By Swami Prajñananda

One therapy session is worth six yoga classes. Svaroopa^® Yoga Therapy is that powerful! You get more healing in less time because each session is customized. 

In a group class, your teacher creates a lesson plan that is meant for all students. It works and it is effective. But a private session is tailored just for you. 

Your therapist checks in with you at the beginning of the session. Based on your current condition, she creates your plan. Even if she had an idea of what to do with you before you arrived, it all depends on how you are in the moment. This customized approach meets you exactly where you are at and helps move you to the next level in your healing.

In Svaroopa^® Yoga we say, “Support equals release.” It’s so true. When your body is supported in the poses exactly as needed, your tensions melt away. 

You settle and soften into the process when you feel supported, not only physically but mentally, emotionally and more. You allow yourself to accept the support. This is very powerful and moves you easily and deeply in your healing.

Along with this customized support, you have your therapist’s full attention. In a class situation, your teacher is taking care of the whole class. But in your yoga therapy session, you are the sole focus. 

Having your therapist’s full attention is powerful. This works for both On-Site and Online sessions. Your therapist has years of training not only in what to do, but how to be present with you.

Ultimately, it is your own presence in your body that heals. When your attention is “out there” somewhere, focused on other people, things to do, worries and fears, your body suffers. Any tight or painful area of your body is an area that has been missing your presence. You need to get back into your body! 

Your session helps to move your own awareness into those shutdown areas. You learn how to re-inhabit those places. Your therapist’s embodied presence helps you to get embodied. Then, your own awareness makes every pose deeper. 

If you are able to come in person for a session, you get the benefit of Svaroopa^® Yoga Therapy’s hands-on approach. The adjustments your therapist can give you are like magic! They are so delicious. And they amplify the benefits you get in each pose.

You get a taste of this in a group class. You’re lying in Half Frog, and your teacher comes over and does her magic. Your body opens up in a whole new way. You didn’t even realize it was possible. You feel the difference.

But you only get that adjustment on one side of the pose in a class. In a yoga therapy session, though, you get it in every pose and on both sides. 

This hands-on approach accelerates your body’s healing in a way you couldn’t even have imagined. You have to experience it for yourself.

Each yoga therapy session is worth six classes. So if you are in need of healing, speed your process along and sign up for some yoga therapy.