by Alexa Owen | Nov 4, 2021 | LGBTQ+ Communities, Managing Anxiety, Stress, & Depression, Yoga Therapy & Mental Health, Yoga Therapy Tools & Techniques
In a recent interview with Kerala Ayurveda, Steven Inghram, MS, C-IAYT, shared how holistic medicine and complementary therapies like yoga therapy can—and should—lead the way in LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer community) education for healthcare....
by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Jan 22, 2021 | Subtle Body, What Is Yoga Therapy?, Yoga Therapy Tools & Techniques
By Beth Gibbs Working with the panchamaya kosha model, also referred to as the five layers of self-awareness, can be an effective way of beginning a healing journey. We may describe and often work with the koshas separately, but ultimately they are one interrelated...
by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Dec 26, 2019 | Accessible & Adaptive, Chronic Illness & Recovery, Meditation, Research & Evidence-Informed Practice, Yoga Therapy in Healthcare
As the yogatherapy.health blog regularly describes, yoga’s practices are not confined to the physical work of postures (asana)—in fact, asana is just the beginning of the yoga journey. Using a variety of methods, yoga and yoga therapy address the whole human...
by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Oct 2, 2019 | What Is Yoga Therapy?, Yoga Therapy Tools & Techniques
Although many people today are first drawn to practice yoga or seek yoga therapy for physical reasons, they may be surprised by effects in seemingly unrelated areas of their lives. In the piece highlighted below, yoga therapist Jaymie Meyer, C-IAYT, CWP, NBC-HWC,...
by Laurie Hyland Robertson | Dec 20, 2018 | Meditation, Musculoskeletal Concerns, Scope of Practice, Subtle Body, What Is Yoga Therapy?
By Diane Finlayson The yoga philosophy that informs the way yoga therapists view the individual comes from a text called the Taittiriya Upanishad. Its second chapter describes a way of considering the human system that incorporates five interconnected “sheaths”—the...
