Yoga Therapy With Danielle

Yoga therapy teaches you movements, breathing, meditation, and mindfulness that apply directly to your concerns and your body.  It doesn’t matter what your injuries or limitations are, yoga therapy can be modified to suit your needs. All yoga therapy is done in a private, one-on-one experience so you can be certain it is specifically tailored to your needs.

In contrast, yoga classes tend to be very focused on exercise and done in large groups. It’s a physical-only practice, that while great, is not always a healing practice.  Whereas yoga therapy is focused less on the physical gains and more on regulation of the nervous system so that your aches and pains have less of a hold on you.

I’ve successfully helped clients employ yoga therapy to address many types of concerns, including:

• Significant stress/burnout support
• Chronic aches and pains
• Building a yoga practice for scoliosis
• Building a strength practice for osteoporosis

If you're working on something very specific in your life and want to know if yoga therapy could support you, please reach out to me directly.  [email protected]

For many people, there’s a huge gap between what’s going on in their mind and what’s going on in their body.  Yoga therapy offers the link between your mind and body by using movement, breath, and other tools to engage the nervous system in ways that are supportive and nourishing. No two clients are ever the same and therefore each client is approached in an individual manner. We work together to co-create a practice that fits into your life and helps free you from pain and emotional discomfort so you can be free to live your life. In short, Yoga Therapy is a bottoms up approach to nervous system dysfunction.  

After several years of training as a yoga therapist, I’m able to offer one- on- one yoga therapy to clients.

Maybe you have some back pain, or an achy shoulder that causes you to miss out on fun activities.  You’ve probably seen providers and haven’t yet found the answer to your pains. They offered yet another referral to physical therapy, or a steroid shot, or pain killers, but none of that fixed it for good.  Or maybe it’s just constant stress and you feel like you can’t get a break from it.  Maybe you’ve been passed around to many different doctors and specialists who always tell you “It might just be stress”.

Yoga therapy is really just a practice of looking at you as a whole person (not just a bad back, or cranky shoulder, or stressed out person), and helps create lifestyle practices to overcome your challenges.

So many people!  Let go of the idea that you must be good at yoga in order to benefit from yoga therapy.  If you have a body, emotions, and breathe, yoga therapy could support you through your current life challenges.

Sometimes your physical aches and pains are more related to your emotional well being and your emotional aches are more related to your physical well being. Yoga therapy is there to help you bridge the gap between your emotional and physical wellness.  

There can be a lot of reasons to start yoga therapy.  It could be that you’re dealing with a lot of stress and burnout at work and just need some time to build your energy back up.  Or maybe you’re feeling some anxiety around a recent diagnosis

We’ll start with 4 sessions to get an idea of how the practices will fit into your life and schedule.  Session one is always a long intake where we get on the same page about all of your current challenges.  Sessions 2-4 we’ll co-create a practice for you to incorporate into your life whenever you feel like you need a little energetic shift.  Additional sessions can be purchased as either another 4 part series or individual sessions.

Injury diagnosis. As a yoga therapist, I am not qualified to diagnose any conditions.  I am able to incorporate the instructions you received from your DR/PT into your practice.  If you aren’t already seeing a doctor for your condition, I can help point you in the right direction to providers might be best at helping you diagnose your condition.  

A quick fix.  Yoga is neither quick or effortless.  We’ll co-create a practice to incorporate into your life, but it’s up to you to find time to take care of yourself.  Yoga therapy does not offer a quick fix, but when used in collaboration with your other providers advice, it can help you dig deeper into the heart of your challenges.

Yoga therapy won’t necessarily fix all your problems and conditions, but you’ll likely find that you can change your relationship with your challenges through the work we do in yoga therapy.

Yoga Therapy is the perfect complement to your physical therapy and/or mental health work that you're currently doing. I can incorporate the work from your PT, mental health, or other providers into your yoga practice offering a cohesive plan.