Life can feel easier with yoga therapy
“I was struggling with anxiety compounded by sleeplessness… Neeta taught me techniques and approaches that were easily applied to my everyday busy schedule. She gave me the tools I needed to help stop the spiral and move forward in a different way. Neeta’s approach is kind, welcoming and easy.” - Laurie, 52
“I wanted to address back pain. Yoga helped me feel safer. Neeta keeps me coming back :) I would definitely recommend yoga therapy!” - Ivy, 14
“Yoga therapy was recommended to me by a colleague for mental health support to manage the stress related to our work in social services… Neeta is a deep listener and responds with empathy, non-judgment, and humour. She has a gentle way of challenging the stories we tell ourselves and inspiring curiosity.” - Megan, 34
“I wanted yoga therapy to address my teen’s body pain that manifests as a result of anxiety. Yoga therapy helps my teen feel calm and relaxed. Neeta has a way of speaking that puts everyone at ease.” - Toni, 49
What is the difference between yoga and yoga therapy?
Yoga therapy explores wellbeing that supports physical fitness and talk therapy.
Yoga therapists are informed by health science foundations, so they can compliment the work of health professionals.
Yoga therapy can help you discover your version of feeling well through movement, awareness and mindfulness.
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Most people discover yoga as a physical practice. General yoga classes can be supportive and therapeutic. But often they ask you match the choreography of a classroom—which may not match your needs or ability.
Yoga therapy includes a rich understanding of yoga philosophies coupled with health science foundations. From this unique vantage, yoga therapists can help you find the most appropriate tools to investigate your wellbeing and under your terms. These tools can include breath work, meditation and movement—ranging from vigorous to subtle to imagined. In this way, yoga therapy can support active people, people who hardly move at all, and everything in between.
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Patient-centred care is on trend in medical science. This often requires patients to make informed decisions about goals, describe the impact of therapies, share changes in symptoms, bring forward questions, and generally engage in the healthcare journey.
Yoga therapy supports the individual through all this work.
Yoga therapy offers safe and appropriate tools for investigating your body-mind-life. These self-study tools provide a healthy habit of noticing the many layers that contribute to your health and its changes—are these changes troubling or are they as they should be? This is useful information for you and your healthcare team.
At the same time, yoga therapy has a clear scope of practice and code of ethics. Yoga therapists integrate insight from healthcare professionals without being diagnostic in their work. They are not shy about referring out to healthcare professionals when appropriate.
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Life experiences inform our patterns of movement, habitual responses and impulsive reactions. Maybe that’s why there are expressions like “heart ache” and “butterflies in our stomach.” It’s a thing.
Yoga therapy offers safe exploration of patterns held in our body-mind-life. This self-study can help gently release tension, pain, difficult feelings—even undesirable habits. It can also reinforce aspects of ourselves that are kinda great. You decide. Because yoga therapy also recognizes when investigating what is held in your body-mind-life might not feel safe or appropriate.