How it Works
In contrast to talk therapy, yoga therapy works from a physical standpoint and integrates with talk therapy. You don't need any experience with yoga to be able to participate in yoga therapy. We will do yoga poses and then dialogue what is going on for you physically and emotionally.

Let me share an excerpt from “Focusing” by Eugene Gendlin that is related to body work and body knowledge. 

“Most people let their bodies be cramped into the shape of what’s wrong with their lives, being a monument to all the things that are wrong, every moment . . . Often, we feel so much wrong that we come to accept those bad feelings as the basic state of things. But it is not. The bad feeling is the body knowing and pushing toward what good would be.

Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness.

The very existence of bad feelings within you is evidence that your body knows what is wrong and what is right. It must know what it would be like to feel perfect or it could not evoke a sense of wrong. . . . You can definitely trust the whole series of steps by which your body moves to resolve and change a wrong state of being. You can trust that, even if the words and understanding of a given step are superseded, that step was the right step to come then, at that moment, and will lead to the right next step from there.”

Benefits

• release stress and tension
• reduce anxieties and fears
• alleviate depression and anxiety
• enhance body awareness
• increase strength and flexibility
• gain clarity around life issues
• provide deep relaxation
• increase circulation, respiration and body functioning
• provide greater mental clarity
• enhance emotional stability
• increase sense of well-being
• improved self esteem

Who/What it is beneficial for

• stress & tension relief
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• addiction recovery adjunct
• eating disorder recovery adjunct (anorexia, bulimia and overeating)
• chronic aches and pains
• insomnia
• grief and loss
• depression
• anxiety
• fears & phobias
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• family/parenting issues
• anger management
• spiritual growth
• clarity on life issues

Fees
Private yoga instruction and Yoga Therapy is $85/hour. Payment is due at the time of services unless you choose to pay with paypal. All paypal payments must be made prior to the scheduled session.Cancellations without 24 hour notice will be charged the full fee.

Location
All sessions are held at either The Yoga Institute of Broward (West Broward) or at a location that is in East Ft. Lauderdale (Commercial and US1).