Welcome to Yogalaya
Yogalaya means the space or place in which to experience Yoga (that realized union encompassing and enjoining body, mind, breath and spirit), a space that is completely portable and available to all.
Therapeutic Yoga as a Worthy Consideration for your Body, Mind and Breath
Society tends to oscilate between being Resigned or Fixing It, and if Fixing It does not work, we go back to being even more Resigned. Thankfully there is another mode we can explore: Unwinding. The Therapeutic Yoga modality offers this third approach beautifully and effectively. When a body unwinds, the mind and breath also benefit greatly. The grass is absolutely greener when you begin to unwind the body.
How we do Anything is How we Do EVERYTHING
We can find out so much about our psyches and bodies in the way we do anything… even with the most basic things like breathing, brushing our teeth, and driving our vehicles.
Therapeutic Yoga provides a great deal of information if we choose to get quiet and hear the information. Therapeutic Yoga in particular teaches you how to hear, notice, and feel the whispers before they become shouts, and eventually screams. We begin to hone in and refine-- How do we use our bodies? Do we hold our breath when we concentrate? Do we muscle through our activities with brute force (and thereby add enormous rigidity and stress to what is already stressed and tense)? Do we find ease in our movement and navigate with clarity and purpose? The choice is always ours.
In Therapeutic Yoga our focus becomes more precise and sensitive, tension releases, holding patterns let go, new beneficial patterns emerge, our strength grows from ease, flexibility in the body and mind expands. The environment that a therapeutic style of yoga provides is a wonderful exploration of immeasurable discoveries. And the most wonderful part is that no matter what the context of the body, everything can improve. There is a solid distinction between fixing temporarily and improving with lasting results. The one thing that is certain in life is Change.
Why Choose Therapeutic Yoga?
A Therapeutic Yoga session provides a better understanding of how your body moves and presents a unique and safe opportunity to meet the body in its true range of motion-- this offers very valuable and liberating information with respect to all your other daily activities and physical pursuits. A Therapeutic Yoga session is ideal for those who find themselves revolving in pain, tension, weakness, default and holding patterns (that may be present not only in the body, but also in the mind and visible in the breath), and to witness the emergence of more space, to source strength via ease (rather than tension or rigidity), and to experience less effort to be in your own skin.
Therapeutic Yoga is ideal for those who would like to feel lighter, stronger, freer and more effortless in their bodies. How does Therapeutic Yoga Work? The recipe for Therapeutic Yoga applies 8 very simple and effective ingredients that comprise the Principles of Movement: Nurture Relaxation, Begin with the Spine in Mind, Move at the Largest Joints First, Move in their Optimal Range of Motion, Core Stability: Boost up the Bandhas and Breathe, Relaxed Resilience, Pain Free Range of Motion, Less is More: Simple before Complex.
Therapeutic Yoga in particular teaches you how to co-ordinate movement by using simple and these highly effective principles of movement with the assistance of some simple props, most of which can be found around the home. In just one session you begin to witness the emergence of more space, to source strength via ease, release pain, and gain a better understanding of your body's tendencies. The results are often surprising and always beneficial to all of your daily and physical pursuits.
A bit about Natasha Boldireff, RYT, Certified Therapeutic Yoga Teacher
Natasha Boldireff is a certified Therapeutic Yoga Teacher, who has enjoyed teaching in her community since 2005. When not teaching classes, she mentors yoga teachers globally and supports yoga teachers currently enrolled in the Therapeutic Yoga Certification Program with Susi Hately of Functional Synergy. She continues to study with quite an array of world-renowned teachers. The lineages and paths she has taken with her yoga, anatomical, biomechanical and philosophical studies have certainly influenced the teacher she is today. Her teaching philosophy is that we can always improve upon the current situation, whatever context the body and the mind find themselves in. Her students have all experienced that everything and anything can improve when key therapeutic principles are understood, applied, and embodied. She teaches group classes in the community to people of all abilities and privately in her home studio. Private sessions are ideal for people who want to delve deeper in order to improve function, create more space, unwind tension, become aware of holding patterns, and learn to move purely and effortlessly.
You will usually find her available at the end of every class happy to field any questions or inquiries. Natasha is always studying and applying yoga to herSelf, body, and mind daily. If she doesn't have the answers in the moment, you can be assured that she will be happy to diligently get back to you with her researched findings.
She enjoys hiking with her family and two dogs, watching foreign movies, cooking hearty meals on the weekends, and happily studying more biomechanics and anatomy. She is planning a trip to India in three years time. Natasha believes and embodies that Ease is Possible and Life Changing.