Trauma Sensitive Yoga & Pilates

Trauma Sensitive Yoga will:

• Regain a feeling of safety within your own body
• Calm and organize overwhelming thoughts
• Improve concentration, focus, attention, and self awareness
• Regulate impact of exaggerated stress responses (fight, flight or freeze)
• Reconnect with your body
• Release tension and physical pain
• Assists with relaxation, sleep, and mood

Trauma Survivors may continue to experience trauma reactions long after the event has passed.

These private 1 on 1 sessions will help you find the balance and peace you seek in your daily life while helping you reach your health goals.  Whether you are seeking peace and calm in your life,  recovering from an injury, or want to take your health and fitness to a new level, I will design each session to meet your needs.

You just need ONE person who shows up for you, who meets you exactly where you are, to inspire and support positive and sustainable shifts in your health and well-being. 

This is what you will find in every session.  Always focused on YOU! 

We all know the benefits of yoga, increased flexibility, better core, keeps your joints moving well, stress relief and the list could go on! But have you thought about couples yoga? Imagine all those benefits plus you get to build a better relationship, increase intimacy and trust and spend time together doing something that you both benefit from.  

Using an embodied approach to couples yoga, you and your partner will explore connection, communication and intimacy through mindful movement, breath and conscious dialogue. I will facilitate the session and hold the container, but what happens inside of that container is entirely up to you and your partner. 

Because Partner Yoga is nurturing and playful as well as instructive, it is accessible to a wide range of students. Partner Yoga provides a pathway into Yoga that may have previously seemed intimidating or inaccessible.

While suitable for intimate partners, this practice allows everyone to explore interpersonal dynamics in ways that nurture all of our relationships — making it a powerful tool for teachers and counselors, corporate groups, parents and children, and all individuals seeking personal growth.

1. Centering
   1. In Pilates: The repetitive idea of “finding your center”, or your core in order to stabilize and find stillness
   2. In mental health: This idea corresponds to needing to “find your center” and your calmness when dealing with adversity or anxieties
2. Concentration
   1. In Pilates: Developing a sense of focus to drive your intention with a movement or series of movements
   2. In mental health: When struggling in personal or professional situations, finding successful outcomes and solutions are only possible due to concentration and focus on the task at hand
3. Control
   1. In Pilates: Executing an exercise with control will develop efficiency and effectiveness with its intended purpose
   2. In mental health: Having self control is key when working through interpersonal conversations in order to have a successful and productive outcome
4. Precision
   1. In Pilates: Performing specific exercise in an exact and conscious manner helps to establish purpose with intention
   2. In mental health: Having an accurate and definitive intention or purpose when making interactions at home or in the workplace can only benefit how others react and respond
5. Breath
   1. In Pilates: An awareness of breath, especially when the inhalation and exhalation are meant to be articulated during a movement series, is essential to practicing Pilates correctly
   2. In mental health: Making an effort to consciously breathe when times get tough is vital to one’s mental health and personal relationships
6. Flow
   1. In Pilates: The exercises in a Pilates session are meant to be performed in a fluid and graceful manner, so that the connections are seamless and purposeful
   2. In mental health: When considering mental health, being able to make connections between daily activities and mindfulness can help to alleviate rough patches and low periods

Practice anywhere while still getting all of my attention to meet your goals.  These private 1 on 1 sessions will help you find the balance and peace you seek in your daily life while helping you reach your health goals.  Whether you are seeking peace and calm in your life,  recovering from an injury, or want to take your health and fitness to a new level, I will design each session to meet your needs.