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DIALECTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, BONDS & YOGA

creating intimacy + sustainable relationships

Classes, small group workshops & retreats offered in a supportive expert environment for:

  • DBT-PE Therapists & Other Practitioners
  • DBT-PE Program Graduates (+Stage 2-4)
  • Relationship-centered non-dual & sound neo Tantra/Yoga Teachers & Students

Yoga of Desire offers unique paths so past trauma no longer blocks you from participating in a life filled with the intimacy you desire.

Sarah Greenwood (she/box free), MA, LPC, LCMHC | DBT-PE Specialist for C-PTSD

Founder, Yoga of Desire -and- Dialectical Yoga Therapeutics

Inspiration, creativity, and transformation

 

Dialectical Yoga Therapeutics (DYT) is a therapeutic yoga-centered practice that is founded in DBT PE inspired psychology research-based outcomes, incorporating dialectics & evidence-based yoga therapeutics + simple practices drawn from deeply grounded tantra influences by offering refined emotion, stress & trauma symptom response recovery for nervous systems. This leads to deepened emotion regulation in mind-body-heart practices that are physically therapeutic, functionally strengthening&relaxing.

Connectedness, reverence, & rejuvenation

YODa classes, small group workshops & retreats

seamlessly include unique and effective elements:

INDIVIDUAL & GROUP ASSESSMENT + DYT SESSIONS
Incorporating aspects of the ancient wisdom of ‘Bhava-Rasa’ (true feeling+desired mood state) cultivation and simple influences of ‘Ayurveda’ (sister system to yoga) through the lens of yoga therapeutics, & organically woven into bits of sound neo tantra (Gestalt therapist-author derived sacred intimacy, authentic sexuality) & influences of nondual classical tantra practices (reality acceptance, gentle Shakti-Goddess qualities meditative devotions), our founder assesses students to assist them in various ways. Approaches for increasing intimacy balance in interpersonal relationships, rest vs. work & emotionally-energetically sound eating are utilized.

MOVEMENT & MEDITATIVE PRACTICES
Rejuvenating ‘pranic’ (life energy) movement & meditative practices such as mindfulness meditation, interpersonal-communication meditation & mindful yogic movements) are explored. The therapeutic use of nature, music & creative expression are also explored in the context of Yoga of Desire’s Bhava-Rasa, Ayurveda, Shakti influences where they may fit a student’s passions.

BHAVA-RASA & AYURVEDIC PRACTICES BITES IN DIALECTICAL YOGA THERAPEUTICS (DYT)
Aspects of Dialectical Yoga Therapeutic-based ‘Bhava-Rasa’ (true feeling| transformational & cultivated vital state/taste/essence), Tantric & Ayurvedic informed practices are applied to assist in supportive retraining of “trauma-related” subtle impressions of past experience (Samskaras) & impacts from past actions (Karmashaia) that affect present thoughts, feelings, behaviors and expressions.

Channel your joy & contentment, balanced with your painful experiences & resiliences
as fuel to anchor into your radiant centeredness (sushumna).

realize wise-mind intimacy now

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Locations in Asheville, NC
& Charleston, SC
843-224-7638 (text only please)