One-on-one Yoga
Yoga Therapy is a way to bring yourself into an active and empowered relationship with your health, purpose, innermost wisdom and spirituality. I’m here to get you started, teach you helpful tools and uncover possibilities you might not yet see. I’ll be a cheerleader in your corner witnessing your efforts, challenging you when you need it and offering ongoing support as you create a life you love.
Yoga Therapy
Home Practice
An important aspect of our work together is developing a personal practice routine for you to do between sessions. The practice is shaped by your health needs, life experiences, professional responsibilities, interpersonal connections, and spirituality.
Beyond just āsana poses, your practice can include breath technique, prāṇāyāma (breathing ratios), nyāsa (special gestures), bhāvana (visualization), meditation, ritual and mantra (sacred sound). We’ll also lean heavily on the wisdom of yoga philosophy to provide enduring insight on what’s happening in your life and what to do about it.
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If you are dealing with illness or condition or circumstance that makes it difficult to manage daily life, you may seek yoga to help pacify, heal and recover
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You may seek yoga to protect and maintain your wellbeing or to support you in recovering from the stressors of your stage of life
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You may seek yoga to empower you through self-discipline, self-discovery, self-exploration and self-fulfillment
People seek yoga for different reasons…
Yoga Therapy can help you with…
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Do you have times when the mind won’t slow down, worry dominates your thoughts and there’s tension in your body? You don’t have to feel this way. There are very effective yoga practices that can ease anxiety and help ground you in a feeling of safety and ease. As this happens, thoughts slow down and you can work with the underlying causes of your anxiety that might need special care.
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With depression, you can feel disconnected from your life. You might have lack of motivation, heaviness, negative thinking, a dull mind and difficulty finding joy. You aren’t alone and yoga therapy can help you make meaningful and sustainable shifts so you can participate fully in your life and reconnect to your inner joy.
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For many of us, this is a big life-transition that comes with a range of symptoms. Yoga offers a gentle support in navigating this tiime.
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Amanda is highly trained in working with breathing related issues and can offer a range of progressive practices to help you develop capacity and vigor over time.
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Amanda has seen many clients heal their back issues. If you have intermittent or chronic back pain, a diagnosed spinal or disc issue, or symptoms like neuropathy in the limbs, hands and feet, yoga therapy can help. Active breathing can influence the spine at a very deep level. Learn breathing techniques, appropriate movement, and attention practices, to help improve your spine, nerve and soft-tissue related issues.
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An ongoing health issue, doesn’t just affect a single part of your body – it affects your functioning, your energy, your lifestyle, your thoughts, your sleep, your relationships, and your mood. Yoga therapy offers a holistic model of healing. We will work with your diagnosis AND how it is affecting you.
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If you are actively involved in or recently recovering from treatment for cancer, you may be living with side-effects and emotional strain. Yoga therapy offers complementary care to help address your unique symptoms.
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Though there are common sets of symptoms with different kinds of EDS, they manifest in each individual uniquely. Amanda can design a practice for you to address your structural, physical and emotional needs associated with EDS.
Complementary Care
Facing a serious medical issue for yourself or a loved one touches all parts of life – our time, emotions, finances, energy, relationships, sense of self, and emotions are impacted. Yoga therapy can fill an important need during treatment and recovery. It is possible to lessen uncomfortable side effects or aches and pains without more medication, reduce the severity of discomfort by accessing an overall calm feeling, and improve important functions like sleep, appetite and digestion. Yoga therapy can also help with the emotional load. You can share openly and freely and learn to implement teachings that steady the mind and emotions.
Committment and Payment
Commitment: Amazing change happens with consistent practice and support over time. New students are requested to commit to 5 sessions at the start - a 90-min intake and four 60-min continuing growth sessions over three months, and be open to doing a regular home yoga practice.
Payment options: Lessons are $150 an hour. If you’d like to bundle your intake (90min) and first four, pay $750 and save $75. I offer a limited number of sliding scale appointments. Please inquire as needed.
Schedule a free 20-min call
If finances are a barrier to accessing yoga therapy, consider applying to be a client in Innermost’s Teaching Clinic.
You are welcome here
Innermost Yoga is dedicated to anti-racism, allyship to people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, individuals at any level of ability, and to challenging the notion that a practitioner of yoga has a specific body type. Your unique way of being and experience deserves to be seen, heard, and cared for. We commit to listening, understanding, and acting on the needs you express with integrity, accountability, and attentiveness. Innermost Yoga is here for you.
I was referred to Amanda during the most painful back experience of my life.
Working with a yoga therapist has far exceeded any expectations I could have imagined. Amanda really took time to understand my current physical state and my relationship with my body.
I am regularly surprised just how present, and how much detail she seems to empath in coaching me every session. She helped me develop a tailored approach to working with my body, and letting it work with me. Today, with her help, I have a tailored practice that serves my body, mind and spirit well. And as fluid as life is, fluidity needs to exist in my practice, too. I am grateful to be working with her regularly and consistently so that as I change, my practice can change and develop with me.
ANDREW THACKER, Financial Advisor, Newburgh, IN.
