Yoga Therapy
What is Yoga Therapy?
A Yoga Therapist will carefully and skillfully consider your individual nature, needs and level of ability. The tools of yoga including asana ( postures), breath awareness, mindfulness and meditation, are used to help you become an active participant in your own healing process.
Extensive research has shown that yoga has beneficial effects on at least 52 medical conditions. Proven benefits include: decreased pain, anxiety, depression, increased flexibility, restful sleep, balance and strength. Positive effects are long term and ongoing when you practice tools for dealing with your daily symptoms and stresses.
The techniques of Yoga Therapy calm the body and still the mind so you can rest in the stillness and vastness of your heart. When you live from this place your physical issues and suffering may diminish. You may still have a disability or health condition but your relationship with your body becomes friendlier and more compassionate. The condition becomes an “AND” and ceases to define you. You may realize that “I am whole AND I have multiple sclerosis”. You gradually shift from self-judgement to friendliness and loving kindness toward yourself and begin to make more choices that move you toward joy and health.
I am a certified Yoga therapist, and I offer in-person and virtual Yoga therapy. If you’ve been doing all the right things, therapy, medication, self-help, but still feel overwhelmed and on edge, there is nothing wrong with you. Trauma lives in the body. Through breath awareness and gentle movement, people notice what their bodies need, calm their nervous systems, and feel safe again.