Wellness

Optimal health is integral to keeping our minds and bodies flourishing.  Yoga is one part of a healthy lifestyle that includes making informed choices.  There are a variety of methods for treatment and we have provided some here…

Nutrition

According to Patanjali, the great ancient yogic sage, there are a number of major impediments to yoga – over eating, over exercising, too much public contact and speaking too loudly. For this century we should add one more – toxicity. Clearly we are living in a toxic world, not only chemically and environmentally but just simply due to the obvious challenges and stresses imposed on us in our contemporary life styles.

Every day our bodies face the formidable challenge of functioning properly in our chemically laden world. In fact, most people need to detoxify or cleanse some aspects of their life on a regular basis. Cleansing or Detoxification in holistic terms means ridding the body, mind, + spirit of unwanted, unneeded, toxic substances or influences that are detrimental to good health.

Massage and Bodywork

Receiving massage and energy work is a wonderful complement to maintaining a healthy body and mind. While it’s important to practice yoga so that we learn body alignment and stress relief independently, it’s also important to give ourselves the opportunity to have someone else help us. Here is an introduction to some great forms of therapeutic massage and energy work.

Swedish Massage/Deep Tissue/Sports Massage
Most commonly requested in wellness spas. Adapted from Chinese methods of massage. Generally uses oil, lotion or cream and focuses on long gliding movements combined with some friction. Can be relaxing and gentle or go deeper to focus on releasing deep knots in the muscles.

Thai Massage
Known as ‘lazy man’s yoga’, a relaxing bodywork performed wearing loose fitted clothing on a mat on the floor. Involves gentle pressure points along with yoga like stretches to help joint mobility and flexibility.

Shiatsu
Japanese bodywork performed with loose fitted clothing on a mat on the floor. Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine working along meridians with thumb pressure to balance body energy.

Reiki
A gentle form of Japanese energy work involving “laying on hands” in order to keep the unseen “life force energy” flowing. Without obstructions to the flow of energy wellness is maintained.

Rolfing/Structural Integration
Deep work involving the manipulation of myofascial tissue in order to manipulate structural imbalances. This is generally intense and quite deep.

Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a system of medicine developed by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann in the early 1800s. It uses medicines made primarily from natural substances (mostly herbs, also minerals) which have been diluted so many times that the original remedy substance is no longer present. Instead, its vibrational pattern has been imprinted on the water it was dissolved in. It is this energetic imprint which the remedy imparts to your body’s Vital Force or chi (healing energy), stimulating it to react against your health condition and push it out of the body for good.

As an energy-based healing system, homeopathy has many advantages over conventional medicine. There are no side effects or adverse reactions; it stimulates and strengthens the body’s healing energy, instead of weakening it and lowering the immune system; it is especially well-suited for people who are extremely sensitive (to medications, environmental toxins, etc.); it can address mental and emotional as well as physical symptoms; the remedies are inexpensive and do not need to be taken indefinitely.

Ayurveda