November 2017 - Yoga Therapy

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Yoga Therapy for MS

The experience of MS affected persons who practice yoga shows that yoga practice inhibits the development of the disease, improves body function, and strengthens the mental powers required for normal daily functioning.

Effects of therapeutic yoga practice tailored to your situation will improve you with one or more of the following factors:

Preserving or improving motor and movement, balance and breathing – personal evidence indicates significant rehabilitation and improvement of practitioners in yoga. They experience a halt to the deterioration of the condition and surprising rehabilitation abilities that are not included in scientific studies.

Strengthening the body, its flexibility and its functions

Improving or changing the body’s feelings and coping with pain and weakness – symptoms such as numbness, numbness, and pain change as a result of yoga practice. Our response to difficult feelings or “disappearance of organs in sensation” is changing. Practitioners report surprising and welcome changes in body feeling and trust in the body and its function.

Reducing stress and anxiety, improving mood, improving quality of life – yoga is a healthy activity that brings the mind and body back into balance. Yoga is not a regular sport activity but an activity that shares our consciousness and consciousness. Yoga relaxes and reduces stress. It contributes to halting the development of the disease. It improves neural conduction and is a natural antidepressant.

Improving Self-Acceptance and Communication with the World – Yoga gives us inner wisdom that helps us to distinguish and deal with thoughts, feelings and feelings. By doing so, it improves our coping with the world and our relationships. Yoga is the oldest method of personal development and is primarily mental practice. Yoga practitioners feel more vitality and greater self-empowerment and self-acceptance.

The Center for Yoga therapy is an expert in working with people with MS, and held a unique workshop at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer.

Start practicing yoga and improve your condition. Contact us for more information on the contribution of yoga to MS.

30/11/2017

Yoga Therapy for Cancer

The treatment program we offer to cancer patients in the Center for Yoga Therapy is to accompany and personalize yoga during treatment and recovery from cancer. Yoga empowers the body and its ability to cope with the disease and relieve reactions to chemotherapy. Yoga also improves mood and sleep and provides practical tools for coping with the mental effects of cancer. Yoga is a natural and simple tool for everyday life.

Our work with cancer patients includes:
A diagnostic meeting where we know you and your way of life. Diagnosis allows us to know your physical and mental state and to adjust yoga practice.

We teach you:
Body exercises to perform at home tailored to you personally – these empower the body with the energy of healing.
Breathing and concentration exercises – These exercises encourage concentration and control and allow you to know yourself in ways you do not know yet. These exercises enhance a sense of choice and freedom and give you insight into your situation.
Relaxation Exercises – We teach you how to release stress. Especially in stressful and frightening situations. They learn to relax and release emotional deposits and physical pain.
Meditation Exercises and Guided Imagination – For those who are interested, we adapt these exercises for home performance and during treatments.

Why Yoga?
Yoga is a natural and simple way of life that enhances self-healing and gives us real tools to deal with serious illness, end states, fears, anxieties and depression. Yoga is the beginning of every mental practice and it directly relates to the thoughts and feelings we experience in our lives. Yoga allows you to take advantage of this situation and your mental powers to release from pain and suffering, to improve the quality of your life to open a new page.

For whom is yoga appropriate?
• Cancer patients and / or other autoimmune diseases
• People who are undergoing various treatments to stop cancer
• People in risk groups, and those recovering from cancer
• Recover from cancer or any disease of weakened immune system

Contact us for more information.

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Yoga for ADD & ADHD

Yoga for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a unique yoga practice that a person learns and practices in order to improve his condition and quality of life. The adjusted practice increases concentration, attention and control of thoughts. The effect of therapeutic yoga is cumulative, that is, the more people use it, the faster the effect of exercise, the more time it takes, and the more awareness and attention.

The goals of yoga therapy for attention and concentration are:
1. Recognizing a state of mind of inner peace, clarity of mind, and focus
2. Greater control, focus and isolation of sensory stimuli
3. Highly developed ability to manage time and tasks
4. Increasing resources to personal development
5. Improving social abilities and interpersonal relationships
6. Increased awareness of mood and body condition (emotional, sensory and functional)

How does yoga therapy helps?
Yoga in essence is the development of mental control while inhibiting and extirpating the distractions and automatic activity of the mind. Therefore yoga is primarily a development of attention and concentration. In order for yoga to benefit from attention deficit disorder, it must be integrated into daily life in a useful and qualitative practice. At the Center for Yoga Therapy, we tailor special exercises for your needs. These exercises increase the ability to focus, concentrate, control responses to sensory stimuli. This practice also cleanses the emotional and emotional factors that create distractions and attention disorders. Through exercise, it is possible to moderate and even reduce dependence on Ritalin and other ADHD medications. You can examine for yourself the effect of the practice and the guidance you will receive against specific goals that you will set at the beginning of the process.

