Greater Baltimore Yoga

Greater Baltimore Yoga is owned and operated by Physical Therapist Stan Andrzejewski. He offers Hatha Yoga as movement therapy for physical therapy patients seeking care for orthopedic and neuro rehabilitation issues.

He is not in network with insurances, however patients seeking Yoga PT care may be reimbursed for out of network treatment as therapeutic exercise and neuromuscular re-education. Patients must submit the insurance claims themselves. We will provide the billing statement.

The fee is $100 per hour visit, payable at the time of service.


---Stan's Philosophy---

*Hatha Yoga as Physical Therapy*

I offer physical therapy evaluations and treatment for people with orthopedic and neurological pain or dysfunction. My basic tenet is that people first have to stop imposing injurious mechanical stresses on themselves. When the body does not have to play catch-up, it can start to heal itself with the skillful conscious movements of yoga.

Some people practice hatha yoga as a form of exercise. The skill of movement demands an exacting control of the nervous system upon the musculoskeletal system. The use of breath, imagery and sensory feedback are critical in developing motor skill. Yoga can be very slow and deliberate, and then again fast and furious. Optimal fitness, cardiovascular tone and weight reduction are very real possibilities with a dedicated yoga practice.

Some people use yoga as therapy because they are in physical pain. As a physical therapist, I have discovered how the practice of hatha yoga is therapeutic. I look at people in pain as unaware and unskillful in movement. This inefficient or faulty posture and movement cause abnormal mechanical stresses that lead to or perpetuate inflammation, pain, and dysfunction. Yoga students learn what exact posture of movement inefficiency is causing what specific joint compression, soft tissue strain, or excess muscle tension. Then they can slowly develop the skill of movement that is healing, not inflamma