Yoga Therapy In Niantic, Connecticut Helps You Feel Like Yourself Again
First, yoga can be a powerful tool for healing and nurturing your mind, body, and spirit. When working with a trauma specialist and yoga therapist, you get an opportunity to take care of yourself. You can can reconnect to hurt, ignored, and pushed aside parts of yourself. As well, you can support your inner child. And, yoga in a personalized, one-on-one setting can be a beautiful way to release stress. When working with a trauma specialist and yoga therapist, you can connect inward, breathe, and relax.
Katie Ziskind, licensed marriage and family therapist, trauma specialist and yoga therapist, supports you in healing from PTSD.
Further, yoga therapy acts as catalyst for inner transformation. If you like to stretch and talk, working with a trauma specialist and yoga therapist can support that. Gentle movement in a counseling session supports PTSD recovery. Often, negative memories of hurt, pain, and loss are stuck in your muscles and body. Essentially, you can a sense of connection to your self, your mind, body and spirit. So, yoga therapy allows you to connect more deeply and genuinely with others. Moreover, many studies talk about the calming, soothing healing effects of yoga, read here.
What are types of yoga therapy when working with a trauma specialist and yoga therapist?
Laughter Yoga
To add, especially if you are suffering from depression, working with a trauma specialist and yoga therapist can support laughter. For one, laughter yoga is a part of yoga therapy that support cardiovascular health. And, laughter yoga can boost your endorphins just like exercise. Couples therapy in Waterford, Connecticut can include laughter yoga as well as family and child therapy. Laughter yoga is a great way to improve mood when you have depression.
Yoga poses
As well, if you suffer from anxiety, yoga therapy can support coping tools. Anxiety is a major symptoms of trauma and PTSD. Now, when people go through trauma, they often feel worry, fear, and are scared to try new things. People who go through trauma have a closed heart space due to the PTSD incident. Right now, with PTSD, it may feel like no one has been there to give you the support you are needing. Well, yoga therapy can support releasing emotionally and physically.
When working with a trauma specialist and yoga therapist, what yoga poses can help?
Yoga poses can include heart openers. And, heart openers stretch your cheat muscles. Heart opening poses support releasing anger, anxiety, and worry. As well, heart openers can improve physical posture and confidence. Furthermore, your yoga therapist can combine poses in specific orders to support your coping skills. Sometimes, heart openers can include yoga props like pillows, blankets and bolsters. Other times, heart openers can be more active, improve balance, or strengthening.
Depending on your emotional and physical needs, your yoga therapist can help bring your body back into alignment.
Working with a trauma specialist and yoga therapist helps reduce symptoms of PTSD/trauma. Many times, people with PTSD and trauma have sleeping issues, anger and panic attacks. Therefore, Katie Ziskind specializes in yoga therapy in Niantic, Connecticut and can holistically help you.
Breathing skills
As well, meeting with a trauma specialist and yoga therapist can help you live in the present moment.
Trauma symptoms can include low self-esteem, racing heart beat, and high and low moods. To add, breathing skills can help a person who has been through trauma feel safe in their body. Often, negative, painful memories of trauma linger. You may have negative memories flashback into your brain.
Using breathing skills from working with a trauma specialist and yoga therapist can help reduce negative, painful, sad memories.
Also, your yoga therapist can provide education on which breathing skills would be best for you. Some breathing skills are energizing and other breathing skills are quieting for the mind. As well, some breathing skills help with falling asleep at night. Other breathing skills can improve digestion. Learning each breathing skill and when to implement them are parts of working with Katie Ziskind, a trauma specialist and yoga therapist.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for PTSD healing and yoga therapy in East Lyme, Connecticut.
Looking for more options for building self-confidence and healing in addition to talk counseling?
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, we provide holistic yoga therapy in combination with more traditional talk counseling. You’ll begin to feel stronger, more confident, and healthier in mind, body, and spirit. And, combining breathing, movement, poses, and relaxation, your brain starts to create healthier neuropathways. You get to actively incorporate yoga into individual therapy sessions with Katie Ziskind, licensed marriage and family therapist and yoga therapist. Katie Ziskind is trained in trauma-informed yoga therapy, children’s yoga, vinyasa, chair yoga, and restorative yoga.
