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Back Pain	Baby Yoga	Blood Sugar Levels	Breasts, painful
Bronchritis, chronic

	Back Pain	Classes
	Improved posture, muscle strengthening and stress management are just a few of the things yoga can offer to enable the spine to be healthy again after injury or chronic and acute pain. Also learn the techniques necessary to manage back pain, increase mobility and energy, and help prevent any further problems. Our one-to-one assessments provide you with a carefully and individually tailored set of yoga exercises that help reduce tension, increase mobility, strengthen muscles, improve posture and help manage pain. Depending on your condition you can then either attend a series of specialised small group classes or continue with individual sessions. The sensitivity of the approach is such that even people in severe pain can feel safe doing the recommended exercises. Other back conditions may also respond to an individually tailored yoga practice. Certain scoliotic conditions, for example, have been shown to respond well to yoga. Neck and upper back problems are covered in this category. Often a shorter assessment is sufficient in these later cases.	We usually recommend an initial 90 minute consultation. Here you discuss your back condition with a specialised low back pain therapist. Then follows a clinical examination. The therapist is then in a position to guide you through an initial starter routine particularly tailored to your situation. You are expected to practice this short routine at home. The therapist will then suggest your best course of action. Depending on your situation, this may be to return to a one-to-one session, join a back pain course, or to progress to a gentle therapy class. Low Back Pain \| Saturday \| 9.45 - 11 am Low Back Pain \| Saturday \| 3 - 4.30 pm One to One Session
	Baby Yoga	Classes
	Dr Francoise Babira Freedman takes the Babies Aqua Yoga. Francoise set up and runs the educational charity which promotes a holistic approach to birth, Birthlight Trust. She has been conducting Pregnancy and Childbirth Clinics at the YTC since 1995, and with devotion she maintains a high standard of training amongst the network of qualified pregnancy and childbirth teachers at the centre. She writes, 'yoga with babies has been a complement to infant massage in India for millenia. It offers quality physical stimulation including flowing postures, holding, movement, touch and voice. It induces deep relaxation, allowing babies to sleep well and thrive, and mothers to rest and find their balance after giving birth. It induces a happy, care-free and lively parent-infant interaction which develops as the babies grow. 'Yoga is central to integrate body, mind and emotions through the transformations of pregnancy, birth and parenting. Yoga with babies is an original approach developed by Francoise from the joy of practising yoga with her four children as babies. It draws on further training with native grandmothers from various traditions who were willing to pass on their skills to all babies.' The age range of the classics is not strict. The mothers know when it is time for their babies to move on, and the teacher can guide you as to the most appropriate class.	Postnatal and Babies \| Wednesday \| 2 - 4.30 pm
	Blood Sugar Levels	Classes
	Glucose is your body's energy source and your cells need a steady supply of it to function. It is important, therefore, to regulate your blood glucose level carefully. If it is too low, your cells starve, but a high level, over a long period, leads to infection, muscle wastage, heart attacks, strokes, blindness, or kidney damage. Your glucose levels are kept within safe limits by delicate hormonal control, insulin reduces sugar levels, while glucagon and stress hormones release glucose from your body's energy stores. Diabetes mellitus is diagnosed when, due to hormonal disturbances, blood glucose levels become dangerously high. There are two forms of diabetes mellitus: insulin-dependent (IDDM) and noninsulin-dependent (NIDDM). The first is due to low insulin-production by the pancreas. The more common type NIDDM, usually starts after the age of 40 and has many contributory causes, such as obesity, heredity, lack of exercise, autoimmunity, and stress. Yoga can be a powerful additional tool for enhancing conventional diabetes treatment. It makes diet control and weight reduction easier, and is a good form of exercise. It also reduces stress-hormone levels, improves the function of the pancreas, and normalizes your immune system. In NIDDM, yoga may eliminate your need to take insulin or drugs. In IDDM, however, yoga cannot eliminate your insulin requirement, though it may reduce or stabilize it.	Deep Relaxation \| Wednesday \| 1 - 1.45 pm General \| Monday \| 6 - 7.30 pm General \| Tuesday \| 12.30 - 1.30 pm General \| Tuesday \| 6.30 - 8 pm General \| Wednesday \| 6.30 - 8 pm General \| Thursday \| 12.30 - 1.30 pm General \| Thursday \| 6.30 - 8 pm General \| Friday \| 12.30 - 1.30 pm General \| Friday \| 6.30 - 8 pm General \| Saturday \| 11.30 - 1 pm Gentle Therapy \| Friday \| 10.30 - Noon One to One Session
	Breasts, painful (Well Woman)	Classes
	The following conditions are amongst those with which the Well Woman class deals; painful breasts, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, heavy periods, hot flushes, menopausal conditions, menstrual conditions, mood fluctuations, premenstrual syndrome, sexual problems. The Monday session covers the resolution of physical and mental tensions through postural and breathing exercises, and Wednesday's session adds psychotherapeutic exercises including laughter therapy	Well woman \| Wednesday \| 6.15 - 7.45 pm
	Bronchritis, chronic (Chronic Bronchitis, Emphysema, Hay Fever, Respiratory Conditions, Rhinitis, Sinusitis, Chronic Lung Ailments, Nasal Allergy)	Classes
	Yoga therapy can improve breathing in people respiratory ailments and other chronic lung conditions. Specially designed exercises open and relax the chest, stimulate and desensitise the airways, and reduce mental anxiety. The treatment works on different levels: physical, mental, emotional, and through releasing the flow of energy. Each aspect of yoga practice brings its own benefits, the stamina of your respiratory system increases, you learn to use your lungs more efficiently. As well, energy blocks are released, your energy levels rise and our body and mind are calmed and harmonised. Some people with respiratory conditions find the pranayama sessions of help. The therapist will suggest the most suitable course of action for you after the assessment.	Asthma \| Monday \| 6 - 7.30 pm Asthma \| Wednesday \| 6 - 7.30 pm One to One Session