Movement and Fitness

Yoga Therapy

Yoga Therapy adapts the practice of Yoga to the individual needs of people with health challenges. Unlike a group Yoga class, Yoga Therapy is offered one-on-one, so the yoga therapist can create individually-tailored exercises for a home practice. Typically, this practice involves postures, breathing exercises and relaxation techniques, which are basic tools drawn from this ancient holistic healing system. Often, Yoga Therapy is offered to people who are unable to participate in a regular group class or who have specific concerns such as back pain, hypertension or asthma. Yoga Therapy is designed to empower the individual to progress toward greater health and well-being.

The benefits of yoga therapy include:

• Uniting the body and mind
• Relaxation
• Release of Tension
• Strengthening weak muscles, stretching tight ones
• Enhancing energy flow to stimulate the body's own natural healing processes
• Symptom relief for a wide range of chronic conditions including back pain, hypertension, asthma, depression, carpal tunnel syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder

NOTE: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine is currently funding eight major studies of yoga for a variety of conditions including high blood pressure, immune function, arthritis, insomnia, COPD, and diabetes. In addition, numerous smaller studies are examining the impact of yoga on a wide variety of diseases including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, sciatica, hot flashes, anorexia, high-functioning autism, high school and college stress and pain management.

Provider:

• Carol Krucoff, R.Y.T.

Integrative Personal Training

Integrative Personal Training is not simply personal training or exercising in a facility that also has many other modalities and healing practitioners. Integrative Personal Training joins together the physical aspects of exercise and physical rehabilitation with the mindfulness and spirit of the human experience so that you can truly experience full and free movement. It is not simply exercising but moving purposefully with full consciousness.

The benefits of this approach to exercise include:

• Emotional, intellectual and spiritual well being
• A truly healthy life experience
• Aging with vitality
• Proper weight maintenance
• Maintenance and improvement of physiological function including blood pressure, blood sugar and blood lipids

Provider:

• Noah St. John, M.S., R.D.