About Austin Chason
About Austin Chason
Have you tried yoga?
It's the thing people say when they want to be helpful and have no idea how to help. Maybe you're fresh out of inpatient, wondering what now. Maybe doctors keep prescribing pain meds and you still hurt. Maybe wrestling with anxiety is a full-time job. Maybe you're tired of all the trends and fads and just aren't able to feel the way you know you could.
So when someone cheerfully chirps "have you tried yoga?" and, when the rage passes, you're left with the question: what is actually useful for me?
I say this as a yoga therapist, with a deeply committed yoga practice, but yoga isn't always going to work.
My name is Austin. I started Yoga4everyonelse because I needed it myself. Having a diagnosis, while useful as we figure out how to care for ourselves, doesn't solve all of our problems. The choice I kept running into was between clinically grounded practitioners who saw a broad, interrelated view of the world as a diagnosis to be managed, and deeply committed practitioners who couldn't explain what was happening in logical terms.
My clients have noticed that at times there are woo-woo moments, and other times a heavy dosing of cold empiricism. I let my clients' personal experience guide them first, apply evidence where it exists, and I'm honest about where it doesn't exist.
I work currently inside intensive outpatient programming, alongside psychiatrists, therapists, social workers, and chaplains. Before that, I worked with the physical body: chiropractors, surgeons, physical therapists, referred high-activity clients who couldn't figure out why they kept getting hurt, and people who came in post-surgery and couldn't recover for reasons nobody had thought to look for yet, because so often what my clients need is to learn how to rest. I have training in Ayurveda that helps my clients understand the logic of daily routine and to help them discover what is useful to them or not.
I've worked with a wide population of people. Recovery, neurodivergent adults, older adults, chronic illness, trauma, men's work. And across all of it, the same pattern: the presenting problem is rarely where the problem actually lives.
My education started with the body, how it moves, where it holds, what it's trying to say when it stops working the way it used to. It moved into how the body digests, not just food, but experience, stress, seasons, grief. Then into crisis, addiction, the places where the mind and the nervous system stop cooperating with each other.
Somewhere in there I realized that the frameworks clinicians use every day, DBT, CFT, mindfulness-based interventions, were built on the same contemplative foundations I'd been studying. They just got a rebrand and a manual.
"The presenting problem is rarely where the problem actually lives."
I am not a physical therapist. I am not a mental health therapist. My scope of practice is broader than those but not as specialized. That broad view is exactly what allows me to see patterns that, by necessity, the specialists can't see.
If you are interested in discovering the broader trend of your patterns and looking for long-term solutions for how you can keep yourself healthy and regulated, this is the work.
The frameworks I use consistently are classical Indian texts: Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, Ayurvedic principles rooted in the Caraka Samhita, trauma-informed approaches to mindfulness. Everything that I do is practical and follows a stream of logic: what we do daily has the biggest impact on our health. All of it is connected. All of it is workable.