Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Yoga Therapy Sessions

What should you expect from a Yoga Therapy Session?

Interview and Assessment
   A in depth evaluation and assessment is the first step to your yoga therapy sessions. Collecting information from medical history, current health concerns and diet are critical in creating a plan for you. The first sessions are typically longer and run from 1.5 hours to 2 hours. Each client has different needs and symptoms and yoga therapy tailors to the individual. Wether your primary health concern is anxiety, depression, weight loss or improving from an injury each session is designed for your goals. What do you want out of your yoga therapy sessions?

Formulating A Plan - Setting Up Your Practice
   Through further assessment and interview process we formulate a plan. A plan to create a daily practice or routine is then recommended. A plan or routine can consist of asanas or postures, breath work, diet and nutrition, mantra, meditation and relaxation practices. Setting up a plan or routine that fits your schedule and needs is key to your success.

Follow Up
   It is important to keep a consistent practice or routine and follow up on progress. It is advised to meet once a week or every other week for an hour to further assist and address any questions or concerns you may have. A typical Yoga Therapy Session the client is gently guided through breath work, his/her postures and meditation.


What is Yoga Therapy?

What is a Yoga Therapy or Therapeutic Yoga?
Yoga Therapy adapts the practice of Yoga to the needs of an individual with specific health and wellness concerns. It allows people to safely access the many therapeutic aspects of yoga including breath awareness, proper body alignment and meditation practices. At all levels of body, mind and spirit, Yoga Therapy promotes and supports all around positive health. Wether your looking to improve strength, increase stamina, help fight disease or recover from injury a Yoga Therapy Session is designed around your needs. Yoga Therapy is not a substitute for any medical treatment and should not be taken to replace medical treatment but perhaps used in conjunction with other therapy's. Yoga Therapy is a wonderful compliment to massage therapy, body work, orthopedic or holistic health care.

Therapeutic Yoga is useful for but not limited to:

-back care
-joint pain
-stress
-arthritis
-immune support
-energy balancing
-breathing difficulties
-anxiety and depression
-hormone balancing
-digestive issues
-headaches and migraines
-blood pressure
-weight loss/weight gain
-aid in fighting disease or
    chronic conditions


Saturday, March 23, 2013

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

I want to thank everyone that has donated, supported me, given words of encouragement and cheered me on in the last 2 months. I'm excited and ready! I leave for my training in a little over a week. I'm feeling very grateful for those around me. Keep checking back I will be posting throughout my training! Sending luv to you all! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Donate or Buy Tickets!

Buy tickets to BLOOM: A Benefit Party $30 and receive two aura photos before & after a yoga session. See how your aura blooms with yoga!

OR

Donate to help cover costs like tuition, books and travel expenses! Anything helps. Any questions just e mail me at popconesundae@yahoo.com. 
Thank you for your kind support!
To Buy Tickets or to Donate click the link below for secure paypal site but no paypal account needed!




 

Aura photos from BLOOM


Here is a little taste of what we did at Bloom: A benefit party @ Waves studio in Olympia. If you missed it we are holding another at Joonbug Yoga in Shelton Friday March 22nd @ 6pm. 

Aura Photos Circa late 1990's









My mother took me to get my aura photos often. I really appreciate the attention she gave to each of my brothers and I's spiritual health. I am a lot of who I am today because of her teaching me about nutrition, reiki and relying on nature for health. It now shows through my yoga practice today. 

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Donate or Buy Tickets for BLOOM: A Benefit Party

Buy tickets to BLOOM: A Benefit Party $30 and receive two aura photos before & after a yoga session. See how your aura blooms with yoga!

OR

Donate to help cover costs like tuition, books and travel expenses! Anything helps. Any questions just e mail me at popconesundae@yahoo.com. 
Thank you for your kind support!
To Buy Tickets or to Donate click the link below for secure paypal site but no paypal account needed!




 

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Purchase your private Yoga Therapy session here!

I am pre selling private yoga therapy sessions to any interested! First session is 2 hours and only $80! Please feel free to contact via email at popconesundae@yahoo.com with any questions or concerns.

Why I am choosing 7 Centers Yoga Arts for Yoga Therapy Training!

I have decided to go to Sedona, Az for my training for many reasons. I will be close to family in Arizona and have a place to stay with reliable transportation. The center seemed like an intimate setting for a training with classes no bigger than 15 people. While I attend and learn at 7 Centers I will be undergoing my own yoga therapy with the care of the experienced staff. What better way to learn yoga therapy while experiencing it yourself! I hope to bring back lots of knowledge of yoga therapy to my community. When I return I will be a professional 500 hr yoga Therapists. Yeah Yoga! Luv to you all. Rebekah

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Donate to Yoga Therapy Training!


