Through the application of the principles and practices of yoga, yoga therapy is a process that aims to empower individuals in improving their health and well-being.  As an alternative to merely treating symptoms, yoga therapy is holistic, individualized, and client-centered, with a focus on the person rather than the problem or pathology. The yoga therapist seeks to understand the individual beyond the suffering or imbalance. Intrinsic to yoga therapy is honoring the body's inherent wisdom and the clients' own healing potential. A yoga therapist invites clients to draw upon their inner resources, with the intention of moving toward increased self-reliance to meet life's internal and external challenges with more steadiness and ease.  While yoga therapy does not offer a cure, it combines an integrative biopsychosocial-spiritual approach that enables you to experience healing, find resilience, and achieve transformative change by reconnecting you with who you are beyond pain, illness, grief, stress, or distraction.

A yoga therapist seeks to evaluate the client’s unique needs through inquiry, observation, and assessment, while carefully considering subtle contributors, such as beliefs, thoughts, emotions, and perceived relationship to self and world. With an established therapeutic alliance, the client is free to identify areas they wish to address or goals they aspire to accomplish through yoga therapy. The therapist will develop a plan, tailored to each client, by combining this information with personal experience, biomedical science, research, and yoga teachings.