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About Therapeutic Yoga
Yoga Therapy is based on using yoga poses in a modified fashion
- often with yoga props - to gently, safely, and gradually get
students to start accessing their body with more awareness. As
the practice progresses over time, there is healing and students
begin to reduce the level of modifications and may even advance
from a remedial/recovering practice to a strengthening and more
general practice or group class.
In therapeutic yoga, postures are modified and carefully sequenced
for use in treating a wide range of health conditions such as:
- Depression
- Head aches
- Grief
- Insomnia
- Fatigue
- Anxiety
- Stress
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- Arthritis
- Respiratory problems
- Cardiovascular conditions
- Digestive problems
- Injury of knees, neck and shoulders,
and lower back
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About Therapeutic Yoga Classes
Iyengar Yoga Therapy Classes
allow students who have back, shoulder, neck, knee,
organic ailments, or emotional and stress related problems to
work with an experienced and specially trained teacher in a semi-private
manner.
Students will learn how to practice a healing adaptive
yoga program that should enable them to make progress
in overcoming their ailments or injuries. This highly individualized
work has been developed over the past 60 year by BKS Iyengar
in India where Laura has been studying for 15 years.
During class each student will be practicing
their individualized sequence of postures specially designed
for them by Laura. Laura will work with each person present individually
and also do some work with the group as a whole.
At the end 8 week session each student should know
their sequence inside and out and be comfortable practicing it
on their own.
Wednesdays: Public Therapeutic
Yoga Focus Class $20 drop in only
Each month has a different focus, see our class
schedule for this months focus. This class is $20
drop in.
If you are enrolled in the 8 week session
then you can attend this class for $17.
This class is offered wednesday at 3:45.
During the month of October the topic is: "Relieving
Pain in the Neck and Shoulders"
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Fridays: Eight Week Semi-Private
Therapeutic Yoga Sessions
If you are interested in enrolling in our
Therapeutic Yoga Program, you must first have a consultation
by phone or in person with Laura Antelmi, so she can familiarize
herself with your unique situation and gauge your readiness
for the class and then develop a personal yoga practice for
you. Laura uses her experiences learning from the
Iyengars and Stephanie Quirk as well as over 12 years of
experience using yoga to help people heal.
For many people this work will improve
their quality of life and may even facilitiate healing to
progress more rapidly.
The Friday Eight Week Therapeutic Program gives
students eight "semi-private"
classes with Laura. There will never be more than eight students
in a class.
The costs for the program is $350.
This
includes an initial consultation either in person or by phone
with Laura and her time in researching and planning your
therapeutic yoga sequence.
Then an Eight Week Session
After you have enrolled in the program the
cost is $300 if you should desire to repeat another Eight
Week Session. |
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Cost: $350
first time (includes consultation and assessment), $300
for any sessions thereafter
Pre registration and prepayment are required.
No refunds in case of cancellation, but you
may reschedule up to two sessions onto the end of your
8 weeks in most cases.
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About Laura Allard-Antelmi
Laura
Antelmi is uniquely qualified to apply her knowledge of yoga
to helping people with various injuries and health issues therapeutically.
She is a close student of Geeta Iyengar and BKS Iyengar and has
made many trips to India to work with them directly. She has
assisted in the medical classes in Pune, India and also taught
anatomy and asana along side several senior Teachers. Laura has
twice completed the three year Therapeutic Aplications of Asana
and Pranayama with Stephanie Quirk and she teaches the Anatomy
Segment of Stephanie's in depth three year course around the
United States. For the past 5 years Laura has been a Certification
Assessor for the BKS Iyengar Yoga National Association of the
United States assessing the qualifications of new candidates
to become Certified Iyengar Yoga Teachers. Laura has been continuously
practicing, studying and teaching Iyengar Yoga since 1987. |
