Yoga Therapy – a 1:1 practice involving movement, breath, and stillness. Instructor and student work closely together to assess movement at the major joints to determine each individual’s optimal range of motion. The purpose is to decrease and/or eliminate pain, find relaxation, & ease of movement.
I just finished my intensive yoga therapy training with Susi Hately from Functional Synergy. Throughout the training we have been exploring the kinesiology of yoga & therapeutics. What is therapeutic yoga? Basically, it is about moving in the way the body is anatomically designed to move to relieve pain via easing compensations throughout the body. In other words, this is yoga rehab. I love this stuff!
I am an occupational therapist and yoga instructor by training; now I can add yoga therapist to the resume and skill set. It is all about function, when pain in the body gets in the way of the activities of daily living that you want to do and you’ve had enough…. Call me, I can help!
Living my practice and practicing what I preach.
I have been challenged by my therapeutic yoga teacher, Susi, has given me a 30 day mind/body exploration. If I learned anything, I learned a lot about my body through this training. Basically, I have pain in my body, I have limitations, and I am compensations – it has got to be a bit of a vicious cycle and I’m ready to do something about it. 30 days. Assess my movement, explore my body and my breath, get still and letting go of tension. This is the space in which I can heal PROPERLY!!! I’ve been on a “yo-yo diet of back injury healing” – enough is enough.
Not only is this a great opportunity it ease pain in my body and really experience the benefits of this transformative practice. I will be blogging my experience including rating my pain and tension levels throughout.
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