Mindfulness and yoga are widely said to improve mental and physical health, and booming industries have emerged to teach them as secular techniques.
Instructed by Buddhist and Hindu missionaries, ma.
Wakoh Shannon Hickey shows that most of those who first advocated Meditation for healing were women: leaders of the "Mind Cure" movement, which emerged during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This movement is typically traced to the 1970s, but it actually began a century earlier.
Mindfulness and yoga are widely said to improve mental and physical health, and booming industries have emerged to teach them as secular techniques