Yoga Therapy

At the Yoga Therapy Clinic, you’ll team up with a certified yoga therapist to address physical, mental, or emotional challenges impacting your health. Your personalized journey begins with a 75-minute intake session, where you discuss your concerns and goals. Together, you explore how therapeutic yoga can support your well-being.

Based on your intake, your yoga therapist tailors sessions to meet your needs. These may include movement, restorative poses, guided imagery, relaxation techniques, sounds and touch, breathing practices, meditation, dietary suggestions, and yoga philosophy.

Follow-up appointments, lasting 60 minutes, help you tackle challenges, gain independence, and take an active role in self-care. Whether you’re recovering from injury, managing illness, combating anxiety or depression, coping with stress, or navigating life transitions, yoga therapy empowers you to implement change and enhance your well-being.

Our Yoga Therapist are accredited C-IAYT by the International Association of Yoga Therapists.

“…the process of empowering individuals to progress toward improved health and wellbeing through the application of the teachings and practices of yoga.”– International Association of Yoga Therapists iayt.org

 

 

Complimentary Wellness Therapies:

AYURVEDA

Yoga and Ayurveda, originating from ancient India, are sister sciences that synergistically complement each other. They share a common objective of fostering holistic well-being and harmony across body, mind, and spirit. When integrated, these disciplines offer a comprehensive approach to wellness. Yoga contributes to physical health and mental well-being, while Ayurveda offers dietary and lifestyle recommendations to enrich your yoga practice and align with overall health objectives. An Ayurvedic consultation includes:

  • Conducting detailed consultations to assess each client’s unique constitution (Prakriti), current imbalances (Vikriti), and overall health status. These consultations encompass inquiries into lifestyle, diet, medical history, and physical examinations.
  • Providing personalized recommendations tailored to the individual’s needs, which may include dietary adjustments, lifestyle modifications, detoxification practices, and stress management techniques.
  • Educating clients on fundamental Ayurvedic principles such as the three doshas (Vata, Pitta, Kapha), the significance of maintaining balance, and how imbalances can lead to disease. This empowers clients to actively participate in their own health journey.
  • Offering ongoing support and guidance to assist clients in implementing recommended changes effectively. This involves regular follow-up sessions to monitor progress, address challenges, and make necessary adjustments.
  • Emphasizing preventive care to maintain health and prevent future imbalances, which may include seasonal routines, daily self-care practices (dinacharya), and mindfulness techniques.

REIKI

Originating in Japan,Reiki is an energy healing modality based on revitalizing the “life force energy” that sustains us. By addressing low or obstructed life force energy, Reiki helps mitigate illness and stress while promoting happiness and health. Key points regarding Reiki include:

  • Treatment encompasses the whole person—body, emotions, mind, and spirit—yielding numerous beneficial effects such as relaxation, greater grounding and balance, and overall well-being.
  • Reiki works harmoniously with other medical or therapeutic techniques to alleviate side effects and support recovery.
  • Administered primarily through the hands with a light touch or held above the body (fully clothed and avoiding private or sensitive areas), Reiki is most frequently experienced as a gentle, relaxing energy flow, fostering a state of deep relaxation. At other times it can feel powerfully cleansing or activating.
  • Reiki is non-religious and devoid of dogma, serving as a complement to various spiritual and wellness practices, including yoga.

Prices & Booking – All Services

Individual Sessions:

Initial intake session / 75-minutes = $108 (for all new clients). Entails approx. 25-minute intake interview & 50-minute session.

Single 60-minute follow-up sessions (sliding scale):

  • $100 – $125 In-person
  • $90 – $115 Online

Book Sessions:

Yoga Therapy email ausra@integralyogasf.org

Ayurveda email ausra@integralyogasf.org

Reiki email aryahi@integralyogasf.org

Packages*:

Intro 3-Session Package includes one 75-minute intake session & two 60-minute follow-up sessions.

