About Yoga Therapy

Yoga therapy is the practice of yoga poses, breathing and meditation techniques used in a particular order to assist in helping with chronic health conditions.  It is also helpful for rehabilitation after physical therapy, illness and surgery. With your doctor’s approval, it can be used in conjunction with your current medical care and does not replace it. Yoga Therapy re-educates the body to move more safely and comfortably and is an excellent maintenance program for supporting better health.

Above all yoga therapy helps to combat stress, which is at the root of many chronic health problems. (It is not recommended for acute conditions). By supporting the parasympathetic nervous system, our yoga prescriptions help to relieve muscle tension, improve circulation, boost the immune system and provide a sense of calm and relaxation.  Yoga therapy can play an integral role in developing a healthier lifestyle.

Thoughts from prominent yoga professionals:

"Yoga therapy adapts the practice of Yoga to the needs of people with specific or persistent health problems that are not usually addressed in a group class.”  Larry Payne, Ph. D.  - Samata Yoga Center, Director of the Yoga Therapy Rx Program at Loyola Marymount University

"Yoga therapy consists of the application of yogic principles, methods, and techniques to specific human ailments...Yoga therapy is preventative in nature, as is Yoga itself, but it is also restorative in many instances, palliative in others, and curative in many others."  Art Brownstein, M.D. - University of Hawaii

“Yoga will teach us to cure what need not be endured, and to endure what cannot be cured.” B.K.S. Iyengar - founder of Iyengar Yoga, Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” in 2004