My Approach to Yoga Therapy

I listen deeply and bring a steady, compassionate, trauma-informed presence to our yoga therapy partnership. Each session is a collaboration that unfolds at a pace that respects your sovereignty and honors your body, your experience, and your inner wisdom.

Together, we settle into the present moment through grounding practices, meditation, and inquiry into what is occurring in relation to your body, breath, mind, and heart. The intention is not to fix or change what you are experiencing, but to create space for your experience and greet whatever is present with curiosity and compassion. Whether you arrive feeling calm or anxious, exhausted or energized, joyful or grieving, we begin where you are. There is no right or wrong way of being.

Based on what your are experiencing on a given day we will explore yoga practices that are responsive to your unique capacities, health experiences, energy level, and lived experience. Rather than following a prescribed sequence of yogic practices, we listen to what your body is communicating in the moment and choose practices that feel supportive. Depending on your needs and intentions, sessions may include gentle movement and restorative postures (asana), breath practices (pranayama), meditation (dhyana), somatic inquiry, yoga philosophy, and other therapeutic yoga practices that cultivate embodied awareness, support nervous system regulation, and deepen your capacity to listen to yourself with curiosity and compassion.

When it feels supportive, I also offer process-oriented expressive art as an optional complement to yoga therapy. Drawing, collage, painting, or mark-making can become ways of listening inward, giving visual language to experiences that may not yet have words, discovering new perspectives, and making meaning from lived experience. No artistic experience is necessary. Art is always invitational and guided by your interests, comfort, and needs.

Offerings

90-Minute Yoga Therapy Intake
$0.00

This 90-minute session is for clients who are new to partnering with me in yoga therapy. It includes a collaborative intake process that helps me understand you more fully as a whole person—your health history, current experiences, strengths, challenges, and what matters most to you. It is also an opportunity for you to reflect on your needs, intentions, and hopes for yoga therapy, ask questions, and experience your first therapeutic practices.

Together, we will begin shaping a plan that is responsive to your unique needs, intentions, and goals for future 75-minute yoga therapy sessions.

20-Minute Complimentary Consultation
$0.00

I would love to learn more about you and what has brought you to yoga therapy. This complimentary exploratory conversation offers us a chance to connect, explore your needs, intentions, and hopes, and discern together whether my approach to yoga therapy feels like a good fit for you. I am happy to answer any questions you may have and share more about what you can expect from yoga therapy and what our work together might look like.

75-Minute Yoga Therapy Session
$0.00

Following the 90-minute intake process, we will begin a therapeutic partnership. During these 75-minute yoga therapy sessions, we explore practices that are responsive to your unique capacities, health experiences, energy level, and lived experience.

Intro to Yoga Therapy Three-Session Package
$0.00

This introductory package offers an opportunity to experience yoga therapy through a three-session therapeutic process. We begin with a 90-minute intake process, and, together, we begin identifying practices that are responsive to your unique needs and circumstances.

The following two 75-minute sessions offer space to deepen your practice, explore therapeutic tools, and notice what supports greater awareness, connection, and well-being.

Yoga Classes in Portland Oregon

I guide students in trauma-informed, therapeutic yoga at Heart Spring Health Naturopathic Clinic in the Sellwood Neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. I would love to see you in one of my classes!

Mondays

  • Yoga for Strength, 5:15-6:15

  • Yoga for Relaxation, 6:30-7:30

Fridays

  • Love Your Brain Yoga (for people who have experienced a brain injury), 12:30-2:00

  • Yoga for Chronic Pain, 3:00-4:15

Register here to join one of my my classes.

Heart Spring Health offers a 14-day trial of unlimited 60 and 75 minute classes for $59. Visit Wellness Memberships to learn more or sign up for the 14-day trial.

I’d Love to Hear from You!

Please send me an email if you have any questions about my offerings — yoga therapy and/or classes and art experiences — or if you would like to schedule a complimentary 20-minute exploratory phone call to learn more about yoga therapy and expressive arts.

I am also available to facilitate professional development trainings and organizational wellness retreats. I would be delighted to learn more about your organization and professional development aspirations.