Yoga Therapy is the key to unlocking your health, well-ness and peace of mind by learning therapeutic practices of yoga.
Yoga Therapy equips you with achievable daily practices for health, well-being and calm.
A Yoga Therapist is a skilled Health Professional with extensive yoga teaching experience and additional qualifications.
Personalised guidance
Learn practices suited to your body, health and lifestyle.
Safe, gentle practices
Experience safe techniques to enhance moving, breathing, feeling and thinking more effectively.
Mind-body connection
Enhance awareness of how your thinking affects all your internal systems.
Sustainable well-being
Dedicate to simple daily practices for lifelong health and vitality.
How is Yoga Therapy different from ‘yoga’?
- YOGA THERAPY IS:
- a series of one on one Private sessions to understand and improve your current health condition, thinking, lifestyle. It is not a group practice with others.
- an exploration of body, breath, energy, mind practices tailored to you that you can practise yourself at home.
- guided by your needs, priorities, outcomes not by me or by following a group class.
- something you can integrate into each day, your life so that you become independent to optimise your own health.
- more expensive than a yoga class as it is a one-off investment to learn skills for lifelong change.
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.
Who comes?
- THOSE WHO:
- have tired, strained, injured bodies and wish to move without pain and reduce the need for constant remedial treatments (like physio, massage).
- are recovering from illness or surgery and wish to improve their energy and lifestyle again.
- know there are natural ways to manage their mood and stress levels, to be calmer and happier each day.
- are keen for non-drug approaches to ‘pain’ relief and to self-manage their pain in various situations e.g. when travelling.
- 'long' to re-connect with their inner place of equilibrium and calm despite the outer turmoil in the world.
What is Yoga Therapy?
- a complementary approach to medicine with a focus on you the person not your 'label' or ‘condition'.
- an exploration of your current health and lifestyle 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.
How does it work?
- initially we talk on the phone so that I can understand your needs and see if Yoga Therapy is a good treatment option for you. You can book a complimentary call here.
- upfront payment is required for an initial block of 3 sessions to confirm your commitment and to schedule sessions ideally over 6-8 weeks.
- in the first session we explore your history and current situation, and develop a short home practice (ideally for you to do 3-5 times a week).
- subsequent sessions progress and modify your program/practices based on your feedback and to encourage your practise.
- ongoing management continues in further private sessions, support with videos (see below) and/or at suitable workshops.
MOVEMENT
Learn new ways of moving to release your tight body areas, relieve tensions, stiffness and pain.
BREATH
Focused breath work and specific breathing techniques for enhancing your health and mood.
MIND
Proven practices that shift your mood, reduce your pain, improve your focus and bring calm.
ENERGY
Teaching of hand and body positions, visualisation and imagery to naturally balance your energy.
RELAXATION
Instruction into restful positions with tailored techniques to settle your nervous system.
About your Yoga Therapist – Caroline Giles
- I'm an experienced Yoga Teacher with additional therapeutic qualifications, to teach you yoga practices for physical, energetic, emotional and mental calm.
- I'm a skilled Health Professional and apply the modern science of brain-body behaviour to support you in gradual and sustained change.
- I'm 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 live with musculo-skeletal issues (such as back complaints); persisting or chronic pain; emotional health changes (anxiety, depression); and persistent stress.
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.
