As therapists and healers you spend hours and days holding space for those who are on their healing journey, those who need support. You do your best to be present with and contain the difficult emotions and experiences. You experience it all along with your clients on an energetic, physical and emotional level.
All these feelings affect our own wellbeing. They leave a mark on the body and the body remembers and it keeps the score. Therapists and healers often end up carrying their clients with them in their bodies. Sometimes this can even lead to secondary trauma where therapists may experience symptoms that mimic those of their clients.
It is possible to release all that energy from the body and yoga is a perfect tool for that.
Perhaps now it’s the time for you to feel nurtured and held?
Yoga For Therapists
Yoga for therapists is a practice that is designed specifically for therapists, and other people working in healing professions.
The aims of “yoga for therapists” practice is to:
- build awareness and reconnect with all parts of our bodies, including those that we dissociate on some level,
- and to release the energies that become stuck in our bodies as a result of the nature of our work.
What makes this practice different to other yoga classes?
The central point of this practice is experiencing our body and growing our awareness of what is happening in our bodies. While all types of yoga seek balance between the mind, body and spirit, some may be more focused on physicality of movements, while others may focus more on spirituality or alignment.
Yoga classes for therapists are less focused on the physical aspects as the poses are used to physically release the stress knots from the body and mind, and finding energetic balance.