You should not have to live with that, and you should not have to keep proving it to anyone. Yoga therapy is one to one, built around your history and your body rather than a protocol, and it works the layers that other approaches tend to miss.
Pain you have learned to live with has a way of compounding. What is manageable today becomes the thing you are working around next year, and the year after that. There is more depth in yoga than you have been able to reach.
Most approaches work one part of the problem. This works movement, breath, mindfulness and the nervous system at the same time, in a practice built for your body as it is now.
What it is
Yoga therapy is the therapeutic application of yoga, led one to one by a Certified Yoga Therapist. Every session is built around your history, your condition and what you actually need, and it works across movement, breath, mindfulness and the nervous system at the same time.
Most approaches work one part of the problem. This works the parts they leave alone.
Where it helps
These are the areas Rachel works with most often. If yours is not here, write to her and she will tell you honestly whether this is likely to help.
Targeted work to address pain patterns, support healing after injury, and build resilience where problems keep recurring, without forcing or straining. Most often: low back pain, sciatica, hip and shoulder limitation, and post-surgical recovery.
Breathwork, mindfulness and somatic practice calibrated to regulate your nervous system, reduce reactivity, and build a steadier relationship with stress. Especially supportive for chronic anxiety, disrupted sleep and burnout recovery.
Therapeutic sequences that restore range of motion, improve postural alignment and bring ease back to ordinary movement. Common focus areas are the hips, shoulders, spine and knees.
Yoga therapy as a performance tool, working both training and recovery. Particularly valuable for endurance athletes, climbers and lifters who are asking a lot of the same tissues repeatedly.
Identifying and addressing compensatory patterns before they become injuries. Especially valuable for desk workers and for anyone carrying a pain pattern they have stopped noticing.
For people who simply want to feel better in their body and mind. Not a problem to fix, but a way to feel better day to day rather than only after something has gone wrong.
Your therapist
Physical therapy, rest, adjustments, and still something will not resolve. I built this practice for exactly that person, because they are usually the ones who have been told there is nothing more to be done.
My aim is not to keep you coming back. It is to give you practices that hold without me.
Rachel Cieslewicz · C-IAYTOne of a small number of Certified Yoga Therapists practicing in Utah. Currently completing a Master’s in Integral Health with a concentration in yoga therapy.
How to begin
Tell her what is going on, what you have already tried, and what you are hoping to find. She reads every one herself.
Write to RachelWhether yoga therapy is likely to help your situation, and what to expect if it is. Sometimes the answer is no.
The first session begins the work. She builds your practice from scratch around your body as it is now.
Still deciding
No. That is what this is for. Many of Rachel’s clients have never practiced, are recovering from injury, or have significant mobility limits. The work begins with your body as it is today.
Physical therapy works biomechanics and structural rehabilitation. Yoga therapy works movement, breath, nervous system regulation and mindfulness at once. They complement each other, and many of Rachel’s clients do both.
It is one of the most common reasons people come. Yoga therapy addresses the movement patterns, breath patterns and nervous system regulation underneath persistent pain. It works best alongside medical care rather than instead of it.
One hour, one to one, in East Millcreek. The first begins with a thorough intake of your history and your goals. From there Rachel builds a practice that is yours, and each session adjusts to what your body is telling her.
Most people notice meaningful change within three to six sessions. It depends on the condition and on what you do at home. The people who keep coming do so because they want to go deeper, not because they have to.
$150 for a one-hour session, billed per session with no commitment. Some insurance plans reimburse C-IAYT yoga therapy under complementary care. Worth checking with your provider.
Book a session
Sixty minutes, one to one, at the shala in East Millcreek. Pay for your session, then email Rachel with two or three times that work for you. She confirms within a day or two, and your first session begins with a thorough intake of your history and your goals.
$150 per session, billed one session at a time. No package, no commitment. Secure checkout through Stripe.
Pay $150The email opens already addressed, with a subject line and three blank lines for the times that work for you. Rachel confirms within a day or two.
Email RachelA short intake asks what is going on, what you have already tried, and what you are hoping to find. Rachel reads it before you walk in, so the first hour is spent on your body rather than your paperwork.
Write to Rachel first. She will tell you honestly whether yoga therapy is likely to help your situation, and sometimes the answer is no.
Some plans reimburse C-IAYT yoga therapy under complementary care. Worth checking with your provider; a receipt is issued for every session.
Who you become
You begin trusting your body again, not because the injury is forgotten but because you have built the capacity to work with it rather than around it. What changes is not only the pain. It is your whole relationship with the body you are living in. You become someone who trusts their body again, rather than someone quietly managing it.
From clients
Rachel’s yoga therapy sessions have helped me move without pain for the first time in years.
“I came in for help with stress and left with tools I use every day. Gentle, empowering, and deeply effective.”
“I came in skeptical, I did not think yoga could address what I was dealing with. Rachel met me exactly where I was and built something entirely around my situation. I am glad I gave it a chance.”
“I spent two years trying to manage a hip injury on my own. Six sessions gave me more progress than everything else combined.”
Also at YogaSoul
Rachel has trained teachers for twenty-five years. Two certification levels, small by design.
Two retreats in May 2027, five days apart, so you may join one or both.
Small-group practice at Rachel’s shala in East Millcreek, twice a week. Email us to learn about times.
There is more depth in yoga than you have been able to reach.
Sixty minutes, one to one, $150, no commitment. Pay, then send Rachel a few times that work.