Transformational Work

Transformational Work ignites the spark inside of you and infuses your core with healing, vibrant energy, creating positive feelings such as lightness, strength, vitality, stability, inner peace, connection, love, and joy.

Transformational Work creates energetic openings and deeper releases in the physical body – and in deeper, subtler realms.

Life is a dance between the interplay of too much and of not enough. We live constantly balancing and centering ourselves in our ever-changing internal and external landscape.

We have the power inside ourselves to continuously balance that which becomes imbalanced. Transformational Work supports that balancing.  

Transformational Work, used in individual yoga lessons, is a precise and unique healing technique that is rooted in the ancient practice of yoga.

Through individual yoga lessons, Transformational Work assists yoga practitioners to create energetic openings and deeper releases that balances and harmonizes the mind, body, heart, and spirit. 

Through my one-on-one assistance I provide:

• A visual assessment focused on you as an individual, so you feel seen and heard. I check for left-to-right symmetry, spinal alignment, muscular strength and flexibility, alignment of bones, core strength, and joint mobility.
• Feedback and guidance to balance your energy field.
• Individualized directions in asana.  
• Techniques customized to tap you into your Core Energy.  
• Pranayama (breath work) techniques for increased vitality. 
• Direction on how to effectively practice Transformational Work on your own.

When resistances and obstacles melt away, your vibrant energy shines through. Be the love and light of your life.

In the practice of Transformational Work…

• You learn how to apply correct body mechanics (biomechanics) of movement to enhance the function, efficiency, and performance of your body in yoga poses.
• You learn how to efficiently move the body in standing poses, twisting poses, balance poses, forward bends, backward bends, and inversions.
• You learn how to apply basic body mechanics through feedback. This includes understanding  joint position, muscular action/reaction, connective tissue health, nervous system health, bone alignment, and spinal alignment.   
• You learn how to create energetic openings and deeper releases with additional healing yoga techniques such as pranayama (breath work), bandhas (locks), mindfulness (focus), positive feelings (mantras), and vibrational healing (chanting). 
• You gain knowledge about how energy flows through channels – chakras (energy wheels), meridians (energy channels), and nadis (network of energy channels) – in your body.

Anatomy 101

Basic joint positions include hip flexion, extension, and rotation; hip lateral flexion and extension; knee extension and flexion; ankle extension and flexion; toe extension and flexion; shoulder extension, flexion, and rotation; elbow extension and flexion; wrist extension and flexion; finger extension and flexion; and spinal flexion, extension, and rotation. 

Muscular actions/reactions include contraction (shortening), lengthening, activation, adduction, abduction, internal rotation, external rotation, inversion, eversion, pronation, supination, neutrality, and relaxation. 

Connective tissue health requires proper elasticity of tendons, ligaments, and fascia.

Nervous system health includes the proper functioning of the sympathetic nervous system that is responsible for our fight or flight response and the parasympathetic nervous system  that is responsible for our rest and digest response.

Bone and spinal alignment includes proper positioning of the bones so that joints function efficiently and upright posture is achieved.

Three Steps of Transformational Work

With insight and clarity, I assess individual differences and customize individual solutions for you. Your body, as a sacred temple, acts as the vehicle to create positive, energetic changes in you.

What I offer through one-on-one-assistance, empowers you to increase awareness of imbalances and provides accessible ways to correct those imbalances.

step one = assess

Technique:  Visual (visible) and energetic (invisible) assessment of the yoga practitioner. 

Practice self-awareness and embracing change. 

step two = apply

Technique: Apply feedback to evenly balance opposites. 

Feedback wakes up your body’s natural intelligence to balance itself. Asanas are performed with alignment, attention, and precision to unblock stagnant energy and to harmonize your energy field.

Life unfolds in a constant movement between opposites to encourage the feeling of dynamic wholeness and oneness. 

step three = activate

Technique: As the body responds to feedback, energy travels efficiently so that core energy changes can occur naturally, effectively, and effortlessly. 

Evolve a deeper understanding of how core energy transforms and rejuvenates.  

You are meant to shine. You are meant to feel your very best. You are meant to succeed in everything you do.

• One-on-one personalized assistance 
• • Guides yoga practitioners to perform yoga with awareness, precision, and alignment. 
• Verbal cues and directions
  • Creates expansion and extension in all directions.
•  Prop-assistance
  •  In the lineage of B.K.S. Iyengar, yoga props are used to help yoga practitioners receive the therapeutic benefits of more complex yoga postures, in a safe and achievable way.  
  • We utilize props to wake up and support yoga practitioners’ energy systems. We use a variety of props such as the standard yoga belts, blocks, sandbags, hand weights, blankets, and bolsters.
  • We also utilize furniture like couches, tables, chairs, and walls as props to receive feedback.
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Transformational Work is a precise and unique healing technique that is rooted in the ancient practice of yoga.

