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What Happens During a Yoga Therapy Session?
Yoga therapy is about treating a person holistically. In other words, regardless of why the person has come to see me, all aspects of the individual, and all of our levels of being are taken into account.
Restorative poses are prescribed for their ability to relax and heal on a deeply therapeutic level.
Sessions are structured so that we can explore the best treatment methods, using yogic techniques that encourage the Self to heal and flourish and move towards optimum wellbeing.
Yogic techniques might include pranayama (breath-work), asana (posture-work), relaxation, mindfulness or meditation, restorative yoga (placing the body in supported postures to promote rest and healing), nidra (deep relaxation) and sankalpa (purpose).
The experience of yoga therapy creates a partnership between client and therapist which allows the therapist to deepen her/his understanding of the client and devise a home practice for the client to take away and use. This empowers yoga therapy clients to take responsibility for their own wellbeing, and gives them the necessary insight to develop their own intrinsic ability to self-heal.
If you would like more information about yoga therapy, or to make an appointment, you can email me at: [email protected], or text/telephone me on: 07817623330.
Stay well!
E – Effort
As you read this, how much effort are you putting int
o it? Are you relaxed? Or tense and conscious of the time it is taking you? Are you reading it slowly because you are interested? Or scanning through because you have a to-do list as long as your arm and you should really be getting on with something else?
How much effort do you put into the following areas of your life?:
- Work/business/career/running a home?
- Your partner/children?
- Your friends and wider family?
- Your hobbies and interests?
- Your self and your own personal development?
Would I be right in saying that the majority of your efforts go into the first three categories? Have you ever stopped to consider why this is? Is it because you believe it is “selfish” to put your interests and your self before others? Is it because you “don’t have the time” to think about your self, let alone actually have hobbies and interests?
If you have just read the above and agreed with even some of it, then just stop for a moment and think (yes, you can spare a moment). Whose life are you livin
g? Your bosses? Your clients? Your childrens? Husbands? Parents? … or Yours? Who is the only person who can ever really know exactly what it is that ensures your happiness, peace of mind, contentment? And who is the only person who should really be expected to put in the time and commitment to ensure that happiness, peace of mind and contentment?
Putting a little effort into You will help to build your resilience, improve your self-esteem, your mood, your health and your relationships, it will have a dramatic effect on the whole of your life.
Food for thought … it just takes a little effort. Every now and then take the above five categories and turn them upside down … It will do you good!
