What is Yoga Therapy?
Yoga Therapy is a healing practice for the physical, energetic and emotional bodies. I teach my clients to become aware of how their body feels and moves, as well as to the connection between their mind and body. Through this awareness, my clients feel empowered to make choices that improve their quality of life. For more details, see the flyer from the International Association of Yoga Therapists.
I am not accepting new private clients while I complete my memoir. Please contact me and/or sign up for my newsletter if you’re interested in future offerings. In the meantime, please consider a group class; I do incorporate some therapeutic practices.
For Neurodivergence
Around the youthful age of 40, I went on two life changing journeys. I embarked on a 1000 hour yoga therapy training program, and after discovering that I am neurodivergent, began to reframe my memories, my relationships and my approach to life.
On my two journeys, I kept hearing the same word come up in two very different contexts: interoception. Interoception means sensing internal signals from the body. It is a sense, like touch, but on the inside of us.
Through yoga therapy training, I learned how to help my clients access and clarify their interoceptive sense. Through independent study, I learned that it’s common for neurodivergent people to have interoceptive differences. We might be hypersensitive, hyposensitive, or our interoceptive sense might feel confused. For example, am I hungry or anxious? There are links, backed by research, between interoception, alexithymia and emotional regulation.
This newfound knowledge helped me understand why movement has been so healing for me and why I felt called to become a yoga therapist. I am, now, very interested in working with others who are also neurodivergent. I imagine my two journeys merging together into one conscious and intentional path forward.
Laura Waldrop 