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In The Morning
Daylight, a short sequence, and staff who know when to back off if a position starts to overwhelm your teen.
Yoga Therapy For Teens
We start with movement so your teen can sit through the therapy session later that day. Some teenagers cannot sit still enough to talk until they have moved first.
- 30-90 days
- Ages 12-17
- Morning and night
What this is
Settling The Body Before The Conversation
This is a morning practice on the terrace and a skill your teen can use alone at two in the morning. It is not a fitness class. Strength, stretching, and breathing teach a way to come down that a screen cannot. Individual therapy still leads the treatment plan, and this exists so an overloaded nervous system can settle enough to engage.
When the body has to settle first
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They Cannot Sit Still For Therapy Yet
Anxiety or ADHD can keep a teenager out of a therapy chair entirely until they have moved their body first.
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Mornings That Never Get Started
Depression and shutting down need a first physical action, and standing up on the terrace can be exactly that.
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Trauma Held In The Body
We never force a position that overwhelms your teen. They can come out of any pose or do a smaller version of it.
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Nights That Will Not Start
An evening sequence gives your teen a way to wind down that is not a phone, so sleep has a chance to start.
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A Group That Is Not A Talking Circle
Teens stand side by side with no talking required. Some can only join the household this way at first.
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A Skill That Has To Work At Home
Three poses and a breathing pattern have to work in a dark bedroom, because the terrace is only where they practice.
How it works
Where The Body Work Happens
Morning on the terrace, the therapy hour afterward, and a shorter sequence before sleep. The same practice in all three places.
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In Sessions
The primary therapist knows what happened in the body that morning, and panic after a pose is treated as useful information.
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At Bedtime
A shorter practice before sleep, because we do not pretend that resting is a decision a teenager can simply make.
Our approach
What The Body Is Learning
A repeated morning practice, real choice within every pose, and skipped entirely when it overwhelms your teen.
- Core of the plan
Most Mornings, Not A Workshop
The nervous system learns from repetition. A special class once a week would not teach a teen how to settle.
Choice Within Every Pose
Your teen can skip a position, leave entirely, or do a smaller version. We do not force a pose to prove a point.
The Same Breathing As The Night Skill
The breathing they do in the morning matches what they use at night, so nobody is learning two competing techniques.
Connected To Individual Therapy
What shows up in the body often belongs in the therapy session that afternoon, so the two stay one plan.
- When needed
Skipped When It Overwhelms
A medical reason, an overwhelmed teen, or a body that cannot do it means we skip this and keep individual therapy first.
Your part
This Is Practice, Not A Fitness Class
You learn the three poses that have to work in a bedroom at home, and you do not treat this like a gym membership.
Are they just stretching over there?
Ask What Their Body Practiced
Settling down, building strength, and getting the day started are the goals, and we will tell you when a pose was skipped.
We'll start yoga once they are home.
Learning The Short Sequence Too
Family time includes the same three poses, so the first night home is not the first time your teen tries them.
Tell them to calm down on the mat.
Prompt It, Then Leave The Room
If you stand in the doorway and coach every pose, your teen never practices it alone. We teach you when to start it and when to leave the room.
Length of stay
30
days in residence, by progress
This practice runs alongside the 30 to 90 day stay rather than ending on a set date.
90
How This Fits Into A Stay
This practice happens inside a 30 to 90 day stay as one physical skill in the week. It does not replace individual therapy, and we skip it when a pose overwhelms a teen or a clinician advises against it. Aftercare means a next therapist who already knows the practice.
- The first two weeks find a sequence that works for your teen, without pushing for a breakthrough.
- Most teens leave in one to three months, and some stay longer when the night-time skill is still shaky.
- Aftercare means a next therapist and a written evening sequence, not a studio pass nobody uses.
When to call
Call Us. We'll Tell You If This House Fits.
If your teen cannot start talking until they have moved first, call Aaron Earnest and the admissions team. They will tell you whether this house can teach it. If the goal is specifically a technique for two in the morning, our breathwork page is the closer fit.