Yoga for Anxiety Stress and Mental Health

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Evidence-based yoga therapy to support your body, mind and emotions in recovery from anxiety, stress and mental health issues.

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Yoga for Mental Health

When stress, anxiety or past experiences overwhelm your system, it can feel hard to find calm or feel safe in your own body. Yoga therapy offers a supportive, evidence-based way to rebuild that inner sense of stability and ease. Through gentle movement, mindful and grounding practices, you’ll learn how to calm your nervous system, release stored tension and reconnect with yourself.

How Yoga Therapy Helps

When we experience ongoing stress or trauma, the body often stays in a state of high alert, muscles tighten, breathing becomes shallow, and the mind struggles to switch off. Over time, this constant state of activation can leave us feeling exhausted, anxious, or disconnected from ourselves.
Yoga therapy works gently with the nervous system to restore balance. Each practice is tailored to your individual needs and may include mindful movement, meditation, and guided relaxation. These tools help quiet the stress response, support emotional regulation, and create new pathways of calm and resilience.

What is Research Showing?

Yoga therapy is increasingly recognised within clinical and mental health settings as an effective complementary approach for anxiety and stress recovery as well as support for other mental health issues.

Research shows that yoga practices can:
– Lower cortisol (the body’s main stress hormone)
– Improve heart rate variability, a key marker of nervous system health
– Increase feelings of calm, self-awareness and emotional regulation
– Support better sleep and overall wellbeing.

Notably, studies such as van der Kolk et al. (2014) demonstrated that trauma-sensitive yoga can significantly reduce PTSD symptoms, while Streeter et al. (2012) found that yoga increases GABA (a calming brain chemical) levels. Ross & Thomas (2010) reviewed multiple trials and confirmed yoga’s positive impact on both physical and mental health outcomes, often outperforming traditional exercise in reducing stress and anxiety.

These findings continue to support what many people experience firsthand, that yoga therapy helps the body and mind reconnect, rebalance and begin to heal.

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What you’ll experience in a session?

Each yoga therapy session is one-on-one and entirely tailored to your needs. You don’t need to be flexible or have any yoga experience, sessions are about supporting you, not achieving poses.

We begin by discussing how stress, anxiety or trauma are affecting your daily life. From there, I’ll guide you through gentle movement, breathing techniques (if suitable), mindfulness and relaxation practices designed to help regulate your nervous system and bring comfort to your body.

Sessions are calm, supportive and paced to suit where you are each day. You’ll learn simple tools you can use at home, whether to steady yourself in moments of overwhelm, release physical tension, or cultivate a greater sense of balance and safety within.

A quieter mind and steadier emotions

Greater comfort in your body and improved energy

A renewed connection to inner peace and resilience

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