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Yoga Therapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

With yoga therapy, it is possible to relieve almost any possible symptom, including symptoms associated with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Yoga itself offers innumerable physical and mental healing techniques from which these choices are suitable for the person who specifically addresses them. The relationship between stress and anxiety, mental stress and regular gastrointestinal activity is known in medical studies. The combination of yoga and medication is very helpful in reducing symptoms, reducing stress and neutralizing the inhibitory factors.

Yoga Therapy operates on several levels:

The physical plane
Therapeutic Yoga is suitable for body positions according to the manner in which bowel activity is disturbed. In the over-movement of the intestines we will learn exercises that soothe and reduce stress. In contrast, constipation is used to encourage digestion and removal of waste. The practice of yoga generally shifts the weight from the sympathetic nervous system to the parasympathetic system that promotes relaxation and self-healing. We will also recommend walking or swimming, or any other aerobic activity that helps bowel activity.

On the mental level
Regular operation of the digestive system depends on the autonomic nervous system, especially the parasympathetic, which is associated with relaxation and self-healing. Stress and anxiety affect the sympathetic system that activates the fight or flight. This system directly affects the digestive system. Practicing yoga reduces anxiety and stress by different techniques of breathing and deep relaxation, and meditation is very helpful, although in situations where it is not possible to change the level of tension, it is possible to change the attitude towards it. Yoga is also manifested in self-inquiry into the appearance of symptoms against thoughts, feelings and food and various contexts that encourage the onset of seizures, keeping a diary in mind, and also allowing us to investigate why we consume poorly digested foods.

Diet
Yoga is a way of life and places special emphasis on food and eating – that is, what to eat and especially how to eat. Fast eating causes air to swallow and encourages swelling. “Taking the time” and chewing properly helps the digestive system and the enzymes in the saliva of the mouth to act on the food. Eating as meditation and observation supports the transformation of the eating action into a stress reliever. It should be noted that fast eating is a deep pattern that requires a lot of attention before it is resolved (animal behavior in its origin). Attention must be paid to this behavior in order to bring awareness to it and to learn to respect food and eating. Of course, the content of the food is also significant, and the goal is to make the digestive system as easy as possible and maintain this habit as a lifestyle that prevents disease. Most of the time we will start with a sweeping recommendation to try one month of total cessation of consumption of dairy products, as well as processed and processed foods that weigh on the digestive system as well as on the nervous system (which we want to calm).

Lifestyle
Psychological factors that encourage symptoms of IBS should also be examined. One must ask: “What are the issues that bother me in my life?” With the examination of these factors can be neutralized and bring the medicine of yoga to perfection. You must agree to make changes in your lifestyle to bring healing. When you feel the inner peace it is easier to give yourself relaxation, to practice breathing and body exercises and to respect the messages that come from your body. Within the body is knowledge about what will bring health to our lives and what will not.

In conclusion
In the eyes of yoga, almost every disease or physiological problem begins with the mind. Our natural state is a state of calm, and when something is wrong in the body, it means that we are in an abnormal state, which requires change and treatment. This is the most important place and the root of the formation of our lives, so we will start from there, and try to return to the initial state of mental equilibrium. They do not take anything casually, and from the moment of diagnosis they are precisely targeted to the specific goals of the patient. Usually, a person reaches therapeutic yoga for one particular reason (back pain, asthma, etc.) but “earns” much more – peace of mind, physical balance, good sleep, deep breathing and control over his life. Through yoga we can realize our highest potential as human beings.

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Yoga for Special Needs

Everyone can practice yoga, even people on wheelchairs this is because yoga practice begins with cognition. Yoga exercises are based on what a person can perform, and from there begins the growth and deepening of the practice. Thus, yoga is open to all, to all those who wish to enjoy its fruits.

The personal practice given to people with physical disabilities in walking and standing include:

Breathing exercises on a chair and lying down – these exercises are the most profound for each person since they affect the nervous systems in the body and the connections between our thoughts, feelings and feelings.

Physical exercises on a chair or lying down – Depending on the student’s situation, body and spine, we adjust exercises in combination with movement and awareness

Relaxation exercises – release nervous tension, thought and response habits deeply rooted within us. These exercises are performed sitting or lying down.
Awareness and concentration exercises – for self-development, to increase concentration and listening to ourselves and others.

The Center for Yoga Therapy is suitable for each and every one of them. We teach in our wheelchair accessible studio and with nearby parking. We can give video tutorials to students living far from the center.

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Yoga for Old Age

Practicing yoga at an older age contributes greatly to physical and mental strength. Yoga strengthens the body, restores injuries, improves balance and balance, and more. We at the Center for Yoga Therapy specialize in adapting yoga practice to each person according to his / her health and mental state. The practice we teach is not painful, it is easy to perform and is a crucial factor in improving the adult’s quality of life.

