If you can breathe, you can do yoga

What is Yoga Therapy?

Together we meet online or in person to build a practice that looks at you and your life as a whole. You will learn tools and techniques that teach your body, mind and spirit how to heal on its own. Yoga Therapy is a holistic approach to self healing—no more healing in parts—empowering you to take what you learn and apply it on your own.

That can sound scary and wildly intimidating, but your body has wisdom and you are your best teacher.

Yoga Therapy systematically applies yoga practices (asanas, pranayama, meditation) to treat specific health conditions, integrating them with Ayurveda for personalized care.

We can use sessions to focus on:

  • Areas of illness or injury in the mind, body and spirit

  • Sleep hygiene

  • Stress

  • Physical pain

  • Postural alignment

  • Daily routine

My job is to listen, assess areas of stresses and strains, and offer tools that you can use to create space, freedom and peace.

My Approach

Yoga Therapy honors exactly who you are. Your personalized practice fits in with your moving life and is built to support your unique constitution and goals — whether it’s to get out of pain or into meditation.

My sessions create a space for you to answer the question “how are you?” with honesty, ease and comfort.

Stress

Learn where it lives in your body, tools to regulate the nervous system and manage life transition or chronic stress.

Sleep

Sleep can bet tricky! Be well rested and intentional with your sleep habits. Yoga tools to create savasana at home.

Pain

Every body is unique. I work above or below the area until it’s out of pain. Then we stretch or strength to get you moving freely.

Breath

The quality of your breath is the quality of your life. Learn to use your greatest gift and most powerful tool.

FAQ

  • A yoga class is geared toward a group setting where the teacher’s main focus is to provide movement and yoga postures within a particular class style.

    Yoga is not one size fits all. Yoga therapists are trained to use yoga in a therapeutic setting to alleviate states of “dis”-ease. A yoga therapist aims to meet you where you are and adapt a practice to meet your individual needs. This ensures that each person’s Yoga is their own, rather than striving to replicate someone else’s ideal.

    Yoga Therapy encourages an atmosphere of learning and self-inquiry, as opposed to merely offering mechanical techniques. You will leave with tools you can put into practice on your own, feeling self-aware, self-sufficient, and empowered.

  • Yoga therapy is for everyone! Clients range from young adults to senior adults. If you can breathe, you can do yoga. Increasing the quality of the breath will play a major roll in increasing the quality of life. When you learn a new way, you are unlearning an old way. Old patterns and old stories can be replaced with new ones through an environment of learning and self-inquiry. Yoga therapy can serve as compliment self-care to anyone working through:

    • Physical conditions: Arthritis, Scoliosis, Sacro Illiac joint pain, Cancer, High Blood Pressure, Musculoskeletal issues, autoimmune, pregnancy, etc.

    • Mental health: Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, etc.

    • Career and relationship

    • Stress and fatigue

    • Anything you consider out of balance for yourself

  • Each session is completely individualized and unique for each person. Generally a session consists of:

    • Going over your intake form

    • Discussing the area of pain/concern

    • Assessment with intention to find movements that do NOT cause pain

    • Work above or below area of pain or, if applicable, build strength to the area

    • Talk about your goals, ways you’d like to grow

  • Each session will typically last 50-75 minutes in person or over Google Meet.

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Yoga therapy is a self-empowering process, where the care-seeker, with the help of the Yoga therapist, implements a personalized and evolving Yoga practice, that not only addresses the illness in a multi-dimensional manner, but also aims to alleviate his/her suffering in a progressive, non-invasive and complementary manner.  Depending upon the nature of the illness, Yoga therapy can not only be preventative or curative, but also serve a means to manage the illness, or facilitate healing in the person at all levels.

- TKV Desikachar

Yoga therapy is difficult to define, in part because of the breadth and depth of the tradition itself, and because, like Yoga, the discipline can be approached in so many different ways. Yoga therapy is the process of empowering individuals to progress toward improved health and well-being through the application of the teachings and practices of Yoga.

-IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists)