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Yoga Therapy
Yoga therapy at Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center addresses the health and wellness at all levels of the individual—physical, psychological, and spiritual—and focuses on the healing journey that brings balance to the body and mind through an awakening of the spirit.
Fitness Yoga
Fitness Yoga aims at working toward fitness related goals utilizing breathing techniques and yoga postures. These goals may include: postural improvements, joint flexibility, reduced muscular tension, increased muscular tone, improved balance and coordination, and cardiac fitness and circulation. The use of relaxed breathing techniques in conjunction with the postures can improve concentration, nervous system regulation, concentration and mood regulation. Additionally, healthy exercise techniques, self-soothing, and general coping skills are addressed.
Yoga Therapy
Yoga Therapy facilitates the experience of a mind-body connection through yoga postures, relaxed breathing techniques, guided relaxation, breath and movement coordination and meditation. A safe environment is established for each of our residents to create the space needed for self-exploration and body awareness. Each group concludes with the opportunity to participate in a therapist-led checkout to process their experience.
Gentle Yoga Elective
While similar to Yoga Therapy, the movements are gentler and slower, the postural holds are longer and there is a greater overall emphasis on restoration, self-exploration and breathing techniques. Relaxed breathing instruction and guided systematic relaxation are used to support the release of muscular and emotional tension, nervous system regulation, impulse regulation, mood stabilization and psycho education on coping skills and stress management. Additionally, the group offers a safe opportunity for participants to process their experience, discuss body image, trauma or anything else that arises. All residents can participate in Gentle Yoga despite restrictions to other yoga groups due to exercise restriction or recovery stage.
Yoga Therapy for Individuals
In addition to the recommendations of our treatment team, the therapeutic objectives of individual sessions may include: develop mind-body connection, increase body-awareness and self-awareness and learn proper breathing to regulate reactivity and self-control.
