Svaroopa® Yoga

Learn a unique approach to yoga! Svaroopa® yoga specializes in core opening and decompression of the spine - from tail to top. This highly effective and therapeutic style of yoga releases the deepest layers of tension in your body. This non-athletic practice specializes in meeting your individual needs. Students of Svaroopa® yoga learn different ways of doing familiar yoga poses and also learn additional poses that they may have never seen before. Each class includes guided awareness, pranayama, and yoga poses. Precise alignments, propping, and personalized adjustments have a therapeutic effect on your body, mind, and more! Svaroopa® yoga is appropriate for both new students and for seasoned yoga practitioners.

Benefits:
Spinal Decompression • Relieves Back and Neck Pain Sciatic Pain • Migraines • Improves Balance • Digestion • Chronic Fatigue • High Blood Pressure • Arthritis • Osteoporosis • Softens Stiff and Painful Joints • Stress Reduction • Insomnia • Fibromyalgia • Heart Opening • Dissolving Harmful Patterns • Heals Emotional Trauma • Rejuvenation • Prepares and Supports Meditation • Deeper Experience of Self • Discover Easeful Daily Living

Classes are available for students of all levels and experience, and half day seminars will be scheduled throughout the year.

Yoga Therapy
You'll be held in supported poses designed for deeper release than you imagine possible. Specific therapeutic Svaroopa® techniques are chosen according to the needs, tendencies, and experience level of the client. Deeply nurturing, restful, blissful, and healing on all levels. Yoga Therapy is great for beginners or experienced students who want to explore more opening.

Embodyment®
What Can You Do to Relieve Chronic Tensions When the Usual Approaches Don't Work?
Svaroopa® Yoga classes can help relieve chronic tension, tight muscles, back pain, neck and shoulder pain. But, when the discomfort persists and/or has been chronic, Embodyment® Yoga Therapy may provide immediate relief and longer lasting and deeper relief and release. After you feel better and more mobile, regular classes and home practice will enable you to maintain the feeling of openness, relaxation, and relief from pain.

What is Embodyment® Yoga Therapy?
Embodyment® Yoga Therapy is a simple, yet highly effective and non-invasive technique that opens and releases the tensions in tight muscles surrounding the spine. By releasing the tightness, gentle and dynamic changes take place at the core of your body that reduce pain and increase mobility. Embodyment® Yoga Therapy may provide benefits equivalent to 6-8 sequential Svaroopa® Yoga classes.

What Does the Therapist Do During an Embodyment® Yoga Therapy Session?
The sessions are one-on-one private sessions where you rest, fully clothed, in Shavasana (Yoga's Relaxation Pose). The practitioner rests her hands on the lower spine for a period of minutes. With this gentle touch, the therapist assists the client in the release of deep muscular and emotional tension. These changes are integrated throughout the whole body.

When Should You Schedule an Embodyment® Yoga Therapy Session?
When you are in pain, having trouble sleeping, preparing for or recovering from a surgical procedure. If you are pregnant, trying to get pregnant or have recently given birth, Embodyment® Yoga Therapy can provide deep benefits in opening you up to pregnancy, relief during pregnancy, and from the process of giving birth. Or, YOU MAY JUST WANT TO FEEL BETTER!

Home Practice Tutorial
Establish a home yoga practice according to your body and goals.

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Overlap Healing
Get fast and powerful healing! Unravel years of collected tensions and patterning and get the opening and relief you've been looking for. Overlap Healing is a personalized, focused, intensive approach to healing and transformation. This commitment provides you with body, mind and life changing openings that will amaze you.

Your package of sessions includes a combination of Yoga Therapy, Embodyment® and Home Practice Tutorial depending on your particular needs and goals. This is particularly recommended for individuals healing a medical diagnosis or for experienced students who want the most opening possible. Dissolve pain, shift old mental and emotional patterns, release blockages that prevent you from experiencing your own health, vitality, and bliss.

"This yoga is a true oasis of calm in my busy, pressured life. The first shavasana always removes my work-related tension and lets my body relax and rejuvenate. By the end, I am often in another realm, altogether."
— Judy S, Sacramento

"I gain new openings each session…of the heart and body. And I carry what I learn and experience with me daily."
— Kathleen J, San Anselmo