Lots of people these days are looking for the quick answer, the pill, the person who just being in their presence is going to make things better.
Yoga doesn’t work like that. While you may feel better in different ways the first time you leave class, it’s more like the pennies you put in your piggy bank for years and years until one day you realize it’s too heavy to pick up, it’s so full of your riches.
Yoga Therapy (YT) is also an investment and because of the individualized focus, brings greater returns. The focus in YT is working collaborative with you to help heal things like old injuries, correct alignment and posture, and generally creating change. With YT’s varied approaches we can work together toward changes in mind, body, relationships with self and others, and getting clear about your path. As with yoga practice, it’s not an instantaneous process, but you may find yourself feeling a little better almost immediately.
Investing time and energy can sound daunting. But investing deeply in the change you seek can help make permanent changes. If we examine the myriad inputs and experiences that got you to where you are now, it’s easier to see that it will take time to undo, adjust, and move beyond. Our aches, pains, trials and tribulations, injuries, and diseases didn’t accumulate in 24 hours. In the same way it took time for them to build up to become increasingly painful or a problem, solutions need to build on themselves, they take time. Healing requires an investment in yourself. An investment of your time, energy, and capacity to create change.
Yoga Therapy can help with framework, understanding, visualization, mobilizing resources, motivation, and the work we do together can move you toward all kinds of healing. Often once a single change is achieved, others become clearer and/or more accessible.
If you are ready or willing to try, I’d love to collaborate with you on the change you are seeking.