Hatha Yoga and Yoga Therapy

Hatha Yoga:  With firm intent, to harness or yoke together the
Masculine and Feminine Energies ​of the body, mind and spirit.
To find a balance between strength and ease (softness).
"Ha" = Sun, Masculine Energy
"Tha" = Moon, Feminine Energy
"Hatha" = Forceful     "Yoga" = Yoke
Yoga Therapy: To apply the principles of Hatha Yoga to promote health and well-being.

Group Classes
​Gain strength, flexibility and more energy in a group class setting.

Uncover your deeper, healthier self  in a small group setting. Move freely with more strength, flexibility and energy.  

Practise harmonious movement that offers you strength and flexibility. This practice is suitable for both beginners and more advanced students. 
Learn more here and Find your class here

Private Yoga
​Rejuvenate yourself with private yoga sessions. 

With private yoga sessions, you get a practice that is designed to meet your needs so you feel empowered and energized. 
  • Private yoga is a great place to start if you're not sure where to start - and are perhaps reluctant to join a group class right now.
  • In just a few sessions, you can:
    • Alleviate discomfort and pain in your knees, hips, shoulders and more.
    • Reduce low back pain by challenging your deep core muscles, gently and without strain. (It's not about doing sit-ups...)
    • Practise the simple basics of functional alignment in yoga poses.
    • Learn the fundamentals of staying safe during your practice, and throughout your day-to-day living.
  • 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.
Take your yoga practice to the next level - whether you're a beginner or a more advanced student. 
Learn more and Book your session here

Yoga Therapy
Low back pain? Tight hips? Frozen shoulder? Therapeutic yoga is a gentle way to improve movement and release pain.

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)
Are you exhausted? Stuck in a pain loop? Running on empty? 

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 might be slowly withdrawing from doing things 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 explore simple practices to move out of sympathetic and into parasympathetic - "rest, digest and healing."

Yoga therapy has helped hundreds of my clients find pain relief, naturally.  It can be helpful if you suffer from pain 
  • Low back pain
  • Sacroiliac (SI) joint pain 
  • Shoulder pain, neck tension and pain
  • Knee and hip pain
  • Foot pain, including plantar fasciitis
  • Headaches, concussion symptoms
  • Fibromyalgia
  • and more.

How would you live if you could change your pain? More freedom to be yourself without pain, more joy in the little things, better relationships? Book a complimentary call  now to chat about how therapeutic yoga can help you bring more ease, comfort and joy into your life.

Gentle practices to heal the body, calm the mind and nourish the spirit. 

​Here's what some of my clients have to say.

Explore more and Book your complimentary 15-minute call to learn more here

Restorative Yoga
Feel calmer and more centred. Relax and renew yourself.

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 make that time.

  • 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.
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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. 
Learn more here and Book your session here

Reiki Sessions
​Experience deep restoration through the healing energy of Reiki.

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.

A Reiki energy session can help you feel more centred, grounded, and relaxed. The energy begins to flow more freely, opening up channels to a deeper healing.
Learn more here and Book your online 15-minute or 30-minute healing Reiki session

Meditation Sessions
​Explore the world within. Experience the healing power of your  connection to Spirit.

The practice of meditation has over 75 proven benefits. Here are a few:

  • 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. 
 Emotional balance: 
  • 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.
Cognitive function (thinking clearly): 
  • 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. 
Healthy heart function: 
  • Increases heart rate variability, important to reduce stress and increase willpower.
Immune system regulation: 
  • 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.
Book a private meditation session with me here and
find my free guided meditations here

Do you feel you have no time to meditate? A regular practice doesn't have to be long. And you still reap the benefits.

 Learn more from Giovanni Dientsmann of Live and Dare.
The infographic below was created by Giovanni, who's meditated for over 10,000 hours and has one of the top-rated blogs on the planet. See his brilliant 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.
​Contact me to arrange a free 15-minute consultation.

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