Yoga therapy offers a holistic approach to whole person wellness.  When we talk about body, mind and spirit we're talking about the 5 koshas or sheaths that make up our entire being.
 
Visualize this - a lamp with 5 lampshades, each one nested within another.  The light bulb is your individual consciousness, your inner light, your soul, that which animates you.  The light bulb is powered by electricity, or universal consciousness, which powers all living things.  The 5 lampshades form the koshas which in turn form our personalities.  It's through the koshas that we experience the world. 
 
Annamayakosha, also called the "food" sheath, experiences the world through the body.  Aspects of "body" include all the systems of the body such as the skeletal, circulatory, immune and nervous systems.  Yoga practices for the body include asana, yoga postures, and pranayama, breathing techniques. 
 
Pranamayakosha, also called the "breath" sheath, is the bridge between the body and mind.  Aspects of the "breath" body include the energy systems of the chakras and pranavayus.  Yoga practices for this kosha include asana, pranayama, and pratyahara (sense withdrawal through yoga postures like child pose and deep relaxation) using the tools of yoga nidra and mudras.
 
Manomayakosha, also called the mental sheath, is known as the psycho-emotional body or lower mind.  This kosha is the mental body that processes information and forms memory.  It's called lower mind because this is the stimulus response mind that responds emotionally including all facets of thinking that involve the stress response.  Lower mind is subjective and limited to daily tasks.  Yoga practices for this kosha include pranayama, pratyahara, and dharana (concentration techniques) as well as using tools such as the yamas and niyamas for self-understanding and self-mastery.
 
Vijnanamayakosha, also called the intellect sheath, is known as the wisdom body or higher mind.  This aspect of mind is objective and sees the big picture.  Higher mind functions include intuition, witnessing, inner knowing, and expansive thinking.  Yoga practices for this kosha including dharana (concentration techniques) and dhyana (meditation techniques) as well as mindfulness and self-inquiry to recognize and release habitual patterns of thinking and behaving that are no longer useful.
 
Anandamayakosha, also called the bliss sheath, is the closest that the personality comes to unity consciousness.  It's called the bliss sheath because when we're in this state we feel that all is well in our world.  We feel blissful.  This is also the state of "yogaś-citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ" - quiet mind.  All practices have this one goal - unity consciousness where we know our true state of wholeness and interconnectedness with all living beings.  This is the root of true loving kindness.
 
 

is scheduled for 

at the Parade Plaza in front of the train station

in downtown New London.