The amount of time devoted to recovery depends on you. Each plan is individual to the client’s needs, the goals established and the readiness to change.

I will guide you through the process, suggest experimenting with new practices and provide support.

There’s more to our sessions than nutrition. In order to progress in recovery, you might choose to add some form of movement (dance, yoga, hiking etc) as a means to connect with your physical body or try meditation to relax and connect to your inner Self. The combination of these and other modalities will help you build a solid foundation in order to eat, move and live more mindfully and intuitively.

Meditation is a means of transforming the mind. It’s a skill and a practice that over time will help strengthen your concentration, clarity, emotional positivity, and develop a calmness with the true nature of things.

Meditation is a state in which the mind and body are still and calm. Through this calm, an alert awareness will result opening your heart, raising your energy and creating harmony on the physical, mental, emotion and spiritual level.

The benefits include but are limited to:

• Shifting your brain to use the parasympathetic system
• Better management for depression
• Enhances self awareness
• Lowers blood pressure
• May help fight addictions
• Helps control pain
• Releases trauma
• Provides mental clarity and lengthens attention span
• Connects you with your emotions and changes your response to them
• Increases energy
• Deepens your relationship to your body

You may have heard of or seen the Taoist symbol for yin/yang. The theory or symbol represents balance. You can have more of one and less of the other but essentially you can’t have one without the other. The goal is to create a balance of emotional and mental energy within ourselves so we can live our lives to our fullest potential.

The world in which we live is very yang...competitive, ambitious and active. Over time, many of us try to disconnect as a result… from society, family, work and eventually our bodies and heart.

Yin helps us reconnect.

Whereas yang yoga focuses more on the (active) muscle groups, yin yoga is all about the (inactive) connective tissue. Connective tissue is what holds our bones and internal organs in place and our muscles to bones. It’s basically a web that connects all aspects of your body. This is sometimes referred to or referenced as fascia. As we grow older it shrinks, dries up and becomes tight, so we have to find ways to keep it lubricated. Lubrication increases the flexibility of the joints and, in turn, helps give the body a feeling of lightness, ease and surrender.

Yin yoga uses poses to create gentle traction for the connective tissue. All of the poses are performed either seated or lying down and are held for several minutes at a time without muscular engagement. They are  relaxed, cool, and limp.

The challenge lies in committing to the pose, to be completely still, completely passive, while stretching the boundaries of your capacity to be at ease physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. The holds teach us to yield to gravity, let go and surrender. This is how we learn to reconnect.