Clinical Yoga Therapy
Whole Person
Healing.
The maintenance of health isn't complicated. Diet, lifestyle, and routine are the tools that build our health. I teach you how to read the signals your body is giving you.
Clinical Yoga Therapy
The maintenance of health isn't complicated. Diet, lifestyle, and routine are the tools that build our health. I teach you how to read the signals your body is giving you.
The Philosophy
I'm Austin. I work in clinical intensive outpatient programming and I help people discover that the body and mind are inseparable. The more we help the body feel calm, the more we help the mind feel calm. And vice versa.
Most people I work with have already done the hard part. They've sat in therapy. They've tried medications that helped, medications that didn't, and some that did both on the same day. They've read the books. They know their patterns.
What they haven't had is someone help them see how those patterns are living in the body. In the food they reach for. In the sleep they can't get. The company they keep. In the way their mood starts shifting before the seasons do.
We do the best we can with what we can, as best as we can, until we learn better. And when we learn better, we see our patterns clearly. Seeing the patterns clearly is the work. Everything else is the choice we make from knowing more about ourselves.
"Knowing others is wisdom; knowing yourself is enlightenment." — Lao Tzu
"The mind is restless, hard to tame as the wind." — Bhagavad Gita
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought." — The Dhammapada
"You have a right to your actions, never to their fruits." — Bhagavad Gita
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." — Seneca
"Practice, repeated over a long time, becomes unshakable." — Yoga Sutras
"No man steps in the same river twice." — Heraclitus
"Yoga is the stilling of the mind's fluctuations." — Patanjali
"Knowing others is wisdom; knowing yourself is enlightenment." — Lao Tzu
"The mind is restless, hard to tame as the wind." — Bhagavad Gita
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought." — The Dhammapada
"You have a right to your actions, never to their fruits." — Bhagavad Gita
"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." — Seneca
"Practice, repeated over a long time, becomes unshakable." — Yoga Sutras
"No man steps in the same river twice." — Heraclitus
Everything in your environment is a stimulus. The ice bath everyone swears by. The fun foods we reach for at night that we know we shouldn't be eating but we're going to eat anyway. The way we start anticipating seasonal affective disorder before the leaves even change. You and I will assess all the things you are digesting physically, mentally, and emotionally, and figure out what's working for you and what isn't. Everything around you is information. Your body is already responding to all of it. You and I figure out what it's actually telling you.
Ice plunging works brilliantly for some people and makes others more anxious. That's not a failure of willpower. That's your body responding rationally to a stimulus that isn't right for you. What your body needs changes with the season, with your history, with what you ate this week. I don't hand you a protocol. I help you build the ability to read your own signals and adjust as you change, through the seasons of the year and the seasons of your life. There's no universal prescription. We find what your body is actually asking for, and it changes as you do.
A lot of people come to me trying to fix everything at once. The intentions are right. The timing creates a new crisis. Real change is sequential. We start with sleep, food, movement, rhythm, the foundation, and let the rest follow from something stable. Three months of steady work changes more than three weeks of everything at once. We do less, more fully. Lasting change happens over time. We build the foundation first and let everything evolve from stability.
What Clients Have Said
"one of the most engaging practitioners, Austin really makes me reflect."
"Life saving."
"Thankful for the insights on movement, and feeling without words."
"useful shit."
"Supportive, enlightening, insightful, and uplifting."
"Austin has made yoga insanely helpful to me."