Yoga Therapy

About me

About 14 years ago I realized that I couldn’t move forward without healing a past trauma. I had been seeing a talk therapist but had found that because of the somatic nature of my trauma, most of my deep insights and release had occurred during yoga classes. I remember telling my mom that I had wished there was such thing as a yoga therapist, someone I could see to work through my body to heal.

Apparently yoga therapy WAS “a thing”, and it was waiting for me. I started my training with Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy (PRYT) in 2008, as a gift to heal my trauma. Then after nearly two years of training as a yoga therapist, I went back to work as an elementary school teacher. That didn’t last long, I wanted to share this gift that I had learned. So started my own yoga therapy business in Seattle working mostly with kids in wheelchairs.

When my family decided to move back home to Minnesota from Seattle, I went back to teaching elementary school and found myself once again yearning to guide people to their body’s inner wisdom. To me the most precious gift is the ability to drop in to the space where inner knowing resides, to hear what your soul speaks and to draw insight from that wisdom. I look forward to guiding you to that space and reflecting your inner knowing.

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My services

Intake
Tell me about you, and what’s happening in your life right now.


Breath & Movement & Playing the Edge

Guided breath, and movement with breath that turns into shapes where we play with meeting the edge in the stretch.


Dropping In
Dropping into the edge creates a space where the body can connect to inner knowing, a time of silence in the mind and opening in the body.


Meditation/Insight & Integration
Guided meditation and integration of the experience and how it relates to what is happening now in your life. From the space of inner knowing how will you move forward?

Healing is for everyone

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Healing is for everyone ·

Heal the body by dropping in to your inner knowing.

Conditions for treatment

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    Psychological

    Stress
    Anxiety/depression
    Insomnia

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    Physical

    Pain
    Chronic conditions
    Arthritis

  • Spiritual

    Spiritual Consciousness Connection to Self/Soul

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    Recovery

    Ongoing wellness
    Post surgery

Frequently asked questions

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  • Although it hasn't happened yet, International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) is in the process of trying to advance yoga therapy as a recognized health profession that accepts and bills through insurance. In the world envisioned by IAYT, yoga and yoga therapy is routinely considered in settings around the world as a therapeutic option for physical health, emotional well-being, mental balance, and spiritual consciousness.

  • I usually see clients that are in search of guidance or support as they work through healing somatic wounds, feeling stuck in the body, mind or spirit, are going through life transitions, have chronic pain, and feelings of anxiety or depression. Yoga therapy can be a helpful when coupled with talk therapy.

  • Wear comfy clothes that you can move in. Most people wear leggings, or sweat pants, and socks are optional.

  • Yess Yoga Studio has parking directly behind the studio. Take a left from 26th, after Andrew Wesley coffee shop. See picture to the left of this question.