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COUNSELING:
Individual, couples, children & families
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Experienced licensed social workers -
Health insurance accepted
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PILATES
and YOGA CLASSES
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8
weeks for $75 |
MEDICATION
ASSESSMENT
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Psychopharm medication
prescription with
clinical nurse specialist
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MEDITATION
CLASSES
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4
classes for $60 |
MASSAGE
$40- 55/hr with 6th massage free
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Choose from relaxation, deep tissue, cranial- sacral, scrub &
rub, spa experience, reflexology or Reiki |
WEIGHT
MANAGEMENT
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Coaching and Classes available with Nutrition Specialist Dot Parkes |
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HYNOTHERAPY
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quit smoking in 1 session $125
- manage anxiety and stress: $195 for 3 (1 hr) sessions
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YOGA
FOR ILLNESS
Yoga for Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Migraines, and MS
Two basic components of Hatha yoga are proper breathing and exercises, called postures, that stretch the body. You do postures while standing, lying down, or sitting in a chair. While practicing a posture, you do breathing exercises to help relax your muscles, maintain the posture, and focus your mind.
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| Arthritis
When the pain of
arthritis strikes, it has an effect of stiffening up the rest of
the body, as if to protect the part that hurts. Most people
respond to this by decreasing their activity level. Inactivity,
however, is often the worst thing to do because it weakens the
muscles and actually increases stiffness and pain. Yoga
encourages you to keep moving gently while your body is healing
in order to maintain muscle tone, good circulation, and joint
flexibility.
Psychologically it is beneficial because it increases
your confidence that even though you have arthritis, you're not
going to be a prisoner in a wheelchair; you can work, play, and
do all your daily activities if you exercise regularly. |
Fibromyalgia
Yoga exercises stretch and relax the major muscle groups and
help release tension and fatigue as they work to relax tight,
sore muscles, stimulate circulation and the hormonal system, and
push fresh oxygen throughout the body. In addition to
strengthening and limbering the muscles. The deep, rhythmic
breathing counteracts fatigue, depression and reduces anxiety
and inertia. In depression, the breath becomes more shallow and
less oxygen is available to the brain. Both the breathing
exercises and physical exercises (each with a particular breath
pattern) increase the flow of oxygen in the blood and muscles,
and to the brain.
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| Migraines
are caused by the sudden constriction and then dilation of blood
vessels to the brain. Yoga helps improve blood circulation and
also relieve physical tension and stress, which may be a
contributing factor to migraines. Forward and back bends
increase the flow of blood to the head, as do inversions. In
addition, breath work and meditation will help balance the
emotions and relieve mental stress and tension. Neck and
shoulder exercises also relieve the effects of a migraine. The
final relaxation as class concludes trains you to allow all of
the muscles to release their holding.
Offered by Ginny Kelly
LICSW Co-Director of Tranquil Mind and wellness.
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MS.
Physical
activity is extremely important for individuals with Multiple
Sclerosis, and yoga is now recognized as an excellent means of
MS management, whether the individual manifests little or no
outward signs of the disease, or whether they spend most of
their time in a wheelchair. The benefits of yoga postures,
working with the breath , and meditation may include increased
body awareness, release of muscular tension (thus relieving
spasticity), increased coordination and balance, increased
flexibility and strength, control over fatigue, increased
tolerance to heat, improved circulation and breathing, improved
organ function (including bowel and bladder), enhanced
alertness, better management of stress and an overall feeling of
well-being.
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