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  Now accepting applications for our Yoga Therapy Internship Program With individual yoga therapy, and group yoga therapy classes we comprehensively move our clients through fundamental yoga postures, analyze postural difficulties, and explore yoga's capacity for healing specific injuries. Certified Yoga Therapists in our Internship Program assist and co-teach our clients, each are Yoga Alliance Teachers at the RYT-200 level.
 Frequently
Asked Questions
What is Yoga Therapy? Yoga Therapy is an individualized approach to softening into the body, relieving discomfort, enlivening strength, and creating elasticity where there was tension. With a scientific understanding of your overall health, we create a sequence of yoga postures that include gentle breathwork and meditation, so that as you come into your body with increased awareness, you arrive with calm. In yoga therapy, you empower yourself to heal. Who can benefit, and what are the benefits of yoga therapy? All of us. Everyone has movement habits that create specific aches, weak or tight areas. It is difficult to notice that we are re-creating these even in how we walk, sit and especially when we practice postures that unknowingly include the same habits. They are easier to learn see and feel inside of postures, especially with the amount of observation and assistance that comes with these tiny classes. Also people pull for each other in these classes, as if the classes have their own hearts. What is Sherry’s vision of physical therapy and yoga therapy? I see yoga therapy as the link between physical therapy and regular yoga classes. This ancient healing methodology is more recognized than ever by western medicine because it works. It is thorough, investigative work. A distinction that yoga has, in favor of ‘exercise for it’s own sake’, is each movement and breath, is embedded in the benefits of self-awareness and inner calm. In yoga therapy, we become accustomed to reading our own bodies, for spaces that might be blocked or tight or weak, and work with healing movement patterns. It is a global way, of being with the body, and a return or initiation to regular yoga classes. What if I’m a total beginner? Everyone is a total beginner at one time, and your yoga therapist is trained to see with you, where you are, and help guide you into a softer place. You will be an accomplice in your program, so that with guidance, you will always feel safe, taking the next step into strength, agility and quiet inside. What if I’d had my injury for years? Or I’m just not flexible? The soft tissue of the body, (everything but bones) remains pliable throughout life. We have had brilliant success with the delicacies of even the ninth decade. The key to moving forward is paying such close attention, that you learn with your own exploration, the appropriate pace for your entry into opening up your body. What is important is not the need to come into symmetry, or for things to ‘look normal’, and instead, for the tissues of the body to be led by the confidence of your probing mind and the peaceful experience of the lightness of moving. What if I am already a yoga practitioner? If you have discomfort with your yoga practice, or with a normal daily activity, and you have been practicing yoga recently, or you used to practice, we will converge and use your knowledge base, as a springboard into your individualized yoga therapy practice. You may come and be supervised as much as you like and, or, feel comfortable with coming occasionally, to report your progress and check and shift posture modifications, to match your ever changing healing body. Your yoga therapist is trained to evaluate and do practice consultations, at any level of practice. Schedule and Fees
Introductory class: $25 | Single classes thereafter: $50 5 class series: $225 ($45 per class) must be completed within 8 weeks 10 class series: $400 ($40 per class) must be completed within 13 weeks 20 class series: $700 ($35 per class) must be completed within 25 weeks Private Yoga Therapy Consult: $135 (Recommended before you begin classes) Class sizes are limited. 24 hours advance notice is required if you cannot attend your class. There is no charge if you make up your class within one week. Sliding scale payment options are available on individual basis. Fees may be reimbursed by your insurance, please ask for details. Download Forms:
Yoga Therapists
Sherry Brourman P.T.,E-RYT500 Founder and Director Sherry has been a practicing licensed physical therapist since 1973, a yoga teacher, yoga teacher trainer and yoga therapist for over ten years. Sherry is a teacher with tremendous passion, combining the science of physical therapy with the holistic wholehearted healing intention of yoga, in every aspect of her work. Her own severe back, created the profound insight that became the groundwork for her to create a system of movement based healing. This is the foundation for her book, Walk Yourself Well (Hyperion 1998) and has been translated and distributed in five countries. She teaches her Gait Therapy Certification program to healthcare professionals nationally. Yoga therapy, became the confluence of all of the tools Sherry had gathered for her healing work. At her clinic, Sherry sees patients and clients on a one on one basis, and in group yoga therapy classes. Leslie Kazadi CYT, RYT Director of Education From ballet to boxing, Leslie has been exploring movement her entire life. 15 years ago, this exploration brought her to yoga. She was so inspired by this transformative practice that