CenterPeace Counseling
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
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A Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy session is a one-to-one experience with practitioner and client co-creating the sequence of meditation, dialogue and yoga postures that comprise a typical visit. That being said, there really is no "typical" session. Each client experiences each session in a unique fashion.
The therapy is based on ancient yoga postures and philosophy combined with modern psychology, especially the work of Carl Rogers, the founder of Humanistic Psychology.
A Phoenix Rising session is designed to allow a client to experience him or herself with the practitioner's guidance and reverent "creating of space" for the client to explore whatever may be present for the client in that space. Sometimes it is a relaxing physical experience, similar to a massage. Sometimes a client is talking a great deal about feelings, emotions, memories, or aspects of his or her life, with the practitioner reflecting these words back to the client to hear; and maybe to find spaces in the body where these sensations are felt. Sometimes a session takes turns in various directions involving all aspects of the client's sense of self: mind, body, spirit.
In yoga, the experience of physical postures often bring us to a felt sense of the "edge" of our bodies: the place where our muscles, joints or connective tissues are at their limit. If we push beyond our "edge," we are likely to become injured. But if we explore these physical edges through well-taught yoga postures, we often come to a deeper understanding of our bodies and, consequently, find that we can "open up" and travel beyond our edges. This can be an enlightening experience, leading us into a union with our physical selves that, "off the yoga mat," is often difficult to achieve. The word yoga means "union," so this joining with one's physical self is the first wave of "unity," brought about through yoga postures.
The founders of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy discovered that, through experiencing a well-balanced, non-judgmental, compassionate, loving presence, a clients could be guided to the "edges," not only in their physical body, but if they wish, to their mental, emotional or spiritual edges. And in finding other edges, clients might begin to sense how each part of themselves is connected (or not.) Enlightening experiences about the meaning of their felt sensations, and the ways that they might be able to better support the "self," in body, mind, emotions, and spirit, in everyday life, are explored.
Each session is approximately one hour in length, with a guided meditation at the start, then postures and dialogue techniques, followed by the integration of the session, where practitioner and client "put it all together" so that the client may take-away whatever wisdom and self-support the session revealed.
The applications of Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy are limited only by the boundaries and edges of each client. It is designed to be a self-empowering, spacious experience. The practitioner brings a great deal of training, experience, and understanding to provide a healing environment.
Please feel free to ask us any additional questions about the sessions.
Listening to your body, mind, and spirit
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NO EXPERIENCE WITH YOGA REQUIRED ! ! !
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Sensing yourself in body, mind, feelings, spirit
- Client-centered: non-judgmental & compassionate space
- Applicable as adjunct to or in place of traditional counseling
Assisted Yoga combined with Reflective Listening
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
"It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried."
“In a person who is open to experience, each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.”
“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”
“The relationship which I have found helpful is characterized by a sort of transparency on my part, in which my real feelings are evident; by an acceptance of this other person as a separate person with value in his own right; and by a deep empathic understanding which enables me to see his private world through his eyes.”
"Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming in me. Neither the Bible nor the prophets -- neither Freud nor research --neither the revelations of God nor man -- can take precedence over my own direct experience.
"What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly."
- Carl Rogers
Carl Rogers: The Humanistic Psychologist 1902-1987
For more on Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy, check out www.PRYT.com
As counselors, we believe, like Carl Rogers, that it is the client's direct experience and the relationship between counselor and client that provide the necessary foundation for a person to gain insight into him or herself for change, healing, or whatever else is desired.
Rather than set an "agenda" for counseling, we believe that by providing a warm, loving presence for our clients, we encourage their own natural ability for healing to rise to the surface.
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy is one tool that we utilize for such a purpose.
Why Do We Offer Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy?
