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...true People’s House-fashion, Quincy’s game isn’t pitting individual students against one another, but rather is assigning units of six students to target other units using foam objects—Nerf guns, pool noodles, foam fingers, and even yoga mats...
...premise that more is better: we built houses that could hold all our stuff but were too big to heat; we bought cars that could ferry a soccer team but were too big to park; we thought we were embracing the simple life by squeezing in a yoga class between working and shopping and took an extra...
...some experts are cautious about the combo therapy. Their main concern is safety: Are psychotherapists really equipped to teach yoga? "Yes, but only with extensive yoga training," says Bo Forbes, a clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and founder and director of the Center for Integrative Yoga Therapeutics in Boston. She believes that psychotherapists should have in-depth study of yoga and a strong background in anatomy and alignment to limit client injuries. Currently, there are no official licenses or standards of practice for yoga therapy...
...Further, says Forbes, many mental-health experts who try yoga therapy may have a difficult time overcoming the mores of their profession. "As psychologists, we have been schooled against touch. For example, it can take work for the clinicians who go through our teacher-training programs to overcome that prohibition...
...Already, however, many therapists are guiding downward-dog poses in the office. Stenzler says yoga and psychotherapy make a perfect union - which is what yoga actually translates to in Sanskrit. "The goal and intention in psychotherapy is to support a patient to be who they always were. And that's yoga! I've been doing it all along and didn't realize," Stenzler says...