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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Benefits of Yoga Counselling in My Experience as a Therapist
As my students and regular readers of my yoga blog would know, I have been concentrating my energies on Therapy Yoga in recent times. This has given me the opportunity to help people with medical conditions improve their health. I have been able to help people overcome their emotional and relationship issues. I have even counselled those who were simply looking to grow and enh...
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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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How Yoga Therapy & Counselling Helps Build Trust
As a holistic discipline that encompasses
mindful practices such as meditation, yoga has the power to benefit not just
the physical body but also the mind: emotional and spiritual. I am finding this
out firsthand as I delve deeper into Therapy
Yoga and Counselling. I am finding more and more ways to help those who
approach me with myriad different problems.
Why trust i...
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How Therapy Yoga Can Activate Self Healing
Therapy Yoga is not some magic wand that
can simply be waved to overcome mental and physical problems. It is a process
that works to overcome some of the blockages that have become inbuilt in our
lifestyles and our way of thinking. The therapeutic process works to identify
and navigate those blockages and helps the mind and the body re-learn, reorient
and become healthier. In ...
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