ABOUT SAMATA YOGA THERAPY FOR OPTIMAL HEALTH AND PEACE OF MIND
well-being coach helps clients to access the capacity for change and healing.Stress is the number one enemy of good health and peaceful living. Using techniques that include body and breath awareness, yoga postures, somatics, visualization and relaxation, as well as nutrition and excercise changes, stress is reduced and the body, mind and emotions can experience balance and peace. There is a deeply tranquil place that exists in each of us. But this place is often unavailable and inaccessible because of our frantically super-paced lives causing a disconnection between our bodies, minds and emotions. Samata Yoga Therapy aims to reaquaint clients with the personal peace and health that is their birthright.
TESTIMONIALS
Yoga therapy with Gayle provided tremendous relief from the upper back pain I had been experiencing for at least five years. Having been a health care practitioner myself, I had access to and had tried many different modalities of therapy including massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, and my own self-prescribed yoga, none of which had any lasting effect. In just a few sessions of yoga therapy, my pain was eased considerably.
Gayle provided me with a program of daily practices that enabled me to continue the healing process myself. She helped to unblock stuck emotions and sharpen my self-awareness. She helped me in other facets of my life including cleaning out the longstanding clutter in my home. I highly recommend Yoga Therapy and Well-Being Coaching with Gayle to anyone, but particularly to anyone suffering from a longstanding physical or emotional problem.
Linda Schramm 10/05
When I began my Wellness Training with Gayle, I was having difficulty walking more than about 15 minutes at a time and now have built up to 30 or 40 minutes a day.
My toes were quite fused together and tight and my joints fairly stiff in the knees and the back. I now find that my balance in walking is much better and my endurance is much better. Her breathing exercises and balance training has helped many of these problems. Every evening before going to bed, I do an isolated body part exercise, which has helped me to get to sleep faster and sleep sounder. I have tried to work in a quiet, peaceful environment.
Gayle is a very patient and consistent leader. I have appreciated her support. She is working with me to focus on all aspects of my life, psychological, physical and spiritual. It is making me think more how to make my life fuller and more meaningful in my senior citizen status.
Pamela Roach 11/05
Let me tell you my story. It was late December, and like many people, thoughts of New Year’s resolutions were on my mind. I was tired, frazzled and was experiencing a particularly severe flare-up of a chronic respiratory illness. Earlier in the fall, Gayle and I had chatted about her Samata Yoga Therapy practice. So, at the end of the year, I decided that her eight-week program was a Christmas gift I could give to myself. I pictured heralding in the New Year with Zen-like calm, and felt good about keeping one of my resolutions – to return to a Yoga practice. She worked with me on some goals for the program, which included becoming better equipped to manage the typical daily stresses of life – the financial pressures of owning and running a business; putting former relationship woes to rest; and managing my health problems, which, up to that point in time, were mostly a nuisance in my life rather than debilitating. I was ready to start a whole new kind of year.
Well, as often happens, things don’t work out as planned. It was about to be a whole new kind of year, all right. About two weeks into the program with Gayle, I got the news – the deterioration in my lungs had become dangerously severe. The doctors were referring me to the transplant center for evaluation and bilateral lung transplantation. My life turned upside down. In addition to dealing with deteriorating health, the emotional and financial implications of such a surgery came home to roost. The road to transplantation is a long one, and fraught with twists and turns and potential derailment. Upon hearing the news, Gayle began reworking the plan for my program. continue reading
Pam Miles 3/06