Yoga Therapy

Where Science and Spirituality Meet

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.

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Megan accounts for different time zones in the online booking calendar. However, if there is no availability, or you prefer to schedule through email or WhatsApp, please contact her.

You will be provided with personalized home practice documentation and/or video and follow up support as needed. The first session includes an initial intake and may take up to 90 minutes.

It is recommended that you schedule 3-6 sessions over a 1-3 month period for optimal results. If purchasing 3 sessions, you can schedule all 3 sessions or remaining sessions at a later date.

Yoga Therapy Intake

Please fill out and submit the online Yoga Therapy Intake Form

WhatsApp +353 87 409 7765

Local: (0)87 409 7765

Please contact Megan for a free 15 minute consultation to find out how you can benefit from Yoga Therapy.

info@embodywithmm.com

Megan possesses a rare combination of profound knowledge and skill delivered in a warm-hearted manner. While working together, she expertly led me through unwinding of deeply and long held movement and postural patterns that were contributing to chronic pain. Through this transformative work, she helped me find ease and feel at home within my body again.

The first thing I do daily before I even get out of bed is to do the yoga exercises that you showed me for my feet, ankles, knees and hips. I still have periodic episodes of neuropathy in my feet (usually at night) but the occurrences are less frequent. More importantly, when I do have the episodes, I do the yoga steps for my toes and ankles and it makes the pain much less severe. My knees have also felt much better since I started doing the exercises. I am so thankful for all of your help and advice. You have made a HUGE difference in the quality of my daily life!

The virtual yoga therapy sessions with Megan were amazing. Her teaching style is calm, enthusiastic and overall, really unique. From the first moment I felt safe and seen with my different problems. The sessions changed the way I was thinking about my body. I am learning to trust my body again and listening to what I need. But the best part: I started having fun with movement again! After some years with tight muscles and overall body pain I started dreading every movement, especially stretching and working out. Now my body is craving simple and painless movement throughout the day. Also, my pain levels are dropping.

I had the pleasure of working with Megan for a retreat for emergency medicine residents. Megan’s specialized training in Yoga Therapy was of particular interest for our group for its holistic approach to preserving one’s well-being. She designed our session in a way to be both relaxing and instructive; offering skills that our residents can apply to their daily lives to de-stress and provide relaxation.

I could not be happier with my private sessions with Megan! They gave me more than the results I was hoping for. First session to help bring down high blood pressure and a second session to help with anxiety. Currently, my blood pressure is below the doctors recommendation and as for anxiety, I'm back to being a calm person.

Megan lead a corporate wellness event for our employees. She held a relaxation/meditation session for us. The event was our best attended event all year and was easily the most successful. Every employee that attended said they enjoyed it and would like to attend again. Megan has such a calming presence we felt our stress melting away. She is a true professional and was able to teach us all things we can do to ease our workplace stress. I would highly recommend Megan and for your corporate wellness program.

Yoga Therapy Is Individualized Personal Wellness

Do you want to establish a healthy ritual to do on your own time, in your own space that is as unique as you? Together, we will co-create a practice that is beneficial and joyful for you. Sadhana is the yogic term referring to the spirited self-discipline of sustained self care. It inspires to celebrate your whole person. Sadhana may include yoga therapy facets such as postures (asana), somatic movement and breath awareness (pranayama) to enhance your physical well being. It also may incorporate meditation, mudras, mantra, subtle body inquiry, embodied writing, mindful eating and Ayurvedic guidelines for daily self-care.

You are given a fluid range of tools to continue to develop with Megan and on your own. These traditional facets of yoga work in conjunction to reconnect you all levels of your being – from nervous system regulation and the bio-mechanical body to the breath, the energetic body, emotions and 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 remember and appreciate your extraordinary dynamics so you can live more fully and 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…and keep you motivated!

Co-Create A Private Yoga Therapy Practice with Megan

€65 for a Yoga Therapy 75 minute session

Schedule and Purchase An In Person Or Online Session

Some of the ways Yoga Therapy differs from yoga:

• 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 beneficial, 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 dynamic subtleties of muscle relaxation, strengthening, stretching, emotional regulation and vitality.

You Are Multi-Dimensional

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.

Self Care Is Health Care

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. Sometimes better may only mean bearable, or better may mean heightened recognition of joy.

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.