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Yoga therapy for scoliosis management

Body Mapping

Body Mapping: Your Posture & Movement Blueprint
Your body tells a story—through structure, movement, and habit.Body Mapping is a comprehensive posture and movement analysis that helps us understand why you are experiencing pain, limitation, or imbalance. It creates a clear, visual roadmap so we can work with your body more effectively—not against it.

Your Posture Habits

Default posture habits are modeled from our family patterns and the result of prolonged, held positions, like sitting at a desk.

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Your Structure

Your inherited structure is a deep blueprint. Learn how it can prevent or permit certain movements.

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Your Movement Habits

Your repeated movements, how you do one thing often, can affect all your movement patterns.

​See What’s Usually Invisible

Many of the patterns that lead to discomfort are subtle and easy to miss.

During your session, we look at:

  • how your joints are structured

  • where your body moves easily—and where it doesn’t

  • how your posture and habits influence strain over time

Using photo and video analysis, you’ll begin to see these patterns—and more importantly, learn how to feel and change them.

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Structure Matters More Than You Think

Up to 50% of people have hip structures that make certain movements feel natural—and others nearly impossible.

This isn’t a limitation. It’s information.

Rather than forcing your body into idealized shapes, we identify what works for you, and adapt movement so it is safer, more efficient, and sustainable.​

 

Your Unique Movement Patterns

Every body has areas that move too much and areas that don’t move enough.

For example:

  • an over-arching low back can create compression and pain

  • restricted areas can force compensation elsewhere

Body Mapping helps you recognize these tendencies and learn how to move in a more balanced, supported way.

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Early Patterns & Long-Term Tendencies

Even in younger bodies, movement patterns can reflect underlying tendencies—such as a predisposition toward kyphosis or other postural changes.

When you understand these patterns early, you can:

  • reduce strain

  • prevent progression

  • support your body more intelligently over time

 

Scoliosis & Complex Patterns

Scoliosis involves a combination of rotation, side-bending, and shifts throughout the spine and pelvis.

Because each pattern is unique, generalized advice often falls short.

Body Mapping allows us to:

  • identify your specific curve patterns

  • understand how they affect your posture and movement

  • tailor how you exercise, sit, and rest to support your structure

 

Your History, Mapped Together

Injuries, surgeries, daily habits, and work demands all leave an imprint on your body.

When we look at:

  • structure (how your bones relate)

  • movement patterns (how your body compensates)

  • and your history

…your pain often starts to make sense.

From there, we create a clear, practical path forward using:

  • simple adjustments

  • targeted exercises

  • and supportive breathing patterns

 

What You Receive

  • A 2-hour in-depth Body Mapping session

  • Photo and video analysis

  • A detailed 4–6 page report with findings and recommendations

  • Clear next steps tailored to your body and goals

 

A Different Way Forward

This is not about fixing your body.

It’s about understanding it—so you can work with it in a way that reduces pain, improves function, and supports long-term change.

*The yoga therapy components of my practice are derived from Doug Keller's Therapeutic Wisdom of Yoga Trainings, as certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapy, not derived from my instructor status as E-RYT and YACEP with Yoga Alliance Registry.

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Heartwood Center

1818 Dempster Ave.

Evanston, IL 60202

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Sarah Westbrook, C-IAYT

The Yoga Map LLC

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