What is Yoga Therapy?

Evidence-Based Holistic Health. Personalized for YOU.

Yoga Therapy (“Yoga Chikitsa”) is a holistic healing art that focuses on the treatment and healing of the whole person to achieve optimal health, healing, and well-being. As an evidence-based practice that is supported through both modern clinical research and thousands of years of historical application, Yoga Therapy comes alongside conventional medical therapies and treatments to carefully, safely, and effectively address the suffering, disease, and dis-ease that may arise within any and all domains of the individual experience. 

Supported by a growing body of modern medical research for its safety, efficacy, and accessibility, Yoga Therapy involves the professional adaptation and application of Yogic and Ayurvedic principles, practices, and techniques (including movement, beathwork, meditation, relaxation, and lifestyle intervention) to address and ameliorate individual challenges to physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual health. Yoga Therapy helps individuals better manage their condition, reduce symptoms, restore balance, increase vitality, and improve overall outcomes and well-being. Through its holistic, whole-person approach, Yoga Therapy gently invites presence, awareness, and intuition into the healing journey, helping patients establish a more compassionate, loving, and non-judgmental relationship to their individual health, well-being, and healing process.

Within the therapeutic relationship between a professional Yoga Therapist and their patient, treatment is personalized, collaborative, and regularly re-assessed so as to best support the specific needs, goals, and progress of the patient and their condition(s). Yoga Therapy treatment includes personalized assessment, goal setting, lifestyle management, and individualized practices that progressively and intuitively aid the patient in achieving their particular physical, psychological, spiritual, or physiological goal(s). Yoga therapy is inclusive and accessible, respecting individual differences in age, culture, religion, philosophy, occupation, and mental and physical health, and is continually applied with great care and intention to best meet the patient where they are, as they are.

What Conditions Does Yoga Therapy Help?

While acute diseases and conditions fall outside the scope of practice of the Yoga Therapist (such as recent injuries and illnesses), Yoga Therapy is hugely beneficial for the treatment and management of chronic conditions, rehabilitation after the acute phase of injury or illness, and long-term prevention and mitigation of health challenges.

Yoga Therapists do not diagnose, but rather, work integratively and collaboratively with the entire clinical care team to best support the patient on their healing journey.

Yoga Therapy can be beneficial for a wide array of health challenges and conditions, including but not limited to:

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Expert Care Customized to You + Your Unique Healing Journey.

Because Yoga Therapy is personalized to meet the specific needs, goals, and desired outcomes of the individual, treatment duration may vary from short-term support (over the course of several weeks) to providing more long-term management (lasting months or years). The course and duration of treatment depends entirely on the individual patient, their condition(s), and their desired goals and outcomes. 

This unique, holistic approach to healing and whole-person healthcare ensures that no Yoga Therapy treatment or session is ever the same. Each session is a dynamic collaboration between Yoga Therapist and client, affording a greater degree of flexibility, responsiveness, and adaptability than many other approaches to health and wellness may allow, ensuring the Yoga Therapist is better able to meet the needs of the individual just as they are.

Yoga Therapy is inclusive, accessible, adaptable, and customizable. It respects individual differences in age, culture, religion, philosophy, occupation, and mental and physical health, and is applied with great care and intention to best meet the patient where they are, as they are, throughout their unique healing journey.

Client Testimonials

“Colure came into my life at just the right moment. I was still struggling emotionally with the loss of my much loved husband, and a very good friend and fellow yoga enthusiast was working with Colure. This good friend and I share the same primary care physician, who had recommended Colure to her. Colure’s focus on therapeutic and restorative yoga was exactly what I needed. I found my twice weekly private sessions in my home with her both mentally and physically soothing and strengthening. In addition to her excellence as a yoga therapist, Colure is also a wonderfully kind and thoughtful person. It was always a pleasure to work with her."

~ Rita Lowndes, Winter Park FL

"Having Colure as a Yoga Therapist was one of the best decisions I ever made. I was hoping to find relief from my back pain; Not only was my pain was relieved; I started to regain my flexibility, and it felt like years of bad habits were undone. It was great to have someone who became knowledgeable about me and tailored a plan accordingly. I am grateful for everything I learned, and would happily do it over again!"

~ Anthony Gilardi, Oviedo FL

"I had the privilege of practicing yoga with Colure for several years, twice a week in my home. Her extensive knowledge of physiology and how the body works is amazing. Whether I was working on bursitis in my hip, plantar fasciitis, or just a crick in my neck she came up with the perfect practice. And she always kept it interesting— no two practices were ever the same. I would highly recommend her to anyone looking for a yoga therapist who not only knows her business well, but is a genuinely lovely person."

~ Alexis Pugh, Winter Park FL

Book an Intro Session!

Curious to learn more about how Yoga Therapy can help you? Book an initial
90-minute Consultation, and find out!

We specialize in working with individuals like you to address specific health needs and wellness goals by developing personalized tools and practices that meet you where you are.

During your 90-minute session, you’ll review your health history, discussing any challenges or symptoms you are currently experiencing, outline your Yoga Therapy goals, and co-create a personalized treatment plan that will start moving you
in the direction you desire.