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What is Yoga Therapy?

What is yoga therapy? In addition to answering this question with a defining meaning, this short slideshow (access by clicking the "Read more..." link below) will also share how yoga therapists differ from yoga teachers, and how yoga can support health alone and/ or...

Yoga, Mindfulness in the Workplace

I came across this Time magazine article  that highlights the benefits of mindfulness and yoga in the workplace. To those who do not practice, this article may be an eye-opener as to how much further employers' money can stretch when their employees do. A little break...

About Trauma

Trauma is by definition an experience that we lack tools or resources to handle, process, assimilate, or integrate a lesson from. There is a magnetic loop, called re-enactment, that draws us back into familiar patterns, where we have to learn lessons again and again...

Brain Science of Meditation

There are 3 portions of the brain. Each part of the brain has balanced and imbalanced functions. ​ The first to develop was the reptilian brain, when in balance, it allowed for sleep or relaxation and helped to freeze a creature/ being when they heard a noise to track...

Yoga and Ayurveda for Trauma Recovery

We are all faced with challenges through life. Some challenges seem to stay with us no matter how hard we try to overcome them. Because many symptoms related to trauma can take 6 months to 2 years to develop, people don’t often connect the symptoms to their origin....