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 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 | Jul 11, 2024 | Managing Anxiety, Stress, & Depression, Musculoskeletal Concerns, Pain Management, What Is Yoga Therapy?
Although all yoga is potentially therapeutic and healing, IAYT-certified yoga therapists specifically apply yoga tools to address an individual‘s physical, mental, and emotional needs. Yoga therapy is care for the whole person, not just the physical body! Practices...
by Deb McDermott | Mar 28, 2024 | Yoga Therapy for Specific Needs, Yoga Therapy Tools & Techniques
The term triggering has been widely used in recent years, partly because of our increasing understanding of how our nervous systems and bodies work with our psychology. According to Dennis Pelon, PhD, a clinical psychologist and IAYT-certified yoga therapist who...
by Deb McDermott | Mar 14, 2024 | Research & Evidence-Informed Practice, Yoga Therapy in Healthcare
Yoga, often seen as supporting mental and physical health, is perhaps the best practice for delivering a spiritual dimension to health care. And a number of studies link spirituality to better health outcomes. According to the Harvard School of Public Health,...
