THERAPY YOGA

Before we look at Yoga Therapy, lets take another look at the definition of Yoga. As mentioned on the Welcome page, Yoga is the ancient science of self knowledge developed in India over 5000 years ago, it is not a religion or a set of extreme exercises and difficult twists to be mastered, but a many faceted gem with many different practices that can offer us as much today as it did thousands of years ago.
Change however is the nature of the universe, and the Yoga we see in the world today greatly differs from the original ancient Yoga, infact the first recognisable Yoga class was taught in 1921 by Sri Yogendra in Bombay, India and the tradition of Yoga continues to evolve and grow all over the world.
Yoga Therapy is a facet of this ancient science that focuses on health and welless at all levels of the individual, physical, psychological and spiritual. It focuses on the path of yoga as a healing journey that brings balance to your body and mind. This healing journey is unique to each and everyone of us and as a Professional Yoga Therapist and Registered Yoga Teacher I will serve as a guide and mentor on your individual journey of healing and self discovery.
You will find that rather than offering a diagnosis and treatment for a specific condition, I will select, adapt and modify the practices of Yoga appropriately for you as an individual with respect to your age, culture, religion and specific physical challenges and conditions. This will facilitate your own potential for health, healing and awakening.
A Harvard study in the 70's also discovered receptors on our immune cells for neuropeptides, these are chemicals produced by the brain that vary with our emotions. The result of the study points to the simple fact that your immune system is listening to your mental talk - how you think is how you feel so when someone says "your as old as you feel" believe it!
Once this happens our own internal communications is diminished, our own innate sensing devises which allow us to intuit when there is an imbalance in our bodies are deactivated. This disconnection from our mind-body spirit is a spiral that becomes wider and more damaging as it continues, as we move further away from our own bodies our communication decreases and we find ourselves victims of our own bodies. Pain and illness seem to be something that happens to us and the fear that accompanies pain causes us to create even more distance from our bodies.