What is yoga therapy?

Yoga therapy is a way of applying the practices of yoga to support and improve health and wellbeing in a way that is more careful, adaptive and focused towards particular health or life challenges.

​Everyone, regardless of age, fitness or background can enjoy and benefit from a well-crafted and suitable yoga practice. Whether you are recovering from illness or injury or have limited mobility or energy. There is always a way to practice yoga and we are specially trained to help. 

Usually taught to you in a 1-2-1 setting and then continued at home, practicing a carefully developed routine. 

In our initial session we will spend time reviewing your current health situation, any previous experience in yoga, exercise, or movement-based activities, and your aims, interests and challenges. We then work together to design a suitable practice that you then do regularly at home.

Usually yoga therapy is taught to individuals in private sessions or in small, personalised group classes. Yoga can be extremely helpful when applied carefully and progressively. The yoga practices will be adapted to suit your level of health, energy, lifestyle and take any particular issues into consideration.

Benefits

Yoga therapy can be particularly helpful in a wide range of situations including:
- recovery from physical or mental illness and injury
- reducing and coping with anxiety or stress
- improving back and spine health
- improving stiffness or limited mobility
- developing fitness
- pregnancy and post-natal recovery
- establishing and supporting a meditation practice
- personal development and spiritual enquiry

Fees
£52 per lesson (up to one hour)
£32 per review (up to 30 mins)
​£48 per lesson for 5 lessons (prepaid. £240 for 5 (£20 discount)  

Please note there is a 24-hour cancellation policy and a 50% charge is applied for lessons not cancelled with sufficient notice. We hope you understand. There is flexibility in this for Covid safety. 
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To get started

To find out more about yoga therapy or to get started, please read more about private lessons here or get in touch with Clara.
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Read more about yoga therapy

Read the Yoga as Therapy blog post here
"Thank you so much for your help, support and guidance over the past few months.
​It has helped me get back on the way to more comfortable mobility."
​Liz

Yoga background & yoga as therapy

Bristol YogaSpace primarily teaches according to the viniyoga approach of applying yoga appropriately to the individual (which is why class sizes are smaller). Traditionally Yoga was taught on a 1 to 1 basis and was completely tailored to the student and their needs. Yoga and yoga therapy is best applied in a private, 1 to 1 setting.

Find out more about the VIniyoga approach to yoga and other yoga methods here >


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