Specializing in Therapeutic Yoga
Yoga Therapy vs. Yoga Teacher: What’s the Difference?
Yoga Teacher
A yoga teacher is trained to guide group classes and offer safe, balanced sequences for general well-being. Their focus is on movement, breath, and creating a supportive group experience.
Yoga teachers are skilled at:
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Leading classes for all levels
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Teaching poses and alignment
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Cultivating mindfulness and breath awareness
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Supporting general health, strength, and ease
Yoga teachers hold foundational training (usually 200–500 hours) that prepares them to lead classes for a wide range of students.
Yoga Therapist
A yoga therapist is trained to work with individuals on a deeper, more specialized level. They blend traditional yoga practices with a clinical understanding of the body, mind, and nervous system. Yoga Therapists complete advanced training through a recognized program (such as IAYT) and may also have backgrounds in healthcare or mental health.
A yoga therapist is skilled at:
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Creating personalized practices for specific health conditions (physical, emotional, or medical)
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Working in partnership with your medical team (especially during cancer treatment or chronic illness)
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Using breathwork, movement, meditation, and lifestyle tools to support healing
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Helping you navigate symptoms such as pain, fatigue, anxiety, depression, trauma, or grief
Yoga Therapy is one-on-one, individualized, and deeply tailored. It meets you exactly where you are—physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Lila Yoga's IAYT Certified Yoga Therapist can personally help you get relief from a variety of conditions such as:
Anxiety / Addictions / ALS / Asthma / Arthritis / ADHD / Back Pain / Brain Trauma / Breast Cancer / Cancer / Carpal Tunnel / Chronic Fatigue / Chronic Pain / Diabetes / Depression / Digestive Problem / Fibromyalgia / Headaches / Heart Disease / MS / Neck Pain / Parkinson's / Phantom Pain / Stress / Stroke / Trauma
What is Therapeutic Yoga?
Therapeutic yoga is an evidence-informed approach that weaves together gentle movement, breathwork, meditation, and deep rest to support your physical, emotional, and nervous-system well-being. Unlike a traditional yoga class, therapeutic yoga is fully individualized. Each practice is adapted to your current health, symptoms, energy level, and goals—whether you are navigating illness, treatment, recovery, chronic pain, anxiety, or stress. This approach helps reduce symptoms such as fatigue, tension, nausea, sleep disturbance, and emotional overwhelm. It offers a safe space to rebuild strength, support the nervous system, and cultivate ease in body and mind. At its heart, therapeutic yoga meets you exactly where you are and helps you move toward greater comfort, resilience, and healing.
