Collaborative Motion Blog
Information, practices and resources supporting embodied living.
Powerful relief through yoga based somatic therapy for physical and mental health
When you want to feel good in your body and you’re tired of ignoring or enduring the things that stand in the way, give this mindbody therapy a try.
Yoga therapy as a complement to physiotherapy
Yoga therapy and physical therapy are two different specialisations. While there is some overlap between the skill sets of both, they each have their own place in the healing process. Discover how yoga therapy can support the work of physical therapy.
Queer Yoga Therapy
Access to affirming, knowledgeable and dare I say celebratory healthcare and wellness spaces is important for those of us in the LGBTQIA+ communities. There are too many stories of people experiencing harm and feelings of judgement, un-safety, and the need to justify and defend themselves in spaces which are intended for health and wellness.
3 Myths about Health and Yoga Therapy
Not all yoga is therapeutic. In order to understand the yoga therapy approach to health, wellness and illness, it is useful to explore this and other common myths about health and therapeutic yoga
Yoga therapy research and resources
A curated selection of yoga therapy resources including books, research articles and websites to aid in your understanding and use of yoga therapy as a complementary therapy for a variety of health and wellness issues.
Counter pandemic fatigue with these top resilience boosting strategies
We are now a full year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is taking its toll on every aspect of life. Even though the lockdown measures are slowly lifting, and vaccinations are increasing, it is important to increase your resilience so that you can counter the effects of pandemic fatigue in your life. Here are some strategies that you can try today to boost your resilience.
Yoga for sleep: proven tips to help you fall back to sleep
You're lying awake. Tossing and turning. The harder you try to fall asleep, the more elusive sleep becomes until you finally fall asleep shortly before the alarm goes off. We've all been there. Here is a collection of tools that have worked for me and others when trying to fall back to sleep.