Phoenix Rising encourages you to witness yourself and provide answers to your own questions. The practitioner's role, much like a psychotherapist, is to listen unconditionally to you, to be present for all the parts of you that show up in a loving and non-judgmental way. Unlike most psychotherapy, PRYT addresses the body directly through touch. Psychotherapy may involve analysis of feelings and behaviors. A Phoenix Rising practitioner trusts that insight and transformation will arise spontaneously when the client opens to the transformational realm of listening to and talking with the body. It is not within our scope of practice to diagnose our clients or recommend medication.

Phoenix Rising makes use of many postures that will be familiar to yoga students. Unlike a Hatha yoga practice, a PR therapist moves the client into supported stretches, while the client remains passive (somewhat like Thai massage).

In PRYT, the practitioner follows the client with very little telling/instructing. In this type of yoga therapy, the practitioner doesn't try to fix, adjust or teach the client the way one might experience in a class or private yoga lesson. Instead, you gain access to your own internal yoga teacher!

All yoga has the potential to be yoga therapy. Yoga becomes therapeutic as soon as the practitioner becomes quiet enough to listen to the body. PRYT just emphasizes these natural qualities that lie at the heart of every Hatha yoga practice.

You do not need to have any previous experience with yoga to try PRYT, nor do you need to be flexible. It is recommended that you are comfortable with being respectfully touched while clothed in a private studio setting.

Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy is for anyone who is curious to learn more about themselves and find new tools to create the life they want.

• You are looking for a deeper practice of self-awareness and discovery, similar to yoga and psychotherapy 
• You are recovering from an illness or injury that has left you feeling out of balance. 
• You suffer from chronic pain that alludes diagnosis. 
• You want to reconnect with your body. 
• You are in the midst of a transition in your life, and are looking for support and guidance to help you through changes. 
• You are moving into a new life stage: college, a new career, starting a family, divorce, menopause.
• Your body is affected by stress and anxiety, limiting your ability to enjoy your life and hindering your performance at work.