Lifestyle Medicine & PhysioYoga

A Lifestyle Medicine + PhysioYoga Assessment leans into an in-depth and holistic or whole-person approach to identifying the root cause to your persistent pain, and pattern of symptoms. With this information we can develop an individualized care plan specific to your goals and assessment findings, so that you can overcome an injury or pain experience, and recover from the multi-system symptoms that have been keeping you unwell.

• Sleep Hygiene

• Stress Management

• Adrenal Support

• Blood Sugar Stabilizing

• Elimination Systems Support

• Hormone Balancing + Cycle Syncing

• CNS Desensitization

• Movement

• Mindfulness

• Nutrition

• Connection (self, others, nature, and the divine feminine)

Kim Deschamps has completed the Medical Therapeutic Yoga Certification & Professional Yoga Therapist credential earned through Living Well Institute (formerly Professional Yoga Therapy Institute®). Kim values the training and teachings from all of her mentors within the physiotherapy and yoga therapy communities throughout North America. She has gained incredible knowledge and training to effectively assess and treat the whole person through movement, lifestyle management, mindfulness and meditation, nutrition for healthy living, sleep hygiene, stress, fatigue, and burnout prevention & management, injury recovery, chronic disease management, chronic & persistent pain treatment & management, and pelvic health assessment & treatment for urinary & bowel concerns and conditions, pelvic pain conditions, pregnancy support, labor & delivery preparation, postpartum rehabilitation, and pelvic trauma experiences under her scope of practice as a physiotherapist. Kim Deschamps assesses and treats her patients under her physiotherapy designation and utilizes the many tools in her toolbox and the expansive knowledge that she has in regards to holistic health, wellness & rehabilitation.

Yoga Therapy utilizes poses, breathing techniques, and meditation to benefit and improve overall health. While any type of yoga can bring health benefits, yoga therapy involves employing a variety of yoga practices to try to improve a health condition or to ease a natural process, such as pregnancy or menopause. Among the yogic tools used therapeutically are asana (the physical postures), Pranayama (breathing exercises), meditation, and guided imagery. Although many people don't realize it, yogis also consider diet an integral part of yoga and therefore of an important aspect of a yoga practice (McCall, 2007).

Therapeutic Yoga is an inherently holistic approach, simultaneously working on the body, mind, and spirit. Various yoga practices systematically strengthen different systems in the body, including the heart and cardiovascular system, the lungs, muscles, and the nervous system. Yoga practices can improve function of the digestive system, foster psychological well-being, and improve oxygen delivery to tissues. Yoga also can help the body more efficiently remove waste products, carcinogens, and cellular toxins (McCall, 2007).

Medical Therapeutic Yoga (MTY) offers an innovative methodology which changes both the practice of yoga and rehabilitative science by combining them, making MTY a distinct and separate practice from, but yet a complementary arm to, yoga and yoga therapy (Garner, 2016).