A whole-person approach born from years of working side-by-side with clients navigating complex, recurring issues. We’re grateful to close 2025 by officially introducing this unique assessment—one that grew from the long, steady collaboration behind our shared clinical work.
Again and again, we meet people who have tried many therapies, found some relief, yet still struggle with patterns that return. Through our combined experience—yoga therapy, functional therapeutic massage, and years of helping clients unravel pain—we’ve seen that real change happens when we view the body as one integrated system.
This is why we’re now offering a new option alongside our individual specialty assessments:
Narayani Assessment™
Where Yoga Therapy Meets Functional Therapeutic Massage for Whole-Person Healing & Functional Strength
This approach blends the intuitive depth of yoga therapy with the diagnostic clarity of functional therapeutic massage. It gives you a multidimensional view of your body—how it moves, compensates, reacts, and holds stress—so your healing path becomes clear, grounded, and truly holistic.
What Makes the Narayani Assessment™ Unique
You’re seen through three key lenses:
- Biomechanics: alignment, muscle firing, compensation patterns
- Stress & the nervous system: how emotional load shapes posture and movement
- Breath: how your breathing supports stability, vitality, and ease
Together, these weave into one integrated map that shows both what is happening and why it’s happening.
You’ll understand:
- How your body moves and compensates
- How stress influences posture
- Which muscles activate, stabilize, or shut down
- How the nervous system contributes to pain or fatigue
- How your breath shapes your whole system
It’s technical, therapeutic, and whole-person in the truest sense.
Who Benefits Most
This assessment supports people who:
- Live with chronic or recurring pain
- Want safer, more mindful movement
- Experience stress-driven tension or restricted breathing
- Seek deeper self-awareness and functional strength
- Want better posture, stability, and balance
- Prefer a holistic approach rooted in both science and tradition
Your Narayani Assessment™ Experience
(75–90 minutes)
1) Functional Movement Analysis
- Joint and postural alignment mapping
- Functional movement patterns
- Muscle activation, strength, and inhibition
- Mobility–stability balance
This phase shows what the body is doing.
2) Body–Mind Mapping
- Breath efficiency
- Energetic and postural tendencies
- Stress response and nervous-system tone
- Somatic awareness and unconscious holding
This phase shows why the body is doing it.
3) Integrated Interpretation
You receive one clear explanation:
“What your body is doing, why it’s doing it, and how to change it.”
A common reflection:
“No one has ever explained my body to me like this before.”
Follow-Up Sessions — The Narayani Method™
Your plan blends yoga therapy with functional massage techniques rooted in applied movement testing.
Yoga Therapy
- Breath retraining
- Somatic movement and postural re-patterning
- Nervous-system pacing
- Core integration and functional strength
- Joint mobility and healthy-aging work
- Yogic counseling and emotional regulation
Functional / Holistic Massage
Using functional testing to identify root imbalances:
- Muscle activation and neurological reset
- Releasing overworked compensatory muscles
- Correcting dysfunctional firing patterns
- Targeted myofascial and tissue work
Approaches may include acupressure (Jin Shin Do), myofascial therapy, vagal support techniques, and lymphatic or visceral massage.
The Narayani Transformation
People typically experience:
- A clearer understanding of their body
- Release of unconscious holding patterns
- More efficient, balanced movement
- A steadier, calmer nervous system
- A more supportive, spacious breath
- Tools to prevent flare-ups and maintain long-term progress
Narayani Assessment™ isn’t about chasing symptoms.
It’s about uncovering the root, creating clarity, and building a path toward lasting change.