About Hands-On Yoga Therapy with Kaya
Deep Spinal Decompression and Inner Quietude
Lots of hands on adjustments, holding of the body, support with props, ayurvedic assessment tools and subtle body awareness for a truly healing and transformative experience. Get deep release of the tight spots in the pelvis, heart and skull, with a stabilization and realignment of of injured or hypermobile lumbar, neck, hips and shoulders. Specific therapeutic spinal release techniques are chosen according to the needs, tendencies, and experience level of the client. Deeply nurturing, restful, blissful, and healing on all levels. Yoga Therapy is great for beginners or experienced students who want to explore more opening. Kaya uses specific angles to reach into and release the muscles that attach to your spine, which has an impact on your whole body. This approach emphasizes "core release", beginning with the tailbone, into and through your sacrum, lumbar spine and psoas, and into your ribcage and neck. One yoga therapy session opens your body 6-10 times as much as a Deep Release yoga group class! *Prenatal Sessions Available!
One Hour with specialized techniques for each part of the spine and extra attention paid to psoas release. Especially recommended for those who want deep healing and transformation that shows measurable progress from one session to the next. Also recommended for students who are unable to attend classes or to get reliable release with a home practice.
$95 per single session; $345 for Package of 4; $650 for Package of 8
New Client? Please click here to fill out this form 24 hours before your consultation
$95 per single session; $345 for Package of 4; $650 for Package of 8
New Client? Please click here to fill out this form 24 hours before your consultation
Shavāsana Yoga Therapy
Rest, Restore and Renew - perfect for exhaustion, pain or trauma
An Shavāsana yoga therapy session includes blissful hands-on therapeutic adjustments for shoulders, hips, legs and neck in Shavasana (yoga's relaxation pose) with your legs comfortable elevated. Then, you continue to abide restfully and comfortably in Shavasana, while the therapist places her hands at the base of your spine to facilitate deep release throughout your spine and entire body. Clients experience deep relaxation and release as well as a number of possible benefits (listed below). A session is completed with a reclined spinal twist pose and a gentle massage up the length of the spine. The opening in one session is 6-10 times as much as you can get in a Deep Release group yoga class. *Prenatal Sessions Available!
$95 per single session; $345 for Package of 4; $650 for Package of 8
New Client? Please click here to fill out this form 24 hours before your consultation
$95 per single session; $345 for Package of 4; $650 for Package of 8
New Client? Please click here to fill out this form 24 hours before your consultation
Home Practice Tutorial
Personalized Yoga Sequence that you can do Anywhere, Anytime!
Establish or deepen a home yoga practice according to your body and goals. You'll leave with a home practice "tool box" of notes and a simply structured laid out plan. More experienced students may leave with the means to create your own home lesson plans using basic principles of pose sequencing. This is an opportunity to ask your questions! *Prenatal Sessions Available and highly recommended.
{offered as part of a package of sessions or for regular group class students}. $95 per single session; $345 for Package of 4; $650 for Package of 8
New Client? Please click here to fill out this form 24 hours before your consultation
{offered as part of a package of sessions or for regular group class students}. $95 per single session; $345 for Package of 4; $650 for Package of 8
New Client? Please click here to fill out this form 24 hours before your consultation
Ayurveda - Full Yoga Lifestyle Therapy
Ayurvedic Consultations, Coaching + Support
An Ayurvedic consultation offers insight into and recommendations for your individual constitution as it interacts with your life circumstance, age, schedule, karma, diet, lifestyle and schedule. We will design a personalized healing program that utilizes lifestyle, diet, botanicals, contemplation, cleansing and yoga, depending on your goals and interest. *Prenatal, postpartum, family or couple consultations are available - raise a happy and healthy family in tune with nature. $150 initial consultation; $80 followups
What can Ayurveda Give me?
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Ayurveda looks to discover and resolve the underlying cause of imbalance and illness. In my consultations I use several main techniques to assess and diagnose imbalance including observation, conversation, vedic astrology, hand analysis, pulse diagnosis. I also deeply trust your own inner wisdom and knowing and so we take to heart what your own heart tells you is the cause of your imbalance. As you become more balanced through ayurveda, you will come more and more in-tune with this inner knowing and we will utilize it more as we progress together.
$175 for initial consultation; $90 for followups.
