Yoga Therapy & Individualized Yoga Practice

300 Natural Bridges Drive, Santa Cruzwww.omroom.com

Yoga Therapy is the application of yoga to the treatment of individual health and wellness issues. This may include the use of yoga postures, breathing techniques, meditations and visualizations to bring persons seeking care into harmony with themselves.

At its best, yoga therapy is a practice that reduces the risks of injury and illness. However, it can also serve as a way of managing illness and facilitating healing. Medical research shows that Yoga Therapy is an effective complementary therapy for several common aliments. Yoga practices can often be adapted for people with health challenges. Specific regimens of postures, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques to suit individual needs are prescribed and practiced.

Individualized Yoga Practice is for anyone, with or without health related challenges, interested in finding flexibility, strength, balance, and wholeness in themselves. Individuals who are new to yoga and apprehensive about attending group classes can learn the fundamentals of a healthy yoga practice that can be used alone or in a group class setting. Those interested in developing a simple routine for ongoing health maintenance and general well-being will find Individualized Yoga Practice beneficial. Regular students of yoga will find in Individualized Yoga Practice a place to fine tune technique, have long held questions answered, and chart new courses of self-discovery.

Victor Dubin is a yoga therapist, has been teaching yoga for more than 12 years and has worked with thousands of students of all ages and ability levels. Victor says, “I strongly believe that yoga is not about attempting to fit people into particular models of practice, but creating space for people to discover themselves.” He has worked with students to reduce chronic back issues, insomnia, stress, and other health problems. Victor has also assisted athletes, pregnant women, new mothers, surfers, dancers, and other individuals looking to support health and well-being. Victor is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT 500) with Yoga Alliance and is also a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists.

To schedule an appointment please contact Victor Dubin by email at victor@omroom.com or by phone 831-359-0678 �

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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 illness in a multi-dimensional manner, but also aims to alleviate suffering in a progressive, non-invasive and complementary manner.”

- TKV Desikachar & Kausthub Desikachar

“Yoga therapy, derived from the Yoga tradition of Patanjali and the Ayurvedic system of health care refers to the adaptation and application of Yoga techniques and practices to help individuals facing health challenges at any level manage their condition, reduce symptoms, restore balance, increase vitality, and improve attitude.”

- Gary Kraftsow American Viniyoga Institute

“Yoga therapy adapts the practice of Yoga to the needs of people with specific or persistent health problems not usually addressed in a group class.”

- Larry Payne, Ph.D. Samata Yoga Center (U.S.A.)

“Yoga comprises a wide range of mind/body practices, from postural and breathing exercises to deep relaxation and meditation. Yoga therapy tailors these to the health needs of the individual. It helps to promote all-round positive health, as well as assisting particular medical conditions. The therapy is particularly appropriate for many chronic conditions that persist despite conventional medical treatment.”

- Marie Quail, Yoga Therapy and Training Center (Ireland)

“[Yoga Therapy is] the use of the techniques of Yoga to create, stimulate, and maintain an optimum state of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.”

- Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D.

“Yoga therapy consists of the application of yogic principles, methods, and techniques to specific human ailments. In its ideal application, Yoga therapy is preventive in nature, as is Yoga itself, but it is also restorative in many instances, palliative in others, and curative in many others.”

- Art Brownstein, M.D.

“Yoga therapy may be defined as the application of yogic principles to a particular person with the objective of achiev-ing a particular spiritual, psychological, or physiological goal. Yoga therapy respects individual differences in age, culture, religion, philosophy, occupation, and mental and physical health.”

- Richard Miller, Ph.D.

“Yoga therapy is of modern coinage and represents a first effort to integrate traditional yogic concepts and techniques with Western medical and psychological knowledge. Whereas traditional Yoga is primarily concerned with personal transcendence on the part of a "normal" or healthy individual, Yoga therapy aims at the holistic treatment of various kinds of psychological or somatic dysfunctions ranging from back problems to emotional distress. Both approaches, however, share an understanding of the human being as an integrated body-mind system, which can function optimally only when there is a state of dynamic balance.”

- Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D.

“Yoga therapy is a holistic healing art.”- Michael Lee, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy

“Yoga therapy is the application of Yoga to individuals to empower them to progress toward greater health and freedom from disease.”

- Ganesh Mohan, Svastha Yoga and Ayurveda