Yoga therapy

What is yoga therapy?

Yoga therapy uses evidence-based, simple and accessible practices which include movement, breathwork, guided meditation and relaxation - some of which take as little as 5mins - to support and improve physical, mental and emotional wellbeing so that you can thrive in modern life.

Meaning I use yoga therapy to help people move from any painful, difficult or challenging places to somewhere better, more comfortable and at ease.

Yoga therapy sessions are rooted in the science of yoga and are therefore a research led and effective wellbeing choice which brings together modern science, biomedicine, neuroscience, psychology, trauma sensitive training, and ancient yoga wisdom.

Session key facts

• Sessions are offered:

  • Face-to-face at Space Therapies Stirchley, 1437 Pershore Road, Stirchley, Birmingham, B30

  • Online via Zoom

  • Location and access information can be found here >

• Opening hours are:

  • Wednesday 8am - 8pm

  • Thursday 8am - 8pm

  • Friday 9.30am - 6pm

  • Saturday 9.30am - 1pm

• Online and face-to-face sessions take place in a warm, welcoming, confidential, accepting and respectful space where you can always show up just as you are.

• I offer yoga therapy sessions on a short term or long term basis to suit your needs.

• Get in touch here to book or if you have any questions >

How can yoga therapy support your wellbeing?

Yoga therapy benefits and supports many aspects of modern life and balanced health including:

• Finding calm - yoga for managing overwhelm, stress and anxiety to offer you greater balance in everyday life and when you’re under pressure

• Mood and emotional wellbeing - developing yoga tools to self-soothe, boost and nourish

• Greater resilience - finding greater personal strength, balance, ease and clarity in these demanding times through tools to help nervous system regulation and balance

• Fatigue recovery - using therapeutic yoga for chronic fatigue, burnout and cultivating sustainable energy levels

• Back health - soothing yoga for back pain, improving back strength, uncovering dysfunctional movement habits, living in greater comfort with scoliosis are just some of the areas yoga therapy supports

• Gut health - supporting and improving digestive system function including yoga for constipation and IBS

• Muscular skeletal recovery - whether you suffer from shoulder tension, hip pain or an old knee injury, yoga therapy for muscular skeletal recovery works with all aspects of your body to support dysfunctional movement patterns, old and new injures, and post-surgery recovery.

• Restful sleep - tools from science, breathwork and yoga for better sleep health, sleep recovery, sleep hygiene and insomnia

• Immune support - from boosting daily immune health to supporting autoimmune conditions, yoga therapy supports rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, diabetes, psoriasis, and other immune conditions

• Cancer support - gentle therapeutic yoga practices to support anyone affected by cancer at any part of the cancer journey

• Pain management - mindful therapeutic yoga for reducing, managing and living with pain in greater ease, whether you have acute, recovering or chronic pain, including headaches, migraines, menstruation cramps, joint care, post surgery recovery, or non-specific pain as science and yoga come together to support all aspects of pain management

• Cardiovascular health - safe yoga practices through mindful yoga tools to support your wellbeing whether you have a high blood pressure or a heart condition

• Reproductive health - supporting everything from period irregularity and pain, conception, pregnancy, postpartum to menopause to find greater balance, comfort and ease.

How I work

As a yoga therapist, I’m passionate about equipping people with simple, accessible tools which are effective for their needs and can be applied in their everyday lives, not just in our sessions.

This therapeutic approach is person centric and holistic - I work with you as a whole individual, responding to your needs in a safe, welcoming and informed manner.

Sessions are tailored for what you need whether you want to:

• support your everyday quality of life and cultivate greater calm and resilience

• recover from a particular event, experience, struggle or feeling

• access supporting tools to help you live with greater comfort and ease whatever your difficulties

• improve performance, reach goals, or prepare for an event such as exam, speech, birth or surgery

• comfortably recover from or live with an injury, condition or illness

• tools to help you with any physical, mental or emotional stress, discomfort or pain

• connect to things that truly matter to you so that you can build a positive future and find greater ease in the present regardless of circumstances

• use this therapeutic approach as a stand-alone tool or as a complimentary practice in addition to your current therapeutic support.

This is achieved gently using yoga therapy tools to help you develop:

• more self-agency (via greater embodiment which is awareness and attunement to your internal and external states)

• better relationship and understanding of your autonomic nervous system (so that you can switch between ‘safe” and “protective” modes more freely and consciously)

• greater resilience (by widening your window of tolerance)

• skills to deal with life’s challenges whether they are physical, mental and emotional (by gaining effective tools that help you manage the space between stimulus and response so that you can choose more often to respond rather than react)

• balance in life with an appreciation for your personal needs and values which translates to improved wellbeing and quality of life.

If you want to know how yoga therapy is different from or how it can support other therapies, such as talking therapy, then you can find out more here >

Booking your yoga therapy session

Step 1 - Get in touch: An introduction call so that we can discuss the yoga therapy approach and how it can support your needs. This is free of charge, confidential, with no obligation to continue and can take around 20 minutes. You can arrange this by simply getting in touch with me here >

Step 2 - Schedule your session: If you feel the approach is for you and we agree to proceed then I usually recommend 6 yoga therapy sessions, depending on your unique needs. You can find out more about what your sessions entail here >

Step 3 - Attend your session: We meet at an agreed time and date. Options for yoga therapy online and yoga therapy face-to-face are available. You can find out more about locations here >

You can also email me or call me directly if you have any questions or want to discuss your options.

Cost

I offer a sliding fee scale depending on your income - I don’t ask for proof of income as it is a trust based system.

Fee per session

• Initial telephone introduction: completely free for all and there is no obligation to continue

• Earnings up to £20,000: £45

• £20,001 to £40,000: £55

• £40,001 to £65,000: £70

• £65,001 and above: £85

Payment

You can pay per session or block book sessions in advance. Payments are make by bank transfer - details provided on invoice.

• Per session: you are invoiced after each session.

• Block book: if you prefer to block book in 6 or 10 session blocks then a 10% discount will apply and you are invoiced in advance.

Concessions

I’d never want money to be the reason you don’t seek the support you can benefit from. So if you have any difficulty with the fee then please get in touch and we can discuss your options. I offer a number of free of charge sessions each week - for one-to-one and group sessions. As always, it is a trust based system so these are granted on a first come first serve basis with no complicated questions asked about affordability.