Improving Movement, Balance and Stability – In old age, it is necessary to maintain the existing and prevent deterioration and loss of muscle mass and bone. With yoga, you can also improve your mobility, muscle strength and flexibility. Many adults can take time to practice and enjoy the fruits of yoga. The practitioner’s balance and stability also improves

Preserving and improving brain abilities, concentration and attention – Yoga practice is also mental. It helps us to perceive thoughts and patterns of thought that are hurt in us. Yoga teaches us to deal with such content of thoughts and leave our minds free for creative and constructive thinking.

Yoga and a lifestyle that combines yoga strengthens the immune system and provides tools for coping with pain, changing the weather and increasing attention to changes in internal balance.

An improvement in the general feeling and level of energy the practitioner feels – with the accumulated practice, the vitality and vitality that the adult feels in his life increases. This feeling strengthens the feeling of the young soul. An adult who is physically active feels more efficient, stronger, satisfied with himself and functioning, his mood is improved and he feels more involved in the community.

Yoga responds to problems that accumulate over the years such as arthritis, reduced bone and muscle mass, metabolic problems, breathing and heart. Yoga is a preventive medicine that preserves and improves the existing.

At the Center for therapeutic yoga, we are suitable for each person’s personal practice. We teach the adult to practice at home and to enhance his own life. There is no need to be flexible or strong to begin practicing yoga.

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Yoga Therapy for Menopause Symptoms

The menopause period is a period of change. Menopause occurs in physiological and mental changes seeking response. Many women appeal to us to start over, to deal with physical problems that bother them and to make decisions about the direction of their lives. Yoga therapy reduce menopause symptoms such as hot flashes and sweats, headaches, back pain, difficulties in concentration, etc., and emotional and mental issues that accompany this period.

Yoga Therapy is a comprehensive treatment program which is beneficial in all these cases. After a thorough diagnosis we build a personal practice program for each one personally. The practice itself includes body positions, appropriate breathing exercises, concentration exercises and awareness. Through yoga, you can change and improve your lifestyle, heal, grow, and know your body and the changes it undergoes.

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Yoga Therapy for Insomnia

Yoga therapy is the simplest natural way to improve your sleep, fall asleep easily, and enjoy a more relaxed and healthy life. Without drugs or substances, using simple exercises performed at home and your sleep quality will improve greatly.

If you are taking medication for sleep or sedation you should know that:
Your body gets used to sleeping pills and their effect decreases. Over time, you will find yourself taking larger amounts that are less effective. These substances are addictive! Solve the problem fundamentally through yoga practice.

In the context of sleep problems we teach you:
Personalized body exercises to help you fall asleep and sleep well – these exercises are designed to teach your body the difference between stress and relaxation. As a result, you will learn your body to release and relax at the end of the day.

Breathing exercises and meditation – encourage this para-sympathetic nervous system that encourages relaxation and relaxation. They will sleep more quickly and your sleep will be better even if you wake up in the middle of the night.

Relaxation Exercises – We teach you how to release stress. Especially in stressful and worrying situations. They learn to relax and release emotional deposits and physical pain.
Advice for a healthier, more natural lifestyle for your body and mind

Why Yoga?
Yoga is a natural and simple lifestyle based on your inner balance and healing powers. Yoga restores balance and encourages correct and natural life and sleep habits and reduces the need for medication. Our experience with students who have difficulty falling asleep and sleeping shows that yoga helps.

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Yoga for Pregnancy and After Birth

Pregnancy is a period of change. During yoga practice, yoga’s unique way allow you to recognize and integrate these changes into strength and relaxation.

Practicing yoga in pregnancy relieves back pain, arthritis, shortness of breath, heartburn, and many other symptoms that accompany the woman in these important months. The practice should be adapted to pregnancy and prepare the woman for childbirth. It is important that the practice includes a deep understanding of breathing and the connection between movement and breathing in the daily life. This is an opportunity to understand the connection between posture and breathing, between respiration and pelvic floor muscles, which are important in letting go of childbirth and of course strengthening them after birth.

Practicing yoga allows you to become deeply familiar with the body’s own rhythms. Understanding the proper posture when the abdomen grows, the softening joints that affect posture and movement. The entire body is expanding. The woman’s listening to herself requires daily observation and attention, as she may experience feelings she has not encountered in the past: excitement and anticipation, fears about the most significant change in life, discomfort, physical pain and more. By practicing breathing, the practitioner learns to understand and accept the changes that accompany this important period.

A woman who practices yoga during pregnancy can use it during labor when the postures and movements allow the pelvis to release and give birth to progress. Using full yoga breathing allows the mother to help herself and her baby during childbirth. She learns to overcome stress related to pregnancy and can ease the pain of childbirth.

