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Yoga therapy aims to elevate awareness of oneself as a multidimensional being and helps those that practice to connect more deeply with themselves.

Yoga therapy can help prevent injury and dis-ease in the body, mind, spirit, and helps to support a better quality of life for those living with an injury, chronic pain, disease or disability.

Yoga and yoga therapy can be adapted to serve any body and any population.

Yoga therapy can serve as an integral path to deepen our connection to ourselves and the world around us.

“Yoga therapy is a self-empowering process, where the care-seeker, with the help of the Yoga therapist, implements a personalized and evolving Yoga practice, that not only addresses the illness in a multi-dimensional manner, but also aims to alleviate his/her suffering in a progressive, non-invasive and complementary manner. Depending upon the nature of the illness, Yoga therapy can not only be preventative or curative, but also serve a means to manage the illness, or facilitate healing in the person at all levels.”

-TKV Desikachar & Kausthub Desikachar

About Laura

I am Laura Nash. I am a certified Yoga Therapist, Instructor, Bodyworker, and an Adaptive Yoga Specialist, doing in-home visits and group classes.

I have an extensive background in adaptive yoga as well as working in rehab and critical care situations.

In my Yoga Therapy practice, I aim to serve my clients and students by facilitating the awareness of themselves as multidimensional, sentient beings, regardless of the ailments or limitations, perceived or real, which exist within them. I aim assist those in my care, in guiding them towards and connecting more deeply with their spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical well-being, as well as with practicing self -compassion, as a means of healing and maintaining all aspects of health. I believe in yoga therapeutics for a deepening connection to oneself on all levels of living, and thriving in this human form.

What is Adaptive Yoga?

Adaptive Yoga is for persons with mobility limitations and or restrictions resulting from injury, illness, or chronic disease.
Adaptive Yoga practices include what all yoga practices do; joining movement with breath, action with mindfulness, as well as stillness and quieting of the mind through guided mediation and silence. The word ‘yoga’ means to yoke/join or union. Yoga is a practice of deepening our awareness of how we are connected to the world around us, and to ourselves, with the intention of bringing healing and peace to body, mind, and spirit.

Regardless of the body a person is living in, or whatever ailment they may live with, it is my aim to guide my students and clients to experience themselves in their entirety, not just the parts of their body that feel good, or the parts that they have control over, but the ability to experience themselves in their wholeness. I strive to empower my students find to a greater sense of overall freedom, to minimize suffering and to experience an overall sense of well-being that serves them in all parts of their existence on this physical plane.

Yoga therapy can be adapted to any person or population and can be an integral path to deepening one’s connection to oneself and the world around them.

For persons living with incurable dis-ease in the body or mind, Yoga Therapy can initiate some healing aspects, and bolster the quality of everyday life.

All bodies are different and all yoga is adaptable. We all differ in our shape, strength, flexibility, mobility, height, weight, tension, energy level, and ability at any given time. Adaptive yoga is a way to raise your awareness of all these variables. Only you know how it feels to be in your body.