STRUCTURAL
YOGA™ THERAPY
Yoga means to "yoke" or "unite," an
ancient practice for maintaining or bringing oneself into balance to create
a union of body, mind and spirit. Individuals with chronic pain or
stress, for example, typically experience a disconnect at some level of
their being.
Structural Yoga™ Therapy, is an adaptive, one-on-one therapeutic form of yoga,
that is holistic in its approach. Emphasizing health not merely as a
condition of the human body, nor maintained solely by physical exercise.
Structural Yoga Therapy supports the innate capacity of the mind-body to
recognize healing and healthy movement. In optimal health, there is a
natural balance of muscle strength and range of motion. Illness,
stress injury and structural anomalies can disrupt that harmony.
Structural Yoga Therapy uses the ancient art of yoga to provide the focus
and practices needed to move forward.
Experience with Yoga is not necessary.
With compassion and skill, Mary
works with her client to ...
* Facilitate an in depth consultation to reveal
client's root concerns
* Perform a physical evaluation to determine specific needs.
* Design and teach a personalized program and provide handouts for home
practice.
* Reassess and adjust the program to address changes.
Mary accounts for the client's
personality, stress level and interest in personal transformation. The
practice prescribed then may include any one or some combination of the
following:
* Yoga exercises for strength and/or range of motion to increase or normalize joint
* Breath-work
*
Meditation
* Affirmation practice
* Relaxation techniques
* Lifestyle and dietary considerations
The goal of Structural Yoga is to return the individual to a
state of peace and harmony by removing the obstacles that impair well-being
and vitality.
Depending on the client's interests and goals, a single
session or on-going sessions can be booked. A realistic time frame for
effective results is three sessions.
Call or e-mail
Mary if you have questions about how
Structural Yoga™ Therapy may benefit you.
Recent medical studies confirm the value
of therapeutic interventions known to yogis for thousands of years. By
employing these techniques, Mary gently invites her clients to find the personal
yogic path that will carry them to spiritual growth, transformation and
health.
Conditions that can improve with a
Structural Yoga Therapy ™
practices include:
· Stress
· Postural
imbalance
· Muscle
weakness or tightness
·
Joint Pain
· Back
& Neck pain
· Sacral
imbalance
· Sports
injuries
· Fibromyalgia
· MS
· Arthritis
· Cystitis
· Female
disorders
· Sleep
issues
· Breathing
disorders
· Migraine
headaches
· The
negative affects of cancer therapies
Yogis have long known the importance of
deepening awareness and sensitivity to cultivate union and peace within
oneself. Structural Yoga™ Therapy provides the tools to work at
attaining that heighted sense of well-being.
Meet your Structural Yoga™ Therapist
Mary Bartel is a certified Structural Yoga™ Therapist and
Instructor and a registered
and certified professional level Kripalu Yoga instructor. Mary holds additional certificates in Chakra Yoga, Restorative Yoga,
and Pregnancy Yoga. She is currently studying and practicing to pursue
certification in
Richard Miller's Integrative Restoration (iRest) Program.
Mary has been teaching yoga extensively since November, 2000 and is teaching
year-round, full-time. In 2005, Mary founded Inner Quest Yoga and Wellness
Center, in Saranac lake, NY where she instructs and hosts group and private classes
and workshops. She has reached out and teaches free classes to cancer
patients through an Adirondack Medical Center Foundation grant and to middle
school children through an Adirondack Community Trust grant. Off -site, Mary has
been teaching Yoga to the residents at St. Joseph's Addiction Treatment Center
in Saranac lake for several years.
If you are ready to devote yourself to practices that will deepen
your spiritual growth, enhance your vitality, and improve your health and well
being, Mary wishes to help you on an inner quest to find what is innately yours:
strength, peace, wisdom and much joy.
“Practice
with no expectations and you too will find yourself open in many unexpected
ways.”
Mary Bartel
Structural Yoga Therapy
Founder
Mukunda Stiles
created Structural Yoga™ in 1976.
He is the author of the seminal book,
Structural Yoga
Therapy and other works on
therapeutic yoga and philosophy, including
Ayurvedic Yoga
Therapy and Patanjali's Yoga Sutras with great
respect and love.
Mukunda Stiles has
served on the Advisory Board of the International
Association of Yoga Therapists and is the founder of the Yoga Therapy
Center www.yogatherapycenter.org.
“The purpose of yoga therapy is to lead us to the Self. Once there, bliss is
experienced”.
Mukunda Stiles
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Fees:
Initial Phone Consultation:
No Charge
Hourly Fee: $65
Consult/evaluation: 1-1/2 - 2 hrs.
Follow-up appointments are generally 75 - 90 minutes.
Initial Program
Recommendation:
4 hours - $240 (Pre-paid)
Includes, consultation, evaluation and one or two appointments for program
administration.
E-mail and phone contact is highly
encouraged during your program to discuss any areas of concern at no additional
charge.
Follow-up appointments: $65/hr.
A sliding fee scale is available.
Cancellation
Policy:
Booked sessions require a 24 hour cancellation with no fee charged. Less
than 24 hours would require a 50% fee paid to Inner Quest Yoga. If the
therapist makes a home visit trip for a scheduled session and the customer
cancels, full payment is required.
Thank you for your understanding of our policy.
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