What is Yoga Therapy?

Yoga Therapy is an integrative and holistic approach to healing. Through one-on-one sessions, personalized to the individuals' needs, it bridges the worlds of yoga and healthcare. 

Most people are fairly familiar with yoga as a physical practice; one that is very effective at promoting, maintaining and restoring vibrant physical health. While this is true, asana (the physical practice) is only one aspect of yoga; an expansive science and philosophy that incorporates physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of being. In yoga therapy, we work with all of these facets of self and assess how they are habitually patterned as we go about our lives. 

What does a YT session look like?

Healing is one’s own journey towards wholeness and what transpires in a Yoga Therapy session can look incredibly different, even amongst patients with similar complaints. Whether one comes in with a physical ailment or with a psychological trauma, they will be met with curiosity and presence. Together, we may address a mental pathway or a somatic one; we may focus on breath/body awareness, access to joy, spiritual yearning, or lifestyle changes informed by Ayurveda and Western Herbalism.

In a session you might learn and do practices to:​

• Improve range of motion and coordination

• Correct faulty breathing patterns for better energy and sleep

• Address areas of discomfort or muscular imbalance through specially designed postures and movements

• Streamline and repattern movement and everyday postural efficiency

• Use visualization or meditative introspective practices 

• Use techniques designed to understand archetypal tendencies

• Access the somatic experience of traumas held in the body

• Tap into psychoanalysis and deep shadow work

• Step into a more present and joyful way of being

Some Benefits 

• Overcoming of negative patterns of thought and behavior

• Improved alignment and balance

• Reduction of anxiety, depression and stress

• Improved body awareness and coordination

• Rehabilitation after injury or surgery

• Reduction of chronic pain and tension

• Lifestyle change support

• Skills for emotional and mental resilience

• Enhanced cognitive functioning

• Better sleep, more energy, and improved sexual function

• Life skills to move through difficult encounters

• Help with goal setting, decision-making and project completion 

• Cultivation of a connection to spirit