she became a teacher. She did her teacher training at Yoga Works in 2001 and then assisted that training in 2004. In 2005, she became involved in an NIH-funded study on yoga for seniors with hyper kyphosis through the geriatrics department of UCLA. Her background in massage and volunteer work in hospice proved invaluable tools as she took over the study and found her passion: teaching seniors. In 2007, she collaborated in the design of a study proposal for healthy seniors through the biokinesiology department of USC and will be leading that study. She also led a pilot study of yoga for seniors with Parkinson’s Disease through USC in 2007 and will lead an expanded study this spring. Her love for and fulfillment in working with seniors and those with dis-ease led her to LMU and a 2-year certificate program in yoga therapy. Assisting and Co-teaching Yoga Therapists Ann Braden, Alana Bray, Deanna Galkin-Doran, Batsheva Langer, Elyse Lauren, Mariana Murr, Niki Netanel, and Wendy Obstler Testimonials
"The Tensegrity Center for Yoga Therapy Internship Program enhanced my practice and teaching on so many levels, most predominantly, from the inside out. What makes this program unique is it's only one of a very few places where you can get first hand experience working with and learning from professional seasoned practitioners of their experience, caliber and credentials. As in similar professions, from physical therapists, acupuncturists, chiropractors, to MD's, the more clinical hands on experience you have the better a practitioner you become. Their focus always starts at the place where the person is now and building from there." - Teri Roseman "Sherry Brourman's ground-breaking Mentorship Program with Tensegrity Center for Yoga Therapy provides an extraordinary foundation to assist yoga teachers working through the gateway of the physical form. This program has given me substantial confidence in working with individuals who have specific structural challenges. It is the perfect adjunct to the Yoga Therapy RX2 program at LMU. While LMU was primarily theoretical in nature, the 'hands-on' workshop design of Tensegrity Center for Yoga Therapy Mentorship Program is a superb opportunity for receiving generous personal attention and for providing the opportunity for co-teaching in a live classroom setting. I received exceptional clarity of the physical landscape and the breath, putting into action many of the concepts I had been learning about at LMU. I was also able to understand and begin to heal challenges in my own body. Patterns of movement and breath were exquisitely illuminated which in turn allowed me to move beyond the structural level to gain a more inclusive understanding of my energetic and emotional patterns. I highly recommend this program to all yoga teachers wishing to take their teaching to a higher level of expertise. It is extremely important that more teachers know how to precisely work with students who have specific challenges. More real healing for all." - Eve Baldwin, CYT, MT "With over 50 years of collective experience listening, watching and in a deep and sincere communication with the body, Sherry Brourman and Leslie Kazadi are master's at their craft. The mentorship program that they have created is a completely unique and groundbreaking necessity in the world of yoga and yoga therapy. Not only is their combined knowledge of the body, healing and yoga astounding, their patience, generosity, guidance, and desire to teach teachers is unparalleled. I have felt held, honored, respected and challenged to grow myself into the teacher I know I can be. Sherry and Leslie's ability to see their students as already whole, already brilliant, already healed, is a deeply transformative experience that is truly liberating. Every class I teach, no matter what level, is taught through the lenses I have learned from this program. I can't tell you what a difference it has made in my own body, in my life, in my relationships, and in my teaching. The work is do deep and multi-layered, so vast and wide that the learning never ceases to amaze me. This program is born from passion, sincere seeking, and a great desire to serve the highest good in each person. That combined with the honor and privilege of learning from women who are living out their calling, who have spent time honing and perfecting their talents makes this mentorship program stand alone." - Chani Nicholas "You have all had the pleasure of learning anatomy and walking & gait from Sherry Brourman in the LMU Yoga Therapy program. Not sure if you've heard, but she has her own yoga therapy clinic with 9 classes a week working with amazing students all learning to heal through yoga. I just completed a year-long mentorship program under her and Leslie Kazadi (also and LMU Yoga Therapy grad), and words cannot describe how much more prepared I am to face all the different challenges I will encounter as a yoga therapist. - Gina Shelton Only 2 months into Sherry Brourman’s Yoga Therapy Internship Program and I have learned more hands-on, practical applications of Yoga Therapy than I did in the whole year spent getting my yoga therapy certification. I can’t imagine having gone out into the ‘real world’ without these experiences with real patients/students. Furthermore, I feel the program that Sherry Brourman and Leslie Kazadi have created for yoga therapy graduates should be a mandatory step in the process of becoming a Certified Yoga Therapist." - Wendy Obstler, RYT/CYT Current Intern at Tensegrity Center for Yoga Therapy |
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