Structural Yoga Therapy offers a healing yoga practice that addresses specific physical issues that have resulted from injuries, illness or stress. Structural Yoga Therapy adapts the wide-ranging benefits of yoga, in a very holisitic manner, to meet the requirements of each individual. It looks at our individual specific needs for coming to wholeness, and offers a personalised yoga practice for healing pain and discomfort in body, psyche and spirit.

In Structural Yoga Therapy, if there is discomfort in the mental/emotional state, the body is taken as the gateway, an opening to deeper layers, calling to be healed.

Structural Yoga Therapy is beneficial for:

Back pain - Slipped and herniated disc - Imbalances in the pelvic area - Hip pain - Neck and shoulder pain - Knee Pain – Fibromyalgia - Chronic Fatigue – Hypertension - Stress and anxiety – Depression - Headaches/migraine – Arthritis - Rheumatoid Arthritis – Insomnia - Asthma and bronchitis

Yoga practice is being enjoyed by millions around the world as a means to improve health and well-being. Yet, everyone’s body-mind structure is unique. Many of us live with stress or pain from past injuries. Illness, pain and chronic stress always impact posture and can cause structural imbalances. In addition, many of us have postural imbalance like spinal curvatures (scoliosis), elbow carrying angles, knock knees, or other patterns of misalignment in the body which cause weakness, pain and stress to accumulate. Structural Yoga Therapy can dramatically correct posture. Back ache, neck, shoulder, knee, hip pain can be eliminated and changes of spinal curvatures can be achieved.

Structural Yoga Therapy finds a specific set of practices to bring you back to a harmonious state of being. In Structural Yoga Therapy, if there is discomfort in the mental/emotional state, the body is a gateway, an opening to deeper layers of healing and toward wholeness on the deepest levels of being. In such cases, Structural Yoga Therapy takes the surface manifestation of disharmony in the body-mind as a starting point to access the underlying, deeper parts of one’s being asking to be healed.

The methods that Structural Yoga Therapy employs for healing are simple but powerful adjustments in physical, energetic and mental exercises, lifestyle, and diet, relaxation and healing practices, to bring us into harmony with the natural rhythms of life. Much disease, discomfort, disharmony in the body-mind arises out of a forgetulfulness of who we really are. Structural Yoga Therapy is a grounded, simple and powerful call to heal through returning to a remembrance of our true Self.

Some Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy is also applied in sessions. Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy takes into account individual constitution and doshic imbalance and directs the personalised programme of movement, pranayama, and self-healing practices to be given.

“For the yogi, health is not merely determined by the physical body, nor is it created by exercise alone. The Sanskrit word for health is “svastha”, which, literally translated means “established in the Self”. To the yogis, true health is a coming home to your Self. In the condition of not being at home to your Self, there is dis-ease.” Mukunda Stiles.

“The body is the visible soul, and the soul is the invisible body. The body and soul are not divided anywhere, they are parts of each other, they are parts of one whole. …Begin the feeling of wonder with your own body, because that is the closest to you. The closest that nature has approached to you, the closest existence has come to you, is through the body. In your body is the water of the oceans, in your body is the fire of the stars and the suns, in your body is the air, your body is made of earth”. Osho