Life can be challenging. Our daily lives or the events in our lives (health diagnosis, death of a loved one, separation, stages of life...) can provoke strong emotions that we wish we could manage.
Keeping a peaceful mind and a certain distance in all situations is not a superpower that some of us are born with. It's a skill we learn and nurture throughout our lives.
Keeping a peaceful, positive mind, staying centered, having an anchor point. These are the goals Maria aims to achieve for her students, so that they can live more serenely and cope with their difficulties.
Yoga therapy can help you learn about the flow of energy in your body, so that you can optimize it by preventing its loss and understanding how to recharge it. Through a one-to-one approach, we' ll identify new daily habits/routines that will help you improve your health and well-being.
What is therapeutic yoga?
Yoga therapy is a wellness care practice that can complement conventional treatments. Derived from yoga, it works on various physical and mental aspects (body, emotions and thoughts, which constantly interact and make up each individual).
Therapeutic yoga can be preventive, but it can also strengthen the health resources of people who are suffering. It involves taking charge of patients who have a health problem, enabling them to cope better with their situation, illness, treatment or hospitalization.
What are the benefits of therapeutic yoga?
Therapeutic yoga techniques can help :
- Reduce episodes of insomnia
- Improve sleep quality by reducing the feeling of fatigue
- Manage stress and anxiety (reduce anxiety episodes, post-traumatic stress disorder)
- Improving postoperative quality of life through meditation and gentle movement,
- Improve quality of life for patients with chronic diseases. For example, people with type I and type II diabetes, metabolic syndrome and fibromyalgia.
- Helping people who have difficulty managing their disorders to cope better with hospitalization and medical care.
- Helping to keep fit even for those who have difficulty moving and/or are bedridden.
- Improve self-esteem.
- Giving tools to get out of a crisis of discouragement/depression.
- Reduce inflammation and chronic inflammatory pain.
When participants make the necessary lifestyle changes and integrate the short, personalized practices offered, they feel better, with more energy and better overall health.
How does a first therapeutic yoga session work?
We will discuss your health issues, taking into account any diagnosis made by your doctor. This will help us to better understand what can be adapted or suggested to you.
For example: postures, breathing, meditations, lifestyle.
At the end of the session, we establish the objectives for our follow-up and you leave with the first tips to implement in your daily life.
This first session lasts an hour and a half.
How does yoga therapy work?
In yoga therapy, we work on different levels and consider that every person and every state of health is different. Consequently, we work in stages.
This means we start with the easiest, most accessible layers of imbalance, then, if the person wishes, we can go deeper and reach more subtle layers of their being.
Even for the most superficial layers, there's a process of learning new habits and unlearning old ones that will take time and motivation to implement. That's why it's not enough just to give us the keys to better health; the hardest part is changing our habits.
The first class lasts an hour and a half, with subsequent classes lasting an hour.