  • $285 In-person or Online

5-Session Package 60-minute follow-up sessions, sliding scale:

  • $475 – $600 In-person
  • $430 – $540 Online

6-Session Package 30-minute/online only follow-up sessions, sliding scale:

  • $270 – $360 Online only
All Packages valid for 3 months from date of first use.
Cancellation Policy:
  • 24-hours or more advance notice – no cancellation fee applies
  • Less than 24-hour notice – 50% cancellation fee applies
  • No-shows – 100% cancellation fee applies
  • Credit Card number required to book

 

Practitioners

Diana Meltsner, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP
Diana Meltsner, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, YACEP
Diana started to offer individual yoga therapy sessions and working in clinical setting for Kaiser Permanente in 2005.  She uses wide variety of yoga practices; including individualized physical postures, breathing, guided relaxation, meditation, mantra, as well as mindfulness practices. Her clients are often post-injury, post or pre-surgery, have chronic pain and other chronic illnesses, have pregnancy complications, and in the clinical setting are often recommended by Kaiser Permanente physicians. She focuses also on healing aspects of yoga on the mind; anxiety, depression, trauma, and emotional health. Spiritual counseling is part of what is offered in the individual sessions as well as developing a healthy daily routine, when requested. Her personalized application of yoga teachings help to find healing and ability to move through life with increased ease, stress resilience, and intuition. Please visit her website for more information: dianameltsner.com
Claudia Bartsch, C-IAYT E-500CYT
Claudia Bartsch, C-IAYT E-500CYT
Claudia Bartsch has been teaching yoga for 17 years. With over 1,500 hours of training she offers an in-depth understanding of yogic practices and techniques and how to apply them for healing, integration and transformation. In 2011 she bridged her interest in Western psychology and the yogic path and became a certified Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist. Additionally, Claudia is a certified Stress Management Educator, a trained Reiki and Shiatsu Practitioner.
In her work she offers a unique blend of the various branches of yoga, hands-on body and energy work empowering her clients to move towards greater resilience, well-being and health.
Please visit her website for more information: claudiabartsch.com
Heather Sevika Ford, C-IAYT
Heather Sevika Ford, C-IAYT
Becoming a certified Yoga teacher in 2008 and subsequently obtaining certification as a Yoga Therapist in 2017, my journey has been deeply rooted in classical yoga teachings. My approach to teaching is accessible and personal, designed to guide individuals toward experiencing the essence of Yoga–a contemplative, mindful practice intended to eliminate obstacles and foster inner peace. I work collaboratively with my clients to support and empowering them to explore and embrace the transformative power of Yoga.
Sessions include mindful movement and postures to build strength and increase flexibility, subtle practices such as Yoga Nidra, Pranayama, and meditation and often integrate complementary techniques such as Reiki, sound healing, and aromatherapy. These practices support optimal health, resilience and “reset” the nervous system.
I currently teach and lead workshops at IYISF, Stanford University and Alta Mira Recovery Center. Learn more at sevikayoga.com

Marie Prashanti Goodell, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500
Marie Prashanti Goodell, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500
Marie Prashanti turned to yoga to manage stress more effectively while working as a high-tech, marketing manager in Silicon Valley. After experiencing improved health, Marie began teaching yoga in 2011. She offers Hatha and restorative yoga classes at IYI SF; wheelchair yoga at Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, stress management for Ornish Lifestyle Medicine, gentle yoga at On Lok 30th Street Senior Center, Love Your Brain yoga at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and 1:1 yoga therapy sessions. Marie works with clients recovering from chronic fatigue, adrenal fatigue, traumatic brain surgery (TBI), stroke, heart disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, multiple sclerosis, Ehlers-Danlos Disease, breast cancer, arthritis, and post-surgery. Marie incorporates many dimensions of yoga in her teaching to support healing and wellness including physical postures, breathing exercises, deep relaxation, meditation, imagery & visualization, energy work, gentle touch, mantra and yoga philosophy. In addition to teaching, Marie is Board Chair at the Accessible Yoga Organization and Board Secretary at IYI San Francisco.
Susan Ford, C-IAYT, RYT-500
Susan Ford, C-IAYT, RYT-500
Susan Ford
is trained in Accessible Yoga through Integral Yoga Institute (IYI) and began teaching in 2011. Susan specializes in Gentle Yoga and working with people with disabilities, heart disease, arthritis, aging, bone health, anxiety, depression and asthma. Her focus is to help students to meet their bodies where they are by introducing and incorporating Therapeutic Yoga, Raja Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Pranayama and meditation. Susan has been certified in Yoga for Arthritis, Therapeutic Yoga, Raja Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training.
Ausra Duverge, C-IAYT, ERYT-500
Ausra Duverge, C-IAYT, ERYT-500
Ausra started teaching yoga in 2015. After an initial 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in Dubai, UAE, she has continued to expand her knowledge in Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy. In 2017 she completed an Ayurvedic Health Counselor program at Kerala Ayurveda Academy in Fremont, California. Ausra is a Certified Yoga Therapist from the Stress Management Center of Marin in Larkspur, CA.
Ausra uses Yoga techniques and practices: movement, breathing, relaxation, meditation, yoga philosophy, and Ayurvedic nutrition and lifestyle recommendations to help safely manage existing health conditions, reduce symptoms, restore balance and vitality.
She currently offers private sessions for clients that are recovering from physical injury or surgery, scoliosis, women in perimenopause and menopause, as well as Ayurvedic consultations.
Learn more at ayatherapy.me

