Yoga Therapy and Somatic Work
Yoga, the original somatic therapy, offers a gentle, integrative path for healing that honors your body's own deep intelligence. Rather than focusing only on thoughts or stories, this work invites you to attune to sensation, breath, and subtle shifts within—where grief and trauma are often held.
Drawing on mindful movement, breath awareness, and guided relaxation, we create space for your nervous system to soften, find balance, restoration and rejuvenation, allowing what has been held to gradually release on its own time and in its own way. In this embodied approach, healing is something that happens gently and naturally—an unfolding of awareness, presence, and reconnection with your own inner steadiness.
Drawing on mindful movement, breath awareness, and guided relaxation, we create space for your nervous system to soften, find balance, restoration and rejuvenation, allowing what has been held to gradually release on its own time and in its own way. In this embodied approach, healing is something that happens gently and naturally—an unfolding of awareness, presence, and reconnection with your own inner steadiness.
Using the practices of yoga and somatics, this work is a multi-focused approach to healing that recognizes how stress, trauma, and grief are held within the nervous system and the body, as well as the mind, emotions, energy body and spirit. Rather than relying only on talking, these practices gently guide attention to sensations, breath, and movement, helping release tension and restore a sense of safety.
Integrating gentle, mindful movement, breathwork, practices in awareness, deep relaxation, and creative, integrative work, yoga therapy and somatic work supports a natural return to balance and presence. These practices help you attune to your own inner experiences with compassion, supporting you in processing what is there and what arises. Any work with me is offered in a grounded, compassionate space to support you in restoring balance, connecting with yourself, your spirit, and your true nature of peace and wholeness.
Sessions may include any or all of these practices:
Please reach out if you are interested in working with me individually with yoga and somatic work.
I recommend ninety minute yoga and somatic sessions in order to recieve the most benefit from the practice.
Individual 90 minute yoga therapy session: $225 USD
Sessions may be scheduled via Zoom or in person.
You may also wish to bundle sessions.
3 session yoga therapy bundle: $575 USD
5 session yoga therapy bundle: $900 USD
You may also be interested in Yoga for Grief and Loss groups. These groups are 6 or 8 week long small groups that create a safe space to experience all of these practices in community with others who know the pain of heartache and loss. Learn more about current and upcoming groups here...
Integrating gentle, mindful movement, breathwork, practices in awareness, deep relaxation, and creative, integrative work, yoga therapy and somatic work supports a natural return to balance and presence. These practices help you attune to your own inner experiences with compassion, supporting you in processing what is there and what arises. Any work with me is offered in a grounded, compassionate space to support you in restoring balance, connecting with yourself, your spirit, and your true nature of peace and wholeness.
Sessions may include any or all of these practices:
- Movement in the style of hatha, yin, restorative practices, as well as organic, dance-based or more creative, play-based movement. You do not need experience in yoga. All bodies can practice yoga.
- Creative integration with drawing, painting, collage, mandala-making, journaling, or other arts-based work.
- Chant and breathwork--in yoga this practice is called pranayama.
- Meditation instruction and practice.
- Yogic philosophy and teaching as it is relevant to your goals and work.
- Yoga nidra--deep guided relaxation--to support healing on all levels of your being.
Please reach out if you are interested in working with me individually with yoga and somatic work.
I recommend ninety minute yoga and somatic sessions in order to recieve the most benefit from the practice.
Individual 90 minute yoga therapy session: $225 USD
Sessions may be scheduled via Zoom or in person.
You may also wish to bundle sessions.
3 session yoga therapy bundle: $575 USD
5 session yoga therapy bundle: $900 USD
You may also be interested in Yoga for Grief and Loss groups. These groups are 6 or 8 week long small groups that create a safe space to experience all of these practices in community with others who know the pain of heartache and loss. Learn more about current and upcoming groups here...
"Yoga teaches that we are perfect and whole as we are…You are enough—perfectly and exactly as you are; in pain, in joy, in peace, in grief."
~Karla Helbert, Yoga for Grief and Loss
Just as grief is an experience that affects us physically, mentally, emotionally, cognitively, and spiritually, yoga sustains and strengthens us in all of those same areas. This book demonstrates how the principles and practices of yoga can help relieve symptoms of grief allowing those who have experienced loss to move toward wholeness, peace, and feelings of connection with loved ones who have died.
Exploring the six branches of yoga, the book shows how each branch can support us through grief in different ways whether it be the self-reflection of Jnana Yoga, the spiritual devotion of Bhakti Yoga, the meditation of Raja Yoga, or the physical postures of Hatha Yoga. We are shown how to begin and sustain a personal practice, both on and off the yoga mat, which helps us to cope with and move through grief on multiple levels. Expressive and experiential exercises are included to help explore each of the branches of yoga and find ways to put the tenets of each branch into real life practice.
Exploring the six branches of yoga, the book shows how each branch can support us through grief in different ways whether it be the self-reflection of Jnana Yoga, the spiritual devotion of Bhakti Yoga, the meditation of Raja Yoga, or the physical postures of Hatha Yoga. We are shown how to begin and sustain a personal practice, both on and off the yoga mat, which helps us to cope with and move through grief on multiple levels. Expressive and experiential exercises are included to help explore each of the branches of yoga and find ways to put the tenets of each branch into real life practice.
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