Key Components of a Yoga Therapy Session

A typical yoga therapy session lasts an hour and offers a tailored experience that begins with a personalized intention.

Through assisted postures, movement, and non-directive verbal cues, you are invited into a therapeutic process in which you experience yourself more fully in your body, heart, and mind. Using focused awareness, practicing presence, and working with breath, you explore what is happening in your immediate experience.

This state of embodied presence facilitates a pre-verbal emotional and mental processing that may allow for a heightened awareness and clarity in your lived experience. A session closes with you and the yoga therapist exploring ways in which this ‘new’ (heightened) awareness intersects with various life points.

Yoga therapy is ideal for anyone that wants to connect or reconnect with themselves and engage in a process of discovery and growth. No prior yoga experience is needed. All abilities are welcomed.

Inherent in the yoga therapy process is a deep respect and appreciation for listening to ways in which your body holds past and present experience together. The memories you carry in your body and heart are acknowledged and attended to. A trauma-informed approach emphasizes individual pace, nervous system attunement, self-compassion, and present moment choice.

Benefits of Yoga Therapy

Yoga therapy offers an opportunity to: befriend the body, face, and hold challenging experiences with greater compassion, manage stress, and cultivate joy. Through felt experience, yoga therapy helps uncover and foster skills to regulate emotions and cultivate greater balance in life.

Yoga therapy can be a useful and important adjunct to traditional talk therapies for managing grief, anxiety, depression, addictions and trauma. Utilizing both therapy approaches provides the opportunity for increased growth and understanding and deeper healing.