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PRYT is a guided self-exploration and self-awareness technique that employs assisted yoga postures and directed dialogue. Through the use of simple and limited directed dialogue you are guided in exploring any area of concern in your life through how you experience sensations in your body. For example: if you are experiencing a lot of tension in your shoulders, the practitioner may then provide some kind of support to your shoulders while inviting you to relax into whatever sensations you experience, and to notice and respond, if you want to, to the prompt: “What’s happening now?” You may observe that it feels like a painful squeezing. The practitioner will invite you to, “Say more about that.” The more you are able to allow the shoulders to speak about whatever you notice ( a sensation, emotions, thought, image, sound, or whatever...) the more aware you may become about how what you experience in your body informs you about what is showing up in your life. The presumed underlying principle is that there is a connection between our life experiences and our body’s experiences (sensations): our life experience is mirrored in our bodies. And thus, when we allow ourselves to listen to our bodies and become more aware of our life situations we then have more choices for how we want to respond. The use of the term “therapy” here is sometimes confused with the idea that PRYT is a form of psychotherapy. it is not psychotherapy. It is not theoretically based in psychotherapy and it is not a clinical practice. Please read this article to learn more about what training PRYT practitioners have, its potential for opening up deeper layers of issues and how that may compliment work you are already doing in another modality like psychotherapy, and how it differs from therapy. |
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