Medicine takes a short-term approach to ill-ness.
Yoga Therapy explores a long-term approach to well-ness.
The ancient science of yoga has long been understood as the panacea for good health.
Yoga Therapy applies all these principles of yoga to support you to create long-lasting change.
Come and learn how to be responsible to manage your own health.
What is Yoga Therapy?
- a complementary approach to medicine with a focus on you the person, not just your ‘condition’, to bring you into health and wholeness.
- an exploration of your current health and lifestyle changes, so as to develop practices and routines that promote your well-being.
- an invitation to accept life’s constant changes and challenges, with strategies to come back into balance in the best possible way.
- a supportive process to create and develop a better attitude and perspective on yourself and your health.
Why come?
- your body and joints are strained and you wish to move easefully without constant remedial treatments.
- you are recovering from illness or surgery and wish to improve your health and lifestyle again.
- you know there are contemporary ways to manage your mood that will support you during the day.
- you need some practical ways for managing your stress, including your constant and unhelpful thinking.
- you are keen to self-manage your pain and for non-drug approaches to ‘pain’ relief.
- you wish to establish and promote restful sleep through natural methods.
- you long to re-connect with your inner place of equilibrium and calm.
How is Yoga Therapy different from ‘yoga’?
- we use targeted physical practices to modify your movement patterns, and re-establish physical ease through brain/body re-patterning.
- we directly address mental steadiness and fluctuations in mood, through regulation of breath and energy flow.
- we change habitual thought and brain pathways with specific meditation techniques, reducing the stress of constant thinking,
- relaxation techniques and restful poses target recovery, reducing stress, improving sleep and mood.
- we ensure an integrated approach using lifestyle approaches and routines including nutrition and Ayurveda.
How does it work?
- an initial block of 3 sessions over 4-6 weeks is arranged to establish an approach to treatment and practices.
- the first session establishes a confidential relationship with you and a history of your current situation is explored.
- an approach to treatment and suitable practices are developed, with a plan and program for your home practice (ideally 3-5 times a week) practised together.
- subsequent sessions progress and modify your program based on your feedback and to encourage ongoing change.
- consent to liaise with your treating health professionals is sought, to best coordinate your care.
- ongoing management continues in follow-up reviews, inclusion in small therapeutic groups and at suitable workshops.
Who is a Yoga Therapist?
- an experienced Yoga Teacher with additional therapeutic qualifications to apply yoga practices at a physical, energetic, emotional, mental and Spiritual level.
- a skilled Health Professional who uses the modern science of brain-body behaviour to bring gradual and sustained change.
- an emphatic listener who focuses more on understanding how your health impacts your life, than on teaching you physical techniques.
As a Yoga Therapist I am passionate to develop yogic lifestyle practices with you, to evolve you into the best version of yourself in this life! Consistently I create effective change with people seeking to improve musculo-skeletal issues (such as back complaints); persisting or chronic pain; mental health (anxiety, depression); and sleep.
Yoga Therapy Classes (Group) in Brighton, Melbourne
Release unnecessary emotions, thoughts and actions that come from ‘pushing’ yourself physically or mentally.
People of all ages and walks of life come to practise regularly for long-term stability, mobility and peace of mind.
They are seeking self-care for their bodies and mind for the long haul and know there are no ‘quick fixes’.
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Yoga Therapy classes are ideal if you:
- regularly wake up stiff and sore and find it hard to get moving.
- are fit and healthy however have over-tight muscles and tension in your body.
- have tried big yoga or exercise classes and come out in pain.
- ‘feel’ pain and discomfort most of the time through your body.
- have disrupted sleep, challenging emotions, difficulty concentrating.
- wish to learn therapeutic yoga techniques not just physical poses.
Please note that joining this class requires prior individual Yoga Therapy sessions.
Why come?
- you experience back discomfort and/or some form of persisting pain state.
- you are healing from major surgery, illness and are keen to improve your immunity.
- your sleep is variable and your mood often feels out of your control!
- you wish ‘quality’ time for yourself to replenish your emotional energy.
- you respect the power of your mind and thoughts but need to slow everything down.
- you are keen to learn natural therapeutic yoga techniques for lifelong well-being.
The Yoga Therapy class includes:
- Easeful opening of the joints to invite your connective tissue to realign.
- Movement re-patterning to release your (tight) muscles without force or strain.
- Breath awareness and breathing practices to create internal balance for health.
- Focusing the mind so that you don’t give away your peace of mind to the external world.
- Strategies to release unremitting stress and to calm your emotions.
It’s about practising the yin (ease) and the yang (strength) of movement, breath and mind.
