Stress Free World - YogaVillage

Healthy Lifestyle and Social Harmony

A countrywide " Stress-free world" event, "Yoga Village: Health & Happiness" started in Milan 2007 This year it is being hosted in Guernsey, Channel Islands. A focal point of the event is promoting a healthy and balanced lifestyle.

Campaign for a Stress Free World starts in your city and provides concrete tools which are effective and practical in coping with stress, anxiety and depression.

The EU Presidency in the conference "Stress and Depression" (Brussels 2001):  

  Stress, anxiety and depression are among the main causes of disease

  and disability in Europe.

Depression

Affects 28% of the general population of rich countries

  • in 2020 depression will be the second largest disease of humanity in order of

  prevalence, after heart disease (Delys Index, Report of the World Health

  Organization / WHO, Scientific American, September 2005)

Stress

2002 Report of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work:

  • 50 to 60% of working days lost due to stress (2001 data)

  • 41 million Europeans complain of health problems related to stress at work

  (2001 data)

  • costs of stress at work € 265 million annually in the 15 member countries (1998

  data). 

Proactive Response To Stress & Anxiety

Given the growing need for therapies that are both viable and sustainable for the treatment of depression and diseases related to it, WHO has recommended that therapeutic alternatives to current treatments based mainly on drugs and psychotherapy be investigated.

The Power of yoga in creating calm

Research* indicates people challenged with high anxiety and stress can successfully self mediate by adopting the practices of yoga.

These techiques seem to be effective in interrupting these chronic behaviours

People experience raised self worth

Advantages of the simple practice of yoga:

  • yoga does not conflict with any religious and socio-economic systems

  • quick and easy to learn based on the breath and yoga postures

  • little to no equipment is required

  • location can be anywhere

  • reported benefits are very high for the time invested