Yoga Therapy
For those working with an injury or managing a health condition, therapeutic, personalized yoga can help you reduce your symptoms and enhance your quality of life. Yoga therapy focuses on how to make yoga safe and available to all bodies, of varying shape, physical condition, and mobility/flexibility. This is appropriate for a wide range of populations, including baby-boomers, cancer survivors, those with disabilities, and those dealing with chronic pain or trauma.
From basic back care to stress reduction, the lessons are customized to manage and alleviate pain and suffering while building a healthy lifestyle. With commitment to your practice you will reclaim and maintain your physical health and mental well-being, and feel more connected to yourself and others.
When appropriate, her teachings also incorporate Vipassana meditation, where moment-to-moment mindfulness is developed. This awareness leads us to accept more fully the pleasure and pain, fear and joy, sadness and happiness that life inevitably brings. As insight deepens, we develop greater equanimity and peace in the face of change, and wisdom and compassion increasingly become the guiding principles of our lives.
Adaptive Yoga
Adaptive Yoga focuses on how to make yoga available to everyone, regardless of their level of physical shape, strength, flexibility, mobility, weight, tension, energy level and ability at any given tim
The yoga sessions could be completely or partially in chairs or seated or laying on a padded floor. Often props and walls are used to assist in the postures and create greater safely.
Through modifications and adaptations to traditional yoga poses people with disabilities such as brain injuries, cerebral palsy, blindness, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries, Parkinson’s disease, and more will be able to receive the benefits of yoga safely.