About Amy
“To support others in finding ease in their breath, bodies, and minds. To meet the individual where they are, at any point in life, and offer them yogic tools for daily living. This creates the foundation for healing and remembrance of their innate wholeness”
I am a Certified Yoga Therapist who specializes in anxiety, depression with a trauma-informed approach, grief, back pain, chronic pain & more. Yoga Therapy is a therapeutic, individualized variation to the practice. This approach to Yoga takes into account our unique situations and invites the practice to be molded to suit us, rather than us to suit the practice. It is my passion and privilege to have worked with many individuals over the past 7 years and to watch the impact Yoga has on their physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Find out more about Yoga Therapy here.
With great respect and honor, I hold space for the person in front of me with an approach based in: intuition, empathy, and research and information gathering in order to better understand their limitations and needs. Together we co-create a practice that meets them where they are at and helps bring them to where they want to go. A Yoga Therapy session typically involves a combination of: meditation, mindfulness, relaxation, mudras, breath work, and asana (Yoga postures).
Over a decade long practice of Yoga has helped soothe and heal personal anxiety and physical discomfort. It has shifted as I went through periods of intense grief, becoming a mother, despair AND joy. Being a Yoga Therapist has bridged my passion for Yoga and purposeful desire to help others the way it has for me. It is my purpose in this life.
Certifications:
E-RYT 500 Yoga Teacher and C-IAYT (Certified Yoga Therapist IAYT - International Association of Yoga Therapists). I received my 200-hour Vinyasa training in 2013 at Joschi Institute in Manhattan. My early teaching days were influenced by my teacher Gina Lee, a Dharma Mittra teacher based in Long Island, NY. In 2015 I begin my Yoga Therapy training with Inner Peace Yoga Therapy, based in Durango, CO. I trained under the guidance of senior teachers such as Neil Pearson, Maria Mendola, Dr. Marc Halpern, Nischala Joy Devi , Amy Weintraub, Laura Kupperman, and Michele Lawrence.
I offer group classes, workshops and Private Yoga Therapy throughout the New Haven County area. Check out the class schedule or contact me here with any questions that you may have.