If you’re like me, you’ve probably tried different activities or classes to reduce stress and improve your health. For the most part, the results have been positive.

But sometimes you might feel stuck, especially when your class tools aren’t easily accessible or “pocket-sized” to carry with you to work, school or any other setting you have to reach during your day. 

And these are the moments when we need them the most, right?

Whether you’re new to yoga or consider yourself a yogi, I provide a unique opportunity that incorporates yoga practices and total self-care that can extend into your everyday with ease and accommodate your changing environments.

I AM A YOGA PRACTITIONER

My approach is quite different than what you might experience in a yoga studio.

What is Yoga for Mood Management?

This is where yogic tools meet the energy in the body

Yoga works with the energy in the body and creates the opportunity to witness your shifting energy and move the energy in the body.

Each of us is individually unique and we all store, carry and release energy differently.

So, what works for one person, doesn’t necessarily work for someone else.

What is Yoga?

Yoga provides the landscape to clear the mind, explore the body, and invites us to work with, feel through, and regulate our shifting moods and energies. 

Yoga encourages us to ground in the present moment through a combination of practices that connect the mind, body and sho

Yoga encourages self-inquiry, cultivates an inner calm, and reminds of us of our inner resources and wholeness.

What is Meeting the Mood?

Imagine feeling hyper or anxious, and then being asked to sit still...

or  feeling panicked and asked to calm down or breath slowly...

or feeling depressed and asked to get up and move.

Being asked to do something that isn't consistent with your current mood or energy is counterproductive. 

Yoga for Mood Management brings awareness to the body in the here-and-now, and meets the energy as it is.

So, if you’re anxious the yogic exercise meets the anxious mood with a higher energy movement or breathing practice. After the anxious mood is met, clients learn how to transform their mood/energy through a series of yogic practices to an intensity or frequency that feels most comfortable for them.

Yoga Tools and Practices

SANKALPA (INTENTION)

PRANAYAMA (BREATHING)

Asana (Posture)

MANTRA (SOUND)

BHAVANA (VISUALIZATION)

MUDRAs (HAND GESTUREs)

MEDITATIONS

Individual Plans

These individualized plans provide you with an opportunity to fill your cup with self-care that is realistic and time-sensitive.

I want my clients to feel confident implementing skills that fit their busy schedules, and can be squeezed into as little as 5 to 10-minutes.

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Group Plans

Connection is what unites us as a collective and brings us together to work toward a common goal.

It’s also a force of motivation and strength.

Group plans are designed with connection at the heart of each group, and focus on the collective goals.

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1:1 Consultation

1:1 Consultation is designed for individual Licensed Professionals, Practitioners, Healers, Coaches, and other helping professionals who want practical guidance and recommendations on how to integrate yoga for mood management into their work.

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My Yoga Journey

I got here by Letting Go of Expectations

Prior to 2015, if someone mentioned the word “yoga,” my first thought was how boring. I pictured myself having to sit very quietly, holding an uncomfortable pose for way too long, and not having permission to move.

I was very active growing up, so silence and holding still were two things I didn't do well.

In 2015, I attended a Compassion and Wisdom Conference and one of the speakers, Amy Weintraub, founder of the ®LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute, provided a presentation on evidence-based yoga breathing and self-regulation.

I was amazed.

Amy's approach was inviting and non-judging. I just needed to be where I was at in that very moment instead of trying to force myself to relax or calm down.

I had an entirely new perspective on yoga, and I wanted to learn more.

So I let go of my expectations on what I thought yoga was and opened my mind, body, and soul to what yoga could be for me.

This is what I discovered…

Yoga doesn't require silence

In fact, a lot of the mood management approaches allow for sound or other tones.

Yoga doesn't require long holds or "perfect" postures

Many of the practices, whether you're new to yoga or well-practiced, could be done sitting or standing, and don't require a yoga mat.

Yoga provides space for the mind and body to be energetic

You don't have to force your body to slow down or your mind to stop, because yoga for mood management invites you to observe exactly where you’re at.

After immersing myself in yoga practices and cultivating a daily practice for myself, I wanted others to experience the benefits too, so I trained and became a Certified Yoga Practitioner, Level 1 and Level 2, with LifeForce Yoga.