What can Ayurveda Give me?
- Live in harmony with nature
- Discover a personalized means to balance
- Gain understanding of your physical and mental tendencies
- Learn to heal yourself
- Develop a positive relationship with food and eating
- Recognize your individual strengths
- Understand your individual pit-falls and how to avoid them
How does Ayurveda work? LEARN MORE
Ayurveda looks to discover and resolve the underlying cause of imbalance and illness. In my consultations I use several main techniques to assess and diagnose imbalance including observation, conversation, vedic astrology, hand analysis, pulse diagnosis. I also deeply trust your own inner wisdom and knowing and so we take to heart what your own heart tells you is the cause of your imbalance. As you become more balanced through ayurveda, you will come more and more in-tune with this inner knowing and we will utilize it more as we progress together.
$175 for initial consultation; $90 for followups.
"It was astonishing to me as I started to work with Kaya, that we could do a yoga practice that focused on the pelvic area and as a result, my neck and shoulders would loosen up and pain would resolve without doing anything directly to my neck and shoulders. I'm beginning to feel the interconnectedness of many physical and emotional patterns I've held onto for years and how working on the root can resolve a lot of connected patterns at once. The work on the physical body also helps resolve old stuck trauma or patterns on an emotional. I always understood this connection to be true, but had only barely scraped the surface of it after 15 years of prior practices, compared to what I have gotten out of 2+ years of dedicated work with Kaya. Most recently, I've been working more intensively with Kaya and started to feel skull opening. I have had a habit of feeling and massaging the base of my skull/occipital ridge multiple times a day for years, due to tension and headaches. There is suddenly much more space and openness at the top of my neck, which is incredible after all these years! My optimism that I would some day be able to figure out how to resolve many of these issues and not live in chronic pain for the rest of my life kept me going so that I could find these practices. I really had no idea just how much was actually possible and I now know that so much more is possible. Alongside all of this work on the physical body, I've had mental shifts as well. For years, I was caught up in always saying yes to too much and completely overdoing it, stressing myself out, and contributing to chronic fatigue. My relationship to love and friendships and family have all shifted in positive ways. I am working away from perfectionism, which allows me to give myself the benefit of the doubt in difficult situations in addition to other people. I am better able to put my effort into my actions and then letting the outcome be what it will be rather than being strongly attached to a particular outcome. I am better able to express my fears and desires, even when I feel very vulnerable, because I see how opening up not only helps me, but also helps others. I could keep going..." - B.H.B. - Nonprofit Education
Benefits of Deep Release Yoga Therapy
- Lengthen your whole spine; get space in-between vertebrae
- Experience deep rest & relaxation
- Untwist the pelvis (the underlying cause of scoliosis and knee, hip and shoulder pain)
- Resolve neck & shoulder tension
- Cultivate a sense inner safety & security and resolve trauma patterns
- Establish yourself in deeper awareness
- Stabilize overstretched ligaments (great for dancers or people recovering from achievement-focused yoga practices)
- Improve by decompressing the tension behind your organs of digestion
- Increase your ability to have a safe and comfortable pregnancy & birth
- Cultivate your capacity to give and receive love
- Increase vitality & sense of aliveness; flow of prāna (life force)
Contact Kaya at kaya@yogawithkaya.com
Classes, workshops and sessions in Restorative Yoga Therapy, Yoga, Ayurveda, teacher Mentoring and Yoga Philosophy in the Bay Area (Emeryville), Northern California and by phone. With nearly 2,000 hours training in Svaroopa® Yoga, Kaya has also spent over a decade in deep formal study of classical Hatha Yoga, the Vedic Tradition, Ayurveda and Ayurvedic Yoga. Students attend Kaya's classes and sessions from Berkeley, San Francisco, Oakland and Marin.
Classes, workshops and sessions in Restorative Yoga Therapy, Yoga, Ayurveda, teacher Mentoring and Yoga Philosophy in the Bay Area (Emeryville), Northern California and by phone. With nearly 2,000 hours training in Svaroopa® Yoga, Kaya has also spent over a decade in deep formal study of classical Hatha Yoga, the Vedic Tradition, Ayurveda and Ayurvedic Yoga. Students attend Kaya's classes and sessions from Berkeley, San Francisco, Oakland and Marin.