Yoga Therapy Tools

Yoga Therapy provides a variety of tools to support an individualized wellness program, including:

Physical Postures (Asana) – Yoga-based movements of the body that specifically target areas of difficulty, weakness, tightness, pain, or imbalance. Movement therapies are adapted to the needs of the individual, and weekly practices are scripted for home use between sessions.
Restorative Yoga – Specific relaxation postures designed to remove stress and tension, and gently restore and rebuild health, often with the assistance of props.
Breathing (Pranayama) – Breathing practices to energize, replenish and nourish the body while calming, clarifying, balancing and stabilizing the nervous system and mind. Great for pain and stress management.
Reframing the Mind – A four-step meditation process to optimize the health of the mind through: self-observation (svadhyaya), positive reframing (pratipaksha bhavana), visualization (bhavana), and affirmation/intention setting (sankalpa).
Meditation – A practice where an individual uses a technique, such as focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity, to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state. Through meditation, self-knowledge, self-love and wisdom-based joyful living is realized.
Yoga Philosophy – A toolbox of philosophical “yoga lifestyle-based health models” that serve as a framework to realizing a more purposeful and peaceful way of living from the inside out.
Structural Yoga Therapy – A specialized style of Yoga Therapy that improves structural balance and integrity, and reduction of pain using assessment tools similar to physical therapy in conjunction with classic yoga/Ayurveda therapies.
Ayurveda (Life Wisdom) – A holistic sister science to yoga that provides nutritional and healthy lifestyle guidance to bring optimal balance to your unique makeup.
Personal Wellness Chef and Health Coaching – Nutrition, food, exercise, lifestyle modifications, and one-on-one coaching rapidly increases the body’s capacity to heal itself. Personal Wellness Chef and healthy lifestyle coaching services can be added to any Yoga Therapy package.
Creative Expression and Healing Art – Visual, non-verbal activities including journaling, drawing and collage are used as an outlet and resource to explore, discover, empower and transform your relationship with dis-ease at any level.
Nature – Prescribed contemplative practices held in nature assisted by gentle movement, breath and meditation to re-connect you to the naturally healing beauty and blessings of the living world, and your Self.
Aromatherapy – The art and science of utilizing naturally extracted aromatic essences from plants to reduce pain, and promote vitality.

Just as every individual is vastly different, Yoga Therapy sessions can be very different from person to person, even with the same health condition. Through yoga, you can be guided from wherever you are now—physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually—on a path to optimal health and wellness.

Based on the wide range of tools Yoga Therapy has to offer, which tools intuitively speak most to you?

To learn more about Yoga Therapy, please contact Beth to schedule a complimentary consultation at 719-440-2815 or [email protected]