About Helen
At the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Center, Helen fully immersed herself in the transformative yogic lifestyle for 9 days, embracing daily yoga classes, insightful workshops and inspiring Kirtans. This experience allowed her to reconnect with the essence of yoga, fostering deep personal growth and spiritual renewal. It integrated ancient wisdom into her everyday life.
Yoga for Healthy Aging, Baxter Bell, MD, C-IAYT, Helen attended a 3-day training, offered through 3 satsangs and 2 workshops, explored how yoga can support heart and brain health, providing a foundation for a wholesome life at any age. Knowledge of how yoga can help maintain independence as we age, while cultivating equanimity and resilience. Helen will bring agility into your movement practice and embraced the wisdom of healthy aging.
Healing Your Life Ayurveda Course, Marc Halpern (SIVA), AyD, DCHelen attended a 2-day intensive with the author of Healing Your Life. This workshop offered deep insights into the ancient path of Ayurveda, providing powerful tools for healing and self-discovery.
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I believe yoga is a way to return home to yourself — to feel grounded, strong, and at ease in your own body. Practicing since 1996 and teaching since 2012, I’ve seen how mindful movement and breath can support healing and resilience at any age.
My classes are welcoming and adaptable, blending gentle flow, alignment, and restorative practices to help you build strength where you need it and release tension where you hold it.
I am a Certified Yoga Teacher (200-hour, Sun & Moon Yoga Studio), Pilates Reformer Instructor, Thai Yoga Bodyworker, and Sound Healer, with many additional trainings in functional movement and recovery. I offer group classes online and in person, along with private yoga, reformer, and bodywork sessions to support your unique path to wellbeing.
Philosophy
A private setting, a peaceful and intimate experience to ensure focus and connection to mind, body and soul. To be present and a loving presence to each person. She guides with a heart of loving service to all levels and to those who need special assistance.
Her instructions are individualized, with adjustments made for age, experience, body type, physical condition, and medical problems. She looks at a person as a whole... who has some unique insights to help you access the blessings you bring to these times, leading to deep healing for your life, your health, and your journey's path.
Most Recent Yoga Training
Yin Yoga & Meditation Intensive, by Sagel Urlacher, M.Ed. March, 2023, 40 hours.
She completed a study of Mindfulness Meditations, Taoist energy practices, Yin Yoga poses, Breathing Exercises, and Relaxation Techniques.
Online Yoga Nidra Intensive, by Sagel Urlacher,
M.Ed. April 2024, 35 hours
• Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Fundamentals
- Dates: September 20 - November 8, 2023
Title: Bridge from Body to Soul: Applying the Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Method for Yoga and Mental Health Professionals
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Description: Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy (PRYT). This body-mind therapy uses a combination of yoga practices, therapeutic dialogue, and awareness techniques to help clients gain insight into their physical and mental states, ultimately reducing physical and emotional stress, restoring balance and harmony, and fostering self-awareness and personal growth. Helen has the understanding, confidence, skills and approach needed to establish a career as a successful Phoenix Rising Therapeutic Yoga Teacher.
Additional Training
• She completed all three courses in SATYA (Sensory Awareness Training for Yoga Attunement) and Art of Sequencing with Tias and Surya Little, Prajna Yoga, Santa Fe, NM. She also completed Prajna Yoga's MBSR Meditation with Janet Curry. Most recent is Backcare Basics, by Tias Little.
• She is certified by Margie Sanders to administer a sound bath in a guided chakra meditation or yoga nidra session. Her Restorative Yoga Training is through Heidi Kvasnak, Shelburne, VT.
• Her Thai Yoga Massage Essentials Certification is through Lotus Palm School, Montreal, Quebec.
• She earned an Assessment-Based Certificate for Power Pilates Mat Teacher Training and the Reformer Instructor Training Levels 1 & II by Balanced Body Education.
• She studied Vedic & Tantric mantras with Russell Paul, ‘The Yoga of Sound’ at Kripalu Center for Yoga and with David Newman, Kirtan College at Yogaville in Buckingham, VA.