Private and Small group Online Yoga Classes Offered.
If interested, please contact Laura
- please include what your goals are for practice
- How many people will be participating.
- How often and availability (days of week / time of day)
- All Levels and all bodies welcome.
Laura Kallen, OTR/L, CLT, CYT, CHHC
Helping others has always been Laura’s passion and she loves working with individuals to improve their health and reach their fullest potential. Utilizing a client-centered, holistic, and integrative approach, Laura strives to provide individuals with compassionate and thoughtful support along with the tools needed to help create a higher level of function and self-care. She integrates her knowledge of nutrition, yoga, breath work, and meditation into her occupational therapy practice, treating the whole person, facilitating a deeper connection between the body and mind.
Laura received her Masters Degree in Occupational Therapy from Baypath University after almost two decades as an experienced yoga teacher and health coach. With a passion for supporting women in their health journey, Laura has earned her certification in Pelvic Rehabilitation Manual Assessment Treatment Technique (PR-MATT) with Laura Rowan, OT/L. Laura currently works as a Certified Lymphedema Therapist in an outpatient lymphedema clinic. Additionally, she holds a 200-hour Certification through YogaFit in (2007) and a 500-hour yoga teacher training certification through Laughing Lotus (2015), with additional training and certification in yin yoga, restorative yoga, and aerial yoga formats. Laura earned a holistic health coaching certification through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (2011).
It’s not about standing on your head (though it does feel great)!
The Health Benefits of Yoga:
- Improves flexibility and muscle strength
- Lowers blood pressure & blood sugar
- Improves your balance
- Improves sleep quality
- Eases chronic pain
- Improves posture
- Improves bone, joint and spine health
- Helps to increase mental focus, coordination, memory and reaction time
- Can help to ease symptoms of IBS and digestive disorders
- Regulates the adrenals, lowering cortisol, the hormone connected to depression, chronic stress, high blood pressure and insulin resistance.
- Cultivate and encourage self care, better eating and sleeping habits, more focus and concentration, more creative energy and an overall deeper satisfaction with our work, relationships and the life we are living overall.
When we rush, there’s a layer of anxiety on top of our movements. When we are always “on”, receiving and sending emails, text messages, scrolling through social media at 10pm, we are never really creating enough space to invite in quiet, to soften and still the mind a bit from so much thinking and worrying about all sorts of things. Yoga helps peel away the layers of chronic stress.
