Yoga Therapy

Your body innately knows how to heal itself. The same energy that heals your body also knows how to help you recognize the state of wholeness that you already are. By removing the barriers to maximal energy flow we:

1- Optimize our mental, physical and emotional wellbeing.

2- Move along our evolutionary journey towards self-actualization and self-realization

Unresolved experiences are experiences that were meant to pass through. They stay unresolved in one of two ways:

Resistance: includes fighting, avoiding, rationalizing, dumping, escaping. 

a. What I’m resisting is the intensity of the sensation I don’t want to feel.

Repetition: includes wallowing in the story, rehashing the story, defending oneself, coming up with conversations, wishing it had been different, “If only”, etc.

a. Sometimes I’m repeating the story and trying to find a way to think myself out of feeling the intensity that I feel. 

b. Other times, the mind is simply in the habit of going back to the situation and running it over and over. Energy simply follows the mind.

Consistent resistance or repetition over time causes energy to move from subtle towards the gross and eventually manifests as frozen energy in the energy system and can even manifest in the physical body as tension or other symptoms.

Effects of frozen energy or energy blocks:

Emotional/Mental: unresolved energies circulate as unresolved experiences don’t move through. The mind tries to resolve through circular thinking – which perpetuates circular energy. Caught in feedback loop. 

Energetic: reduced energy flow (affects organs, energy levels). Loss of connection/constriction, void, numb. 

Physical: Pain, tension, compensation/range of motion, posture, physical symptoms, dis-ease.

All three are an interconnected system and cannot be separated, what happens at one level affects the others and so on. Therefore, if we work at any one level we are affecting the others also.

When energy is freed from the mind, accelerated, and accumulated, it heals the body. There is more biological energy available to heal and balance and optimize energy flow in the physical body

In yoga therapy, we are consciously creating the environment for energy to make its healing, releasing and unifying journey back to source. Each time energy is freed, we experience a mini-union of energy with consciousness, we experience our true nature. 

As a result of freeing energy

a. Our body/mind system is optimally healthy with energy flowing freely to feed the organs and systems of the body.

b. Freeing frozen energy in the form of past impressions means we are more balanced and steady in the midst of life. We feel better and are more healthy, the mind is more balanced.

c. Corresponding illness, injury, tension or pain can be reduced or resolved.

d. We are in the ideal state to progressively live in oneness with our true nature.