Explore the mind-body connection with Body Focused treatments such as yoga, meditation, and reiki.
Learn more about our 5-week guided yoga and meditation program. It’s a Virtual Program that includes weekly 1.5 hour group sessions and more!
Our healthcare system has historically separated the mind and body and provided treatment accordingly. At Spirit of Health, we want to do things differently by recognizing and treating the whole person. By focusing on the mind, body, and spirit as they relate to your mental health, our practitioners work together to provide tailored, flexible treatment.
Many integrative therapy clinics offer a range of traditional therapy modalities under one roof, such as nutritional support and psychotherapy. At Spirit of Health, we take the mind-body connection a step further by including alternative therapies such as yoga, meditation, somatic (bodily) therapy, reiki, and other alternatives based on our community needs.
Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual practice that originated in ancient India that has been shown to reduce stress levels, improve overall health, and improve mental health. In your yoga class, you’ll learn a series of poses, stretches, and breathing practices that enhance your holistic health
According to practitioners, reiki is a type of energy healing that releases stagnant energy in the body where you’ve experienced physical or emotional pain. Practitioners believe improving the body’s energy flow enables relaxation, relieves pain, speeds healing, and reduces symptoms of illness
Somatic therapies help individuals become more aware of their bodies and learn somatic therapy techniques to release physical tension. These can include breathing exercises, sensation awareness, physical exercise, dance therapy, and grounding exercises
The body can hold onto our stresses, painful emotions, and suffering. Since we can’t always express our emotional pain verbally, it may show up somatically (in the body). So we need to find ways to heal the body along with the mind through practices such as yoga and meditation. There is increasing evidence that these Body Focused forms of therapy have a positive, powerful effect on overall mental health.
Studies have shown that yoga and meditation can help with brain health as well as bodily health, reducing stress, improving mood, sleep conditions and chronic pain. Reiki is also considered a helpful complementary therapy for depression, anxiety and stress. Somatic Therapy is another approach to resolving chronic stress held within the body which result in emotional and somatic dysregulation of the nervous system.
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Your lead practitioner will discuss these options with you following completion of the integrative assessment. You can also directly sign up for these therapies without the integrative assessment.
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