How Does Yoga Therapy In Niantic at Wisdom Within Counseling with Katie work?
To begin, yoga therapy in Niantic with Katie Ziskind uses postures, guided meditations, yoga nidra, healing touch, and breathing techniques. Further, to facilitate healing from anxiety, depression, grief, and psychological and physical conditions, individual yoga therapy sessions can be very helpful. Likewise, meditation also plays a important piece in how you can restore balance. Read more about specialized yoga therapy for PTSD, here.
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What Does Katie Ziskind Teach In Yoga Therapy Sessions In Niantic?
Moreover, Katie Ziskind will teach you various guided meditation techniques for achieving improved emotional wellbeing. And, what you learn in your yoga therapy sessions with Katie Ziskind, you can use in everyday life situations. So, your meditation practice can help you get through challenging emotions and process them in calm, healthy ways. Often associated with physical exercise, group yoga classes are more exercise-based. On the other hand, yoga therapy in Niantic, Connecticut improves relaxation. And, your sessions are personalized to your desires and goals. Your session can include strengthening postures in a vinyasa flow with a spiritual connection. Or, you may choose to relax, rejuvenate, and decompress with a meditation laying down. Either way, yoga therapy in Niantic with Katie Ziskind can enhance your overall health and wellness.
Where Are My Yoga Therapy Sessions Held?
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Katie Ziskind, LMFT, RYT500, specializes in yoga therapy. Katie has a large office that is perfect for yoga therapy sessions. In her office in Niantic, she keeps yoga mats, lavender and relaxing rose eye pillows, blankets, and yoga blocks. And, these yoga props help support you in your yoga therapy sessions in Niantic. Read more about Katie, here.
Why Does Katie Bring Yoga In With Talk Counseling?
First, yoga can be a positive release as well as helping you stay grounded through challenges and stress of raising a family, loss, divorce, trauma, and overall life transitions. Note worthy, yoga therapy relieves physical pain and can improves circulation. And, yoga therapy sessions in Niantic with Katie help you battle anxiety in a positive way.
How Is Yoga Therapy In Niantic Different Than A Group Yoga Class?
Further, yoga therapy is very different than a group class because it required specialized yoga therapy courses and training. In yoga therapy in Niantic, you are supported, nurtured, and can deepen self-awareness on a spiritual level. Read more abut how yoga classes in a studio are very different than personalized, yoga therapy sessions, here. From spiritual connection in mind, body, and spirit, you can learn essential skills to be confident, love yourself, and create a beautiful life and future ahead!
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What Does Yoga Therapy Help With?
And, yoga therapy can help you if you are anxious, trauma, as mentioned above, or if you have just lost a loved one. Further, yoga can helps you gain skills so you feel grounded and centered when life transitions do happen. Even if you are feeling good, coming in for a yoga therapy session in Niantic will give you an artillery of support and nurturing. Unfortunately, change will happen. But, by learning important mind-body techniques now, you can be well equipped for anything life throws your way. Yoga therapy acts as a supportive, healing method from which yo can heal, feel safe again, and learn lifelong skills of self-acceptance. Read more about adult grief and loss support, here.
How Is Yoga Therapy Different Than Talk Counseling When It Comes To Trauma (PTSD)?
Further, most counselors or therapist treat trauma with only talk counseling. However, talk counseling has left you either feeling simply ok, or stuck in negative memories. Unfortunately, talk counseling alone doesn’t effectively heal trauma. And, talking is not appropriate for trauma therapy either. Through yoga, therapy in Niantic with Katie Ziskind, you’ll learn breathing techniques. These yoga therapy techniques will help you feel relief from traumatic memories and finally inner peace from your overwhelming, anxious thoughts. Call/text (860)-451-9364 to get started in holistic yoga therapy with Katie Ziskind today.
Why Does Healing From Trauma Need To Involve Your Body, Mind, and Spirit?
These are the thoughts that keep you from sleeping at night, and keep you from feeling confident. And, with trauma, your mind feels like it never stops going. But, magic pills and powders, medication and pills won’t work for trauma healing. Your body went through something pretty tough, and so did your mind. So, your body and mind both need to be involved in healing, such as through yoga therapy. Katie Ziskind will help you become your own best friend rather than still feeling sad, depressed, anxious, self-blame, shame, and judged. Instead, you’ll learn how to use movement, poses, breathing, and calm yourself from the inside out!
