Yoga Therapy - Turn Surgery Wait Times Into a Wellness Plan For Inner Peace With Yoga Therapy

If you are waiting for word to find out what's really going on with your body, you probably feel like your life is on hold, and you have little control. Even though you may feel powerless, you do have vital control.

Use wait times to discover more about your own body mind, and accumulate precious moments of inner peace and well being. Develop a wellness plan.

Focus

What's In your control during this wait time is your choice of focus. The simple act of bringing your attention to your breathing can slow down the breathing process and draw your attention inward. Your wellness plan must include developing a relationship with your breath. Take a few moments often during the day to observe the breath. Slow it down by making the exhalations a little longer. In addition, here is a practice that deepens the breath.

Practice:

Place your hands on your hips with thumbs in the back and fingers pointing forward so your palms are parallel to the ground. Notice how this position affects your breath. If you naturally breathe deeply, 5 to 10 breaths will no doubt be enough for you to feel a difference. If you are a shallow breather and your shoulders are tight, it will take longer for the breath to reach deeper in the abdomen. Be patient.

Attitude

During these dreary wait times, could you find a way to be okay with the way things are? Acknowledge your feelings whatever they are. Stop blaming yourself or others. Listen to a guided relaxation or meditation that works for you, and find the place of gratitude within. Your wellness plan must include having a positive attitude. Learn to relax more and experience inner peace and a sense of wellbeing. Here is one way to create this physiological change.

Practice:

Once or twice a day find a quiet spot where you won't be disturbed. Turn off the phone or decide that you will let it ring and not answer it. This is your quiet time to practice relaxation. Slowly and silently repeat the following phrases to yourself. Repeat each phrase two to four times. "I am beginning to feel relaxed.... My hands and arms are heavy and warm.... My feet and legs are heavy and warm.... My breathing is slow and regular.... My heartbeat is calm and regular."

Use wait times to build a closer relationship with your body and breath, as well as to practice inducing a physical state of deep rest. In yoga therapy, practices are modified to individual needs. Make adjustments to the best of your ability and accumulate moments of inner peace and wellbeing.

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From Heather Greaves -Yoga Teacher Trainer and Body Therapies Yoga Training

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Yoga Therapy - How Yoga Teachers Can Facilitate Health and Wellness With Yoga Therapy

How can yoga teachers, holistic health practitioners, massage therapists and other health care professionals facilitate health and wellness? How comfortable are you exploring feelings and emotions, the full spectrum of your being?

1. Yoga Therapy

Yoga techniques can be applied to enhance health and wellness. Postures, yoga breathing, deep relaxation, mantras, meditation and other yoga techniques can be used as you create a safer place for the student to explore the deeper dimensions of his/her being. You'll have to take into account each student's age, culture, religion, and specific health challenge when selecting techniques. Then take it one step further by modifying those techniques according to needs.

As a yoga teacher and or holistic health practitioner, you can select both gross techniques like postures and breathing, as well as subtle ones like deep relaxation and meditation. These would all be included in your Yoga Therapy treatment plan.

2. Body Mind Spirit

Yoga psychology and philosophy are clear that the cause of illness and disease is the lack of knowledge of the true Self. We can explore body mind spirit using the specific 8-fold path (Ashtanga Yoga). This path is given in Patanjali's yoga sutra, and has what is called Outer Limbs and Inner Limbs for a full exploration that leads to the experience of the true Self.

As a massage therapist, or therapist of another discipline, you can create a safer place for the client to examine physical challenges as as explore feelings and emotions. In Yoga Therapy, this is done within the framework of yoga psychology that amongst other beliefs identifies attachment and aversion as 2 of the forces to be investigated.

3. The Yoga Therapist

The most important key to facilitating health and wellness is the therapist herself or himself. The massage therapist, health care professional, holistic health practitioner, or yoga teacher wanting to share yoga as a healing path will bring Presence, Understanding and Compassion, having practiced both outer and inner limbs of Ashtanga Yoga during the formal training required. You, the practitioner would have explored your own feelings and emotions during the training, and your ability to be Present would have increased, as would Understanding and Compassion.

Yoga teachers, holistic health practitioners and individuals with a basic understanding of yoga can become wellness educators and offer a creative student-centered approach to sharing the techniques of yoga through Yoga Therapy. They can create a non-judgemental space for students to discover their true Self as they facilitate health and wellness.

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From Heather Greaves - the Self Care Mentor and Body Therapies Yoga Training

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