Yoga Instruction

Private & Group Class Instruction

Over 3 decades of yoga instruction fusing Astanga, Vinyasa Flow, Bikram, Iyengar and Regular Flow styles.

Private Yoga Instruction

In Sedona, or in the comfort of your home, designed around your goals.

A private yoga class designed for your specific needs and abilities is the safest & easiest way to enhance your yoga practice.

Learn safe, proper alignment

Learn alignment techniques to get the most out of your yoga classes and find your optimal form to advance your practice.

Get hands on assists

Hands-on adjustments can help deepen the experience of a pose and increase your awareness. Often, we don’t know what our bodies are capable of without being gently guided into the depths.

Focus on Personal Goals

With a private yoga class you can collaborate to determine what intentions and goals will guide your sessions. Whether you are looking for modifications for an injury, or wanting to expand your practice to a deeper, more advanced level, private yoga classes can help.

Learn how to link breath to movement.

Connecting to your breath during yoga has numerous benefits for your body and mind. Breath has the power to calm, cleanse, stabilize, and direct the mind in a purposeful way, and also to prepare for deeper transformative practices.

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Clear your mind

Yoga and meditation work together to reduce our racing thoughts and feelings of restlessness and bring a state of calm and peace.

Improve flexibility

The regular practice of yoga enhances the overall health and flexibility of our bodies. We perform better, lose weight, have improved energy and vitality and boost our metabolism.

Help with stress relief

Yoga encourages mental and physical relaxation, which helps reduce stress and anxiety.

Increase strength

Yoga is a great way to build strength and improve your overall fitness.

Boost Immunity

Some studies suggest that yoga can improve immune system function, especially when practiced consistently over time.

Improve cardiovascular functioning

Yoga poses and sequences can increase blood flow and improve circulation.

Improve balance

Balancing can help you improve focus, prevent future injuries, and relieve stress. Yoga has proved to be one of the best ways to improve balance.

Improve sleep

Yoga can improve sleep quality by increasing melatonin levels, improving mindfulness, and reducing sleep disturbances.

Improve self esteem

Research shows that practicing yoga improves health and psychological well-being and increases energy and self-esteem.

Group classes

Current teaching schedule in Sedona:

Tuesday nights at 6:30pm at Sedona Hot Yoga (in Sedona)
Sunday mornings at 8:30am at Sedona Hot Yoga (in Sedona)

Schedule a Group Class

Practicing with a group can be a fun way to hold yourself accountable and have fun at the same time. Students can count on each other to commit to their weekly classes.

Schedule a private group yoga class at a time and place that is convenient for you - a quiet place in your home, a park, your office or outdoor area for example.

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Yoga Private & Group Instruction Services

Yoga private - 60 minutes

Private yoga lesson for 60 minutes - in your office or home, or in West Sedona.

Yoga private - 75 minutes

Private yoga lesson for 75 minutes - in your office or home, or in West Sedona.

Yoga group class - 75 minutes

Group yoga instruction for 75 minutes - at your home or office.

Yoga group class - 90 minutes

Group yoga instruction for 90 minutes - at your home or office.

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My Background & Philosophy

My Yoga Experiences

Yoga Disciplines

I first attended a yoga class to alleviate the pain in my back from teaching aerobics and personal training with scoliosis. I had been going to the chiropracter up to 3 times a week to deal with the constant pain in my back. Yoga finally gave me a way to manage the pain so that I could reduce my chiropractic visits (and budget). After a while it occurred to me that I felt much better doing yoga, rather than lifting weights or doing high impact aerobics, so I decided to train to teach yoga.

My yoga training started with Bikram yoga (in my late 20s). After 2 years of studying Bikram, I was introduced to Astanga yoga. For a while I kept up both practices. I went to Bikram every other day and Astanga every other day. I noticed that the poses felt different in the two different disciplines. My poses felt lighter and more on the breath with Astanga. So after a time I discontinued Bikram and studied Astanga, Vinyasa Flow classes, and eventually attended Iyengar trainings as well. The more I branched out, the more I noticed some classes (and teachers) who were clearly in only one discipline would say "you're practicing that pose WRONG". For example, triangle pose would look very different in Bikram vs Astanga vs Iyengar. If I did the Astanga version in Bikram, the teacher would correct me. Then I would go back to Astanga and get corrected again. I started to gravitate to teachers who were more flexible and understood yoga from more of an intrinsic, organic perspective.

My Yoga Philosophy

The Sanskrit root yuj means to “yoke,” “bind,” or “join together”, which also means “union” or “Oneness.” To me, the true purpose and highest value of practicing yoga is to realize the Self, the true essence of our being. That being said, asana is utilized to tire the body (and mind) sufficiently to be able to surrender deeply and realize the connection with our deeper, true Self.

“Now comes Asana, posture. Until you can get a firm seat you cannot practise the breathing and other exercises. Firmness of seat means that you do not feel the body at all. In the ordinary way, you will find that as soon as you sit for a few minutes all sorts of disturbances come into the body; but when you have got beyond the idea of a concrete body, you will lose all sense of the body…When you have succeeded in conquering the body and keeping it firm, your practice will remain firm, but while you are disturbed by the body, your nerves become disturbed, and you cannot concentrate the mind.” — Swami Vivekananda

“But using it [yoga] for physical practice is no good, of no use – just a lot of sweating, pushing, and heavy breathing for nothing. The spiritual aspect, which is beyond the physical is the purpose of yoga. When the nervous system is purified, when your mind rests in the atman [the Self], then you can experience the true greatness of yoga.”

"To practice asana and pranayama is to learn to control the body and the senses, so that the inner light can be experienced. That light is the same for the whole world." – Pattabhi Jois

With the original intention of yoga in mind, my favorite class starts with the traditional postures and a focus on good alignment. The practice of yoga is believed to have originated in northern India between 2,500 and 5,000 years ago. The benefits of this practice (done in a traditional way) has been proven over thousands of years. I see some teachers trying to be very innovative with their class and I often come away feeling as if I've missed out on practicing the traditional poses. Often there is a focus on "core" work, which (IMHO) is more of a gym workout for tightening the muscles, and lacks the chakra aligning qualities of the traditional poses. The other thing I see is a lack of attention to good alignment - which usually focuses more on the lower body and leaves out alignment of the upper chakras (using the alignment of the head and neck and also the Drishti or gaze). When we bring our attention to the whole posture (including the head, neck and gaze) we are opening and aligning the upper chakras - opening up to a higher level of consciousness. Attention to the alignment of the poses with detail will help to align the chakras and open the gates to which we can achieve Self-realization.

Pranayama (Breath)

The Sanskrit r and realize the connection with our deeper, true Self.