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Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy

Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy and Psychotherapy

 Thai Yoga Therapy:
The First Yoga Therapy Practice!

Small therapeutic Yoga Classes
 

explore and experience the body-mind connection though movement, yoga, yoga-therapy, ayurveda, heart centered therapy,  body-centered dialogue,  meditation and
guided imagery

 ARTICLES

  What is Phoenix Rising Yoga
  Therapy (PRYT)?

  What is a PRYT Practitioner?

  Guide to Self-Centering

  Ayurveda: Two Simple Tips
  for  Optimizing Your Health
  and Well Being

  Ahimsa and the Practice of
  Mindful Yoga. All classes and 
  services at Beyond Postures
  are based on ahimsa and 
  mindfulness

Beyond Postures Yoga Therapy Summer Retreat:

EXPLORING THE BODY-MIND CONNECTION

August 13 - 17, 2009

with Dianne Mekelburg, M.Ed., ERYT; Director, Beyond Postures Yoga Studio, Baltimore, Maryland and Belfast Yoga and Retreat Center, Belfast, Maine; Certified Yoga teacher, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Practitioner, Thai Yoga Massage Therapy Practitioner and Group Facilitator -

CAll 410-409-2295    Or, send an EMAIL

The basic principles of Body-Mind Connection have been used in all traditions (yoga, meditation, Buddhism, Taoism, etc.) for thousands of years to nourish and sustain well-being.

Experience Community and Connection at
Belfast Yoga and Retreat Center
a place for the advancement
of healing and well-being
yoga & facilitated body-dialogu techniques
learn more about Beyond Postures Summer Retreat

“One of the conceptual foundations of transpersonal psychology is the understanding that it is in our nature (the nature of life itself) that we are in a continuous and ongoing transformational experience. Physically (literally), and mentally and emotionally the content of our inner experience shifts and changes from moment-to-moment.  The challenge we face in not whether or not we are changing and growing, but to become conscious of what is happening.  With awareness we open up our potential and the opportunity to creatively choose moment-by-moment how to be with what shows up in our life.  This is what is meant by ‘self-empowerment’ and ‘self-realization’.”  Dianne Mekelburg

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Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
A beginning step toward opening channels of communciation between the body, mind, emotions and spirit.
Wiith Dianne Mekelburg M.Ed., ERYT, Certified PRYT and Thai Yoga Therapy Practitioner

CALL:  410-409-2295
First Session: $60
Subsequent Sessions: $85

Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy provides an introductory experience for students and clients who want to experience and learn more about the body-mind connection. 

Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy is not “therapy’ and the use of that term seems rather misleading if one understands that to mean ‘psychotherapy’. I am not sure I would even consider it specifically a ‘healing’ practice (if one views ‘healing’ as ‘curing’ or ‘fixing’) - although it is sometimes experienced that way.  Rather, it is an exercise in the exploration of the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical realtionship that can possibly lead to a fuller sense of self-awareness and well-being. 

This process can bring to awareness the emotional and mental content that is held in the body as symptoms such as chronic pain and tension, unhappiness or sadness, anxiety or grief, or other dis-ease.  This is done through the use of a directed self-awareness meditation and assisted yoga postures while engaging in a dialogue technique drawn from a client-centered psychotherapeutic perspective.  The PRYt dialogue technique includes traditional psychotherapeutic techniques such as ‘mirroring’ (repeating back what the client says) and using questions that invite the client to speak: “What’s happening now?” and “Tell me more” about what is happening in the present moment and progressively inquiring further to “‘Aay more that.” about what they are noticing.  At the end of the session we are guided to connect with an inner wise guide for advice on what to do next with what came up in the session.

While this process borrows some psychotherapeutic techniques, the Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy School for practitioner training does not include learning additional skills that support a psychotherapuetic relationship nor does it include those kinds of intentions. It is not a spiritual practice in the traditional sense of coming into a unitary state with Spirit - although some clients report that they feel more connected to Spirit.  It can be used as a short term and perhaps a temporary approach (depending on the issue) to support everyday-life stresses and concerns.  Read more below about Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy

Some possible benefits of a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy session may include:

- experience the body-mind connection
- become more self-aware
- gain insight into a life situation
- experience emotional release
- an opportunity to revisit your sense of purpose


More about Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy...       return to top of page
I have observed that it is possible for long term Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy sessions to open up awareness about deeper underlying psychological content.  While I have found that Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy can support a beginning exploratory stage in the work of learning how to connect with our body-mind relationship, it does not have the psychotherapeutic structures to adequately support deeper therapeutic levels (imo).  It is not a ‘treatment’ approach for work that involves deep personal change.  PRYT does not train it’s practitioners to be psychologists or psychotherapists.  Check with your PRYT practitioner to find out if he or she has other training or provides other resources to support long term sessions for deeper self-transformative work or psychological healing. Learn more about  What is Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy? and how it might best serve you.

Prerequisite:  The only prerequisite is that you be able to focus your attention and notice sensations, feelings and thoughts as they arise, and to integrate what comes up.  Prior skills in self-observation can be helpful in supporting this process.  No prior yoga experience is necessary.