What is acro yoga?
Acro yoga is a form of partner yoga that can improve communication, promote connection, and bring laughter. Talking and sitting is not right for all couples, especially couples who find movement healing. Couples who may be interested in a movement style therapy or who are familiar with Vinyasa yoga may enjoy acro yoga as part of marital counseling. Doing acro yoga as a form of couples therapy can improve self compassion and compassion for your partner. Acro yoga and couples counseling at Wisdom Within Counseling are options for overcoming and managing anxiety, depression, trauma, loss, and grief. Learn more about how holistic marriage therapy with acro yoga can support your intimacy relationship, better your sex life, and improve healthy communication.
Why should couples in therapy try acro yoga?
Traditional couples therapy involves sitting and talking. However, sitting and talking is not helpful for all couples. Especially, acro yoga can help athletic couples who are highly active or who enjoy partner acrobatics. Acro yoga poses can also be relaxing, gentle, and include thai massage. Additionally, acro yoga can include relaxing and massage oriented poses. Or, Acroyoga can also include high energy, acrobatic poses and back bands. Each couples counseling session you can have a guide to support different types of acro yoga poses. Also, acro yoga incorporates elements of breath work, concentration, and present moment thinking to help couples connect. Movement therapies offer a language beyond words for fostering intimacy and connection.
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As well, acro yoga in marriage counseling can be a great way for couples to practice giving and receiving healthy touch.
Katie Ziskind, the owner of Wisdom Within Counseling, helps couples through both traditional talking, yoga therapy, and movement therapies. Doing a couples therapy session that incorporates acro yoga can increase intimacy. Couples can build not only physical strength, but also emotional strength. Acro yoga in marriage therapy provides you and your partner with a fun new, playful experience moving around. If traditional talk counseling has not worked well for you in the past, acro yoga in combination with marriage counseling may be very beneficial. Acro yoga can help couples understand how to communicate better to transition poses. On a personal level, acro yoga in marriage therapy supports breathing through stress. Plus, the stretching is good for you. On a physical level, acro yoga improves muscle strength and flexibility. Emotionally, couples develop a newfound sense of bonding and connection.
How can acro yoga help couples build better communication?
Each person‘s body gets stretched out and can access deeper ranges of motion. Working together, two or more people get to find and maintain a point of balance. In a traditional Vinyasa yoga class, one person might be balancing tree pose by standing on one leg. On the other hand, in a marriage therapy that incorporates acro yoga, two people work together to feel balanced as a unit.
What couples benefit from acro yoga in counseling?
Couples may be stuck in a boring and sad phase of life. There may be stresses, a possible job change, and emotional struggles with extended family. As well, couples may be dealign with losses and grief like infertility, miscarriage, and having a child with special needs. When stresses are overwhelming, movement therapy in couples counseling can help. Acro yoga combined with couples therapy can help you and your partner reach new levels of trust and connection. You can start to be together in the present moment vs anxious, worried, or angry. Also, acro yoga can also strengthen your communication as you have to talk about where your body is moving to enter the next acro yoga pose.
Movement therapies alongside couples therapy can have a positive impact on the health of your marriage and your communication.
What if I have never done acro yoga before? That is okay, as you may have never done acro yoga before. Studies show that new experiences can help strengthen your initiate, romantic relationship. At Wisdom Within Counseling, on video or in person, you and your partner can take part in acro yoga and begin your partner yoga journey.
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Why try acro yoga in marriage counseling if you like movement therapies?
One of the best parts about acro yoga is growing together as a couple in mind, body, and spirit. As couples try different acro yoga movements, they may laugh together like never before. As well, in marriage counseling, couples trying acro yoga can find a new sense of emotional connection. Acro yoga can bring about a variety of positive emotions due to the endorphins released in the bloodstream. When partners do acro yoga together, their body and breath work together in unison.
Can acro yoga help reduce conflict in my marriage?
Instead of arguing about the past or talking about anxiety about future events, acro yoga can help couples concentrate on the here and the now. Being in the present moment from acro yoga in couples therapy can boost your confidence. Also, holistic couples counseling can support the health of your long-term relationship. Being confident that you and your partner can do an acro yoga pose together can help you feel solid and strong in other areas of your life. As well, when doing acro yoga in a couples therapy setting, you will get to learn how to be a base and a flyer.
How to set up?
