What is Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy? What does a session look like?

Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Real Stories

A recovering cancer patient sobs as she allows her grief over the loss of her breasts free rein for the first time; she has had to remain strong and optimistic for too long.

A computer programmer follows his hip pain into the depths of fear & anger around the possibility of losing his job during this economic crisis. He now works at his desk, the hip relieved, the struggle gone, able to accept any eventuality.

A woman recalls her sexual abuse by her father. She connects the abuse with compulsive control over her eating. She eats a healthy meal today for the first time in years.

A psychotherapist who defines herself as an “incurable workaholic” breathes deeply, encouraging her busy mind to take a break and her body to relax. She finds it a pleasurable experience and vows to take a moment between each of her clients to smell the roses.

A want-to-be singer discovers her new found voice after being told in her younger years that “children should not be heard”. She decides to find a choral group and eventually falls in love & marries the lead singer. Together they now bring music to thousands.

Newly-weds are finding happiness to be such a new experience that they choose to keep the feeling alive in their bodies by engaging together in play.

A working mother let's her husband take the crying baby and the toddler to the park. She's discovered that when her shoulders scream - that 'pain in the neck' is a sign for her to stop taking care of the world and begin putting her needs first.

What do these people have in common?
They are all engaged in a holistic mind-body healing modality, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy. As opposed to traditional psychotherapy which focuses upon the mind or yoga which focuses upon the body, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy understands that body and mind are not separate, and thus physical and emotional issues are profoundly connected.

Operating under the assumption that the body is a repository for all life’s experiences, both positive and negative, PRYT opens tensely held parts of the body so that pent-up feelings, fears and resistances are revealed and the insights gained are then put into action.

Read about PRYT in Time Magazine's:
Psychotherapy Goes from Couch to Mat.

What are Phoenix Rising sessions like?
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PRYT is a non-directive, client-centered process. In a typical session, you are guided through a sequence of carefully selected, assisted postures designed to bring you deeper into an internal experience. As you are supported in the postures, Soleil guides you in dialogue about what’s happening in your body.

This unique combination of postures and focused dialogue techniques often has a synergistic effect, enabling you to readily access information stored in the body, and to gain new insights into long-standing patterns and chronic physical and mental tensions.

Each session concludes with an integration, to assist in processing your experience and finding the connections with your life "off the mat" and exploring how you can bring new-found insights into action.

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No Yoga Experience is necessary.

Who benefits from Phoenix Rising?
Whether working with pain that stems from major trauma such as an accident or unexpected illness, or from the less recognized strain of life transitions, chronic stress or self-neglect, yoga therapy offers a powerful, safe and natural path to well-being.

Clients have found PRYT to be beneficial for a wide variety of situations and conditions including stress release, chronic pain, general malaise, resistance to change, and healing from physical and/or sexual abuse.

This work is complementary to more traditional forms of treatment such as psychotherapy and physical therapy.

List of Benefits
• Release anxieties that have a corresponding physical component
• Free up areas of tension
• Increase Awareness and Concentration
• Facilitate problem-solving and decision-making
• Overcome self-limiting beliefs
• Increase vibrant creative energy
• Alleviate pain
• Promote personal growth & transformation in body-mind-spirit

How does Soleil offer Sessions?
• Private Sessions ~90 minutes. Your site or Mercer Island office. Phone Sessions (Skype).
• Phoenix Rising for Groups – 8 Week Stress Management Program
• PRYT for Couples. Partners, Parent-Child, Friends
• PRYT Trainings & specialized workshops (Soleil has been on Faculty since 2006)

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