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Empower your life with Dru Yoga therapy

Dru Yoga is particularly known for its graceful flowing movements, its unique energy block release sequences and its heart meditation.

But perhaps Dru Yoga is most known for its application in everyday life, where its self-help approach is particularly noted for transforming painful emotions and thoughts into their positive counterparts.

With Dru Yoga, even if you wake up with a feeling of anger, you can turn it into empowered creativity. You can experience a stressful meeting and turn the resulting energy of anxiety or stress into confidence and clarity. Or you can take an old feeling of trauma and turn it into a new freedom. For this reason, the sequences of Dru Yoga and Body Heart Mind techniques as developed by Mansukh Patel, Chris Barrington, Annie Jones, Rita Goswami and John Jones and others of the Dru team are now being used and taught by UN aid workers in refugee camps in war zones across Europe.

Until twenty years ago Dru Yoga was unknown in the West and nothing was written down until Mansukh Patel and a small group of his University friends in Wales decided to forgo usual career paths. Since then, Mansukh Patel, John Jones, Rita Goswami, Savitri MacCuish, Andrew Wells and team have taken Dru Yoga to thirty countries on five continents and by their work becoming known largely by word of mouth, have taught Dru Yoga techniques to thousands of people, many of whom had no prior experience of this type of self- help method before.

This group of therapists now numbers over eighty full-time workers and hundreds of part-time teachers. Mansukh Patel is trained as a cancer toxicologist and osteopath, and the team also includes nurses, doctors, counselors, complementary health therapists and many others from the ‘helping professions’.

Mansukh Patel and colleagues have taken Dru Yoga to conflict zones from Ireland to Russia. He and the Dru Yoga team have traveled to the North Caucasus, where local aid workers made clandestine border crossings to attend the Dru Yoga seminars. Mansukh Patel has also pioneered Dru Yoga programmes in the health service, businesses and schools throughout the UK, Europe and increasingly, the world. So what makes Dru Yoga so special?

The Dru system is an integrated approach to yoga, health and self-empowerment. It has many similarities with popular forms of yoga but also has its own unique style and place. Ancient healing arts have been based on the belief that our bodies are criss-crossed with energy pathways. Some are specifically connected to our body’s organs, others relate to the functions and systems of the body. This concept of energy and its application in everyday life is central to working with Dru Yoga. It is designed to work with these pathways, clearing blocked energy which could result in illness and balancing our mind with our body.

Flowing sequences of movement and breath are often used in Dru Yoga. All are therapeutic, designed to systematically activate our joints, muscle groups and major organs. Dru Yoga can improve or eliminate some of the most common physical disorders. Dru Yoga also works with specific emotions (calming anger, soothing fears) and is invaluable in particular situations such as job interviews or stressful living and working conditions.

‘Form follows thought’ and by using Dru Yoga sequences with visualisations (picture thoughts) and positive affirmation, we can reverse negative habits and bring the nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, respiritory, digestive and immune systems into full functioning harmony.