in the field of yoga.

2.      To spread the value based knowledge of yoga therapy.

3.      To propagate the importance of yoga for healthy living.

4.      To spread the potentialities of yoga and contributions of yoga for healthy living.

5.      To create public awareness about yoga therapy.

Division functions under the following

HOD’s note

• MSc Yoga Therapy is offered by Division of Yoga, CIMR, MAHE Manipal.

ITS CURRICULUM INCLUDES:

• Classroom teachings, seminar, assignments and tutorials.
• Patient interaction for assessment and application of yoga therapy.
• Classical text, basic science and applied medical science.
• Application of yoga as therapy with the basic text knowledge.
• Sessional examinations, seminars and clinical studies.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Set up own yoga centres, work as yoga therapist and teach in colleges and universities.

• PhD in Yoga 

• Certificate Course in Yoga is a short term course offered by Division of Yoga, CIMR, MAHE Manipal.

• Elective Course is a Interdisciplinary 

Yoga Therapy Out Patient Department (OPD)

·         OPD Timings 7 A.M to 6 P.M

·         IP and OP Patients referred by various departments (Paediatrics, Medicine, OBG, Eye, Cardiology, Orthopedics & Psychiatry and other various departments of our Kasturba hospital) and other hospital & clinics.

·         Per each patient we will engage for 1 hour for 15 sessions/1-3 months

·         Per day number of patients average 40 – 45 (IP & OP patients)

·         Monthly number of patients average 850 to 900 (IP & OP patients)

·         General yoga classes for all. 

The Yoga Therapy Centre provides treatments for the following and many more chronic diseases.

The Division has got the facility of

1.      Practical Hall

2.      Kriya Room

3.      Meditation Hall

4.      Yoga Therapy Hall