A yoga and wellness coach is a trained and certified practitioner that can help you create a greater sense of health, well-being, and life purpose.

I bring a therapeutic approach to traditional yoga teaching while adapting it to you and your personal goals. If you would like to advance your personal yoga or spiritual practice but are not advancing in group classes I will customize a practice for you and your individual needs.

Yoga coaching will enable you to get out of your head and into your body, allowing you to be present and more deeply engage with life. The body holds innate wisdom and by connecting to the body, we will gain deep self-knowledge and healing.

Anyone who wants to deepen their yoga or spiritual practice, improve their health and lifestyle, or begin a healing journey.

A yoga coach can also help you to learn to regulate your nervous system to deal with stress, anxiety, fear, lack of motivation, lack of confidence, and depression. A yoga coach can help you live life fuller and deeper by learning to be present engage fully with life and learn to feel what you feel and know what you know.

You can always continue going to group classes but a yoga coach will challenge you and give you the tools you need to advance optimally. Traditionally, yoga was passed down from guru (sanskrit for teacher) to student and is therefore designed to be taught one-on-one. Most group classes you find are a reductionist version of yoga that focus on the physical aspect of the practice. Asanas (sanskrit for postures) are merely a small part of a full yoga practice.

A yoga teacher leads a class through a yoga sequence. Though this can be hugely beneficial, it is not personalized. A yoga coach uses yoga to achieve your specific life and wellness goals and will create personalized plans to fit your needs.

I will work with you to understand your challenges and goals.

I will create a yoga practice to help you address these goals. I will guide you through various techniques that will help you create new neural pathways and rewire the brain, allowing you to experience life the way you wish to. I will help you build a consistent daily practice that will transform your life.

Yoga offers a bottom-up regulation of the nervous system.

Learning to regulate and activate your nervous system with yoga and breathing techniques means that you no longer depend on external substances, validation, or stimuli to attempt to regulate your mental and emotional state. When our autonomic nervous system is well-balanced we have a reasonable degree of control over our response to life’s challenges which enables us to calmly address events that trigger us. Furthermore, you will learn to follow those triggers to learn and address the underlying issue instead of remaining blind and captive to our reactions and emotions.

It depends on your specific needs and goals. Some techniques used are:

• Guided meditation

• Visualizations

• Gratitude practices

• Intention settings

• Breathwork to regulate the nervous system

• Bodywork - learning to listen to and connect to the body

• Mindfulness techniques

• Yoga postures

• Sharing and deep listening