discover your own authentic, optimal way of relating to yourself and the world

The principles of the JIYÚ Integrated approach:

  • Create conditions in which the body & mind can heal itself by treating the individual as a whole, not just the symptoms.

  • Find authenticity, balance, and harmony in all things.

  • Empowerment through education

  • Develop skills that allow one to adapt to an ever changing environment

  • Replacing unhealthy patterns with healthy ones

  • All endeavors must be appropriate and beneficial

  • Discover joy and play in all things

  • Assist in the student’s path of self-exploration

  • Integration of concepts into daily life

What does this mean? What does the process look like?

  • We will first get to know you, your current health, status, and goals.

  • We will assess the areas you wish to improve: movement, diet, focus, stress, skills etc. (Any of the dimensions mentioned above).

  • We will come up with a training plan and schedule according to your needs. This may include any combination of methods from massage, physical training, yoga, meditation, nutrition coaching, or martial arts. (We don’t treat these as separate concepts, but as tools that for health.)

  • Homework! Training to do in-between sessions that may involve exercise, yoga, meditating, reading, journalizing, or amending your diet.

  • We will re-assess regularly. Sometimes it is important to change our approach session-to-session, sometimes we stick to the same concepts or work on a problem for an extended period to see how far we can go with them. The beauty of a multi-disciplinary approach is adaptability.

How is this different from other trainers, life coaches, massage therapists?

  • The structure of what we do will revolve around you, and where you are at in the moment, not promoting a specific system or agenda. The goal is for you discover your own authentic, optimal way of relating to yourself and the world.

  • This would be more akin to a Teacher/Student relationship rather than Service/Customer relationship.

  • Adaptability to your changing needs. For example: working out may be the right thing one session, but if you are injured or stressed a bodywork or meditation session might be better. In another session you may have questions about diet, or find it useful to explore philosophy to aid in navigating social dynamics.

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JIYÚ is the Japanese term for freedom, autonomy, and my favorite ‘anything goes’. In yoga philosophy it is the culmination of living an examined life. Every person is unique, and in order to see consistent improvement we examine the interconnectedness between all the dimensions of health: body, mind, diet, sleep, social, and spiritual health.

Common symptoms such as stress, back-pain, stiffness, fatigue, weight gain, trouble sleeping, high blood pressure, physical imbalances, injury, depression, anxiety and illness are just a few examples of what many modern humans are dealing with on a daily basis. Taking a holistic approach means we approach the source of the problem in order to create circumstances that allow us to heal.

For example, if you have lower back pain, yes a few stretches and some aspirin might help in the short term, but if you want it to go away all together you need to take a look at posture, how you walk, your habits, how you set up your desk, and strengthen the muscles that are weak, and massage the muscles that are too tense. Emotional states and diet also affects posture and back pain and need to be identified and addressed. When the source of a problem is fully addressed, all aspects of health improve, not just the singular one you were focusing on!