Welcome to
Loving You Yoga
Where a relaxed mind, a strong able body, abundant energy and loving kindness is the focus.
Loving You Yoga
What if aging meant doing more of what you want confidently and with grace?
What if you could get out of bed excited about life, feeling healthier and with more energy than ever before?
Well you can—I did, and I will show you how!
I did it without restrictions, pain and hours in the gym or on the mat. The truth is anyone can.
Loving You Yoga is for anyone who is ready for a thoughtful practice that focuses on inner listening and connection.
Connection
Connecting to your muscles, bones and joints so you can tap into the well house of energy and vitality waiting for you instead of pushing, pulling and exhausting your body.
Listening
Listening to your body’s messaging. Your body has its own innate intelligence and it’s time to tap into it.
What is Loving You Yoga?
Think Functional Movement Meets Yoga.
This is a subscription-based, slow and thoughtful complete practice that is designed to meet you where you are and teaches you how to connect body and mind. Using simple functional movements, resistance training and thoughtful breathing practices you will find your way to a strong, healthy body that does not see aging as a road to being less active, but instead, more mentally and physically attuned and vibrant.
Often when we think of exercise we think of will and coercion. I have found that there is a way to move deeply and mindfully while keeping the body challenged. In a relaxed state you can tolerate more resistance (which equals greater stimulation to the muscles and cells and improved strength) and move with the body instead of against it establishing an intuitive understanding of your own body in each practice.
What can you expect ?
There is a way to tap into the body's resources and generate greater health and longevity. By increasing muscle, flexibility and mindfulness you can counteract what we have been told is the inevitability of aging and instead get stronger and healthier as we age.
We will work with weights and resistance bands and the deeper wisdom of yoga to activate key hormones, neurotransmitters, and other chemicals in the body to create communication and ultimately health across the systems of the body.
By developing this type of relationship to your strength and flexibility you can alleviate back and joint pain, improve cholesterol, reduce blood pressure and inflammation, and lower the risk of cardiovascular disease.
What will you do?
You will move slowly and deeply using weights and resistance bands that match your present ability and discover that your strength will increase in each session. After a group of muscles have been strengthened in a safe and effective way they will then be stretched to create balance and to release the cellular activity that will communicate throughout the endocrine system.
By experiencing each movement in the present moment the entire practice will be a meditation taking you deeper into the aliveness of your body and the beauty of life.
Loving You Yoga Highlights
Breath Focused
Safe for Those with Injuries
Modification Options
Loving You Yoga Insights
Things I have found don’t work
Pushing too hard to achieve a goal
Not applying myself and thinking that only a gentle practice is enough
Practicing too long for too many days
Not having a well rounded practice
Restricting the mind and body (diets, force and overload)
Bullying the body
And most of all, not uniting the body and mind
What works every time
Finding an manageable edge that challenges me personally
Being active and engaged in life everyday
Understanding that movement is life and feeling excited about it
Finding the balance between flexibility and strength
Having encouraging and supportive community
And doing it all with the mind and body on the same team
Some of the benefits you might experience
through the program:
Balanced flexibility and strength
An increased awareness of your body and how it all works
A decrease in injuries and injury related pain
Improved balance, posture and focus
Better sleep
Increase in muscle tissue
A decrease in common diseases and ailments associated with aging
Decrease in anxiety and an increase in contentment and joy
This program is for you if
You want to learn how to intelligently move your body
If you are tired of forcing your body
If you want to learn to listen and connect with your body instead of trying to dominate it
If you want to get stronger
If you are sick of diets and restrictions
If you want to live more not less as you get older
If you enjoy connection and community
If you want a respectful practice that sees both the body and mind as sacred
If you want to feel healthy, clear and at peace
Loving You Yoga
Practice with me!
Saturdays, 10:15 to 11:15 am EST
Livestream only