FAQs

Yoga classes are meant for a general public. While classes can be tailored to the students present, it's still meeting an entire group where yoga therapy meets the client personally where they are at. Yoga classes often graze the surface of experience while Yoga therapy allows for a deeper dive. Yoga therapy includes dialogue to allow the client to be seen and met as they are in experience. Yoga therapy practices expand beyond the mat to welcome in additional mental health and vagal toning practices.

Definitely! The Yoga Therapy space is meant to meet you wherever you are at.

First suggestion is to check in with you physician for any guidance. There are many ways to meet the body with and around injury to make the practice accessible.

That is ok! We can work with a variety of props and variations to have the practice meet you.
We can meet virtually and you can engage the practice from your bed!

That's ok. Sometimes the practice doesn't feel like a good fit depending on the experience. There's a welcoming to bring that resistance to the mat to see how it can be supported.

Wear clothing that you feel comfortable moving around in.

Currently insurance does not bill for yoga therapy. Some HSA/FSA will reimburse for yoga therapy session. Check with your provider and I can provide invoices.

Both work to heal the client but Physical therapy often stays with the body while yoga therapy works holistically with all parts of self.

One of the biggest pieces of yoga therapy is being met with what you are showing up with. This means that each session may vary. It may vary in the amount of movement vs meditation or the amount of dialogue vs silence. The session will include a check in to guide the rest of the session, an opportunity to connect breath, body and anything else present, then integrate what showed up.

A large part of being in relationship includes figuring out how we be while another person is doing the same thing. Relationship sessions will explore connection with self and another through movement and breath work. Dialogue will be engage to explore curiosity of what each person is present to and working to hold space together. Each session will look different base upon what comes into the room. A check in will be engaged to guide the session.

This is based on goals and needs of the individual. Often one session is not enough.

Through mindfulness and somatic integration there is a support in regulating the nervous system to build ability to be with what is present.

Yes

Virtual sessions are very similar to in person and can be helpful for accessibility. Sessions are guided in a very similar way to in person but does not have any hands on support.