Yoga Therapy, as derived from the yoga tradition of Patañjali and the Ayurvedic system of health, uses the tools of yoga to help individuals manage their health and wellbeing at any level: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual.

The tools of yoga include:

• Postures: To address structural conditions, like muscular tension or recovery from injury or surgery

• Breath: To optimize energy, balance the nervous system, unplug from "fight or flight"

• Relaxation: To turn on the body's natural healing mechanism

• Meditation: To develop a calmer outlook, which enhances immunity and longevity

• Chanting: To stimulate cognitive and emotional centers of the brain, linking us to our inner wisdom and higher purpose

• Lifestyle habits: To identify how our choices affect our health

I'll conduct an assessment to understand your background and health status, and then we'll determine the right yoga program for you, based on your unique condition, goals, and lifestyle. We'll practice the exercises together to ensure you are comfortable with them. I'll provide you with take-home materials so you can practice at home.

The number of sessions required to feel results will depend on the condition you're dealing with and your interest in continuing the process. Ultimately, the level of change and transformation you feel depends on you. As the saying goes, "Be the change you want to see!"

So many of the conditions that we deal with involve a set of common symptoms, such as pain, stress, sleeplessness, or fatigue. Yoga Therapy can help with all of these symptoms because the treatment approach focuses on the person, not the condition.

• Your Structural Health: Strengthen muscles, improve balance, increase flexibility. Viniyoga is especially helpful with back and neck pain, but can address all kinds of muscle and joint issues and conditions - injury, surgery, dysfunction.

• Your Physiological Health: Maintain healthy systems: digestive, cardiovascular, respiratory, nervous, immune, endocrine, and reproductive.

• Your Mental Health: Maintain a clear and balanced outlook.

• Your Inner Health: No matter what your spiritual or inner direction, yoga can calm and quiet the mind so that you may more easily connect to your sources of inspiration.