Clinics
for Chronic Pain, Injury & Ills
Led by Evlaleah Howard
Mentee of B.K.S. Iyengar
“Yoga frees one from life’s sorrows and from the diseases and fluctuations of the mind. It gives serenity and composure, an inward unity amidst the diverse struggles of life. It is the art of knowing oneself and knowing the eternal truth.”
Geeta S. Iyengar
• Fill out/return this patient health form to enroll.
• See the Iyengar Yoga Therapeutics flyer here
• YJ/’s / Guruji’s repair of Evlaleah’s spine here.
• The Ailments Table shows disorders people seek yoga for.
Map: Find Our Door here • Attend in-person or by Zoom
Iyengar Yoga Clinics
In a supportive and interactive, environment and, commensurate to patients’ disorders and symptoms, an abundance of instruction, applied learning and practice happen altogether. Students, solo, paired or in a group master pose actions that proven to relieve symptoms and regenerate function. Evlaleah is alert to students changes’ and advances them in poses accordingly with individual instructions or may teach the group as appropriate. Patients simply learn & practice what gets them better and makes them feel good again. Inclusive interaction, participation and feedback are key.
Supported, hanging forward spinal traction.
“Each asana has a beautiful shape, grace and elegance that bestows power and makes a practitioner as strong as a diamond & at the same time, as soft as a flower.
B.K.S. Iyengar ~ Yoga Wisdom & Practice
Spinal/Orthopedic Clinic
Tuesdays • 4 – 6 pm • Ongoing
Saturdays • 1 – 3 pm • Ongoing
6/$360 • 10/$550
Injury causes pain, immobility and lost function. Wear and tear accelerates thereof. Available healthcare options compound risk, often irreversibly, stealing patients’ self-rule. A patient’s therapeutic yoga practice is a dose of practical medicine. Multiple doses lead to self-mastery and wellness. By felt, observable and clinically measurable ways, health, fitness and mobility build up. Metadata underscores natural, precise and rigorous patient training and effort as the premium means by which chronic injury is reformed, pain / other symptoms are alleviated – (not means that mask pain)and health is won back. IY therapeutics adapt to patients’ needs, avoid spinal degeneration, normalizes spinal curvature, restores QOL/joy in life and endows an abundance of secondary benefits.
Anti-Aging, Mobility Clinic
Mondays – 1-3 pm – Ongoing
6/$360 • 10/$550
pose & props for Iliopsoas, hip, groin & sacroiliac pain
Older bodies need not succumb to a decline in health, mobility and well-being. All deserve to feel a renewal of vitality and purpose every day of life on earth. Therapeutic Iyengar Yoga pose practices provide robust improvement of cognitive function – intellect, recall, neuroplasticity, emotional balance and joy in daily life. At the same time, vital systemic functions, upright posture, mobility, gait, strength and fitness improve. The effort is not only worth the many benefits that make students feel better – they feel once again in tune with themselves and with others. Students also belong to an inner social circle that is encouraging and supportive. The body and mind attune to feeling better, then to feeling wonderful!
All Ailments Clinic
Wednesdays • 4 – 6 pm • Ongoing
6/$360 • 10/$550
Adho Mukha Svanasana Traction
Before joining the All Ailments Clinic, patients attend one or more Diagnostic Consults (DCs) and learn actions in poses that are specific to them resolving the symptoms, dysfunction and mechanism of their disorders. By the time they join the clinic, they have felt what actions give relief, mend and revive their health. This foundation readies them to apply physically will multiply the improvements had in the DCs. All that patients are given to do is within the realm of what they can master with practice and guidance. Compounding benefit, an insignia of Iyengar Yoga Therapeutics, makes it stand alone in a heap of efficacy as a patient centric modality. Patients feel certain that what they are doing is getting them better. I make rounds to get to each patient several times throughout each clinic to give feedback, adjustments and new poses. Patients reach new milestones until better enough to not backslide.
B.K.S. Iyengar:
“as people began to approach with … problems … they were not able to sustain poses independently … problems used to recur fast … raw students or patients could not derive maximum advantage.
I thought: “I could ignite interest … in them in them to stay longer in each pose with props and without pains at the time of learning.”
By staying longer, their circulation improved, their respiratory system functioned better.
This made me think, work, develop and evolve ways and means to guide suffering humanity to see the light of hope from despair … I engaged a carpenter.”
from The BKSIYA / Australia
Maricyasana III with chair (or stool) and block
How to Pay
Pay online by card via our book & app.
2. Pay in-person by $, check or card.
3. Send a check to our PO Box address.
Note: students might consider reverting to cash or check payments given new heightened risk to epayments.
Attend by Zoom
Zoom Prep
Place a mat sideways to a display to see your body head-to-toe when standing, seated and supine (adjust display for each).
Props for Home Practice
1-2 round asana bolsters, 1-2 pranapillows, 2 Pune belts/10′, 1-2 mats, 2 wooden or cork blocks, 1-2 yoga chairs and 4- 6 blankets.
Journaling (Bujo)
Writing about your clinic experiences can remind you of what you did that brought relief, what you still need to work on, ask questions about, and get help with. If you fix your attention on how you felt in a pose, you will know whether to record that memory with bullet points or paragraphs. Recalling moments when you felt an exhilaration of physical freedom is worth reliving and not forgetting. Inevitably, repeating useful actions that make you feel better will keep broadening your understanding of how to stay better. Some patients draw the stick figures in the poses taught over props used. Adding arrows to the limbs, torso and head to show skeletal and / or muscular actions in can facilitate adjusting your bodies just so when you practice. I will show how to do that.
I like Ryder Carroll’s ‘Bujo’ journal system. He developed it as a mindfulness practice – an idea at the heart of yoga. -Evlaleah