Offerings
INTEGRATIVE YOGA & Somatic THERAPY SESSIONS
My private sessions take a holistic approach to working through physical and mental health issues, specializing in trauma, inner child work, anxiety, depression, grief, life transitions, injury recovery and chronic pain management.
Everything in life is energy. Our experiences, thoughts, feelings and behaviors all carry an energy to them. This energy gets expressed through our physical, mental, and spiritual bodies as tension or ease, health or dis-ease.
In our work together, through a guided check-in we will assess where your energy is flowing or stuck, and how this pattern is affecting you in your life. Each session will include Svādhyāya (elements of talk and emotional processing, inner reflection), somatic movement (understanding and witnessing thoughts and emotion as sensations in the body and learning how to be with and move them), and pranayama (breathwork) to bring you back into a state of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual balance. Specific asanas (poses), pranayama practices, meditations and relaxation techniques, as well as energy work are explored, taught, and practiced in sessions to suit your individual needs in healing on all levels. Sessions may also include, as appropriate, therapeutic touch, massage, and sound healing.
*Individual and group sessions offered. More info on group therapy can be found here.
Energetic Balancing & Healing Bodywork
Bodywork practice of "metta,” loving kindness, combined with grounding, soothing and energetic touch, performed by the practitioner as an offering to the client as a moving meditation utilizing pressure and massage to stimulate the movement of energy in order to provide healing and wellness. This type of massage is received wearing comfortable clothing while lying on a supportive Thai mat on the ground. Rachel draws on the traditional techniques of Thai Yoga Massage, Meridian Yoga Therapy, Chakra Balancing, and Mindfulness utilizing a combination of acupressure, massage, myofascial release, energy work, intuitive touch, guided breathwork and assisted stretching. Throughout the session you will be guided into deep states of release and relaxation mentally and physically. Working through the Sen lines (energetic pathways in the body similar to and overlapping with meridians)Thai massage helps to create a flow in the body for stagnant energy to be worked through and released. This style of bodywork can be deeply restoring on all levels: physical body, mental-emotional body, energetic body, ancestral body, and is supportive for healing: trauma, chronic pain, muscular tension, digestive issues, brain fog, stress, anxiety and depression. This integrative healing bodywork helps to increase flexibility and mobility, improve sleep, support nervous system balancing, reduce stress, improve circulation and digestion, and foster a sense of renewed energy and vibrancy.
~60 and 90 minute sessions available.
Sound Healing
Using a variety of instruments such as crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, wind and ocean chimes, tongue drums and the monochord, I utilize sound as therapy to help anchor the body and nervous system, as well as drop the mind into a deeper state of pure consciousness. The different sound waves pulse and vibrate through the body, getting deep into the cells where other therapies can not reach. These vibrations help to tone and balance the vagus nerve, often inducing a state of rest and digest, ease and presence.
~ 30 and 60 minute sessions available.
~private and group sessions available.
private & Small Group Yoga Classes
One-on-One Yoga Instruction
~Good for those who want to target specific aspects of their practice and have a routine that is customized to their needs and goals, or for those not yet comfortable in a group setting.
Small Group Private Yoga Classes
~Tailored practice to meet the desires and goals of the group.
~Good for a group of friends new to yoga who are not quite ready to join a studio/big class, but still want a group experience.
~Fun & intentional way to gather for a celebration (anniversary, bachelor/bachelorette party, birthday, wedding).
Corporate & Staff Yoga Classes
~Great for team building, workplace moral, and introducing and maintaining overall staff wellness.
~Mixed level instruction that meets the diverse needs of a large group, adjusting to both the novice and experienced yogi.
~Can be combined with professional seminars, training, and team-building workshops.
Academic and professional trainings
Didactic and experiential trainings on the history, benefits, and practices of yoga as a tool for health and wellness, community and team building, and in the therapeutic and mental health professions:
Yoga for Self Care and Healing
How Yoga Heals: Yoga for Trauma and PTSD
Embodied Wellness for Schools: SEL and Trauma-Informed tools and practices for teachers, staff, and students.