Donate to help cover costs like tuition, books and travel expenses! Want a yoga therapy session? Pre purchase your personal Yoga Therapy session. First session is 2 hours for $80. Any questions just e mail me at popconesundae@yahoo.com. Click the link below for secure Pay pal site but no pay pal account needed!

 

Friday, January 25, 2013

Yoga in Action!


Left to Right: Camelia Pugh, Rebekah Brems, and Michelle Pugh.

Downward Facing Dog






                                        All Photos courtesy of Jessica Johnson Ackley! 

Donate to Yoga Therapy Training!

Donate to help cover costs like tuition and travel expenses! Pre sale a Yoga Therapy session. Any questions just e mail me at popconesundae@yahoo.com. Click the link below for secure Pay pal site but no pay pal account needed!


Why do I want to teach Yoga Therapy?

First of all, Why do I want to teach yoga? I love sharing yoga with others. The immense satisfaction I get from the faces when class is done and my fellow humans walk away relaxed, calm and relieved. That is just the instant benefits from yoga, what about long term benefits? My personal experience has been improved mood, sense of balance, improved confidence, more energy, anger management, better sleep and less negative reaction to life's challenges! That's a lot for a little daily commitment to the mat.
So Why Yoga Therapy? The implementations that Yoga has to offer can be endless and a life long process. With a little guidance from a Yoga Therapist one can create specific goals or focus on specific challenges for him/her. Yoga Therapy is the tool of yoga being used for therapy. Therapy for alleviating or healing numerous things. Just to name a few.... depression, anger management, weight loss, pain, chronic pain, anxiety, asthma, aids, cancer, diabetes, IBS, PMS, eating disorders, heart disease, menopause, migraines, trauma and body injuries. Yoga Therapy uses yoga and focuses it for the individual/group.
If I can assist in helping others to the road of a healthy, happy and better them, then why not?

What is Yoga Therapy?

 
Yoga therapy is that facet of the ancient science of Yoga that focuses on health and wellness at all levels of the person: physical, psychological, and spiritual. Yoga therapy focuses on the path of Yoga as a healing journey that brings balance to the body and mind through an experiential understanding of the primary intention of Yoga: awakening of Spirit, our essential nature.
Yoga therapy adapts the practice of Yoga to the needs of people with specific or persistent health problems not usually addressed in a group class.
Yoga therapy is the adaptation of yoga practices for people with health challenges. Yoga therapists prescribe specific regimens of postures, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques to suit individual needs. Medical research shows that Yoga therapy is among the most effective complementary therapies for several common aliments. The challenges may be an illness, a temporary condition like pregnancy or childbirth, or a chronic condition associated with old age or infirmity.
Yoga comprises a wide range of mind/body practices, from postural and breathing exercises to deep relaxation and meditation. Yoga therapy tailors these to the health needs of the individual. It helps to promote all-round positive health, as well as assisting particular medical conditions. The therapy is particularly appropriate for many chronic conditions that persist despite conventional medical treatment.
The use of the techniques of Yoga to create, stimulate, and maintain an optimum state of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.
Yoga therapy consists of the application of yogic principles, methods, and techniques to specific human ailments. In its ideal application, Yoga therapy is preventive in nature, as is Yoga itself, but it is also restorative in many instances, palliative in others, and curative in many others.
Yoga therapy may be defined as the application of yogic principles to a particular person with the objective of achieving a particular spiritual, psychological, or physiological goal. The means employed are comprised of intelligently conceived steps that include but are not limited to the components of Ashtanga Yoga, which includes the educational teachings of yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi. Also included are the application of meditation, textual study, spiritual or psychological counseling, chanting, imagery, prayer, and ritual to meet the needs of the individual. Yoga therapy respects individual differences in age, culture, religion, philosophy, occupation, and mental and physical health. The knowledgeable and competent yogin or yogini applies Yoga Therapy according to the period, the place, and the practitioner's age, strength, and activities.
Yoga therapy is of modern coinage and represents a first effort to integrate traditional yogic concepts and techniques with Western medical and psychological knowledge. Whereas traditional Yoga is primarily concerned with personal transcendence on the part of a "normal" or healthy individual, Yoga therapy aims at the holistic treatment of various kinds of psychological or somatic dysfunctions ranging from back problems to emotional distress. Both approaches, however, share an understanding of the human being as an integrated body-mind system, which can function optimally only when there is a state of dynamic balance.
Yoga therapy is a holistic healing art. Rather than prescribe treatments, it invites presence and awareness. Using age-old yogic approaches to deeper presence and awareness, we are able to know ourselves more fully. Out of that knowing, we are more easily moved to embrace the opportunity for change, growth, and enhanced well-being in body, feelings, thought, and spirit.
Yoga therapy is the application of Yoga to individuals to empower them to progress toward greater health and freedom from disease.