Private/Semi-Private Yoga Instruction
Deepen your practice or simply schedule a yoga session at your convenience. Originally yoga was taught directly by one teacher directly to one student. Ancient teachers understood the importance of personalizing each yoga practice to meet the needs of the student. Today a private yoga class allows for a more intimate window into your practice along with allowing complete flexibility in scheduling your yoga class. Private yoga can help you to start a new practice, allow experienced practitioners to take their practice to the next level, or learn personalized modifications to traditional asanas. Semi-privates offer many of the same benefits as a private class and allow you and a few friends to practice, learn and have fun together. Contact me for more details.
Yoga With Me
With a consistent yoga practice, we learn ‘awareness’. We become better at identifying our negative thoughts and noticing what effect this has on us both physically and mentally. If our mind starts racing or stressing about something, we can recognize this and redirect our thoughts.
Corporate Yoga
Health is Wealth. Healthy employees are more productive and cost effective. Yoga classes at the workplace offer a low-cost way for companies to reduce health care expenses, reduce stress on the job and promote employee well-being. Each dollar spent on yoga and wellness programs returns approximately $3 to the employer. Additional benefits include reduced absenteeism, reduced back pain, improved concentration and fosters team building. Contact me for more details.
Yoga is a 5,000 year old science that teaches us in a very simple way, how to de-stress. Many of the diseases we are susceptible to today are rooted in stress. When we are living under a constant state of stress, our sympathetic, or “fight or flight” response takes over and non essential bodily functions operate poorly (digestion, elimination for example). We can also experience an over active heart rate, high blood pressure, shallow/chest breathing and constant tenseness in our bodies. Yoga is designed to allow our body and mind to function together. Our breath is this missing link. When we breathe deeply we send a message to our body to relax. Through yoga we also consciously relax the musculature of the body. These actions of deep breathing and muscle relaxation stimulate a parasympathetic nervous system response. In this state, our bodies have the time and resources to repair some of this damage caused by living under constant tension. The more frequently we can live in this more peaceful state, the more efficiently our body can work.
With a consistent yoga practice, we also learn ‘awareness’. We become better at identifying our negative thoughts and noticing what effect this has on us both physically and mentally. If our shoulders start to tense, we notice this more quickly and can relax and take a deep breath. If our mind starts racing or stressing about something, we can recognize this and redirect our thoughts. So eventually we learn how to skip that sympathetic nervous ‘fight or flight’ response when the actual stressor isn’t dangerous or serious, and instead stay in a healthy balanced place.