Yoga Therapy
Conscious steps to balance in body and mind
“I am often irritable and compare myself to others as well as being overcritical of myself; I am a perfectionist with ‘high standards’.
“When I wake up my negative thoughts begin; critical, fear of losing someone, that I am not enough.
I was also late in achieving my potential.
“Yoga and movement helps me calm down. I feel quieter, more positive, strong, and present. I use a mantra I learned from Natasha to bring joy and lightness to my heart and more positivity to my thoughts. Walking in nature, which was part of my therapy plan, also helps me feel part of something bigger than myself.”
Would you like to…
- Improve your sleep
- Feel empowered in life transitions
- Strengthen and tone your body
- Have agency over your health and
- wellbeing
- Bring joy, passion, and creativity back
- into your life
What is Yoga Therapy
Yoga therapy is a self-empowered process. The approach includes movement, breathing, and awareness skills, combined with a balanced diet, relaxation and rest.
This empowering approach means taking steps using your own resources to manage your life and find balance on a daily basis. Being actively engaged in your own recovery is rewarding and motivating.
Start with your most pressing need, whether physical, mental, emotional or spiritual, and experience how other areas of your being are affected.
Understanding the meaning and purpose of your actions keeps your journey sustainable and uplifting as you move to balance.
Everything is connected and therefore whatever steps you start to take will affect you as a whole.
From here you can fine-tune and your next steps will be clear.
Yoga therapy recognizes the great capacity for change we have within ourselves, something the ancients understood and modern neuro-science supports.
Working in a complementary fashion with medical professionals, the yoga therapy focuses on your feelings and needs over and above the ‘diagnosis’, therefore it is oriented to healing rather than ‘curing’
‘Human suffering is trying to be something that you are not.’
~ U. G. Krishnamurti
Who are these sessions for
Many of us have experienced to a lesser or greater extent the effects of anxiety, depression, mood swings, tiredness, weakness, brittle bones, lack of focus, and cloudy mind, lack of direction, a sense of lack, of not being enough.
For women especially, the hormonal changes brought about in our monthly cycles and the stages of menopause can have an impact on us physically, emotionally and psychologically. Changes which affect our lives at every level.
The good news is you don’t need to ‘suck it up, resign to it, and become invisible.
You can adopt lifestyle changes and practices to help find stability in body and mind, better sleep, improving relationships, and reconnecting with meaning and purpose in your life.
How we work
In our 1-on-1 Yoga Therapy session, we explore
Movement & Breathing
Learn practices to release, mobilize, align, stabilize, and strengthen all the parts of your body and apply these functional movement patterns in daily life. Breath links body and mind. Practices such as observing the breath, natural easy breath and breathing exercises are a key tool of transformation
Awareness & Feelings
Awareness practices include the meditation practices of mindfulness, absorption and
self-reflection. Through the lens of yoga, you can observe the qualities of mind and five feeling states that create suffering in the present and future. Understanding the
fight, flight or freeze response of the body helps you manage anxiety and self-regulate.
Words & Thoughts
Self-reflection involves words and thoughts as much as the dialogue in our heads and the encouragement or criticism we give ourselves. With mantra, as appropriate, and other tools such as supportive self-talk, and journalism, harness the power of words in your growth and development.
Relationships & Connections
This is just as much a relationship with ourselves as how to relate to others. Yoga brings us into a relationship with how we are and holds a mirror to our own lack of or understanding. We can cultivate friendliness, compassion and joy as much as not getting caught up in unhelpful dynamics.
Insights & Integration
When insights arise from various practices and states, Journaling and mapping are valuable tools so we can record information to look back on. Integrating, embodying our insights with action is essential to integrate the insights into our lives.
Relationships & Connections
Lasting change lies in shifting our patterns, which takes effort and practice. Neuroplasticity is evidence that change is possible and we can make it happen with intention and action over time.
Recovery & Growth
Just as our habits over a period of time can trigger lifestyle dis-ease, we can consciously decide to take steps to improve the situation to whatever degree is possible. Recovery in the simplest sense is a process with an improved outcome from the starting point.
‘Well-being is fundamentally no different than learning to play the cello. f one practices the skills of wellbeing, one will get better at it.’
~ R.J. Davidson
What to expect
Sessions one-on-one
At home or in the studio: 90-minute Yoga therapy intake session
+ one 60-min follow up session
Online: 75-min Yoga therapy intake session
+ one 45-min follow up session.
(includes print and online support for your plan)
Follow-up support (per your needs)
As needed, your therapy can be supplemented with pre-recorded video, live online and in person meetings and content
(print and video)
Investment
Initial Intake Session 90min. Fine to skip step one as intake form is included.
plus one follow up session of 60 mins.
85 €
Initial Session 75 min. Fine to skip step one as intake form is included.
One follow up session of 45 mins.
75 €
Your Teacher
Welcome
I’m Natasha Gunn,
Yoga has helped me find a steady ground within myself and grow in my personal and professional life. I believe we all have a unique path, and have agency over our health and well-being.
My yoga background includes training in Ashtanga Vinyasa, Trauma- sensitive yoga, Yin yoga, and Vinyasa Krama. I am a Svastha Yoga Therapist in the Krishnamacharya tradition.
Always a student, currently, I follow an intensive program reflecting on the Yoga Sutras with a group of scholars and healers in South India.
Free Video
What ground am I standing on right now?
In this FREE video I invite you to investigate where you are now in relation to the world, yourself, and others. You can Download the PDF to accompany the video in this exercise.
