What is Yoga Therapy?

Working together to enhance your wellbeing.

So, what is Yoga Therapy?

Great question. There are so many great yoga studios with wonderful teachers, and you can go to any of these to move your body and quieten your mind - the price point is low, you have a trained instructor, and you can have a good experience.

However - one size does not fit all. Not all studios are safe spaces for some mental health conditions, and not all practices are what you might need to heal.

Clients have told me about how they went to studio yoga for years without effect, but within weeks of targeted yoga therapy they were able to feel stronger and safer in their own mind.

If you have a mental health condition affecting your life such as anxiety, depression, or an eating disorder, and you’d like complementary mental health support, a highly trained yoga therapist creates a specially designed program just for you.

Yoga therapy is…

  • complementary. We’ll never tell you to stop seeing your doctor, or stop taking your medicine. In fact, yoga therapy works best when practiced alongside more conventional therapies, whether prescribed by your GP, your physiotherapist, or your psychologist.

  • holistic. We look at the person as a whole, a multi-layered complex being. You have body, breath, mind, emotions, and spirit that all intertwine and affect each other - why split them into separate parts?

  • collaborative. You know your body better than anyone else - let’s use that wisdom. Therapist and client work as partners to improve your quality of life.

  • empowering. We want you to have the tools to enhance your health and wellbeing, and the knowledge, confidence and autonomy to do so.

  • ancient and modern. It uses the ancient teachings of yoga and modern evidence-based research, combining them to create a practice that has roots and a practice that works.

Can you sum it up?

Sure!

Overall, yoga therapy is a holistic, complementary practice, where client and therapist work together with the teachings of yoga to enhance your wellbeing. This personalised practice may include physical movement, breath, meditation, mantra, and lifestyle habits to empower you to heal through all layers of the self. Yoga therapy supports you to become an active participant in your own healing to improve your quality of life.