Yoga Therapy
Our bodies carry a lot. They are wise and have all the answers. We sometimes just need a little support listening in.
What is Yoga Therapy?
Yoga Therapy is a holistic mind-body approach to support physical and mental health. It integrates medicine and neuroscience with breath, mindful movement, and awareness practices to reconnect you with you — beneath the rumination, apprehension, pain, and suffering.
Unlike a yoga class, yoga therapy begins with your unique history, needs and goals, and then builds a tailored practice to meet you exactly where you’re at.
Yoga therapy combines bottom-up strategies (using the body to influence the mind) and top-down strategies (using the mind to influence the body). In this way, we begin to develop curiosity and care — dipping into our regulation and mindfulness toolbox becomes part of our everyday.
Why Yoga Therapy?
Rather than seeing through solely a physical or mental lens (like physiotherapy or psychotherapy), yoga therapy includes three more subtle layers — the energetic, wisdom and the bliss body.
Often we hold stresses in our bodies, creating blocks stopping us from reaching our potential. Developing mind-body awareness helps us overcome our blocks and live a joyful and balanced life.
Maybe you can’t find the words to describe where you’re at, or you talk yourself in circles, over-analysing and unpicking, or you’re experienced at pushing down, pressing on, disconnecting from your needs or prioritising others’ before your own.
Yoga Therapy’s mind-body holistic approach invites us to pause and sit with the present moment, to sense into other aspects of awareness, offering respite from our often stubborn and unruly minds.
You don’t need to be flexible, “good at yoga”, or experienced with meditation. Just show up as you are. You are enough.
What a session looks like
Each session meets you where you are with compassionate, non-judgemental support. Sessions often include:
A collaborative intake and assessment
Breath exploration
Gentle, tailored, mindful movement
Nervous system–supporting practices
Psychoeducation
Yoga philosophy
Mindfulness and meditation
Time for reflection, integration, feedback
Collaborative home practice
Online Accessibility
All work is offered online via Zoom, with recordings available for your ongoing home practice.
How To Start
Free 20-Minute Clarity Call
We’ll talk about what you’re experiencing, what you hope to gain, and whether yoga therapy feels right for you.
“Zael was able to place my feelings and experiences in the context of yoga which was both validating and helpful as it gave me not only understanding, but a way forward. Zael truly met me where I was at on the day — I felt accepted with however I presented. She did not try to problem solve or rush me out of any state of being — she created a safe space for me to be and, in doing so, this was incredibly supportive and helpful during such a challenging time.”
—Yoga Therapy Client
Packages
1:1 Single Session
£50.00
A yoga therapy session that meets you exactly where you are at. Whether it is a session to support sleep, or to offer yourself care in the form of a restorative practice, or to support you make space for dysregulation in however it is showing up in your body.
3-Session Package
£145.00
A therapeutic sandwich of care: a chance to understand some of your patterns and begin building a home practice that works for you.
6-Session Package
£290.00
Recommended for sustained change and to experience all that yoga therapy has to offer.
Yoga Therapy Courses
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A 4-week course designed for supporting Anxiety and Depression (inspired by The Minded Institute’s Yoga Therapy for the Mind 8-week course). Each session is two hours to deeply explore yoga therapy tools and create a small community.
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An 8-week course designed for supporting Anxiety and Depression (created by Heather Mason at The Minded Institute). Each session is two hours to deeply explore yoga therapy tools and create a small community.
Frequently Asked Questions
Still have questions? Take a look at the FAQ or reach out anytime. If you’re feeling ready, get in touch.
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The yoga and yoga therapy I offer is not about being flexible, or “good at yoga” — you don’t need to have any prior experience.
In our initial phone call and in the first few sessions, we will get to know each other, understand your unique needs and clarify through baseline assessments and intake conversation. Together we will create a yoga therapy trajectory which is flexible and fluid to your life, mood and energy on any given day.
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We will always go at your pace and include as much or as little movement as feels right. Some sessions we might not move at all and and instead work with the breath, sound, meditative practices in a comfortable position. Any movement we incorporate into the sessions is designed to meet you where you’re at. We might hold restorative poses, supported by props and cushions, or if you have more fizz to release, we might move dynamically or hold more challenging asanas. Yoga has plenty of tools to meet every part of us in every moment.
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In September 2026, I begin The Minded Institute’s Integrative Yoga Psychotherapy, programme. In my sessions, I hold plenty of space for sharing and discussion, though we use somatic practices to bring us into felt sense of the present moment and influence cognitive processes.
Yoga therapy offers an exploration of our felt experience, integrating breath and body awareness to influence our mind: how does our mind and our circumstances impact on bodies? What can our bodies teach us when we choose to listen in?
In yoga philosophy, the mind is described as unruly, agitated and stubborn — and influencing it directly can be particularly difficult (this might explain why many don’t experience change from CBT or other talk therapies). Yoga therapy offers us a mind-body holistic approach. We use a range of ‘bottom-up’, somatic tools to regulate, increase mindfulness, notice our patterns, habits, and create space for lifestyle change.
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If you are seeking exercise, I’d encourage you to join a local yoga class or pick up an physical activity that you enjoy. A movement nutritious lifestyle is key to preventive health.
Our sessions are therapy. In the UK, yoga and yoga therapy is increasingly recommended for mental and physical health conditions because, like exercise, it offers anti-inflammatory effects which supports a myriad of bodily systems.
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Just show up simply as you are.
A quiet space free from distractions.
Ideally, join from a laptop or tablet that has Zoom downloaded.
Wear clothes that are comfortable
Have a blanket and cushions nearby to keep yourself warm.
You can join from a chair or seated on the floor (I’ve also had a client recovery from surgery join from the bed) —wherever you feel at ease.