Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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


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