Yoga For Your Body
Yoga For Your Body
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About
About
Yoga For Your Body
Yoga For Your Body
My Vision
Do not turn your back on Yoga. My vision is to make yoga and its benefits available to anyone and everyone who wants to keep their body moving and working the best it can “For Your Body”. The key word is “modify” as needed. Each time you practice yoga, you strive to improve your body.
My Mission
My Mission
Every sunrise brings a new opportunity to renew your body, mind and spirit. My vision is to help you attain new goals through the study of yoga.
What Yoga For Your Body can do
What Yoga For Your Body can do
Each session starts with stretching exercises to warm up your body and loosen your muscles, followed by poses flowing from one pose to another, building on the previous pose. Finally, before cool down there are some core building exercises, ending with several minutes of total relaxation. My goal is to have everyone do the exercises, but always with modifications as needed for anyone. Remember, these sessions are designed fo you and your body, not for someone else.
A Little Bit About Me
A Little Bit About Me
I grew up in Ohio, went to Miami University, and then moved to Abilene, Texas with my husband for our
first duty station in the USAF. We were there for 6.5 years, where I also received a Masters Degree in
Classical Humanities from Texas Tech and taught Latin for a few years before moving to Maryland for
the next 38 years, with the AF. We are now retired and relocated to Arizona to be near our daughter,
her husband and our granddaughter. When we moved to Maryland, I also became involved with a
therapeutic horseback riding program in 1991, and became a Certified Therapeutic Riding Instructor in 2007. I also
raised, trained and showed dressage horses with my business partner.
I started learning about yoga in a High School physical education class in the 1960’s, when our teacher
had several classes doing yoga. After those classes I just kept learning on my own and bought my first
Yoga book, Light on Yoga (Iyengar), little did I know at the time that this was a great book to use. I self
studied throughout my life from this book and others. In 1984, however, my yoga was put on hold for
the next 15 years or so due to a serious auto accident.
For the last 17 years I was able to get back into yoga when our church started offering free yoga classes
three times a week. It was hard for me at first, but I slowly built my body back up, my muscles began to
work better, my pain and the depression that the accident and trauma caused, began to diminish. After
a couple years I became the instructor two times a week. My classes were filled with all sorts of
people, from the very flexible to the totally inflexible, so my classes were more of a stretching for your
body class, based on Hatha Yoga. When we moved to Arizona, I started taking classes at our community
center and I decided to finally get my 200-hour certification, so here I am.
My goals now are to continue teaching yoga, to continue teaching therapeutic riding, and to continue
working with the disable where I am able to incorporate many yoga poses into the exercises for the
riders. My other interests include quilting, painting (oil, watercolor) and needle felting.