In the beginning, Transformational Work can be practiced with my one-one-assistance and eventually practiced on your own. 

With practice, Transformational Work…

• Liberates you from imbalanced, ingrained habitual patterns. 
• Cultivates positive thoughts, actions, and deeds. 
• Restores free-flowing energy that makes your life easier. 

Transformational Work: 

• Addresses the needs of each individual according to your specific constitution and physical condition.
• Cultivates your core strength by coactivating and cocontracting muscles to create and maintain alignment.
• Activates, contracts, and lengthens muscles, tendons, and ligaments. 
• Balances opposites, such as internal actions with external actions, forwards with backwards, ups with downs, and eversions with inversions.
• Engages the core spinal muscles of the upper, middle, and lower torso. 
• Connects you to your vital-life energy flow, called prana. Prana is your life force energy. Prana is the breath in you and the breath in nature.
• Roots you in your center, so you can stretch and extend from your core.
• Brings your awareness to the pose, as there is a tendency for the body and mind to wander.
• Infuses pranayama (breath work) into your practice. When your body and breath feel naturally relaxed, your nerves are soothed and you feel calmer. 
• Helps you to breathe deeper and feel calmer, so your mind can let go of stressful thoughts.  
• Teaches you how to release patterns that deplete your energy and obstruct your energy flow. 
• Teaches alignment and balance so that your inner core strengthens and your outer body relaxes.  
• Counterbalances the wear and tear on your body and mind caused by repetition in your daily life. 
• Wakes up the natural healing power you have within.
• Restores and replenishes your energy reserves at the core of your being. 
• Returns your body and mind back to your natural energized and relaxed state of being.

Your Core Energy is a healing, vibrant, creative, and passionate energy. It is the divine spark inside of you.

You know your Core Energy is infused because you feel light, energized, strong, stable, free, and alive. You sparkle. 

Transform the choices you make, so you continuously evolve towards the light. 

When you want to create change and you are open to change, seek out positive ways to alter or transform your current situation, so you fill yourself with positive vibrations. 

Transformational Work invites you to: 

• Observe yourself. 
  • Non-judgemental and detached observation develops awareness of thoughts, actions, movements, behaviors, feelings, and deeds. 
  • Be open to change.
• Discipline yourself.
  • Apply yourself physically.  
  • Constantly improve yourself.
  • Movement creates energy. Energy creates heat. Heat, in an alchemical sense, transforms. 
  • Practice breathing consciously. 
  • Focus your mind to calm your mind. 
  • Apply feelings of gratitude and love. 
• Be aware of yourself. 
  • See yourself with loving-kindness and clarity. If you can’t see yourself clearly, seek out someone who can. 
  • Truth doesn’t hurt, it reveals. 
  • Self-awareness tempers and directs energy.
  • Be conscious of your bad habits and learn how you will transform them. 
• Inquire about yourself. 
  • Educate yourself about proper alignment, balance, and coordination.  
  • Practice nonviolence. Add loving-kindness. 
  • Practice thinking, speaking, and acting truthfully. 
• Transform yourself. 
  • Apply opposite directions in asanas (poses) to create harmony and balance.  
  • Do poses that strengthen your weakness and temper your strength.
  • Energy flows freely when the body is in proper alignment, balance, and coordination. 
  • Extend and expand in all directions. 
  • Neither over-exert or under-exert. Balanced intensity creates just the right amount of heat and coolness.
  • Practice with dynamic creativity.  
• Master yourself. 
  • Insight leads to clarity.
  • Radiate from your heart of compassion. 
  • Let your mind serve your heart. 
  • Determine to be better in every way. 
  • Maintain spontaneous friendliness to yourself and others. 
• Realize yourself.
  • Intuition lights your way.  
  • Start thinking, feeling, and doing things that:
    • Balances you. 
    • Gives you energy. 
    • Gives you compassion, love, and kindness.
    • Harmonizes you, others, and the world. 
    • Benefits you, others, and the world. 
    • Creates feelings of oneness. 

You transform like a lotus flower out of the mud. Remember you are rooted in the earth, growing and moving towards the light, and blossoming into your true, divine essence.