Alicia Bliss has been practicing yoga for over 20 years.  She believes that the breath work, flexibility, and balance learned on the yoga mat can be an invaluable tool in everyday life.

What to Expect During Yoga

Private Yoga Sessions enable Alicia to focus exclusively on you and your needs – what you hope to get out of yoga practice, your general fitness level, your degree of flexibility, and any previous injuries or health conditions that need to be accommodated.

Unlike in a group yoga class where you may anonymously struggle with a position, Alicia can alter a pose on the fly so that you get the maximum benefit without injury. She can adjust a workout to your needs that day, which may change from one session to the next.

One-on-one yoga sessions are truly the best way to experience yoga, especially for beginners.

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Prices

• 1 Private Yoga Session – $80
• 3 Private Yoga Sessions – $200
• 6 Private Yoga Sessions – $360

Why Yoga?

Improved Fitness – Strength AND Flexibility

Practicing yoga can lead to improved balance, flexibility, range of motion and strength. And this means you’re less likely to injure yourself in other physical endeavors or in your daily activities. Improved flexibility is one of the first and most obvious benefits of yoga. During your first class, you probably won’t be able to touch your toes. But if you stick with it, you’ll notice a gradual loosening, and eventually, everything you do gets easier: walking, sitting and standing. You’ll also probably notice that day-to-day aches and pains start to disappear.

Strong muscles do more than look good. They also protect us from conditions like arthritis and back pain, and help prevent falls in elderly people. It’s well documented that weight-bearing exercise strengthens bones and helps ward off osteoporosis. Many postures in yoga require that you lift your own weight. And when you build strength through yoga, you balance it with flexibility. If you just went to the gym and lifted weights, you might build strength at the expense of flexibility.

Stress Reduction

A number of studies have shown that yoga can help reduce stress and anxiety. It can also enhance your mood and overall sense of well-being. Yoga’s ability to lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol may help keep calcium in the bones.

Improved Circulation

Yoga gets your blood flowing. More specifically, the relaxation exercises you learn in yoga can help your circulation, especially in your hands and feet. Yoga also gets more oxygen to your cells, which function better as a result. Twisting poses are thought to wring out venous blood from internal organs and allow oxygenated blood to flow in once the twist is released.

Management of Chronic Conditions

Yoga can help reduce risk factors for chronic diseases, such as heart disease and high blood pressure. Yoga might also help alleviate chronic conditions, such as depression, pain, anxiety and insomnia.

Why Private Yoga Sessions?

It’s Less Intimidating

A private session reduces or eliminates any level of intimidation associated with attending a group class for the first time. In one or two private sessions, you can prepare for what to expect in class and learn enough basics to make you feel comfortable.

Individualized Instruction

We can design a practice to accommodate any injuries, health concerns, or other limitations you may have. Maybe you’ve put off attending your first yoga class because you’re concerned about re-injury. Working one-on-one with an instructor will give you the opportunity to learn valuable modifications and postures to avoid for when you are in class.

Tailored to Your Intentions

Do you have specific goals you are trying to achieve? If you are coming to yoga for a specific reason, whether physical, spiritual, mental, or emotional, we can offer some guidance on how  to achieve those goals.

MINDFULNESS-BASED PERSONAL TRAINING

Alicia has curated a unique style of personal training to create an enjoyable workout experience. She blends her 20 years of yoga training experience, bodyweight exercises, and resistance band training to cater each session to the mind/body needs and goals of her clients. Remember, the mind and body are connected – not separate and attending to your mental health and well-being holds just as much value as your physical health. Have you been intimidated to try personal training because you think it will be too hard or you don’t like the “gym” atmosphere? That’s the beauty of Mindfulness-Based personal training as it meets you where you are. It is important for your body and mind to be challenged because you are capable of so much more than you know, and the accountability that comes from a personal trainer is essential to achieving your true potential. A private Mindfulness-Based training session with Alicia combines the fundamentals of yoga – breathwork and stretching – which will help the body recover quickly without “not being able to walk” the next day, with body weight and resistance band training – which is proven to be safer on your joints and structural system. This is an enjoyable and sustainable practice that will help you to gain muscle mass, balance, increased mobility and range of motion. This is a unique experience that your mind and body will love.

Ready to get started? Schedule your session today!