Yoga Therapy is . . .
Yoga is a holistic disciple for maintaining and restoring health for the whole person: mind body spirit. Yoga therapy is the adaptation of yoga practices for people with health considerations. Research provides evidence that it can aid in the alleviation of many different ailments, including back pain, hypertension, heart conditions, asthma, diabetes and stress.
Yoga therapy uses gentle asanas: postures, pranayama: breathing practices, nidra: deep sleep, and dhaya: meditation (either passive or pro-active) to help restore body/mind balance and promote natural healing.
Suitable for all ages and all levels of fitness and flexibility. Clients do not need to be fit or flexible!
Tall Blades of Grass offers yoga therapy sessions embracing the concept of stillness, which encourages deep healing and calmness.
Stillness is a calm, quiet, focus; a meditative approach to help clients feel confident, release pain and learn to move in a healthy, safe way during sessions.
Clients are taught how to become still by viewing their health issues as a whole: a peaceful mind, a naturally healing body, ease of movement and balance between life, family and work. Yoga Therapy sessions are created to meet each client’s unique needs through sequences of gentle movements, breathing and meditation, and re-patterning the body’s movements effectively to heal safely, and correctly.
During gentle movements, the brain releases pain and illness, freeing the body’s range of motion, transforming and easing you through illness, general and chronic pain, emotional challenges, physical/hormonal changes, injury, digestive problems, poor eye sight and more by using the body’s natural healing powers more effectively.
In an increasingly busy world, people may begin to ignore their natural tendencies of movement, eating, and ease of mind. It is an easy thing to do, considering our multiple obligations, schedules, long term stress, lack of sleep, and lack of proper movement. As the demands on our attention increase, so does the possibility of injury and illness.
Most people are fortunate enough to be able to heal quickly from an injury; but for some, the body is like an elephant, it never forgets. Mental stress, physical pain and lack of mobility can persist for years. The conventional medical treatment; strong painkilling drugs and moderate exercise, is a simple solution for a complex puzzle.
Most injuries and pain happen over time, a quick fix doesn’t heal or correct.
To heal effectively, and change unhealthy and painful patterns of movement – such as sitting at a desk for hours with a curved spine – take patience and time. Contrary to what many think, overnight fixes or instant changes don’t go to the deep route of most complaints. 
Through traditional and experimental yoga, clients learn proper movements and breathing. Continued use of the principles of stillness clients improve in ways they never dreamed of.
Tall Blades of Grass’s client centred therapy is able to go beyond boundaries to create new possibilities of good health.
Being with nature, either outdoors or observing it from indoors is an inroad to achieving stillness of body; of mind; of spirit – to finding your silence, inner peace and happiness. In yoga, it is thought the correctly aligned posture produces happiness; an aligned body works correctly.
It’s as simple as watching Tall Blades of Grass move in the wind, or raindrops form on the blades. It’s a continuum of your stillness, or only the beginning of your process of stillness and mindfulness.
Be still: know your mind; Be still: know your body; Be still: know your spirit;
Be Still ~ know your potential.