Yoga Therapy & Shamanic Healing for Chronic Pain

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Yoga Therapy & Shamanic Healing for Optimal Wellness

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OUR SERVICES

Group Yoga Therapy

Learn practices in a dynamically adaptive and economical small group setting designed to meet you where you are!

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Private Yoga Therapy

Mitigate the challenges of living with chronic illness & pain and become empowered to achieve YOUR goals!

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Shamanic Healing

Reconnect with your true nature, remove unwanted energies, or return pieces of your soul.

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Reiki Healing

Receive healing with Universal Life Energy channeled specifically for your highest and best good!

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Yoga therapist and shamanic practitioner Kristi Schwickerath assists a client in a wide legged forward fold. With the lightest of touches at the lower and upper back the client is able to better percieve where their body is in a space and bring greater refinement to the experience of the shape in the physical body.

Meet Kristi

Plus-sized, queer, neurospicy woman thriving with chronic pain and complex trauma by utilizing yoga therapy tools rooted in nature's cycles and shamanic/animist rituals.

Having lived with chronic pain most of my adult life I turned to yoga for therapeutic relief nearly 15 years ago and use it daily to minimize not only my physical pain, but the mental, emotional, and spiritual discomfort that accompanies chronic conditions. Practicing the ancient tools of yogic philosophy and connecting with nature and her cycles is essential for living my optimal life with fibromyalgia and chronic myofascial pain syndrome.

The impact of adopting these practices was so profound that I became a yoga therapist certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) after completing over 1,000 hours of training and apprenticeship so that I could empower others to work with, rather than against, any symptoms or limitations from chronic conditions to live their own optimal life.

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Meet Kristi

Why Yoga Therapy?

Grey haired man with full beard sits in a dark leather chair and is grasping his right leg around the knee joint with a look of discomfort on his face.

Two women practice extended side angle with their right feet pointing towards the front short edge of their mat and the right knee bent to stack vertically over the ankle bone. The left foot is about two feet behind the right with the toes pointed towards the long, left edge of their mats with the left knee straight. Their upper bodies are leaning forward towards the right knee. The right hands are touching the mat to the inside of the right foot and the left arms are extended up towards the ceiling with the palms facing the left long edge of the mat.

An woman of color is on a blue yoga mat with two bolsters beneath her back and head, her legs with soles of the feet together and knees open wide supported with a yoga strap and yoga blocks gently opens her heart and sacral chakras in a classic restorative yoga asana or posture known as reclined bound angle.

Looking over a white woman's left shoulder at an open laptop on a table in front of her. Her brunette hair is up off of her neck and she is touching her neck with her left hand as though it were stiff and painful from working on the computer.

A fuller bodied white woman is standing with knees bent as though sitting back into a chair with her arms held straight out at shoulder height with palms facing down in a traditional yoga posture known as Chair Pose which helps strengthen the quadriceps, abdominals, feet, and back muscles.

A middle aged white woman is on her knees on a gray yoga mat with her legs wide. She is laying face down with her glutes on her heels and a rectangular yoga bolster supporting her chest and her arms extended out towards to the top of her mat in a restorative and yin yoga form known as supported child's pose.

A woman of color appears to be sitting in her bed in a darkened room with her knees to her chest. She rests her elbows on her knees and rests her left hand along her left temple and forehead indicating some form of mental or emotional discomfort. It may also be negatively affecting her sleep.

A middle-aged white woman is seated on the floor with her left leg extended toward the camera and the focus is set on the bottom of her foot which she is holding with both of her hands indicating discomfort. The right leg is bent and the foot tucked in toward her groin.

A fuller bodied woman with an olive skin tone and long brunette hair over her left shoulder sits on a yoga mat with legs crossed and arms resting on the knees holding the index finger and thumb together on each hand. Eyes are closed and there is a look of peace on her face.

An olive complected woman with her dark brunette hair in a ponytail rests her right index finger over her third eye, her right thumb on her right nostril her right ring finger on her left nostril for directing energy and breathing in and out through alternate nostrils to balance energy in the halves of the body with alternate nostril breathing.

A white woman demonstrates a modification for extended side angle where the front leg is bent only slightly and the elbow of the front arm rests on the seat of a folding chair instead of the front thigh. The back leg remains straight and the back arm reaches for the ceiling with the palm facing the camera.

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Why Yoga Therapy?