Therapeutic Yoga
Why Yoga?
As an osteopathically trained spine and sports medicine physician I am dedicated to helping my patients lead a healthy and independent lifestyle. My mission is to make every person who comes to me for help a life-long exerciser. Exercise has been shown to promote muscle and bone strength as well as heart and lung fitness.
Yoga has been a passion of mine for the last 10 years. I brought Yoga into my home and have been practicing it with my whole family for the last six. I was amazed to see the transformation of my own and my family’s mental and physical well-being. Through my own practice I have come to appreciate the health and the medical benefits of Yoga and wanted to pass that on to my patients. This is how Osteowellness Yoga was born. Steeped in research and backed by medical science, this program has already helped hundreds of folks with back and joint problems improve their quality of life.
- Therapeutic yoga provides solutions to many of these challenges.
- Yoga is a therapy that is more than 5000 years old.
- It can be practiced well into the late years, truly an exercise practice for life!
- The word yoga means, “to join or yoke together.”
- The practice of yoga as a therapy joins the mind and body into harmony to improve health and the sense of well-being. Yoga therapy is based on 5 principles: proper relaxation, proper exercise, proper breathing, proper diet, and meditation.
- It has been shown to improve muscle strength, balance, and bone density, and reduce pain and stress.
- It also helps create a sense of well being and fight off depression and anxiety.