Clearer Mind
Stronger Body
Balanced Spirit


Basic Background and Benefits

Working with a personal yoga trainer, you start your practice on a firm foundation of form, theory, and practice. This foundation gives you a solid grounding from which to continue your practice. The practice of yoga teaches first your body, then your mind, then your spirit to bend, stretch, and move in new ways. At first, these ways seem new and strange and awkward. If you read in a yoga book to "extend out through left heel and keep left thigh working" you may have an idea what this means or you may not. It sounds rather stilted and strange. You may just decide to ignore it and to try to get your body to look like the picture. Frustration and injury are often the result. Even if you don't injure yourself, you may wonder "Where are these great benefits I'm supposed to be getting from yoga?". Working with a yoga personal trainer can get you started properly and help you maintain good form, focus, and energy throughout your practice. Your trainer will also help you with the non-physical aspects of the practice. The mental attitude and breathwork are an integral part of the practice and even harder to learn from a book than the postures.

Hiring a yoga personal trainer is also an ideal way to inspire yourself to practice. We all like to think we'll take care of ourselves and make time to do something, like yoga, to renew our energy and zest. But how often do we really follow through? How often do we find excuses or allow our perceived responsibility to another to get in the way of our personal time? All too often. And when you finally do make the commitment to make time for yourself, no small decision, do you want the added burden of figuring out just what to do, as well?

Teachers offer guidance, inspiration, support, structure, and challenge. I offer you guidance in beginning a practice that's right for you and inspiration that your practice will do many wonderful things for you. I offer support to help you physically get in to the poses and psychically to know that we all go through struggles. I offer a supportive environment free from competitiveness and "shoulds". I offer structure in the progression of your practice and the structure of a regular meeting with me to inspire you to practice on your own. I also offer challenge. You will be challenged by the yoga practice we design, but you will also have guidance, inspiration, support, and structure to help you work through the challenges.

All this may sound great, but perhaps you are wondering about the physical benefits of yoga practice. The physical benefits are not to be discounted and they are the first benefits to appear. Yoga exercise will help strengthen and lengthen your muscles. You may find your posture improving; people may start to comment on you "looking more confident" or "looking more relaxed". Odd things will start to happen; walking, stretching, and even sitting may become more pleasurable. Old, unconscious tensions and imbalances in the body will open and release and, making movement easier.

Tension creating acts such as driving, will become less stressful. With Bay Area traffic, we all sometimes feel tension on the roadways, but the relaxation you carry with you from yoga practice will go a long way towards relieving "road rage". Practice your breathing exercises on the way home and you will arrive calmer and more centered than before you started out - instead of coming home with an armload of anger at the "idiots on the road". As you continue with yoga and release judgemental thoughts about your own body and performance, you may not even feel compelled to label other people at all.

A private yoga session averages 90 to 105 minutes and costs $75. A semi-private yoga session for two or three people of similar practice levels able to meet at the same time and place costs $90. Extra costs may be incurred for home visits. Please call, 610-762-1664 or email Kassandra with more questions or to schedule a session. Namaste.

Sample Session Schedule

Pranayama: Breathing exercises to increase and balance energy (5 to 15 minutes)
Asana: Yoga postures from a variety of styles including Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Sivananda (50 to 70 minutes)
Savasana: Guided relaxation and withdraw of the senses from the external world into the internal (10 to 15 minutes)



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