Yoga Therapy

The practice sessions focus from a Yoga Therapy Perspective are to develop awareness, emotional and physical, self-regulation, and resilience to create a more positive life experience and better lifestyle choices. The tools include a variety of breathing techniques coordinated with gentle asana or body movement, sound/mantra, affirmations, Mudra, simple meditation, and more awareness of our personal relationship to self and others. The various tools are optional; yoga is also an option. This is not a flexibility, stretching, or breathing program. Yoga therapy develops subtle physical and mental awareness that provides healing with time and practice. Each participant will have their own unique pace. Yoga therapy is a very relaxing and enjoyable experience. 

Historically, Krishnamacharya  (1888 to 1989) was one of the most influential yoga teachers. He made it accessible to women, individualized it to the needs of the practitioner, and secularized it to the masses. His son T.K.V. Desikachar (1928 to 2016) further refined the therapeutic applications we know as yoga therapy. This is the lineage I learned at Amy Wheeler‘s optimal state yoga therapy. These practices are still being taught and researched at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Institute (K.Y.M.), a nonprofit charitable trust in Chennai, India.