Proper movement, appropriate breathing, which changes with the advanced labor, helps the woman in the process of delivery. When a woman practices yoga in pregnancy, the poses will be used naturally during childbirth, without thinking about it. The muscles flex, the elbows move more freely and perform better. Breathing, which naturally shortens in pregnancy, can be deeper and more fluid. It prolongs and its use during each practice allows it to be more effective during labor. Postnatal practice will help the woman to strengthen her body and adjust more quickly to the significant and exciting change in her life and thus be able to be free to have special relationship with her baby.

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Treat Anxiety with Yoga Therapy

Yoga’s contribution to reducing and stopping significant panic attacks is extremely significant. This is our experience as yoga therapists and practitioners of yoga and meditation. This article describes the ways in which yoga therapy is useful in these situations.

Symptoms of panic attacks
Throughout our lives we all experience fear at one time or another. But what happens when this fear goes out of control and begins to affect our functioning and quality of life? Symptoms of anxiety and fear attacks are very tangible, such as obsessive thinking, sleep problems, headaches, indigestion, dizziness, nausea, shortness of breath and heart palpitations. Anxiety attacks are accompanied by cold sweat, a tremendous sense of loss, and loss of control. Sometimes the physical symptoms are so strong that we lose contact with the causes or source of these anxieties. It is true that we are surrounded by frightening factors and influences. Most of them are not within our control, but the preoccupation and concern around them causes us great suffering. The mechanism of fear has an existential benefit, but only in the event that a frightening phenomenon occurs in front of us and we are forced to respond. But without an existing tangible factor, anxiety is misplaced and does nothing for us but only detracts.

How Yoga Therapy Helps?
Yoga offers a number of techniques and tools that allow lasting relief until symptoms disappear. In addition, since yoga encourages self-examination and internal knowledge, it enables the discovery of emotional factors that encourage anxiety. Discovery is a significant step in healing and relieving panic attacks.
Yoga offers a number of techniques and tools that allow lasting relief until symptoms disappear. In addition, since yoga encourages self-examination and internal knowledge, it enables the discovery of emotional factors that encourage anxiety. Discovery is a significant step in healing and relieving panic attacks.

Breathing
Yoga puts special emphasis on breathing and in case of anxiety the connection is tangible and direct. In a state of anxiety, the respiratory cycles are disturbed in several ways: the breathing becomes shorter and not full, rapid, irregular, stiff, and sometimes we even stop breathing in unconscious intervals. When we calm our breathing is regular, relaxed, soft and soft. Sometimes ultra-Orthodox people feel they can not take air. Yoga teaches us to focus on the breathing process and learn to breathe correctly. Breathing emanates from strong internal forces that balance the nervous system, soothe it and allow self-healing to occur. Yoga practitioners know that with time their breathing rate decreases, breathing is constant, quiet and full.

Awareness of thoughts
Yoga allows a careful look into our thoughts and to see when anxiety thoughts arise that may develop into a complete panic attack. Performing breathing exercises, or relaxation at these points, or awareness of the essence of these thoughts and turning them into self-healing times is actually the psychological therapy that yoga offers to everyone.

Practice Yoga
Also includes body exercises, breathing exercises, relaxation and awareness and focus exercises. All of these enable increasing control over our continuum of thoughts and also allow for a certain distance from the phenomena of thought. This detachment allows us to observe the mental and emotional processes that we would once have drifted without control. Yoga allows us to control the waves of consciousness and directions of our thinking. This control signals an exit from the cycle of anxiety and complete healing of seizures.

Relation to body and emotion
The yoga approach is holistic, that is, sees man as a whole body and soul. Body exercises (yoga poses) allow the release of pent-up energy in the body, opening the upper body to regular breathing and balancing the hormonal system. The positive effects of yoga on our bodies are much longer.

One of the principles of yoga practice is devotion to God for the power of the universe, creation, and so on (in Sanskrit it is called Ishvara pranidhana). This devotion increases the sense of “deep gratitude” and our basic belonging to the world and makes it very easy in situations of fear and anxiety. Through this powerful tool, we connect with our mission and realize the potential inherent in us as human beings.

Diet
When we talk about nutrition we talk not only about food but also about the information we consume or like to consume, the music we hear, conversations we share or listen to. With yoga practice we understand that certain factors that we eat or consume hurt us and encourage panic attacks. Since Yoga offers a full lifestyle, we can change these habits and consume what really does us good.

Conclusion
For yoga anxiety attack is a mental habit deeply etched in us. Like every leg, we can change the situation if we only act and learn differently. Yoga empowers our ability to re-choose and shape our image according to a more desirable, stable and unshakable pattern. The vision of yoga is unity and harmony over all that exists and its power to change such habits from the ground up.