About Healing Yoga

When a client begins yoga therapy, they start with their own unique profile of physical, mental and emotional characteristics. By using tools of yoga therapy, the client learns to affect the nervous system in a desired manner.  Some clients need to energize their nervous system, others need to calm it down, and others need to stabilize it.  Under the guidance of the yoga therapist, the client learns how to adapt practices to support their healing goals.  Yoga therapy clients experience improved mood and decreases in stress and chronic pain.

Yoga therapy helps clients do the following:

Manage and improve chronic pain, such as low back pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. 
Improve mental health, including issues like anxiety, depression, trauma and Post traumatic stress disorder, and insomnia
Manage neurological issues and complications such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and traumatic brain injury
Support during illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and respiratory diseases
Maintain overall well-being- staying fit, flexible, and strong to support healthy aging