Ashley Turner | Mind Body Psychotherapy
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Ashley Turner is a yoga/meditation teacher, registered Marriage & Family Therapist Intern, writer, speaker and Initiated Priestess. Deep, witty, and laser focused, she draws on the source texts of yoga while incorporating the best of neurobiology, Jungian Psychology, ayurveda, tantra, shamanism & priestess work -vigorously challenging students and clients.
Ashley Turner | Mind Body Psychotherapy
2y ago
If you’re anything like me, you’re fascinated by the causes and effects of anxiety. Like so many people, I lived with it for years. It was when I started teaching yoga more than two decades ago that I began to …
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Ashley Turner | Mind Body Psychotherapy
2y ago
Although all yoga is potentially therapeutic, yoga therapy specifically applies tools like breathwork, meditation practices, and postures to address the holistic needs of an individual.
Yoga therapists learn how to apply yoga prescriptions to people with various physical and emotional …
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Ashley Turner | Mind Body Psychotherapy
2y ago
When you teach trauma informed yoga classes, you create supportive spaces where all students can reconnect with their bodies and learn emotional regulation skills in a safe way.
Teaching trauma informed yoga employs principles of hatha yoga, but it is …
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Ashley Turner | Mind Body Psychotherapy
2y ago
Do you need to demystify the different types of meditation, so you can prescribe the best types and practices for your students? Let’s dig into this important topic for yoga teachers and wellness practitioners.
There are two primary types of …
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Ashley Turner | Mind Body Psychotherapy
2y ago
Wondering about the difference between “yoga” and “yoga therapy”?
Yoga therapy helps individuals progress toward improved mental and physical health and wellbeing using the practice of yoga poses, meditation, and breathwork.
Yoga therapists work together with clients or patients to …
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Ashley Turner | Mind Body Psychotherapy
2y ago
Yoga nidra is an ancient technique first recorded in India around 700 B.C., but in the past few years, this powerful practice has experienced a worldwide resurgence in popularity.
Now even the United States military is using yoga nidra to …
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Ashley Turner | Mind Body Psychotherapy
3y ago
If you were rushing through your morning commute in Washington, D.C. and heard a world-class violinist performing in a subway station, would you stop and listen?
Would you even notice?
In 2007, The Washington Post arranged an unusual sociological experiment…
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Ashley Turner | Mind Body Psychotherapy
3y ago
Being a yoga teacher or wellness entrepreneur isn’t just about working with clients or students. It’s also about becoming a leader in your field and a successful entrepreneur, so you can reach as many people as possible with your work.…
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Ashley Turner | Mind Body Psychotherapy
3y ago
With conversations about racism and systemic oppression at the forefront of our society today, it’s more important than ever to practice and teach yoga without disrespecting ancient yoga philosophy.
That’s why I talked to Susanna Barkataki, an Indian …
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Ashley Turner | Mind Body Psychotherapy
3y ago
Human beings are collectively awakening to the epidemic of trauma going on in our world.
More than ever before, there is a global conversation about how to heal trauma and move forward with our lives.
From the #metoo movement, …
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