by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Mar 13, 2025 | Managing Anxiety, Stress, & Depression, Sleep & Fatigue, Yoga Nidra, Yoga Therapy & Mental Health, Yoga Therapy Tools & Techniques
As part of “an international campaign to raise public awareness of sleep health,” the World Sleep Society has designated March 14, 2025, as World Sleep Day. This day of recognition falls within the U.S. National Sleep Foundation’s Sleep Awareness...
by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Feb 27, 2025 | BIPOC Communities, Managing Anxiety, Stress, & Depression, Yoga Therapy for Specific Needs
Black History Month is drawing to a close, and although yogatherapy.health will continue to celebrate the contributions of people of the global majority* all year, now is the perfect time to recognize a famous yoga teacher—someone you might not have known engaged with...
by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Jan 23, 2025 | Chronic Illness & Recovery, Managing Anxiety, Stress, & Depression, What Is Yoga Therapy?
By Kristine (Kaoverii) Weber Change is hard. Everyone knows that it takes time, practice, energy, and commitment to change your thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and habits. It also takes time to change a relationship, learn a new language or a musical instrument, or to...
by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Dec 19, 2024 | Cancer Care, Managing Anxiety, Stress, & Depression, Yoga Therapy for Specific Needs
Even when we focus on the physical aspects of yoga, which are really just a small part of the practice and philosophy of this “technology for living,” we tend to notice mental and emotional effects. Researchers know this, too, and their work is an...
by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Dec 5, 2024 | How Yoga Therapists Work, Incarcerated Populations, Managing Anxiety, Stress, & Depression, Yoga Therapy & Mental Health
As yoga therapist Denise Druce, C-IAYT, says on the website for her nonprofit, Yoga Forward, “In a prison setting, yoga can be a refuge inward, away from the external events and environments. With your awareness directed within, the yoga practice becomes a...
by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Nov 26, 2024 | Accessible & Adaptive, How Yoga Therapists Work, Managing Anxiety, Stress, & Depression, Meditation, Musculoskeletal Concerns, Pain Management, Trauma-Informed Approach, Yoga Therapy & Mental Health
By Michelle A. Thielen One morning in 2009 while watching television, I heard a story about 5-year-old girls who “serviced” up to 20 men a day. I was horrified at this news and ended up on the floor weeping into the afternoon. This was the day that turned my world...
