What is Therapeutic Yoga?

The practice of therapeutic yoga honors the integration of the principles and teachings of yoga and eastern philosophies with Western science and medicine.

Yoga therapy is the application of the ancient science of yoga to enhance health and wellness at all levels of the person and is applicable to groups or individuals with specific health challenges*. Yoga therapy is a part of the process of achieving optimal health along the journey of transformation – the yoga journey.

Therapeutic yoga focuses on your overall well being and places equal emphasis on the physical, energetic, emotional and spiritual dimensions.
* Professional Yoga Therapist Manual, Joseph Le Page, Integrative Yoga Therapy, 2007

How does a Yoga Therapist work?

Clients usually find Nancy through referral from physicians and physical therapists, or as self-referral. Nancy conducts her sessions either at the center in Littleton, Colorado, in the client’s home or a health care provider’s office.

As a teacher of therapeutic yoga, Nancy works with her clients to design a program for optimal health based on their specific needs. Nancy’s primary area of focus include respiratory related dis-eases, stress management, seniors/geriatrics, digestive problems and depression and anxiety. As appropriate, Nancy works in partnership with a team of providers that is dedicated to supporting the client’s journey towards health and healing.

The first session is ideally 90 minutes long and includes a review of health history and planning objectives and subsequent sessions range from 60 to 75 minutes in length.

For fee information or to schedule a therapeutic session, use the contact form to reach Nancy.

Client Thoughts On Therapeutic Yoga

 

     “Both my daughter and I can only sing your praises!  Being able to work individually with Nancy on specific health issues provided an enormous and immediate benefit to overall well being.  Nancy was able to assess and understand the situation as well as provide specific tools to support improvement in the first session.  As we worked with Nancy, and learned more about ourselves and the way prana flows in our bodies, the improvement progressed rapidly. To progress from 28 breaths per minute to full yoga breathing in just 8 weeks is testimony in itself.  Practice is the key and is the reason we call it a ‘yoga practice’, but the ability of the teacher to assess, understand, and then provide the correct practice for the students needs is crucial.  Nancy is fantastic to work with.  We can’t recommend her highly enough.”  – K.R. & M.R.
 
   
  “You have been an integral part of my health and wellness for the past 3 1/2 years – you are truly gifted at what you do.  You have amazing access to the Spirit, and the way in which you guide others to this source of energy, love and light is incredible. ” – Katie N.

 

200 HR Yoga Teacher Training with a Therapeutic Focus

The 200hr Yoga Teacher Training with a Therapeutic Focus is for those who want to teach Yoga as a healing art or deepen their own personal practice. Along with offering Yoga classes with a focus on health and healing to the general public, you will learn tools and techniques to teach Yoga-based wellness programs in a wide variety of complementary health care settings. The 200Hr Integrative Yoga Teacher Training with a Therapeutic Focus immersion program is from the lineage of Joseph and Lillian Le Page and utilizes their training manual coupled with hands on expertise and wisdom from Nancy Levenson, an IYT Affiliate Teacher Trainer. 

This program is registered with Yoga Alliance as a 200-hour Teacher Training certification program (RYT-200). 

This program is open to anyone with a basic foundation in Yoga and is especially suitable for body-workers, health care professionals, Yoga instructors, therapists and anyone desiring to deepen their practice. 

 

The 2012 Schedule runs as follows: – The 2012 Program is Sold Out!  To inquire about our 2013 program, please send a note through our contact page.
January 13, 14, 15-October 12, 13, 14
Meets the second weekend of every month for Ten (10) months
Friday night from 5:30-9:30p
All Day Saturday 7:00a-6:30pm
Sunday 7:00a-2:00p

To learn more click here.  For the full prospectus, send an email via the contact form.

 

The 2011 Program Graduates have a few words to add… 

“Very thorough…I got so much more than if I had chosen to go elsewhere and I researched many schools.  I believe Nancy’s passion made the program come alive and I felt excited to pursue this passion for helping others heal with the same enthusiasm.”

“Nancy’s ability to create a process and understanding of yoga was fantastic.  I found this to be an impactful and fun way to deepen my understanding of yoga and would definitely recommend this training to anyone that asks and think that 200 HR yoga instructors can definitely benefit from the depth this program offered.” 

“The training was very intense and detailed, so much more than I thought I would receive.  I appreciated the personal time taken to ensure that I understood key concepts through demonstrations, examples, and real case studies.  The practical exercises working with real clients were so helpful and gave us a “true” understanding of the many situations that will come up in our own therapeutic practices.”

“The hands-on training with clients and putting together mini classes right away was so rewarding.  Nancy’s knowledge is amazing and I’m so grateful to have been a part of the training and have this knowledge shared with me.  I feel fully prepared to step into a new role with therapeutic yoga.”

“This training opened the door to the deep, rich, vast world of yoga.  Nancy is an inspiring instructor who challenges students to push beyond any perceived limitations to reach new levels of understanding through applied learning techniques and individualized instruction.  I would encourage all healing modalities to deepen their own practice with therapeutic yoga.”