For Kay Corpus, M.D., yoga teacher and proprietor of The Loft, understanding one’s physique and studying learn how to transfer and breathe functionally are the largest keys to being wholesome.
Corpus has been a yoga teacher for round 15 years and has practiced the artwork for 26 years.
She started practising yoga whereas in medical college and located solace in how peaceable it was amidst a busy and hectic life-style.
“There’s the tip piece to it the place you lay nonetheless, and that pose is named corpse pose, in order that was the a part of the category that I appreciated most, not all that transferring round,” she mentioned. “It was the half the place we needed to be nonetheless.”
As a scholar in medical college, Corpus mentioned her world was worrying and chaotic, mirroring what many individuals dwell every day. For her, having a second to take pleasure in stillness and peace was transferring, and it impressed her to develop into extra immersed within the follow of not solely yoga, however practical medication.
Practical medication, in response to Corpus’ web site, appears to be like at one’s state of well being as a mix of genetics and all of the inputs the physique has skilled — from meals to medicines to 1’s pure residing setting.
Practical medication considers different remedies earlier than drugs or invasive procedures. By understanding the basis reason behind your ailment, she mentioned, practical medication practitioners repair the basis reason behind the issue, reasonably than masks the signs with prescriptions, and supply a basis for preventative healthcare.
Corpus mentioned stress, exhaustion and sure existence typically result in bodily illnesses, and practical medication, mixed with yoga, is what helps her deal with her sufferers and discover the basis reason behind their sickness and alleviate it naturally.
“We’ve got a society that strikes so quick and needs to attain every thing in 5 seconds and is so not conscious of themselves that they find yourself, in the future, exhausted, they’ve persistent sickness, they’ve hormone imbalance … and so they have zero thought why,” she mentioned. “Yoga’s therapeutic. My diagnostic software for individuals is the yoga mat, not a CAT scan, as a result of the best way individuals transfer on a mat is the best way they dwell their lives.
“The way in which they enter into and out of a pose tells me loads about how they strategy points, challenges. For me … medication is about therapeutic on a deeper stage, on a root stage.”
Yoga, Corpus mentioned, not solely helps her to determine sure imbalances in her sufferers and shoppers, however it additionally gives different well being advantages, which incorporates serving to decrease blood strain, stress, ache ranges and irritation.
Particularly, she mentioned, it will get individuals transferring and respiratory and paying extra consideration to their our bodies and develop into extra in tune with themselves.
“It will get you transferring, out of your mind and into your physique,” she mentioned. “Breath can be very a lot key as a result of breath is the cleanser of the physique; lungs are the largest detoxing organs.”
Corpus mentioned she selected to enter into the medical discipline due to the inspiration of her household, coming from a lineage of docs. She has all the time felt that her path was to assist heal others.
Going into holistic medication, nevertheless, was one thing new for her, however it has allowed her to take a extra pure strategy to serving to others higher themselves and take authority over their our bodies and their well being.
“There’s a connection there,” she mentioned. “There’s nothing mystical, to me, about yoga … it’s principally physiology.”
She started practising and educating yoga in Pennsylvania. She by no means thought-about opening her personal studio till she moved again to Kentucky.
Even then, she mentioned she was undecided if there was curiosity for yoga domestically, so she determined to check the market to see if there was any curiosity for a studio.
“I really taught yoga … in anyone’s front room,” she mentioned. “Then I began holding yoga down on the Riverfront on Saturdays, and I had as much as 90 individuals at these courses.”
That was round 5 years in the past, and now she has not solely opened her studio, previously generally known as The Yoga Loft, however it has advanced from educating yoga to additionally educating extra practical kinds of motion, providing courses and modifications for these at completely different ranges.
The studio closed down for a time through the COID-19 pandemic however reopened earlier this yr with a reputation change to The Loft to higher embody the extra inclusive and immersive class choice.
Whereas courses usually are not at full swing simply but, Corpus mentioned she hopes to begin providing introductory-level courses and outside yoga periods quickly.
The most important issues, she mentioned, for these inquisitive about yoga is to not develop into intimidated by it earlier than making an attempt it.
At its root, Corpus mentioned yoga is all about merely transferring the physique and turning into extra in-tune with one’s bodily well-being; it isn’t about “fancy” actions and poses that many may come throughout on social media.
“Yoga is private; yoga is breath; yoga is even slight motion — it doesn’t should be these fancy poses,” she mentioned. “I’m extra inquisitive about individuals having longevity within the follow, so you need to go slower, and you need to transfer intelligently.”
Anybody inquisitive about studying extra about The Loft or practical medication generally, Corpus mentioned, can contact her via the studio’s Fb web page, The Loft or go to its web site, YogaLoftKY.com.
Christie Netherton, [email protected], 270-691-7360