6 life changing long-term benefits of Therapeutic Yoga

Long-term benefits of Therapeutic Yoga –

1. It helps us to foster a deep reconnection with our living body, allowing us to access its innate wisdom and intelligence.
2. It teaches us the skill of emotional regulation. When we can regulate, we open clearer access to the feeling of inner safety which allows us to function in life with more control and ease.
3. The practice of listening to our body, attuning to its needs and honoring its capacity can support us to live within our own natural limits and boundaries. This gives us more confidence to choose our responses and actions, rather than being at the mercy of our unconscious reactions.
4. It reshapes our nervous system (our internal alarm/ safety system), bringing more balance to our emotional, mental and physical health.
5. It encourages compassionate self-inquiry which allows us to befriend ourselves and to be curious about how we are in the world and respond to our experience habitually.
6. Guides us towards feeling and sensing our experience more- to becoming embodied. To feel connected and aware of more than just the thinking of our experience. This has the effect of increasing the space inside with which we go into the world.

A therapeutic yoga practice is one that resonates with what feels safe and comfortable for each of us in that moment. It is a practice that invites us to be curious, to ask questions, to feel and move in ways that nourish us rather than deplete us.

Our body becomes our guide. The practice of intentionally connecting with our body and felt sense experience (safely and slowly) can help us to increase our capacity to feel, for awareness, for regulation, to tolerate discomfort, for resilience, healing and growth. Our human needs are ever-changing and when we can honour this with a practice that meets us in each moment, we really are honouring ourselves. I am a trauma-informed private yoga teacher offering one-to-one sessions in Cork and internationally. I use a compassionate trauma-informed approach that encourages self-inquiry and promotes embodiment. My intention is to empower clients with techniques that support mindful, bodily presence as a means to heal and transform. If you would like to work with me, you can find more information here in privateyoga website