Private Offerings

For those working with an injury or managing a health condition, therapeutic, personalized yoga classes can help you manage your condition, reduce your symptoms and enhance your quality of life. Yoga therapy focuses on how to make yoga safe and available to all bodies, of varying shape, physical condition, and mobility/flexibility—in varying stages of healing. I work with a wide range of populations, including baby-boomers, cancer survivors, those with disabilities, and those dealing with chronic pain or trauma.

As a yoga therapist, I adapt our private yoga sessions to your specific needs. From basic back care to stress reduction, I will customize the lessons to manage and alleviate pain and suffering while building a healthy lifestyle. With commitment to your practice you will reclaim and maintain your physical health and mental well-being, and feel more connected to yourself and others.

Adaptive Yoga

I also offer specialized services involving adaptive yoga for people with limited mobility due to disabilities such as brain injuries, cerebral palsy, blindness, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries, Parkinson’s disease, and more.

Private Yoga Therapy Sessions

With all of my offerings, I bring the highest quality of attention. Leadership and self-motivation are qualities I’m known for.

Thai massage involves massage, accupressure and yoga-like stretching, is performed clothed without the use of oils and happens on the floor on a firm mattress. The combination of massage plus assisted stretching results in a comprehensive full-body treatment that relieves pain and muscular tension, improves circulation and range of motion, reduces stress and boosts the immune system, while balancing the body energetically through heart-centered energy work.

Thai Yoga massage, usually just called Thai massage, is said to have been founded over 2500 years ago. Although the evolution of techniques and practices have mostly happened in Thailand, the origin of Thai massage can be traced to India. A physician and yogi from northern India said to be a friend and personal physician of the Buddha, developed it based on his own healing experiences. Thai massage differs from western massage by its use of balancing the body's energy line system, known as Sen lines, that corresponds with the Chinese acupuncture meridians and the ancient medical practices of Indian Ayurvedic.

Thai massage and yoga are members of the same family and complement each other in many ways. These systems can work harmoniously together to produce better results than when used separately.

There are scenarios where one may be a better choice for you than the other based on your needs and desires. Let’s look at some scenarios when Thai Massage could be the better choice:

• Thai Massage can be a better source of therapy if you are looking for a quick fix when suffering from pain and muscle tension. In comparison, yoga is a long-term system of lifestyle medicine.

• When you are feeling the need to be completely relaxed and passive, but still want to gain some of the benefits of a movement practice. Thai Massage could work better for you. It is sometimes called ‘lazy man’s yoga’ since all the receiver has to do is relax and receive the benefits of passive yoga.

  Here are a couple scenarios where yoga could be more appropriate or practical than Thai Massage:

• If you are looking for profound results in mind and body, a commitment to a deeper yoga practice will generate more results than just physical improvements.

• Clients can benefit greatly by taking advantage of the active nature of practicing yoga, which results in greater strength, long-term flexibility, confidence and will-power.