Yoga Therapy is the professional application of the principles and practices of yoga to promote health and well-being within a therapeutic relationship that includes personalized assessment, goal setting, lifestyle management, and yoga practices for individuals or small groups.

Although all yoga is potentially therapeutic and healing, yoga therapy is the specific application of yogic tools—postures/exercises, breathwork, meditation techniques, and more—to address an individual’s physical, mental, and emotional needs.

Yoga therapists have in-depth training to help them assess and keep their clients safe. They work with you to address your specific goals while considering any limitations you might be experiencing.

The practices your yoga therapist recommends could include:

— Movement ranging from gentle to vigorous

— Breathing techniques

— Meditation or visualization practices

— Physical postures that address specific areas of discomfort or musculoskeletal imbalances

— Any combination of tools like these!

It all depends on what you need to increase your health and well-being.

Many people first learn about yoga through its physical practices, but a common misconception is that it’s all about stretching or movement. In fact, yoga therapy can help people who can’t move at all, as well as active individuals!

The yogic model of health is unique because it addresses every aspect of life rather than considering each body part or system separately. Yoga therapy is a safe way of working with the natural capacity of your body and mind to optimize well-being.

A general public yoga class can certainly ease everyday aches, pains, and mood complaints.

But a yoga therapy session, whether one-to-one or in a small group, goes much further because it is tailored to the individual.

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The Sanskrit term Ayurveda translates to “knowledge of life,” and the principles of this ancient wisdom remind us that the entire web of life is intricately interwoven. With a unique emphasis on total wellness, the art and science of Ayurveda work to harmonize our internal and external worlds.

Our five senses serve as the portals between the internal and external realms, as the five great elements of ether, air, fire, water, and earth dance the dance of creation around and within us. Ayurveda groups these five elements into three basic types of energy and functional principles that are present in everybody and everything. Since there are no single words in English to describe these principles; we use the Sanskrit words Vata, Pitta, and Kapha to describe their combinations.

Everything that we experience, be it a physical substance, a thought, or emotion, has certain qualities. The ancient texts of Ayurveda classify these qualities — called gunas in Sanskrit — into 10 pairs of opposites, making 20 qualities total (for example, heavy vs. light). Theoretically, everything in the universe can be described in terms of these gunas, or qualities, including the doshas. The foundation of Ayurvedic treatment relies upon recognizing when gunas have become excessive or deficient, as this is known to cause doshic imbalance and lead to disease. Ayurveda applies the opposite qualities to return to balance.

Agni, the universal principle of transformation that manifests as our digestive fire, mediates between the internal and external, transforming food into bodily tissue and waste; interpreting information into experiential knowledge; and discerning between nutritious material and waste product. Ayurveda kindles the agni of the body to digest toxins which have manifested due to internal or external stresses, ensuring optimal functioning of the physical and mental being.

Leveraging these basic principles, Ayurveda customizes preventative wellness to the unique constitution of every individual. In addition, ancient Ayurvedic doctors produced detailed descriptions of acute and chronic conditions (complete with causes, signs, and symptoms), and developed extensive holistic treatment protocols. Preventative care and treatment of disease falls under Ayurveda’s eight branches, which include:

● Kaayachikitsa – Internal Medicine

● Baalachikitsa – Pediatrics

● Bhuta Vidya – Psychiatry

● Shalakya Tantra – Ear, Nose and Throat Treatment

● Shalya Tantra – Surgery (not practiced in the United States today)

● Vishagara Vairodh Tantra – Toxicology

● Jarachikitsa/Rasayana – Geriatrics and Rejuvenation

● Vajikarana — Aphrodisiac Therapy, Fertility, and Conception

In addition, Ayurveda offers one of the world’s most comprehensive cleansing protocols, known as panchakarma. This ancient practice uses five primary therapies to release and eliminate accumulated toxins from deep within the tissues, and return the doshas to their proper seats in the body.

Ayurveda offers renewed access to our natural intelligence. As the original circadian medicine, Ayurveda holds the key to resolving dis-ease creating a disconnect. Thus, this ancient medicine offers the promise of a more harmonious future for the people and planet.

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The Akashic Records are a database of information that includes all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions, and intent that have ever occurred in the past, present, or future. The term "Akashic" comes from the Sanskrit word Akasha, which means "sky" or "ether", and is said to loosely translate to "that which holds all". We access the Records to reveal information from your Inner Conscious Self & Guides. Zaria serves as a medium in this regard, interpreting what comes through for your benefit.

Integral Sound Healing is an ancient system that now, more than ever is used to aid meditation, as a holistic healing tool, and to connect with the spiritual side of life.

Sound has always been used to heal and balance many aspects of our lives. It has been linked with all of the great spiritual philosophies of the world and has been woven into the fabric of humanity through time and civilisations. Many have spent a lifetime spreading transformative sounds to those with the wisdom to embrace its immense potential for spiritual transformation and healing.

It's based on consciously applying processes and techniques to facilitate healing based on the 5 elements whilst integrating ancient wisdom, modern science, art, musicality and the alchemy of healing all in one.

Sound has been interwoven into humanity’s psyche as a means of healing, understanding and transforming the body, mind, heart and spirit. Scientific and modern-day spiritual communities are only now catching up with this arcane wisdom. It is only in the last few decades that ancient sound wisdom of the past has been rediscovered.

• Academy of Sound Healing

Yogic and Vedic Counseling is the Integral Approach of combining modern science and counseling approaches with that of the sages of Vedic and Yogic tradition. It is essentially a spiritual, ecological, karmic, and intuitive form of counselin that employs the wisdom and practies of the complementary systems of Yoga, Ayurveda, Vedic Astrology, and Vastu (Vedic Design)

All Yoga Therapy Sesions employ this framework and understaning.