Yoga Therapy

You are never too old for yoga!  While not a cure all for every ailment or everyone, yoga offers countless health benefits.

All Yoga is potentially therapeutic, but yoga therapy applies the tools of the eight limbs – postures, breathing practices, meditation, and more to address an individuals needs physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

Yoga therapy can address a range of concerns:

Chronic Pain

  • Low Back
  • Arthritis
  • Fibromyalgia

Illness

  • Heart Disease
  • Diabetes
  • Cancer

Mental Health

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Insomnia
  • PTSD

Aging

  • Osteoporosis
  • Mobility
  • Balance
  • Posture

What’s the Difference Between Yoga & Yoga Therapy?

A general public yoga class can certainly ease everyday aches, pains, and mood complaints. Yoga therapy sessions go much further because they are tailored to the individual. Whether one-to-one or in a small group, yoga therapy draws from all of the tools of yoga—not just the physical practices of asana—and involves a personalized assessment and goal-setting in the context of a therapeutic relationship. IAYT-certified yoga therapists have in-depth training to help them assess and keep clients safe, and to interact with other healthcare professionals effectively.

A yoga therapist job is to understand their clients needs and determine what they can do to support them. Therapists look for ways to reduce or manage their symptoms, improve their function, and help them with their outlook in relationship to their health. After assessing clients, therapists establish appropriate goals, develop a practice intervention, and then teach clients to practice that intervention, empowering clients to take a more active role in their self-care.  All healing is self-healing, the teacher merely guides and assists this process.