One person in the unit is the base and the other person in acro yoga as the flyer. The flyer in acro yoga is the person on top and the base is on the bottom. Both the flyer and base need core engagement, muscle awareness, and breath skills. As a beginner, you will be guided to take it slow and move through foundational poses like free bird. There will be some wobbles at first, but that is part of growing together.
Bird pose in partner yoga and acro yoga
The base begins by laying down on their back on the floor with their legs in the air at a 90 degree angle. Then, the flyer begins by resting their hip bones on the bases feet. Preparing for a bird pose in acro yoga can be fun and playful for your relationship and marriage. If the base has tight hamstrings, a towel under the low back can help. Also, a towel rolled up can help if the base has trouble straightening their knees all the way when they are laying on their back. Your couples counselor will help you take the time to roll a towel or a yoga mat underneath the base’s low back. Having a towel or yoga mat underneath the bases low back can help them straighten their legs and extend more fully.
What is the job of the flyer?
The flyer has to maintain strength as they hold bird pose balancing on their bases feet. You may have done this one with a young child, but doing it with your romantic partner and adult body is totally different. When you and your partner find balance, the flyer may reach their arms away from their bases’s palms. If more contact is necessary for stability, the flyer presses their hands into their base’s hands. When palms are touching, both base and flyer have extended, straight arms in bird pose. This is one of the many yoga poses that can be a part of acro yoga for a couples.
When to take a break?
It’s important to create a safe environment and keep it fun. If one of you becomes frustrated or irritated, it might be time to take a break from acro yoga for the day. So, knowing when to take a break in acro yoga can allow you to gain awareness for when to take a break in a conversation if it gets frustration outside of acro yoga. Often, couples come to counseling because they keep fighting, even when frustrations rise. So, acro yoga can be a metaphor for knowing when to pull back and take a break in other areas of your romantic life.
Marriage therapy can be a safe place to process and talk about emotions that arise from acro yoga
Also, when you do acro yoga and a couples therapy setting, you can process different emotions and feelings. Emotional experiences are common from acro yoga. There may be different feelings that might arise that you can share with your marriage therapist in the moment. Sometimes, couples what to talk about how a pose felt or how trust is growing. If you took a general acro yoga class, you would not be able to talk about how you feel so openly and intimately as in a couples therapy setting. Taking the time time to find the right acro yoga experience and teacher is important. In the privacy of a couples therapy session, movement therapy can support your marriage.
Communication benefits
In acro yoga, it’s important to communicate with your partner what you are feeling and where you are going next. Staying safe while doing acro yoga means taking time to create stability together and union. Know that your body has physical limits and so does your partner’s. Talking about when you need a break is a key in communicating needs. The communication gained from acro yoga in couples therapy supports other areas of your marriage.
Could it help my partner and I to do beginner acro yoga in marriage counseling?
Taking the time to start with basic poses and master those can be a great way to build confidence through movement. If you have never done acro yoga before, you might find yourself sweating. At first, you might find it difficult like the first year of marriage. Take breaks as you need to and have water. Your couples therapist can help you set yourself up for success in acro yoga by guiding you through different basic poses.
Where to do acro yoga?
Additionally, to promote acro yoga safety, you’ll want to have a wide open space to practice flying in. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we have large marriage therapy rooms that are safe for trying acro yoga. If you are at home, do not have a glass vase right next to you. Make sure nothing can fall and break near your body if you come out of a post suddenly. So, do acro yoga in a space that has at least six feet on all sides of your base to step out of a pose.
Acro yoga in couples therapy builds a sense of connection, trust, and helps partners concentrate on share goals together.
If you feel like you are going to fall out of a pose, you or your partner can say the word, “Down.” When one person says the word, “down,” this means that the acro yoga pose is ending. “Down,” signals that the partner should prepare to touch the ground. Communicating the word “down” is important for safety when doing acro yoga and within a couples therapy setting. For instance, if one person feels the pose is too wobbly or unstable, saying “down” in a calm and relaxed way can help communicate to the other partner. “Down” means the pose needs to be reset.
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Acro yoga for trauma recovery in marriage counseling at Wisdom Within
Acro yoga in combination with marriage therapy can help couples smile together, feel a sense of appreciation for one another, and practice gratitude. Instead of feeling frozen, anxious, or short tempered, acro yoga can help you enjoy your partner and appreciate them. Acro yoga requires both people to use kind, loving, and positive words. Often times, the joy of marriage is clouded by couples being stuck in negative thinking, avoiding certain conversations, or lost in the past pain. Acro yoga in couples counseling helps couples feel on the same page from doing a pose together.
