YOGA THERAPY

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If Yoga could be taken in pill form, it might become one of the bestselling drugs of all times. Yoga improves wellbeing, prevents and alleviates numerous health issues. Yoga deepens our connection with our body, restoring wholeness to the mind, body, and Spirit. Yoga Therapy is the adaptation and application of the Self‐healing science of Yoga techniques and practices. Many have used the practices of Yoga for managing high blood pressure, coping with the effects of cancer treatments, or treating symptoms of HIV, depression or anxiety. But lately it's become especially popular for musculoskeletal issues like lower and upper back pain, sciatica, and shoulder, neck and hip pain.

"Yoga therapy is of modern coinage and represents a first effort to integrate traditional yogic concepts and techniques with Western medical and psychological knowledge. Whereas traditional Yoga is primarily concerned with personal transcendence on the part of a "normal" or healthy individual, Yoga therapy aims at the holistic treatment of various kinds of psychological or somatic dysfunctions ranging from back problems to emotional distress. Both approaches, however, share an understanding of the human being as an integrated body‐mind system, which can function optimally only when there is a state of dynamic balance." ~ Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D.

Modern Yoga Therapy can be traced back to the Yoga master T. Krishnamacharya, who produced students that became the West's most influential teachers of therapeutic Yoga, including his son TKV Desikachar and BKS Iyengar. Pamela Hollander, M.A., founder of Indigo Yoga Healing Arts, has practiced and studied the ancient science of Yoga for 45 years. Pamela began practicing Yoga and meditation at age 5. She has only had three teachers, all traditional yogis: The first was Swami Satchitananda, founder of Integral Yoga; the second was another of Krishnamacharya's primary students, Shri. K. Pattahabi Jois (deceased) of the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India, and the third Yoga Master was Tim Miller, one of Pattahabi Jois' original American Certified Ashtanga Yoga students. She is a disciplined student and practitioner, and has been teaching others the healing science of Yoga since 1974.

Anyone can practice Yoga Therapy, even if you feel that a typical yoga class is too much for you. Yoga Therapy uses blocks, belts, and other props to help students perform classic yoga poses. Instruction is individualized, with adjustments for age, experience, body type, physical condition & medical problems.