Yoga for Anxiety and Depression
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love, and joy underneath the pain is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
-Eckhart Tolle
When healing and resilience-building practices from the yoga tradition are utilized, improvements in the often debilitating symptoms of anxiety and depression can be lessened, the nervous system soothed and balanced. The mind learns to break the cycle of negative thinking that often occurs in both anxiety and depression.
What is Yoga Therapy, and how can it help?
Yoga Therapy is the careful combination of yoga practices used to help facilitate healing and alleviate the symptoms associated with anxiety and depression. These practices include physical postures, breathwork, meditation, and other mindfulness techniques.
Move Better.
Breathe Better.
Feel Better.
Feel like yourself again!
With anxiety and depression–and often these two go hand in hand–it is beneficial to work individually between student and yoga therapist. This is the beauty of therapeutic yoga. While yoga in a class setting can be beneficial, here at Infinite Breath Yoga Therapy, our yoga therapy sessions are customized specifically to you and your unique set of circumstances.
Yoga helps improve everything our bodies have been through.
Our Yogic Techniques
Breathing
Calm and balance the nervous system
Postures
Relaxation for trauma sensitive healing
Meditation
Relieve stress and minimize negative thinking
Yoga provides you with a path back to health and wellbeing–it’s where the deeper healing begins!
Anxiety and depression are incredibly pervasive in today's society... multiple years into a pandemic, a chaotic global environment, hustle culture, and the lack of connection many of us feel towards others and community is taking its toll.
Contemplating the staggering statistics can be overwhelming - and if you are suffering from either anxiety or depression, you may feel overwhelmed inside yourself. Fortunately, the yogic tradition offers us practices to help. You can feel good again and build a solid resilience to help face life's challenges with more ease, upliftment, and stability.
Yoga Therapy offers powerful healing practices that help to:
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Calm and balance the nervous system.
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Improve sleep quality.
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Create a safe reconnection with the body.
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Improve the stress response.
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Provide a space to process difficult emotions.
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Improve focus and concentration.
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Help to re-establish a sense of joy and connection.
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Yoga Therapy complements other treatments as a non-medicinal approach.
*Depending on the type and severity of symptoms, consultation with a mental health professional may be recommended. Lauren Albarella is not a Talk Therapist or a medical professional, and Yoga Therapy is NOT talk therapy nor a replacement for it. Talk to your therapist or your physician to ensure that yoga and Yoga Therapy are right for you.
