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Small Group Classes (Online) |
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Live Well through Yoga as Therapy.
Yoga therapy is the professional application of the principles and practices of yoga to promote health and well-being within a therapeutic relationship that includes personalized assessment, goal setting, lifestyle management, and yoga practices for individuals or small groups.
~ International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)
Be here, now. Transform through breath, movement, awareness.
~ International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)
Be here, now. Transform through breath, movement, awareness.
Feeling chronically exhausted? Stuck in pain? Running on steam?
Being on the go all the time takes its toll. Body, mind and spirit can feel utterly drained. Maybe your mind and body can't settle. Or you're slowly withdrawing from doing stuff you love, leaving only chores that don't feed the soul.
Your nervous system can be wired into permanent sympathetic "fight or flight" mode. With the yogic practices of breath, movement and restful awareness, you'll discover ways to move out of sympathetic and into parasympathetic - "rest, digest and healing."
How would you live if you could change that? More freedom to be yourself without pain, more joy in the little things, better relationships? Take a moment to dream...and then book a call to find out how yoga practised as therapy can help you.
Practices to heal the body, calm the mind and nourish the spirit.
Being on the go all the time takes its toll. Body, mind and spirit can feel utterly drained. Maybe your mind and body can't settle. Or you're slowly withdrawing from doing stuff you love, leaving only chores that don't feed the soul.
Your nervous system can be wired into permanent sympathetic "fight or flight" mode. With the yogic practices of breath, movement and restful awareness, you'll discover ways to move out of sympathetic and into parasympathetic - "rest, digest and healing."
How would you live if you could change that? More freedom to be yourself without pain, more joy in the little things, better relationships? Take a moment to dream...and then book a call to find out how yoga practised as therapy can help you.
Practices to heal the body, calm the mind and nourish the spirit.
Your Practice, Your Way.
With private yoga sessions, you get a practice that is designed to meet your needs.
- Do you want to strengthen your yoga practice and explore asana, pranayama and meditation more deeply?
- Or maybe you think you're too inflexible to do yoga at all?
- Either way, private yoga can help. Sometimes part of the body needs strengthening and other parts need more flexibility. A healthy yoga practice is designed to fit your body. So you don't adapt to yoga; your yoga practice adapts to you.
- You get appropriate poses and modifications for your body so you feel more relaxed and energized.
- You get the practices that will support you the most, whatever kind of day you're having.
- And - if you're new to yoga or have tried it in the past and think you can't do it, you might surprise yourself! A yoga practice tailored to your body is like Baby Bear's porridge - just right.
Gentle. Energizing. Empowering. Uplifting.
Welcome to a gentle yoga practice in a small group setting. Gentle, yet energizing, empowering, uplifting, revitalizing, strengthening, heart-opening, and relaxing. Need I say more?
Discover harmonious movement that gives you both strength and flexibility. Find suppleness in a practice suitable for both beginners and more advanced students.
In-studio classes* are small, with no more than 7 people, so you benefit from more personal attention. *All classes are currently online via Zoom.
Discover harmonious movement that gives you both strength and flexibility. Find suppleness in a practice suitable for both beginners and more advanced students.
In-studio classes* are small, with no more than 7 people, so you benefit from more personal attention. *All classes are currently online via Zoom.
Too Rushed to Relax? Restorative Yoga Can Help.
Deep relaxation is a doorway to healing. If you feel as if you have no time to relax, relaxation may be exactly what you need to feel refreshed and vital again. The hardest part is the decision to practise.
Reducing stress and tension is key to strength with suppleness. If you press hard in all areas of your life, you may be suffering from a lack of resilience. (See my blog post on why we need resilience here.) Often rest is just what we need to make us more productive.
Be guided into a relaxing sequence of restorative poses designed to reduce tension and stress. Rest and restore supported by bolsters and blankets.
As you relax, tight muscles release, and the body moves into deep healing mode.
- Do you suffer from pain, headaches or muscle tension?
- Do you sometimes feel as if you're on a crazy treadmill? No time to slow down?
- Are you ready to choose to experience deep relaxation and freedom from stress?
Reducing stress and tension is key to strength with suppleness. If you press hard in all areas of your life, you may be suffering from a lack of resilience. (See my blog post on why we need resilience here.) Often rest is just what we need to make us more productive.
Be guided into a relaxing sequence of restorative poses designed to reduce tension and stress. Rest and restore supported by bolsters and blankets.
As you relax, tight muscles release, and the body moves into deep healing mode.
Deep Healing with Reiki Energy
Life force energy is present in every breath you take. Traumatic or unsettling events in life, or the pressures of daily living, can create blocks to the flow of energy. You may feel physically, mentally or emotionally stuck, lethargic, frozen or unsettled.
Feeling Overwhelmed?
The practice of meditation has over 75 proven benefits. Here are a few:
Brain scans show many benefits for the regular practice of meditation.
- Improve emotional balance. Feel calmer and think more clearly.
- Relieve persistent pain so you have more energy and a spring in your step.
- Reduce high blood pressure .
- Lower stress levels.
Brain scans show many benefits for the regular practice of meditation.
- In as little as 8 weeks, the brain shows changes.
- Even a short 10-minute daily practice will begin to change the nervous system and rewire the brain.
- Higher levels of alpha waves – reduces feelings of negative mood, sadness, anger, tension.
- Decreases anxiety, depression, increases pain tolerance, increases empathy.
- Decreases size of amygdala, reducing stress, blood pressure and fear. The amygdala is hyperactive in people with PTSD.
- Increases activity in the pre-frontal cortex, the area of the brain responsible for making executive decisions and good judgement.
- Improves memory, self-awareness and goal setting.
- Changes brain size. After 8 weeks of meditation, brain density increases in areas associated with learning, memory retention and emotional regulation.
- Increases heart rate variability, important to reduce stress and increase willpower.
- Meditators can produce greater number of antibodies to ward off illnesses such as the flu.
- Telomeres, on ends of chromosomes, reduce damage to DNA and lower cell death. Shortened telomeres are linked to cardiovascular disease, cancer and Alzheimers. The enzyme telomerase increases in meditators, which counteracts the shortening of telomeres by adding DNA to them.
No Time to Meditate?
And of course, that's when you need it most! Learn more from Giovanni Dientsmann of Live and Dare.
Check out this infographic created by Giovanni, who's meditated for over 10,000 hours and has one of the top-rated blogs on the planet. See his fantastic meditation courses here.
How can being more relaxed, more present and more aware help to heal?
Listen to my podcast on The Spiritual Voice
with the founder of @Sound of Prana, Pol Cousineau.
Listen to my podcast on The Spiritual Voice
with the founder of @Sound of Prana, Pol Cousineau.