September is National Yoga Awareness Month!
I first started taking yoga classes as a student in 2000 when I was competing in Olympic length triathlons. I was drawn to the Bikram heated style of yoga to help my body gain better flexibility and move lactic acid through after long training sessions. I continued taking that heated style of yoga even when I switched sports to become a competitive bodybuilder for 5 years, in order to help keep that flexibility and lessen muscle adhesions when crafting a more muscular frame for that sport. During this time period I was focused on just the physical benefits of yoga as a cross-training feature to the sports I competed in.
In 2013 I decided I wanted to attend a Yoga Teacher Training program at Yoga Village to add yoga to the host of services I already was providing under the Revitalize Bodywork umbrella. My initial approach was focused on the physical benefits of the teaching and stacking the body in a solid, safe skeletal alignment. Within that 4 month teacher training program I began to understand, and experience the additional mental and emotional benefits that yoga provides as well. It is truly a complete body, mind, and spirit moving meditation and transformation! This deepened my understanding that in each yoga class we are all mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually shifting and processing through layers within ourselves. While in the very last resting pose of the class, Savasana, each of us are literally processing through what has ‘bubbled up to the surface’ for us during the class. When my students are in savasana, I come around to each student, help lengthen their neck with a massage-cranial sacral technique, and then send a big blast of Reiki Energy through their bodies to help them move through and release whatever layers of ‘stuff’ came up for them. Many of the students feel that energy shift and release occur, it’s quite powerful and gentle at the same time. I have observed the many positive changes that my students experience in their practice, no matter the length of time they’ve been at it. Even more personally, yoga has changed my life on every level, brought me deeper perspective in every aspect of my life, and brought my relationship with myself to a whole, healthy, balanced place. I am thankful for those teachings and the fact that there is always more that my own body, mind and spirit are capable of. I am equally thankful to be able to share those gifts and experiences with all of you as well, it is truly an honor.
It is my goal at Revitalize Bodywork Studio to make yoga and fitness, Accessible, Affordable, and All Body Types feel welcome. Between our 9 teachers, 9 styles of yoga classes, and 16 class times to choose from, there is something for you to try here and be gently, expertly guided as you do. Your first class is FREE, come on down, we’ll save a mat for ya!
What has your body, mind and spirit been telling you it needs? Are you listening? If you have questions or want to dig deeper, please let me know.
I always have FREE 15 minute consultations open for you.
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