While I have been a yoga teacher for many years, I have been a disease-care therapist for several years as well. This is because I have found therapy to be like an extension of the yogic practice. I feel blessed to have been able to not only help my yoga students become fitter, but also those who attend my therapy and counselling sessions to become less stressed, better adjust...
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How Therapy Yoga Helps Maintain Good Mental Health
In the recent past, I have had more and more people approaching me for therapy yoga and not just for my yoga classes. These are individuals looking not just to improve fitness, achieve weight loss or to improve physical health, but for mental wellness as well. So while I am approached for hormonal issues, chronic pain and so on, people also come to me with relationship issues,...
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Understanding the Main Perspectives of Yoga Therapy
The more experience I gain in my chosen field of Therapy Yoga, the more I realise how many different ways this mind-body treatment can help people. I continue to discover new and unique ways in which yoga therapy and counselling can counter and reverse physical, mental and emotional issues. Since this is a lesser known field, there are many who aren't sure what exactly it enta...
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The Difference between Yoga and Yoga Therapy
While I have been conducting my yoga
classes for many years now, I have been a yoga therapist for some of that time.
In other words, my work as a yoga therapist began later; after I had gained
significant experience and insight into teaching yoga. This was the result of the
conviction that yoga is not only good for fitness and physical health but also
has the potential to be t...
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