Designing Your Individualized Sedona Yoga Practice

Customize a Yoga practice
that is perfect for your body

While we are one in our humanity, each of us has a unique physical, energetic, mental, emotional, and spiritual body. Our spinal curvature, hip flexibility, shoulder and neck tension, range of arm and leg movement, knee strength, and depth of breathing vary greatly from one individual to another.  While we may benefit from general group instruction, we can gain so much more from a practice designed to meet our body’s needs at this particular time in our lives.  This is why leading edge yoga therapy focuses on designing a practice tailored to an individual’s specific body characteristics, lifestyle, and needs. 

As a practicing Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist for over ten years, I have seen the great benefit of assisting clients with yoga poses to help free up body tension and energy blocks.  Now after two months of intensive study at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in India, and with the support of my mentors at the KYM, I am using yoga therapy to design a practice for clients to take home and do on their own daily to promote optimal well-being. 

Use daily yoga to create
greater well-being and self-healing

Case studies at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandarim have shown individualized daily yoga practice to be beneficial in increasing the comfort and well-being of clients with conditions such as asthma, varicose veins, neck stiffness, anxiety, depression, and even epilepsy. No claims are made to be healing anyone else, just numerous cases of people with various conditions of dis-ease using breathing, visualization, mantra, and yoga poses to achieve a more grounded well-being and often lessen symptoms within a few weeks by consistently performing a short yoga practice tailored to their specific needs.

Individualized Sedona Yoga Therapy as a Two-Part Process
(Two sessions, approximately an hour each, $75 per session)
During the first session, the therapist will gather information to consider in designing a practice to enhance the client’s well-being. In the second session, the therapist will demonstrate how to do the customized practice and lead the client through the breathing, visualization, mantra (if appropriate), and movements. The client agrees to do the short practice daily and call the therapist within two weeks to discuss results or sooner if the need arises.

Session One:  Information Gathering

• Interview about the client’s present physical, energetic, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.  Assessment of daily occupational / life stress on the body, etc., and client’s intentions for the practice.
• Observation of client’s body and breath while seated, lying down, and standing still.  Observation of client’s range of motion with various movements. 
• Palpitation – light touch to assess spinal curvature, muscle swelling, constriction, etc.
• Pulse assessment

Session Two:  Custom Yoga Practice

• Breathing exercises to bring more prana / energy into the body
• Visualization to create positive, strengthening effects
• Mantra in English of Sanskrit as appropriate to client’s interests
• Warm-up movements for flexibility
• Series of poses for strengthening desired areas
• Relaxation and meditation

Follow-up

• Client calls the yoga therapist within two weeks to report  results
• Client and therapist discuss whether a third session would be beneficial to continue assessment and adjust the personal yoga practice.

Call 928-282-9900 to discuss the possibilities of individualized yoga therapy for you with Johanna Maheshvari Mosca, Ph.D., Director of Sedona Spirit Yoga & Vortex Hikes.  Sessions are available in Sedona, AZ, and in Oceanside, CA, by appointment.

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Johanna Maheshvari Mosca, Ph.D.
PO Box 278, Sedona, AZ 86339

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Johanna brings great skill and knowledge to her classes. The best thing, however, is the love through which she guides us. We are both nurtured and encouraged to explore our own edges.