Yoga Therapy

Kim Wedel, certified yoga therapist in Northeast OH, guiding a client through a supported restorative pose during a private yoga for rehabilitation session.

Whether it be to reduce stress and anxiety, rehabilitate after an injury or surgery or to find your full potential in your sport of choice, yoga therapy can help!

Yoga therapy approaches a person’s overall well-being from the standpoint of mental, emotional, spiritual as well as physical. Each layer is built on the next for sustainable wellness. An individualized plan is constructed after an evaluation to best determine your goals and needs.

A free 20 minute consultation and explanation of services is available to everyone to see if Yoga Therapy is a good fit for you. From there a 90 min evaluation, based off your intake form, is scheduled in order to develop the most optimal plan to best fit your needs. 60 minute sessions are then set up to implement the health plan. The journey of healing is unique to your specific goals. Sessions are located at my home studio, your home or virtually. An additional travel expense may be added based on location.

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Benefits of Yoga Therapy

As your Yoga Therapist I am able to help you address a wide variety of problems that may be affecting you mentally, physically, emotionally and energetically. Below is information on many areas of yoga therapy.

Recovery for the Injured and Healing

Correction of Alignment and Joint mobility through a series of evaluative practices will optimize your recovery from a long-term issue, joint replacement, illness or lifestyle. No matter what you’ve been through, yoga therapy will help you improve your overall health! I consider ALL the aspects of who you are, where you’ve been, what experiences you’ve had that has led you here. We will build upon that so you can function optimally.

Chronic Dysfunction and Pain Management Recovery

Looking at your skeletal structure, determining strengths and weakness and compensatory patterns can determine what needs to be done to aid you in feeling so much better. We don’t always know or understand why we have to manage the same pains over and over. I can help you discover what needs to be strengthened and what needs to be released to develop an aligned, supported structure for pain reduction and management.

Elite Movers/Crafting Your Skill

Your craft may be singing, cycling, dancing, crossfit, cross country skiing, lifting boxes at your job etc. Whatever you do in your life whether it be professionally or recreationally, we all want to achieve our best performance that supports a healthy body. To have an outside opinion and guided efficient movement evaluation is an immeasurable commodity. Yoga Inspired Wellness creates a personalized plan for you to be and do what you love the most in the most efficient, productive and healthiest way.

Breath Practices: The way we breathe

There are many ways in which to breathe that will change the way you feel mentally and physically. If one thing needs to be understood that will change and be the basis for your transformation, it is the way breathe! One of the best way to ease low back pain is to learn to breathe correctly. The best way to reduce anxiety and stress, is to breathe correctly. The best way to get a good night’s rest is to learn to breathe in a way that supports your body, mind and spirit.

Breath Awareness Training

From my experience, 90% of us are breathing backwards! Breathing in this manner causes undue stress and anxiety without us even realizing it. I will teach you how to breathe in the manner our bodies were meant to, to allow our nervous system to process stressful situations more healthfully and readily. An acquired breath practice can also positively impact your sport of choice, your relationships and overall health by reducing disease and creating calm.

Meditation and Relaxation

Deeper Emotional Layers and Self-Care

This work is most intriguing to me. Through my yoga therapy training I have learned to treat my clients from a multi- dimensional approach. More often than not our physical challenges are based or influenced from an emotional wound or trauma. Uncovering the deeper emotional layers is done through many modalities in yoga therapy. We work together to discover what may lay beneath the surface that could be affecting your overall mental and physical health. Self-care is immeasurable in your recovery and having a support system and guidance will help you find your true potential.

What to Expect from Your Yoga Therapy Session.

Your yoga therapy session will start with a detailed interview and assessment that will give me a clearer picture of what’s going on with you. There are many layers to who we are and how our lifestyle impacts our wellbeing. We will discuss and come up with a plan to best suit your goals.

Assessment of Your Personal Health Goals

Muscular and Skeletal Assessments

Taking a detailed look at your spine from all angles and seeing where you may be compensating or how your body’s structure may be impacting your overall wellness is an important assessment tool. Your muscles and bones tell a story both physically and mentally. Efficient and fluid movement relieves tension and creates a stable foundation for ease of mobility. A simple walk across the floor can tell your yoga therapist what the game plan for your health goals should be.

Dynamic Movement Evaluation; How You Move Impacts Your Health

This evaluation goes deeper than the Structure assessment. This assessment is about the way in which you move for the most effective results. If you are a weight lifter, cyclist, singer, driver or work at a desk all day, there are ways in which you move that either helps or hinders your overall health. I will watch you in your activity and see if adjustments need to made in order to alleviate pain or to produce the best movement possible to achieve a specific goal. This also includes joint replacement rehabilitation.

Breath Practices

There are many ways in which to breathe that will change the way you feel mentally and physically. If one thing needs to be understood that will change and be the basis for your transformation, it is the way breathe! One of the best way to ease low back pain is to learn to breathe correctly. The best way to reduce anxiety and stress, is to breathe correctly. The best way to get a good night’s rest, is to learn to breathe in a way that supports your body mind and spirit.

Intake of Energetic and Emotional Responses to Daily Living

I have a lot of questionnaires that will help us determine where you are energetically and emotionally. We are multi-dimensional beings. There is never one simple answer to our health. That is why there is yoga therapy. You may need to dig deeper into a feeling, an intuition, a mindset to better understand why you react to something or someone or why you may not be getting out of life what you most desire. Taking a deeper dive into what makes you tick and uncovering the tendencies is a way to sift through the issues that may be holding you back.

Yoga for Healing Purposes

Simply put, we just feel better when we move and breathe. Yoga does not have to be strenuous to be effective. Yoga is a modality that is thousands of years old. The multitude of benefits is immeasurable. Time spent on a yoga mat can look many different ways but the results are the same. Clarity, sense of self, awareness, confidence, muscular-skeletal strengthening and stretching, improved digestion, less stress and anxiety are just a handful of benefits known from this ancient practice. As your yoga therapist, I will guide you into a practice suitable for your specific needs.

Meditation and Relaxation

As of late meditation has been brought to the forefront as a means to find regulation of emotions. This practice is helpful to everyone and anyone can do it, sometimes we just need a guide. There are fundamentals of meditation that need to be learned in order to create the best experience with the most benefits. Yoga therapy also brings in Relaxation as a tool to calm, clear and manage life’s ups and downs. A relaxation session is different from meditation in that you are guided by the yoga therapist to find a state of calm that allows you to heal at a deeper level.

Development of a Strategic Plan for Optimal Functioning; Mentally and Physically

All of the above modalities are tools in the yoga therapist’s tool box. Each individual comes with a unique set of circumstances, history, injury, trauma and goals. Whether you just want to get through the day with less pain or to run a marathon next year, yoga therapy can help. Yoga therapy is an adjunct to your current health plan. As your yoga therapist, I am certified to communicate and work with your licensed health care provider. Once the goal is defined, a strategic plan is put into place, a relationship is built, and we work together to achieve your optimal health goals.

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