Therapeutic Yoga

Exercise is a key component in all multidisciplinary pain management programs. Research shows that practising yoga leads to significant improvements in pain, functioning, depression and anxiety.

Your patients will attend small, well-supervised therapeutic yoga classes. No yoga experience is necessary.

The yoga techniques provided are combined with Western understanding of pain and people in chronic pain to address the following goals:

• decreasing nervous system hypersensitivity and wind-up.
• creating lasting adaptive changes and coping strategies in body and mind.
• restoring imbalances in flexibility, strength, motor control, balance, breath control, body tension and perceptions.

 For more information Contact neil@lifeisnow.ca

Class Schedule

Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30 – 4:30 pm at Purple Lotus Yoga
Cost per class – $10
Please request that your patients contact Neil (250.486.5056) prior to attending their first class. Most will be asked to complete a physiotherapy assessment prior to their first class. This will enhance their experience in the yoga class and allow for better modifications and guidance.

Location

Purple Lotus Yoga
#102, 186 Nanaimo Street
Penticton

 

One-on-one yoga therapy

Suggested for:

• people uncertain whether yoga will be more than their body can tolerate.
• those interested in receiving guidance to find the best breathing, postures, and meditation techniques for their individual concerns.
• those wanting individual guidance to explore body, mind, spirit connections related to their pain and current life situation. 

Individual yoga therapy sessions with Neil are guided by his experience as a physiotherapist and yoga teacher, as well as by his training as a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy practitioner.