Therapeutic Yoga
Create your own life-preserving and life-enhancing yoga practice with Therapeutic Yoga. You’ll find your balance through mindful strength and practical flexibility. Therapeutic Yoga is a body-based, trauma-informed practice, and with our yoga therapist, you can build up the body awareness and strength in body-mind integration to nurture your own personal wellbeing habits.
WHAT AGES DO WE SERVE?
Ages 18 and up
True yoga is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your life. Yoga is not to be performed; yoga is to be lived. Yoga doesn’t care about what you have been; yoga cares about the person you are becoming.
Aadil Palkhivala
WHAT DO WE DO?
Therapeutic Yoga is designed to make a life-preserving and life-enhancing yoga practice accessible to all people of age, promoting mindful strength and practical flexibility. No prior yoga experience is required to try Therapeutic Yoga.
In Therapeutic Yoga, individuals receive customized support in addressing and coping with a range of issues, including: pain management for physical conditions/ailments, mental health issues, women’s health and wellbeing, and sexual health.
HOW DO WE DO IT?
Sessions are client-centered and in the beginning you are encouraged to articulate, in whatever capacity you have, your primary concerns or issues, a background about yourself, and even feedback on the practices experienced in a session. This information is important to inform the Yoga Educator of a program that is customized for your needs.
Therapeutic Yoga with Ivy Hapitan has been designed with a range of approaches informed by over a decade of experience and training in yoga therapy, yoga instruction, and health counseling. Tools used in yoga such as breathing techniques, meditation, and poses for strength and flexibility may be used depending on how the Yoga Educator creates a plan to address your concerns.
Weekly sessions over a period of at least four weeks can begin to address basic concerns. The Yoga Educator’s goal is to improve your wellbeing over a defined period of time, working with you closely to develop self-leadership skills that can be incorporated into your daily routine to maintain health and wellbeing.
With an allied healthcare approach, it is not uncommon for the Yoga Educator for this service to work with referrals from psychological or other healthcare professionals, and align to any diagnoses or treatment prescribed by these professionals.
YOGA THERAPIST:
IVY HAPITAN
A certified Yoga Therapist, Vinyasa Flow and Yin Yoga teacher, Ivy conducts classes that integrate her insights from counseling experience to provide a safe space for anyone who would like to elevate their own well-being. Living by the philosophy of “compassion in action”, Ivy’s mission is to help underserved populations. This has inspired her to weave her knowledge in evidence-based and trauma-informed yoga therapy, stress management, mental health, addiction recovery, mindfulness and behavior change in the way she teaches.
She has completed modules on Chronic Illness, Cancer Care and Palliative Care with Wisdom Institute under the guidance of Chandrika Gibson (ND MWell C-IAYT).
She is currently completing a trauma-informed yoga module with Mei Lai Swan of Yoga for Humankind while also studying a diploma course on Substance Use Intervention under the guidance of Verna Felipe in SPACE Benilde.
Ivy brings an embodied presence in her class that she hopes will help students befriend their bodies.
