Yoga and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy

What is the treatment?

From our Sheffield or Anglesey clinics, We use a combination of yoga and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to help you to reclaim your body after a traumatically stressful incident or repeated experiences which have hurt you in different ways. This is a gradual process which requires skilled attention and professional care.

Bringing the body into therapy may seem like a new and possibly alarming idea. Precisely because it is complex, like an astronaut returning from a different planet, preparation for re-entry needs to be well thought out and all resources in place for safety and survival.

What are the benefits of the Treatment?

Individual or small group work is focused on practices for healing pain and suffering.  Choice is a key practice- this leads to empowerment. Slowly, integrating aspects of experience will enable you to ‘dare to breathe’ again.

Fundamental to yoga is the embodied sense of you being you, with breath and movement helping you define yourself differently time and time again.

The sessions are devoted to you finding your own flexibility in thought and action. As you find the strength within yourself to explore safety and boundary, there will be more opportunity for you to connect with yourself. This is the foundation for us to be able to risk connecting to anyone else and trusting in our own judgment.

Finding or restoring your personal power may be challenging or problematic at times and this is why the sessions are designed to welcome you at any stage of your awareness and recovery. Overwhelming and intense images, thoughts or feelings may have oriented you to staying very private, reclusive, withdrawn and isolated.

Who can it benefit?

Perhaps you have already made significant efforts to help yourself in talk therapy, and yet somehow you still feel disconnected from your own body. Sometimes survivors of traumatic stress carry the burden of shame, guilt, anxiety and self-loathing for years and years.

Sometimes, even acknowledging you have a body may generate disturbing and distressing experience for you, so we offer options for combining psychotherapy with yoga if this is helpful for you to consider. Additionally, if it serves you well and only in the timing that is right for you, there is also the possibility of safe learning about sensation and feeling through holistic massage therapy.

We offer the following forms of Yoga:

• Trauma – Sensitive Yoga in Psychotherapy
• Yoga for emotional trauma
• Restorative Yoga
• Thai Yoga massage