About Soma Tree Yoga

What is yoga therapy?

The International Association for Yoga Therapists (IAYT), our professional accreditation board, defines yoga therapy as “the process of empowering individuals to progress toward improved health and well-being through the application of the teachings and practices of Yoga.”

Therapist / Client Team 

As a client, I honor your inherent wisdom. We are a team! Yoga Therapy is a wonderful opportunity to connect with yourself in a holistic way. It is my hope that you will become increasingly empowered to take your wellness into your own hands through the therapeutic process. We truly are our own, most potent healer. It is my great joy to facilitate this growing intuition, awareness, and relating between mind, body, and spirit. 

Somatic Intelligence 

It is my goal to always be gaining new insight into collaborating with my clients in a way that is informed by clarifying your inherent, intuitive understanding of yourself, your unique physiology and psychology, and your personal goals. It truly is a team effort, a collaboration between client and therapist, to uncover the best fit practices for each individual. This bio-psycho-socio-spiritual approach involves accessing wellness through the physical, energetic, mental, wisdom, and bliss bodies. In the yoga tradition, these are known as Koshas (bodies or sheaths). Physical, energetic, breath, focusing, meditative, and relating  practices are often incorporated to address the wholeness of the individual 

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“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 Desikacha