Your mind, body & soul.
Yoga therapy is a complementary and alternative medicine modality working with clients on a one-on-one basis to improve physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being, and breath and energy.
As a yoga therapist, I can work with you and your health care provider to plan and facilitate a complementary plan of care that can help you manage pain with fewer or no medications, explore non-surgical options for certain injuries (such as shoulders), and/or manage your stress and wellness while undergoing oncology, hypertension, fibromyalgia, osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis, and other treatments.
“Yoga therapists . . .
• are skilled at and assist in discovering what is keeping someone in a state of imbalance and can teach specific techniques to bring the person back to balance.
• join clients on their personal journeys—not our ideas of what their journeys should be. Yoga therapy is a co-facilitative process between providers and clients.
• create a safe container for clients to do their own work in and around their challenges.
• provide a scaffold, through study and practices, to what can otherwise feel overwhelming or structureless.
• foster self-actualization, meaning/purpose, and the flourishing of individuals within their unique sense of themselves through prescribed practices and study.
• monitor themselves too, asking, “Do we (provider and client) each have the wisdom to see when change is needed in the dynamic dance across time?”
Source: Bhavanani, A., Sullivan, M., Taylor, M., Wheeler, A. (2019). Shared Foundations for Practice: The Language of Yoga Therapy. DOI: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.iayt.org/resource/resmgr/docs_pubs_ytt/2019_ytt_pubs/yttsu19_bhavanani.pdf
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