Yoga Therapy
Yoga Therapy is a health care system that empowers and supports you to optimise your health and wellbeing. It involves use of movement and body awareness, and may use breathing techniques, relaxation, meditation and sound, as appropriately selected by the therapist . A yoga therapy program is designed according to the individual needs of a person, it is preventative, restorative and healing. It is supported by a solid evidence base. Yoga Therapy is safely undertaken in conjunction with conventional medical treatment or other health care regimens. It has much to offer in alleviating symptoms and in helping cope with medical procedures and outcomes.
Lee BacharAdler
Yoga Therapist
Lee is a second level (500hrs ) Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance and a qualified Yoga Therapist with the Australia Association of Yoga Therapists.
Lee’s yoga journey started about 20 yrs ago and she has been practicing ever since, embracing different styles such as Hatha, Vinyasa and Yoga Therapy learning in Australia, India, Singapore and Israel.
In the last 5 yrs Lee recognised the need of providing a safe environment for people to practice yoga that caters for their own physical and mental needs. Knowing the yoga system is rich in applications that can assist with such needs she chose to focus on Yoga Therapy where the assessment of the individual and the build of a customised yoga practice empowers the individual to experience yoga in a way that is nourishing and enriching one’s life. Lee has been teaching in different settings: groups sessions, private classes, corporate and kids therapy.
She combines a variety of methodologies in her classes and therapy sessions. Together with the yoga asanas and pranayama she incorporates practices like guided relaxation, meditation and mindfulness.
Lee’s great interest in Vedic meditation and Vedic philosophy led her to study the Vedas in depth over the past three years and this knowledge is very much present in her classes.