Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher
Yoga in the workplace has been shown to reduce absenteeism, lead to healthier minds and bodies as well as reduce aggression and burnout.*
Is Iyengar Yoga Right for Your Organization?
Yogabodii and your organization can have a very beneficial future together by offering a selection of a la carte items to your health & wellness offerings. Yoga is best benefited when practiced with some consistency, commitment, and a present mind. Today there are a number of scientific studies that confirm when a person practices a physical movement (Asana), this practice has the ability to increase strength, flexibility, and coordination. Integrating breath (Pranayama) and meditation (Dhyana) may calm and focus the mind to develop greater awareness and diminish anxiety. Yoga is a comprehensive discipline when practiced with integrity.
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Yoga impacts psychological and physiological aspects ensuring that the individual is stable and healthy. Yoga can be very effective in the reduction of counterproductive work behavior, both interpersonally and organizationally by bringing improvement in awareness, letting go of negative feelings, enhancing the quality of life, and the reduction in psychological, and interpersonal issues.**
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Weekly Classes
"Asanas are descriptions and not prescriptions" BKS Iyengar
These classes are designed to inform and teach the body about where optimal alignment is in your body. Classes are geared best to those who appreciate detail and attention to form.
Consider this experience a "work-in" that will transform your body and ask your mind to come along for the journey through precise movement, visualization, and focus. These classes are a laboratory for your body, where the work-in offers you relief and reprieve from daily repetitive actions, opening new channels of awareness, and challenging your muscles and overall sensations in your body.
Together we will create an environment for receptivity as the meditation will happen along the journey through the actions. This is the lyengar methodology.
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Workshops
"This is not yoga by the body for the body, but yoga by the body for the mind." BKS Iyengar
The lyengar Yoga methodology is known for its ability to make each pose accessible to each individual. These skills are designed to assist your body to move to the best of your ability allowing the physical practice to inform the mental practice through your body.
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These turn-key workshops will address many common issues we face in our daily lives. Perhaps how stress, anxiety, and work-life balance need attention and coping mechanisms to manage and rise above.
Yoga is a practice that can offer us skills for self-control, deep inner observance, alignment, breathing techniques, reducing overload sensory stimulation, improving concentration, and introducing meditation.
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Lunch and Learn sessions
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Wellness Series
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Yoga Snack Postures
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1-on-1 Series
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1:1 Sessions
“ It is easy to attain but difficult to maintain.” BKS Iyengar
Iyengar yoga is used to help mitigate and reduce common ailments and conditions. This methodology can be used for pre-hab and rehabilitation from injury and ailments, chronic conditions and overall fatigue. It is considered therapeutic by nature of its anatomical application.
Each session is custom designed. Through the use of questionnaires and surveys, a yoga "recipe" can be designed to aid and change many common physical and mental conditions.
These sessions are shorter in nature, and offered as a tool for an adaptable “Practice-at-home” regiment.
What is Iyengar Yoga?
In an Iyengar class, poses (especially standing postures) are typically held much longer than in other schools of yoga, so that practitioners can pay close attention to the precise muscular and skeletal alignment this system demands.
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​No matter your team's experience in Yoga, those interested in starting (or deepening) their yoga practice, Iyengar yoga is one of the best yoga practices. Not only will participants get a good physical workout, but they will also learn to be more mindful and self-aware, both on and off the mat.
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Samantha Bederman is a certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher based in Toronto, Canada.