Adaptive & Integrative Yoga Therapy & Wellness

Moving towards intentional living, self-actualization, contentment and present moment awareness.

Even though the main and most serious symptoms of prolonged or overwhelming stress, accumulated trauma, complex trauma, body dysmorphia, negative body image, restrictive or emotional eating patterns or general low self-concept may have subsided through your work in therapy, medical treatment or personal growth, the mentality and accompanying physical manifestations and conditions can linger.

High stress, self-criticism, rumination, self-harm, self-neglect and (T)traumas can be deeply rooted in your mind, in your way of being, but also within your body and its systems. In conjunction with or following therapeutic support or personal work, your body can be a powerful pathway and an integral part in finding balance. Yoga Where U R Planted seeks to enrich your other treatments with complementary yogic tools.

Guiding you in a co-discovery of practices, resources and philosophical concepts that apply to your unique situation. The goal: empowering you with ways to practice (and thereby support your overall ability to):

— Notice your internal signals

— Make decisions based upon them.

— Build a self-wellness kit of practices that you can adapt to your needs throughout your journey

— Discover practical self-care and self-tending opportunities in your daily life

— Cultivate self-neutrality & self-compassion, functional appreciation for your whole self

— Explore the idea of tolerable pleasure

— Look at your core values, core beliefs, intentions and goals both on the mat and via self-inquiry and learning

— Embodying empowerment, self-actualization and Self

— Key Areas of Focus: Connect to your Self, sub-clinical disassociation, over-achieving and constant activity, destructive self-talk/self-image, perfectionism, disordered eating mentalities and nervous system dysregulation.

— Choice, collaboration and freedom from stifling timeframe- or outcome-focused thinking are key.

Can be a part of a care team for those currently experiencing clinical mental or physical health concerns after intake and if your current care provider(s) also thinks this may be beneficial for you.

With various techniques to encourage embodiment and present moment awareness when safe, we will begin to work on reframing behaviors and ways of relating to your body, movement and your experience of choice in these areas. We will seek to cultivate body and self-neutrality and plant seeds for self-compassion, when you're ready. We will explore how to translate your new awareness of your body-mind into choices based upon your wants and needs that lead you to a more agentic experience of life. You will be offered opportunities to learn more about your nervous system and body, where relevant. This embodied, somatically-informed, self-compassionate foundation will begin to flow out - soothing your nervous system, other related body systems, affecting other areas of your life.

Breaking free from crippling self-doubt, self-deprecation, tacit forms of self-harm. Appreciating your capabilities. Embracing your possibilities, your true values, needs. Caring for yourself so you can offer your gifts to the world.