Yoga Therapy Is a Hug for Your Heart Health

We often approach new goals with the same old tools, but in order to truly change our lives, we must implement life-changing actions into our daily routines. Making lifestyle shifts with diet and movement is like mopping the floor while the faucet overflow—it will make a difference for a while, but the leak won’t be fixed without a deeper examination into the root of what causes stress on our hearts.

Dr. Dean Ornish, founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and Ornish Reversal Program, has based the cornerstone of his proven clinical research, lifestyle programs, and popular books on yoga’s dynamic system of mindful biopsychosocial tools to effectively reduce and reverse stress reactions underlying heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity, anxiety, depression and possibly brain changes that lead to Alzheimer’s.

Yoga therapy, which is targeted yoga for the purposes of recovery and healing, develops a sensitivity around the onset of mental, emotional, and physical stress, while learning de-stressing skills to then manage and transform it. It integrates these skills with diet and movement for a holistic, transformative methodology.

Manage your life challenges more successfully, reduce your health risks, slow the effects of aging, lose weight, enhance sleep, improve peace of mind, and enjoy the life you have. A yoga therapist will coach you to gradually integrate lifestyle changes that will enhance health and quality of life with increasing benefits over time.

Call C-IAYT Yoga Therapist Paula Morris at 941-316-6893. Location: 1219 East Ave., Suite 104, Sarasota. Consultations are free by appointment.

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