Hands On
Therapeutic Yoga
Therapeutic Yoga for Lasting Recovery
Does chronic pain or injury frustrate your
return to yoga?
Are you looking for a therapeutic exercise
alternative to gym workouts?

Therapeutic Yoga adapts asanas (poses) and asana
sequences to suit your individual therapeutic needs.
Its practise optimizes the flow of subtle energies throughout
the body, invigorating you and enhancing your constitutional
health.
   Your therapeutic yoga class will blend deeply held, adapted
asanas with focused breathwork and guided visualization to
aid you in developing deeper awareness of your body during its
therapeutic journey.
   Prior to practise, your organ health, musculoskeletal
imbalances and blocks to flexibility will be assessed in order to
select the precise asanas or adaptations of asanas that work
best for you.
   Whether you are new to yoga or have an established
practice, you will receive clear, detailed guidance and
encouragement in honing proper form to gain the most from
your yoga program.
   The physical benefits of yoga contribute to heightened
vitality and flexibility. The meditative aspects of yoga calm
stress and create greater mental and emotional clarity.         
   Each yoga program is designed by
certified yoga therapist
and teacher Brian Scrivener
(when necessary, in consultation
with
registered physiotherapist Claudia Scrivener) to ensure
that your therapeutic yoga practise is safe and effective.
   
Hands On Therapeutic Yoga
is an effective mode of recovery
and renewal by itself, and especially when used in conjunction
with our whole range of therapeutic techniques and services.
BRIAN SCRIVENER is a certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Practitioner, having
completed training in yoga philosophy, visual-intuitive assessment of the energetic aspects
of the body and the powerful use of specifically selected, assisted and sustained asanas. He
is a member of the
International Association of Yoga Therapists. His lifelong passion for
Yoga has unfolded through more than 20 years of practice and teaching. Trained in the
Iyengar method with Lindsay Whalen in the 1980s in Vancouver, he took his teacher
training with Iyengar national certification assessor Richard Schachtel in Seattle. He has
been inspired by workshops with such yoga luminaries as Angela Farmer and Dona
Holleman. His first inkling of the importance of movement in enhancing the physical body
came while studying contemporary dance with Synergy, led by Linda Rubin, at the
Western Front Lodge in Vancouver during the mid-1970s.
Therapeutic
Yoga can help:

enhance recovery from
  • whiplash
  • post-surgical
    adhesions
  • muscle, tendon or
    ligament strains
  • joint replacement
    surgery
  • post-rehab from
    drugs or alcohol

correct spinal malignment
such as
  • kyphosis
  • lordosis
  • scoliosis

manage chronic conditions
such as
  • allergies
  • asthma
  • chronic fatigue
  • digestive disorders
  • hyper/hypotension
  • hyperthyroid
  • type II diabetes
  • prostatitis

balance emotional states
such as
  • chronic anxiety
  • chronic depression
  • chronic stress
  • PMS

enhance your vitality and
sense of well-being
Also available:
Sacred Body Yoga
Therapy
One-on-one sessions using
assisted yoga asanas to
explore physical,
emotional, mental or
spiritual issues stored in
your body.

Sacred Body Yoga
Small yoga classes
focusing on deep body
awareness and breathwork.
AVAILABLE ONE-ON-ONE
OR IN GROUP CLASSES
CLASSES UNDER WAY
at Hands On Health!
Tuesdays @ 10:30 a.m.
Thursdays @ 4:30 p.m.
WE RECOMMEND A
PHYSIOTHERAPY
ASSESSMENT PRIOR TO
CLASS TO ESTABLISH
YOUR NEEDS AND
ABILITIES.
Please call
250-377-7675
to register for class
or to book an
individual session
.
All Stressed Out?
Check out this helpful website from the
founder of Phoenix Rising.
NEW CLASSES START
MARCH 15TH
AT LET'S MOVE STUDIO
!
Contact Let's Move to
register.