Yoga Therapy is the clinical application of yoga. It is a form of holistic healing or integrated medicine that uses the ancient science of yoga to enhance health and well-being. It adapts the practice of yoga to address specific health conditions as well as preventative habits.
Yoga Therapy takes a bio-psycho-social approach to health, then adds the spiritual to recognize purpose in life, the importance of inner practices and relationship with self. This approach sees the human being as an integrated body-mind-spirit system that is at its best when all parts are in a state of dynamic balance.
Co-Create A Private
Yoga Therapy Practice with Megan
€65 for a Yoga Therapy 75 minute session
Megan provides personalized home practice documentation and follow up support as needed. The first session includes an initial intake and may take up to 90 minutes.
Depending on your goals, it is recommended that you schedule 3-6 sessions over a 1-3 month period for optimal results.
Please fill out and submit the online Yoga Therapy Intake Form
Yoga Therapy is an excellent goal oriented option that treats the whole person. We co-create a practice that is beneficial and joyful for you. Sadhana is the yogic term referring to the spirited self-discipline of a daily practice. Sadhana may include yoga postures or somatic movement to enhance your physical well being; it also may incorporate traditional facets of yoga such as meditation, pranayama, mudras, mantra, mindful eating and Ayurvedic guidelines for daily self-care.
You are given a unique range of tools that you continue to develop with your teacher and on your own. Each of these traditional facets of yoga work in conjunction to reconnect you at all levels – from the physical body to the breath, the energetic body, mind and emotions and the spirit. This approach sees the human being as an integrated body-mind-spirit system that is at its best when all parts are in a state of dynamic balance. Yoga Therapy helps you to understand and appreciate your unique body and mind dynamics so you can live comfortably in your body.
Deep level changes do not happen overnight. Over time, however, Yoga Therapy can create permanent healing to all the levels of your being. A half hour home practice each day can bring significant changes. To this end, Megan works with you to develop a realistic practice.
Yoga Therapy is often a last resort: individuals have tried other healing modalities that provide temporary comfort or depend on the practitioner to “fix them”. By focusing on your whole person, you can overcome physical, mental and emotional challenges that other treatments may not have been able to fully address.
• Yoga therapy is completely adaptable and works with your goals. Megan tailors each session to her client’s needs; whether you want to gain relief from chronic pain, facilitate injury recovery, improve flexibility, reduce stress and sleep better, improve body awareness, get help with anxiety or depression, or simply retain your youthful appearance and energy.
• Yoga therapy targets the practice to specific conditions. Most health challenges benefit from some yoga asanas or yoga breathing techniques and not others. A yoga therapy program for sciatic pain for example, would be very different from a yoga therapy practice targeting anxiety.
• Yoga therapy adjusts the poses to your body’s needs. Megan loves props! She shows her clients how to modify poses to their body using props and gentle alignment assists. This ensures that you get full benefits from each pose and feel safe and confident doing a personalized home practice.
• Yoga therapy uses adjunct techniques to speed your progress. When called for, the session may include additional modalities withing Megan’s scope of practice such as energy therapy, sound healing, writing or Thai Yoga bodywork to facilitate a deeper release.
• Yoga Therapy is offered in individual sessions enabling Megan to guide you from the outside in to the fine subtleties of muscle relaxation, stretching, and strengthening.
Megan applies the Kosha Model when designing a Yoga Therapy plan. Yoga Therapy considers the whole person as a complex system of five interconnected sheaths, or koshas, that veil our true self. From the grossest to the subtlest, the koshas include:
Annamaya Kosha – Physical Body
Pranamaya Kosha – Energetic Body
Manomaya Kosha – Emotional Mind
Vijnanamaya Kosha – Discerning Mind
Anandamaya Kosha – Body of Peace & Bliss
The Yoga Therapy process begins with an assessment of the individual through the lens of the koshas, The treatment plan addresses health challenges through one or more koshas. The koshas are interconnected and dependent on one another; thus, yogic tools used in one kosha can positively influence the other koshas and benefit all of the layers of your being.
Yoga Therapy compliments the healing process on all levels. It is self-empowering; you are your own healer. Some of the benefits of yoga therapy include: being more mindful, a balanced nervous system and stronger immune system, increased energy, more flexibility and strength in both body and mind. Whatever cycle you are in in your life, Yoga Therapy makes it better – better may only mean bearable or better may be thriving.
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The International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), founded in 1989, has developed thorough competency-based educational standards and a rigorous accreditation process for Yoga Therapy training programs. Certification in Yoga Therapy requires 1,000 hours of training.
Yoga Therapy Health is a website that provides the public as well as healthcare providers and other aligned professionals with sound information about yoga therapy.
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