The Yoga Therapy Collective at NAYC

Discover the healing power of yoga therapy at Northern Arizona Yoga Center. Our experienced and certified yoga therapists work closely with individuals facing physical or emotional challenges, offering personalized sessions tailored to your specific needs. Whether you're recovering from an injury, managing chronic pain, or seeking emotional balance, our compassionate yoga therapists will help you find strength, flexibility, and inner peace through the therapeutic practice of yoga.

What is Yoga Therapy?

Yoga Therapy uses the lens of yoga to help identify patterns on all levels of being, and then assists the client in adjusting the tracks of their samskaras (patterns of unconscious emotional and behavioral reactions)

We help the client bring balance physically, emotionally, and intellectually so they may live a healthy, centered, and special life. -Lucy Greenwood

In Yoga Therapy, we see our clients as multi-dimensional beings. This includes all aspects of the body; breath; mind; intellect & emotions, as well as how they interplay with one another.  Yoga is a scientific system rooted in self-investigation, self-transformation and self-realization that originated in India.  We can always work in the direction of positive change.  A client is not defined by their condition or diagnosis.  In Yoga Therapy, we support the client in changing their relationship or identification with their condition.  It is our job to empower them in developing tools to remove the obstacles which are in the way of their own innate healing power.  Yoga Therapy puts the focus on wellness and balance, and we work with what is already working. 

Prana (vital energy) is the key to finding balance, it is the key to health.  This energy is also known as chi in China and qi in Japan.  If we are still living and able to breathe, then we have Prana.  To optimize balance, we create a plan of care designed to harmonize Prana flow, as well as to develop and strengthen the muscle of awareness. 

-Kori Moore-Gibson

Our senses augment the already circulating prana: through the beauty we see; the sounds we hear; the touch we receive; the fragrance we smell; the food we eat. The sun, the moon, the stars, thoughts, emotions, actions, and words all have the capacity to enhance or diminish our prana. -Nischala Joy Devi