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How Can Yoga Therapy Help In Trauma Therapy?
Additionally, if you have witnessed a trauma, lost a child, were sexually assaulted, these are all traumas. And, yoga therapy helps your body, mind, and spirit heal from trauma. Not by treating the symptom. Instead, yoga therapy is healing, holistic, and supportive through movement, poses, meditation, visualization, healing touch, and breathing. Read more about yoga therapy for trauma healing (PTSD), here. And, if you have tried talk counseling and want something more, yoga therapy may be perfect for you.
Are you feeling not yourself? Yoga therapy with Katie Ziskind can help you feel stronger physically, more flexible, and be more easy going to when plans change, all because you have created steadiness and grounded energy within yourself.
What Are Some Calming Practices You Can Do?
To add, meditation as well known calming benefits. But, if you have never meditated before, or you had a bad experience in meditation, it can be hard to start without a guide. A beautiful practice for calming, yoga nidra, is soothing for trauma, past abuse, and overall helps with stress-reduction. If you feel like you are always on the go and running around, a yoga therapy session followed by yoga nidra can be a wonderful weekly routine for self-care. And, 45 minutes of yoga nidra meditation compares to right hours of REM sleep. Therefore, Katie has specialized training to guide you through a yoga nidra meditation. Then, you’ll be able to use this practice at home to help you went you wake up at night. And, you’ll leave your yoga therapy sessions in Niantic with Katie Ziskind feeling restored and peaceful in mind, body, and spirit!
How Can Yoga Therapy Help You With Anxiety Outside Of Session?
Anxiety is a feeling you’ll have forever. So, yoga therapy for anxiety in Niantic allows you to build a relationship with your anxiety, as a part of you. Further, at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut, Katie provides you with practical, mindfulness tools for working with your anxiety, worry, and fear. And, you can use all the breathing skills, stretches or asanas, and meditations as holistic medication for anxiety, depression, or overwhelm. And, if you are living in fear, you’ll find it really har to get unstuck on your own without the help of a professional yoga therapist.
Furthermore, yoga therapy sessions in Niantic are in-depth, self-awareness experiences to help you understand emotions underneath anxiety.
From learning about the source of your anxiety and worry, then in sessions with Katie, you will feel empowered to transform your relationship to it. Finally, through yoga therapy, poses, meditation, healing touch, and breathing skills, you’ll have techniques in mind, body, and spirit to feel less frazzled by anxiety when it does show up. Finally, connect your mind and body to find relief in stressful, overwhelming, anxious situations to boost your overall vitality and self-confidence.
Looking To Learn A New, Challenging Pose In A Private Yoga Therapy Session?
For seasoned yogis, alignment in postures is actively improved by meeting for weekly individual yoga therapy sessions. Moreover, many group class move too quickly for a yoga teacher to teach alignment. So, an individual yoga therapy session can help deepen your practice. In private yoga therapy sessions, you can break down a pose in a one-on-one setting. And, you get to take time to ask questions about your pose of interest. And, poses can bring up emotions that you never know where there. Therefore, it can help to have a guide as you meet those dark emotions, to help free them in a positive way, feel empowered, and solace. For instance, if you want to learn headstand, that can be done more safely in a personalized, one-on-one session.
Creative, holistic yoga therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut supports PTSD recovery.
Our yoga therapists look forward to working with you to help you reach your goals of confidence with holistic skills and yoga therapy.
Locations for yoga therapy
In addition to East Lyme, Connecticut, we help the following towns with yoga therapy for trauma: Darien, New Canann, Essex, Easton, Bridgewater, Fenwick, Easton, Norwalk, Wilton, Redding, Greenwich, Weston, Mystic, Stamford, Washington, Kent, Madison, Ivoryton, Warren, Woodbridge, Byram, Tolland, Stonington, Salisbury, Killingworth, Bloomfield, Rye, Westport, Avon, Wilton, Ridgefield, Glastonbury, Shelton, and West Hartford. Wisdom Within Counseling also offers video telehealth counseling to Florida and Massachusetts residents.
