MENTAL HEALTH YOGA
Your Nervous System Runs the Show — And It's Stuck in "Always On"
Mental Health Yoga rewires it in a room, not a book.

Mental Health Yoga & Neuro-Somatic Regulation is not studio yoga with a mental-health label on top.


It is a body-first protocol that uses posture, breath, gaze, and grounded touch to interrupt the sympathetic loop — the same loop that keeps you anxious, sleepless, hypervigilant, or numb.


Sessions are held at SHALOM YOGA in Huntingdon Valley, PA. In-person and online.

PART I
A Nervous-System Practice, Not a Fitness Class

Ordinary yoga trains the muscles. Mental Health Yoga trains the vagus nerve, the diaphragm, and the interoceptive network.


  • The teacher watches your nervous system, not your form
  • The room is quiet; the pace is slow enough for the body to notice safety
  • Each movement is paired with a specific breath and a specific gaze pattern
  • Techniques draw from Bodynamic, Body Synergy, Polyvagal-informed practice, and clinical breathwork


You leave with a body that finally believes it is safe.

PART II
Neuro-Somatic Regulation in Plain English

Your body has a set point for arousal. Trauma, chronic stress, and years of pushing through raise that set point until "calm" begins to feel like "empty."


We lower the set point through:

  • Vagal breathwork — resonant breathing 5-in / 5-out and paced variations
  • Bodynamic somatic — the muscle-by-muscle map of your defense patterns
  • Hypnotherapy — access to the layer beneath verbal cognition
  • EMDR — for isolated trauma memories that keep firing
  • Biofeedback + HRV — you see the change on screen; the body records it in the tissue


You don't need to believe in it. Your HRV either rises or it doesn't.

PART III
Especially Effective For
  • Chronic anxiety, hypervigilance, and the inability to "come down"
  • Sleep that broke and never fully returned
  • Post-traumatic patterns — car accident, medical event, war, loss
  • Burnout in high-functioning professionals
  • Somatic tension that talk therapy has not reached
  • Long-term stress and armored breathing patterns
  • Ukrainian-speaking war-affected clients — free access via PsyU4U program
PART IV
What Changes

What participants report:

  • A felt sense of safety that does not depend on circumstances
  • Sleep that returns without medication
  • Breath that reaches the diaphragm again
  • Ability to be present without shutting down
  • Release of chronic muscular tension
  • Emotional regulation without effort
  • Curiosity replacing hypervigilance
PART V
Three Ways to Practice

In-person small group — Huntingdon Valley, PA. Slow, quiet, precisely paced. 5–8 people per session.


1:1 private session — 90–120 min. Deep somatic work combined with hypnotherapy and — where indicated — EMDR.


Online — Full protocol adaptations for clients across time zones. Biofeedback / HRV pairing possible with a home device.

PART VI
Hours & Location

SHALOM YOGA

78 Tomlinson Rd, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006


In-person hours:

  • Sun 10:00–17:00
  • Mon 10:00–12:00 · 17:00–20:00
  • Wed 08:00–18:00
  • Tue · Thu · Fri · Sat — by appointment / closed


Online sessions: available across all time zones by arrangement.

AUTHOR
Andrew Fleshel
Psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, somatic therapist, trauma specialist. Over 25 years of experience, including 8 years in clinical and crisis-center settings in the USA. Secretary of the East European Association for Hypnosis and Clinical Psychotherapy.
GET STARTED
Three ways to begin

$49 Demo Session — 60 min

Experience the practice once before deciding.

→ Book demo session


Package — 10 hours — $700

Regular somatic + breath sessions, 1:1 or small group.

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Package — 20 hours — $1,200

Full cycle for nervous-system reset.

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Contact

Phone: +1 (267) 281-4404

WhatsApp / Telegram: +1 215 722 9722

78 Tomlinson Rd, Huntingdon Valley / Philadelphia, PA 19006

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