The power of yoga therapy—Try it for yourself!

Sep 17, 2020 | Blog | 0 comments

Watch Steffany Moonaz, PhD, C-IAYT, explain how yoga therapy can support wellness regardless of physical condition—and even in the face of significant health challenges. As one client said, “I realized, ‘This is my life. It isn’t what everyone has to...

Help for teens with scoliosis: The yoga therapy approach

Aug 20, 2020 | Blog | 2 comments

By Rachel Krentzman Affecting 4 out of 100 teenagers, adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is the most common form of scoliosis. Idiopathic means we don’t know exactly why the curves happened, and often this diagnosis takes parents and adolescents by surprise—they...

Practice DOESN’T make perfect: The pain of perfectionism

Aug 6, 2020 | Blog | 0 comments

By Caroline McCarter As a yoga therapist, I’ve worked with many clients who suffer from an overbearing perfectionistic voice that makes them falsely believe they can’t take charge of their own well-being. I’ve heard them say, “I don’t trust myself to do it correctly...

Adding to the scholarship: Yoga therapy in integrative pain care

Jul 2, 2020 | Blog | 0 comments

Although devastating, the opioid crisis is only one symptom of the urgent need for a better approach to pain care. And while yoga therapy is not a cure-all for pain, it can be a viable contributor to the solution. Recently, the International Journal of Yoga Therapy...

New study supports yoga to ease depression symptoms

May 21, 2020 | Blog | 0 comments

As reported in this CNN article, a new study shows that yoga may decrease symptoms of depression:  “The results showed that yoga moderately eased depressive symptoms compared with no or self-help treatment across the mental health spectrum, with some conditions...