Raama Das, C-IAYT
Raama Das, C-IAYT
Raama is a former director of the Integral Yoga® Teachers Association and has been instructing Integral Yoga since 2009. He is a lead trainer for the Integral Yoga 200-hour Teacher Training at Yogaville and co-presenter for the 200 and 500-hour Yoga Alliance programs at Heal Me Institute in Fredericksburg. Raama recently received certification as a Yoga Therapist through the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), having studied Yoga programs for specific health conditions, including, anxiety, depression, cancer, heart disease, arthritis, and addiction. He is also certified as a teacher of Intermediate Hatha, Raja Yoga, Meditation, Stress Management, Yin Yoga, and Yoga for our Elders.
Raama has studied and served extensively at the Integral Yoga Academy at Yogaville and managed the Integral Yoga Therapy Program. In addition, he has participated in many months of deep Tantric and classical Yoga sadhana (practice) at the Scandinavian Yoga and Meditation School in Sweden under the direction of Swami Janakananda. He currently serves as Institute Manager at the Integral Yoga Institute San Francisco.
Swami Ramananda, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500
Swami Ramananda, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500
Swami Ramananda is the Executive Director of the Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco, C-IAYT, and a greatly respected senior teacher in the Integral Yoga tradition who has been practicing Yoga for over 45 years. Ramananda offers practical methods of integrating the timeless teachings and practices of Yoga into daily life and transforming the painful aspects of human experience into steps toward realizing one’s full potential.

He is a certified Yoga therapist and founding board member of the Yoga Alliance, a national registry that supports and promotes yoga teachers as professionals. He co-founded The Spiritual Action Initiative (SAI), which brings together individuals committed to working for social justice for all beings and for the care and healing of our natural world. His warmth, wisdom and sense of humor have endeared him to many.

Aryahi Naomi Onaga
Aryahi Naomi Onaga
Aryahi is an intuitive energy healer specializing in Reiki, Inner Alignment, and other healing modalities. She was certified by the International Center for Reiki Training as a reiki master in Japanese (Usui) reiki in 2013, and in the new “Holy Fire” reiki in 2018. Aryahi completed the 200-hour yoga teacher training at Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco in 2019 and has served as a member of the staff. Aryahi also has training in other energy healing modalities including Inner Alignment, sound healing, and intuitive healing. Aryahi offers private healing sessions through the Yoga Therapy Clinic at Integral Yoga Institute in San Francisco, the Subud Center in Palo Alto, and at her Noe Valley studio, and teaches reiki, yoga and other workshops. As a healer, Aryahi intuitively sees the resplendent beauty in each soul, and supports each person to clear trauma, burdens and limitations to realign with her/his/their radiant self. As a teacher, she creates a nurturing environment where students can explore and grow, not just by learning technique, but also by connecting to their own unique gifts and joy. For more information on Aryahi see ashreyavi.com