YOGA THERAPY PRACTITIONER
CHOOSING YOGA THERAPY
‘Yoga is not for the flexible; it is for the willing.’
Hello, I’m Cilica, RYTP®
Going into my 21st year of practice as a Registered Yoga Therapy Practitioner, I appreciate the dilemmas the Covid pandemic has brought us with the need to intermittently isolate, change work environments and the diverse facets of our personal challenges.
Coming from a meditative, empathetic, and intuitive background, yoga therapy was a natural progression in my goal to help you achieve good health; heal, maintenance, and a higher level of ability.
Sessions are client centred in where you choose the yoga therapy methods that suit you best to solve your health concerns.
I have extensive experience with permanent movement disorders, COPD, mobility challenges, stress disorders, pain, and physical and mental illnesses. I welcome serving diverse people and cultures who help me continually grow as a therapist.
Why Yoga Therapy Works
A Balanced Approach to Therapy
- A balanced approach to maintaining your physical and mental health.
- Preventative health maintenance rather than after an injury or illness
- You want a holistic approach to being healthy
Maintaining and Improving Health
- A traditional holistic approach to creating a personal yoga practice.
- Deepen an existing yoga practice by learning new techniques, asanas, meditations, and philosophy.
General Physical Therapy & Medical Frustration
- You are frustrated with the medical community not treating you as a whole person.
- Patronised or limited conversations about your illness or challenges in a 5 minutes appointment at the doctor’s office.
Yoga Therapy Can Help
health issues due to injury, chronic conditions, an accident, illness, disease, improving physical and mental fitness, performance, agility and reshaping.
— Chronic, Phantom & Sudden Pain
— Side effects to meditation, painkillers
— Insomnia, Tiredness, Irritability
— Emotional Consistency
— Mobility and Physiology
— Stability and Lack of Balance
— Strengthening & Aiding Weakness
— Pregnancy/giving birth reshaping, alignment
Client Driven Holistic Therapy
One-to-One
Yoga Therapy
Yoga therapy private sessions address a wide variety of physical, mental and spiritual challenges. Addressed is the whole person. Yoga therapy is yoga applied for therapeutic applications.
Techniques range from breathing and energy work to specific yogasanas (physical), meditation, mindfulness, and self-care. Some techniques you do on your own, and the yoga therapist applies some.
With the guidance of a yoga therapist, you heal faster in a safe environment.
Types of Therapeutic Approach
Touch
Healing touch is an energy-based approach to yoga therapy. I use direct and indirect hand touch to use the magnetic field around your body and your energy centres that connect to your physical body. This treatment aligns your energy, removes excess, restores needed energy, shifts to relieve pain, calm your mind, ease mental anguish and more. Healing touch triggers a natural and intuitive self-healing long after the sessions conclude.
Enhanced Flexibility
With awareness of your breath, you are physically manipulated and stretched to increase flexibility and mobility. Each movement is controlled through minute changes to avoid injury and increase comfort. These techniques allow me to move into areas challenging for you on your own. You are both active and passive, depending on the intent, until you can internalise the movements on your own.
Pro-Active
When you are more active and mobile and movement is relatively natural, pro-active therapy is helpful to becoming self-reliant in your recovery and health maintenance. This type of therapy resembles a traditional one-to-one yoga session.
Here you move into and out of yogasana and specific movements with or without aid, manipulation and steadying. Frequently proactive therapy facilitates going deeper into movements, positions are held longer, and you can attempt advanced techniques.
Passive, Inactive
You remain inactively passive using yoga therapy techniques, manipulation, and movement, including energy trigger points. You exert no effort. Passive participation is an excellent approach to extreme stress, emotional challenges, exhaustion and where mobility is extremely painful due to illnesses or injury.
© Cilica, Update October 2021