Soul to Soul Yoga LLC

✨ A gentle reminder to pause.

Life with chronic illness can be exhausting.

Appointments.
Symptoms.
Decisions.
Stress.

Sometimes the most important thing we can do is create space to breathe.

Join us for our FREE monthly Guided Relaxations, Meditations & Breathwork Podcast with the Yoga for Scleroderma team.

This month’s session will be led by Cheryl Albright, OTR/L, C-IAYT and will focus on helping you reconnect with your breath, calm your nervous system, and create a little more ease in your day.

🗓 Wednesday, June 17, 2026

🕕 6:30 PM ET
🕔 5:30 PM CT
🕞 3:30 PM PT

Can’t make it live?

You can catch past sessions on Lori’s Wednesday Wind-Down playlist on YouTube or listen anytime through our podcast channel.

💜 Comment PODCAST below and we’ll send you the link to join.

And if you know someone who could benefit from a moment of calm, please share this post with them.

Research isn’t just about collecting information.

It’s about asking better questions.

This year, I’ve had the opportunity to share work at conferences and professional gatherings focused on yoga therapy, occupational therapy, chronic illness, nervous system regulation, and integrative care.

From Athens to Costa Mesa and beyond, one theme continues to emerge:

People are looking for approaches that see the whole person—not just the diagnosis.

Whether we’re talking about behavioral health, chronic illness, disability, sensory processing, or family systems, regulation remains foundational to participation, function, and quality of life.

I’m grateful to be part of these conversations and excited to continue building evidence-informed, accessible approaches that bridge yoga therapy and occupational therapy practice.

✨ Follow along as this work continues to grow.

There’s a chair at the table almost nobody sets.

It belongs to the disability sibling.

The child growing up alongside appointments, therapies, behavioral crises, IEP meetings, exhaustion, advocacy, and caregiving dynamics, while rarely being the identified patient themselves.

So many adult siblings describe their childhoods the same way:

“I was the easy one.”

“I didn’t want to add to it.”

“I figured it out on my own.”

And yes, sometimes that creates extraordinary empathy, resilience, and advocacy.

But it can also create anxiety.
Over-functioning.
Guilt.
Difficulty asking for help.
A lifelong tendency to minimize personal needs.

None of this means families failed.

It means the experience itself carries weight that deserves language, support, and visibility.

This is why sibling support matters.

Not as an extra.

Not as an afterthought.

But as part of whole-family care.

✨ If this resonates:

• Save this
• Share it with a sibling, parent, or clinician
• Comment “SIB”

I write more about disability siblings, family systems, and whole-person care over on Substack.
🔗 Link in bio

A lot of people see the teaching.

What they don’t always see is everything happening behind the scenes to make that teaching possible.

Lately, much of my time has been spent developing and refining courses for CUAOTA accreditation. Starting with the training’s already on the website and continuing to build from there.

This process is slow, detailed, and honestly… really exciting.

Because the goal has never been just to teach yoga.

It’s been to create meaningful, evidence-informed conversations around:
• regulation
• trauma
• chronic illness
• sensory processing
• integrative OT practice
• and accessible wellness

And if all goes according to plan…

I’m hoping to bring back “2 CEUs & a Beer” sometime this fall, in a way that can travel anywhere.

Still building. Still refining.
But exciting things are coming.

✨ Follow along for updates.

Scleroderma is a disease of hardening.

Skin tightens.
Joints restrict.
Breathing changes.
Fatigue becomes layered and unpredictable.

And for many people, the loss is not only physical, it’s the loss of feeling at home in their own body.

Yoga is not a cure.

But adapted yoga therapy can offer meaningful support when the practice is designed around the realities of connective tissue disease.

That means:

• Slower pacing
• Gentle mobility
• Warmth and circulation support
• Breath-focused work
• Nervous system regulation
• Deeply supported rest

Because most general yoga classes are not built for scleroderma.

This work asks a different question:

“What does this body need today?”

And sometimes the answer is movement.
Sometimes it’s rest.
Both are valid practice.

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✨ Comment “YOGA” if you’d like updates when future trainings return

Silence doesn’t mean everything is okay.

It usually means the conversation never felt safe enough to happen.

Many siblings of individuals with disabilities, chronic illness, or mental health conditions grow up learning how to “be fine.”

To not add more stress.
To stay quiet.
To take on roles without being asked how they’re actually doing.

But that silence has a cost.

When siblings don’t have space to talk, it doesn’t disappear.

It shows up later as burnout, anxiety, resentment, or distance within families.

The Sibling Conversation resource was created as a starting point.

Not to fix anything.
Not to force conversations.
But to create space for what often goes unspoken.

If even one question opens the door to a more honest, gentler conversation, it’s doing its job.

🔗 You can explore the resource through the link in bio

What You’ll Do

✨ Provide in-home, client-centered occupational therapy services
✨ Support children in building independence in daily routines
✨ Address sensory regulation, fine motor skills, and emotional development
✨ Collaborate with families and caregivers for carryover at home
✨ Develop individualized, functional treatment plans

Schedule

🕒 After-school availability required (approx. 2:30–7:00 PM)
📅 Part-time with growth potential up to 25 hours/week

What We’re Looking For

✔️ Licensed Occupational Therapist (OTR/L) – Florida
✔️ Pediatric experience preferred (new grads welcome with strong fieldwork)
✔️ Strong communication + clinical reasoning skills
✔️ Ability to work independently in a home health setting
✔️ Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation
✔️ Ability to pass background screening

Bonus If You Have

➕ Experience with sensory integration or behavioral health
➕ Interest in regulation-based or holistic approaches (mindfulness, yoga, etc.)

Why Join Us?

🌿 Flexible schedule with consistent caseload growth
🌿 Supportive, collaborative environment
🌿 Opportunity to be part of a holistic, relationship-centered practice

📩 Interested or know someone who would be a great fit?
Send a message or email [email protected]

When people hear “yoga for scleroderma,” they often imagine gentle stretching.

That is not what this work is.

Scleroderma is a complex autoimmune connective tissue disease that affects far more than flexibility. It impacts skin mobility, hand function, digestion, breathing capacity, fatigue, pain patterns, and nervous system regulation.

Because of this complexity, generalized yoga cueing is not enough.

Yoga for Scleroderma integrates condition-informed adaptations grounded in clinical reasoning, including considerations for Raynaud’s, skin tightening, GERD, interstitial lung involvement, and energy conservation.

Instead of pushing range of motion, the focus shifts to:

• Fascial glide
• Joint protection
• Autonomic regulation
• Functional hand integration
• Digestive positioning
• Rest and pacing

This is where my background as an occupational therapist informs the work.

It is not yoga layered on top of disease.

It is an adaptive, patient-centered approach designed to support participation and restore agency for people living with scleroderma.