All significant change starts from within. Adopting empowering actions in your life will help you achieve these feelings of self-worth and capability. A fantastic tool to utilize is yoga therapy.
Yoga Therapy applies the self-realization practices of Yoga. The tradition of yoga offers methods to alleviate suffering in the quest for harmony of body, energy, mind, intellect, and spirit. Yoga Therapy is a comprehensive lifestyle approach that address the physical, psychological, mental, and spiritual self. These widespread lifestyle factors include practices for relationships, attitudes towards work, relaxation, meditation, personally meaningful spiritual aspects, as appropriate to YOUR personal belief system.
The comprehensive aspects of Yoga Therapy occur in the systematic Yoga teachings of healthy approaches to work, relationships, and nutrition. Imagine having your entire life restored to balance through the removal of stress at the source by applying Yogic principles at work, within relationships, and with healthy meal choices. A yogini lives with inner peace and outer cheerfulness.
Benefits
Everyone's experience with and goals for yoga therapy will be unique, but here is a list of some of the general benefits based on my own experience, what clients have shared, and current research.
improve overall sense of self
improve quality of sleep
redefine the relationship with your body
cultivate compassion about your body
explore moments of feeling comfortable in your body
strengthen your self-expression
help manage depression and anxiety
cultivate self-reliance
increase self-worth
enhance physical strength and health
improve organ function
calm the central nervous system
complement traditional forms of treatment and therapy
“I invite you to come as you are. Yoga mat or no yoga mat. Street clothes or sweet leggings. Blissed out or stressed out. Can barely touch your knees or can press your hands flat on the floor.
We gather to create a safe space and time to be and notice. Just you on your mat. No physical adjustments without your consent. No pressure. No agenda. Everyone’s welcome. Come just as you are”.
- Kristen Morris-Yehiel, RYT500, CPSS
