About Me
Hi! I’m Shauna!
I’m a mom, wife, sister, daughter, and, well, yoga teacher! I have been practicing yoga for over 13 years and have enjoyed many wonderful benefits from my practice. So much so that I was inspired to become a yoga teacher.
I completed my 200 HR Yoga Teacher Training in 2017 through Core Power Yoga and completed an additional 50-HR extended training program in 2018. I was particularly inspired by a teacher of mine at a different studio (Purple Yoga), Cidney Corpuz, for his ability to empower and uplift his students throughout our practice. I hope to have that type of positive impact on those I teach.
I originally came to yoga as a means to exercise. I was a cheerleader in high school and felt my flexibility, athleticism and balance starting wane. I started to feel more stiff and sore for no particular reason, and I didn’t love going to the gym or the other group exercise classes I tried. I liked the idea of flowing between poses, like a slow dance routine, and thought I’d give it a try.
What I fell in love with was the ability to dedicate time to myself. Not just to help my body feel better, but to give my mind an opportunity to find stillness and connect with my breath. I found yoga to be transformational in how I interact with myself, the world, and others around me. I have become more patient, empathetic, and self aware as a result of my practice. Yoga also helped me through some very difficult times such as find the courage to seek a divorce and process the grief of my father passing.
I wanted to become a teacher to help people experience the same benefits that I had, and hopefully impart a sense of empowerment, confidence and grace among my students, like Cidney does.
I believe that yoga is for everyone. Yoga is all inclusive and actually involves a lot more than just moving your body. Whether you want to focus on improving your body, your mind, or reconnect with your self, there is a type of yoga that will benefit you.
I offer a welcoming community of women who are dedicated to their own happiness and success and who allow me to guide them where I can.
Classes I Teach
The primary style of yoga that I practice and teach is vinyasa style, which means “flow”. This style emphasizes moving between postures following your breath. When I enter a flow state I feel so beautiful, graceful and strong. I use this as a starting point and create different variations of my classes to offer variety and different types of experiences.
Focus on fundamental postures, holding each pose a few breaths.
Provides more instruction for each posture to ensure alignment and safe transitions
Offers modifications and multiple variations where appropriate
Offers a variety of postures and sequences to provide a full body workout
Emphasizes balance and flexibility
Move to your own breath's pace to focus the mind and deepen the stretch
Focuses on increasing heart rate through quick transitions
Builds strength through repetition
Emphasizes movement-to-breath to increase heart rate and focus the mind
Full body yoga with a twist
May include free-weights, body-weight exercises and/or core strengthening
Focus on building muscle while stretching the whole body
If you are looking to for ways to improve your body, mind, and connection to yourself then I would love to welcome you to try one of my classes, attend one of my workshops or other trainings. Feel free to reach out to me any time. I promise there is a human behind this curtain 😉.
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