In-Studio
Yoga Therapy with Joseph
About Embodied Yoga Therapy
Embodied yoga therapy aims to help clients through consequential challenges, perhaps physical, mental, emotional, or anything that creates a personal struggle. Embodied yoga therapy uses traditional yoga practices to help the client find their own way through the difficulties by exploring how they manifest themselves as embodied experiences. It is life-style empowerment and coaching using yoga philosophy and metaphysics.
The traditional yoga practices offer generational wisdom and observation that in some cases have been confirmed through scientific rigor, and others just feel right. Asana practices (yoga postures) are used to assist with mobility, strength and healing of the physical body. Beyond these effects, asana melds into pranayama and mental focus, creating an embodied experience through movement. Pranayama uses different breath practices to help the client learn disciplined, familiar breath control strategies. From this point, a client can explore their energies, emotions, and pain to learn skills that bring balance to their inner self, including their autonomic nervous system. The breath helps the client develop discernment so that embodied experiences can progress from experience of the gross to the subtle body. Meditation coaching helps the client find clear focus that strips away the constant bombardment of the external world. This focus helps the client find a quiet within themself where they can progressively find deeper bliss.
The holistic approach of yoga therapy seeks to create a path for self-development by attending to the clients five kosha or coverings of the self. Yoga therapy attends to the annamaya (food, earth, physical), pranamaya (energy, water, vital), manomaya (mind, fire), vijnanamaya (wisdom, air, intuition), and anandamaya (bliss, space) coverings of the self. Yoga therapy helps the client look for fulfillment in all these areas, seeking ways to overcome the klesha (obstacles) in our lives. Yoga therapists guide clients to find what best feeds each of their koshas in a balanced, fulfilling way.
Yoga is a compassionate path, but not without its discipline. It provides a guide book for living a satisfying life based on the eight limbs of yoga. Furthermore, yoga provides a metaphysics foundation for life, outlining our basic composition as humans and how we interact with our reality. It is a metaphysics that shows how we can strip away all the noise and listen to what is true in our heart, and perhaps find ourselves.
90 minute intake session: $150.00 plus HST
60 minute regular session: $125.00 plus HST
For more information or to book a session please contact us at info@beyondyogaottawa.com.
Joseph Shipley
Joseph’s yoga started in 2009 after his military deployment to Afghanistan. After having completed eight Ironman races and several ultra-marathons, Joseph discovered the mental as well as the physical benefits of yoga.
In 2014, Joseph decided to become a teacher so that he could share yoga with his colleagues. He has taught yoga to soldiers both here in Canada and while deployed on an operational mission. Since 2017, yoga has been the central pillar of Joseph’s treatment for his recovery from PTSD.
He is passionate about his current training with the renowned School of Embodied Yoga therapy on his journey towards becoming a Certified Yoga Therapist. Joseph is currently in his practicum and looks forward to being fully certified.