Yoga Therapy at Nicole Weaves
Every person experiences their practice in a unique way.
Yoga teaches us to recognize when we are out of balance and to create awareness to move towards our individual equilibrium. We may practice to reset, rest, stabilize, flow or transform.
We are dynamic individuals and as such we experience change moment to moment.
With presence we can recognize these subtle (or not so subtle!) shifts and chose how we meet our own needs.
Over time we recognize the ripple of our choices and become more regulated, with more expansive roots.
We notice that balance is not the end goal, but a path to becoming.
Yoga is not a practice that needs a mat or a certain outfit. You do not need to be able to move your body a certain way.
You may choose to practice within one limb and over time it may begin to intertwine with more than one.
The eight limbs of yoga:
• Yamas (Ethics)
• Niyamas (Values)
• Asana (Posture)
• Pranayama (Life force)
• Pratyahara (Turning inward)
• Dharana (Concentration)
• Dhyana (Meditation)
• Samadhi (Union)
Your yoga practice is meant to suit you. To learn your own processes of regulation and to pave your way with awareness of self.
Each of these limbs has a place within Yoga Therapy practice at Nicole Weaves.
Yoga Therapy appointments have a pathway ->
1. Email Nicole (nicoleweaves@gmail.com) to book Intake Appointment.
2. In the Intake Appointment we will:
• Meet each other
• Discuss (at your comfort) your physical, mental, emotional and energetic health
• Create a vocabulary that feels supportive
• Develop a rhythm for practice if pursuing Individual sessions (3.) or register for upcoming Group Therapy session (4.)
• Begin each session by revisiting any agreements made in your previous session.
• Discuss how you feel in the present, your current capacity.
• Share how you would like to feel at the end of your session.
• Determine how time will be spent.
• Practice.
• Close session, with time for integration.
• Notes will be e-mailed post session.
4. Group Yoga Therapy
• Max of 7 participants
• Each meeting opens 15 mins prior to the start time to allow for transition
• A new practice begins the 1st class of each month, each week we will expand our reflection on this theme through the month. The asana (postures) component of practice stays the same for the month to encourage ease.
• Session Breakdown-
15 min, Opening & reflection
15 min, Finding our seat, welcome breath, spine warm up
15 min, Gentle asana
15 min, Savasana integration & close
Discussion and practice may include, meditation, asana, pranayama, anatomy, philosophy, developing trauma awareness, lesson plans for any age and welcoming creativity into instruction.
These sessions may be tailored to support your own practice or towards your learning as an instructor.
*Nicole follows guidelines to be respectful of Yoga Therapy and to appreciate the scope of other forms of Therapy. As such these offerings are based on body awareness and sensing.
