Yoga Therapy
Yoga is a deeply rooted and integrative tradition for understanding and being in relationship with the self.
It offers a way of understanding the whole person, including body, breath, energy, mind, emotion, consciousness, relationship, and spiritual life.
Deeply Rooted, Many Branches
I have been fortunate to study with teachers who have shared these teachings with great depth and care, and I continue to be an ongoing student of yoga, Tantra, and Ayurveda.
I have been studying yoga for over two decades now, and have found deep healing and strength from my own practices and how they continually bring me home to myself, and back to relationship with the Earth.
I share these practices in relationship with the larger tradition they come from, rather than pulling individual techniques away from their history, philosophy, and lineage. This matters to me, particularly as a white practitioner in a Western culture that has so often commercialized yoga while disconnecting it from its South Asian roots.
What Yoga Therapy Can Look Like
In our work together, we might use meditation, pranayama, mantra, mudra, visualization, Ayurvedic principles, or philosophical teachings. We might explore the movement of prana, or life energy, and become curious about where you experience openness, constriction, depletion, movement, or vitality.
Building a personal practice does not always have to be complex. In fact, one of the most consistent things I have learned, and continue to learn through my own practice is that simple is profound, and less is more. You might even be surprised at the number of ways you are already practicing what we could call yoga, because yoga is such a natural reflection of being in connection with life.
While we will engage in the above experiential practices during sessions, we will also talk about how to integrate seasonal rhythms into your daily life that suit your emotional, physical, or spiritual needs.
Yoga understands our experience as including the physical body but also extending into breath, energy, attention, consciousness, and our relationship with ourselves and the earth.
We might notice the movement of prana in your body, where energy feels available or depleted, or how to bring alive your connection to life force within yourself.
Practices such as pranayama, mantra, mudra, meditation, and visualization give us different ways of tending to this inner landscape and developing a more intimate relationship with ourselves.
Ayurveda helps us in building a relationship with seasonal rhythms that nourish the healthy flow of prana, or life force, in your life.
You’ll come away from our sessions with new practices to integrate into your life, as well as insight into
Offerings
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One on one sessions offer space to explore what is happening in your life through the practices and philosophy of yoga. Sessions are shaped around you and may include meditation, pranayama, mantra, mudra, subtle body work, visualization, philosophical exploration, or gentle movement.
60 minute session | $ 225
90 minute session | $330
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For those who want a little more time and depth to explore this work, I also offer a short series of individual sessions. This gives us space to get to know what you're working with, explore different practices together, and develop a personal practice that can continue to evolve with you. This package includes one 90 minute intake, plus 4 60 minute follow up sessions over a span of 3 months, with resources and homework offered in between.
Personal series | $ 1100
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For psychotherapy clients, Yoga Therapy can also be integrated into our work together. We might draw from yoga philosophy, meditation, subtle body practices, mantra, mudra, pranayama, or other practices as they become relevant to what we're exploring.
This is only available for psychotherapy clients located in the state of Oregon in the U.S.
Rates and other details can be found on my specialty pages and on my rates page.