Healthy communication in acro yoga ensures kind communication in other areas of the relationship.
After an acro yoga counseling session, you and your partner can talk with your marriage therapist about which poses felt successful and positive to you both. You can also have a safe place to talk about what acro yoga poses you are proud of accomplishing. As well, you can process your acro yoga experience with your couples therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling. There can be new emotions that come up from trying acro yoga for the first time.
Can acro yoga be a part of our couples therapy experience?
Instead of feeling impulsive, shutting down, or yelling, doing acro yoga can be a great way to release anxiety as a couple. When you get into an argument, you will have a positive acro yoga experience to remember to get through that difficult time. Acro yoga in part with couples therapy can help you feel healthy touch with your partner. Often, couples get so busy with child care, parenting, and work that they stop giving healthy touch. It can be healing to have to make eye contact and touch to do a yoga pose as partners. Also, acro yoga in marriage counseling can be a fun way to work towards shared values and shared goals.
As an alternative to traditional talk counseling it is very problem focused, acro yoga alongside marriage counseling can help couples move their bodies together and connect spiritually.
Couples therapy and acro yoga helps couples recognize when expectations are set too high and adjust accordingly. This becomes a metaphor for other parts of their marriage where expectations might be set too high. Your holistic marriage therapist that Wisdom Within Counseling can help you and your partner work together. As a team, you can both achieve different acro yoga poses and feel a sense of courage and bravery together.
How does acro yoga work in holistic marriage counseling sessions?
Even if you have no experience with acro yoga, doing a simple pose for five or ten minutes as part of your marriage counseling session can help you feel excitement. From trying acro yoga, a movement therapy, couples can learn to do some thing new together again. Acro yoga can be grounding for both base and the flyer.
Can acro yoga in couples counseling be positive for individual self-care?
Yes, acro yoga can create a healthy self-care routine that couples can use long term. When couples have a planned acro yoga therapy session, they may be less likely to drink alcohol. This is because they are focusing on self-care to be the best they can be for acro yoga. Also, when couples has an upcoming acro yoga counseling session to better their marriage, they are more likely to have proper nutrition. On an individual level, partners are more likely to eat well, and stay hydrated so that they can be the best partner in the yoga experience possible.
Acroyoga in part with couples therapy can help couples feel like they are dancing together through certain yoga poses and build a sense of laughter.
In order to do an acro yoga pose, you have to help your partner get there, so there is a sense of team building. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we not only offer acro yoga. Wisdom Within Counseling offers video and in person couples therapy and family therapy. The team of marriage and family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling help couples who are looking for movement therapies to better their relationship.Art, yoga, musical instruments, painting, walking therapies in nature are offer other holistic marital counseling methods available.
What is holistic marriage counseling all about?
Couples in holistic marriage therapy can take part in watercolor, painting, art, and even outdoor walking sessions by the beach. Couples therapy and marriage counseling can be a safe place to talk about a variety of emotions you experience. There may be disappointment, to sadness, to hopefulness in your married life. Acro yoga in marriage therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can be a way to move through those challenging emotions, and bridge to the present moment. Yoga therapy, breathing techniques, mindfulness meditation, and spiritual practices are all parts of holistic couples therapy.
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You might be surprised how acro yoga in marriage therapy can help you improve your intimacy and your sex life.
From building healthy communication skills and talking about your feelings from an acro yoga experience, you can translate that healthy communication to the bedroom. Being able to laugh with your partner well doing acro yoga in a couple therapy session can help you be more lighthearted around intimacy and sexual issues. Acro yoga as a part of marriage therapy can help improve intimacy, communication, and give you a foundation for building a healthy satisfying sex life.
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At Wisdom Within Counseling, we are a holistic, creative group of marriage and family therapists that help couples communicate in ways beyond words.
Traditional talking can be very helpful, but can lead to feelings of discussed, powerlessness, helplessness, and frustration. Words can be limiting at times. So, being able to have a positive experience through movement therapy or another creative expressive art therapy can be helpful for you and your romantic partner. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we believe in mind, body, and spiritual connection in order to help couples foster of the most passionate, authentic love possible. On an individual level, both people can learn how to be calm, peaceful, and grounded through holistic therapies. From there, each person can bring the best, most authentic version of themselves to the marriage to build the healthiest marriage possible.
If you are struggling with conflict, or feel like you are stuck in negative thinking, holistic couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you and your partner build a meaningful relationship.
