Not yoga class — yoga as medicine
Yoga therapy is distinct from yoga as exercise or spiritual practice. It is the therapeutic application of yoga's tools — breath, posture, movement, relaxation, and awareness — in service of a person's specific psychological and physiological needs. It meets people where they are, adapts to what the body and nervous system require, and works in genuine collaboration with the person's own healing process.
At NBT, Javiera integrates yoga therapy with somatic psychotherapy — understanding the body not as something to be managed or corrected, but as a gateway. The body doesn't lie. Tension, collapse, chronic bracing, disconnection from sensation — these are not problems to fix but messages to receive, invitations to come back into relationship with yourself.
Coming home to the body
Many people arrive in therapeutic work having spent years living from the neck up — in thought, analysis, and narrative. The body has become something to manage, push through, or simply not think about. Yoga therapy offers a different invitation: to inhabit the body again, to feel it as home rather than obstacle, to discover what becomes possible when sensation is welcomed rather than suppressed.
This is particularly resonant for people who have experienced trauma stored in the body — those who find that talking about their experience doesn't produce relief, or even makes things worse. When the nervous system has learned to brace, the path back often runs through the body rather than around it.
Who it's for
Yoga therapy is especially valuable for those who feel disconnected from their body, who experience chronic tension or anxiety that lives in the physical, who are drawn to a somatic approach but find pure talk therapy insufficient. No prior yoga experience is needed. Sessions are collaborative and always paced by what feels right for you.
"The body is not an obstacle to healing. It is often the doorway."
What We Work With
Breath (Pranayama)
Conscious breathing as a direct regulator of the nervous system — shifting states, opening sensation, creating space between stimulus and response.
Posture & Alignment
How we hold the body shapes how we feel. Therapeutic posture work supports energy flow, reduces chronic tension, and invites more openness.
Movement & Flow
Conscious, therapeutic movement — not exercise, but invitation. Moving what is stuck, softening what is braced, discovering aliveness.
Interoception
The practice of turning attention inward — noticing the subtle signals of the body that normally pass below awareness.
Stillness & Rest
Restorative practices that give the nervous system permission to settle — often where the deepest shifts happen.
Your Therapist
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