Integrative and Somatic Psychotherapy; IFS;
INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS - IFS
Yoga therapy uses ancient practices of yoga such as breathing and mindfulness techniques, in combination with the latest scientific advances and research in neuroscience and psychology.
These tools are used to support you to deepen your understanding of what is happening within your own body and mind, and to empower you with the skills and confidence needed to improve health and wellbeing.
Regardless of your age, gender, physical or mental health, mobility, occupation, background or life experiences, yoga therapy can be beneficial to you. No prior knowledge of yoga is necessary, nor is any experience with other therapies.
It is not necessary for you to have any particular level of physical fitness, as yoga therapy can be done standing, sitting on a chair, or lying on a bed.
Yoga-Therapy
Yoga-therapy is an emerging therapeutic field increasingly recommended by physical and mental health professionals and particularly advocated for trauma. It combines the ancient wisdom and practices of yoga with the latest advancements in medical and neuroscientific research.
I trained with The Minded Institute for both my Yoga-Therapy and and Integrative Psychotherapy qualifications. Please see there website for more details:
https://themindedinstitute.com/what-is-yoga-therapy-2/
Below are quotes from pioneers in the field describing what yoga therapy is:
"Yoga therapy is a holistic healing art. Rather than prescribe treatments, it invites presence and awareness. Using age-old yogic approaches to deeper presence and awareness, we are able to know ourselves more fully. Out of that knowing, we are more easily moved to embrace the opportunity for change, growth, and enhanced well-being in body, feelings, thought, and spirit."
Michael Lee, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
"The use of the techniques of Yoga to create, stimulate, and maintain an optimum state of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health."
Internal Family Systems - IFS
I completed my Level 1 and Level 2 psychotherapy training with the Internal Family Systems Institute and the model is integral to the way I relate to myself and others. IFS is a beautiful approach based on the unfaltering wisdom and healing potential of the Self within each of us. Please read more, if you would like, on the IFS website: https://ifs-institute.com/
Below are quotes describing the IFS model:
“You can become your own healer—the special person your vulnerable parts have been waiting for.”
― Richard C. Schwartz, You Are the One You've Been Waiting For: Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships
“IFS is a loving way of relating internally (to your parts) and externally (to the people in your life), so in that sense, IFS is a life practice, as well. It’s something you can do on a daily, moment-to-moment basis—at any time, by yourself or with others.”
“IFS can be seen as attachment theory
taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that when I was able to help clients access their Self, they would spontaneously begin to relate to their parts in the loving way that the textbooks on attachment theory prescribed. This was true even for people who had never had good parenting in the first place. Not only would they listen to their young exiles with loving attention and hold them patiently while they cried, they would firmly but lovingly discipline the parts in the roles of inner critics or distractors. Self just knows how to be a good inner leader.”
― Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Somatic Psychotherapy
'Somatic' comes from the Greek word sōmatikós which means 'bodily'. The way with live our lives affects our bodies; our emotions; fears; joys; deepest experiences of love all happen in our body. Somatic Psychotherapy uses a range of approaches to facilitate healing from stress, tension and trauma within the body and mind.