I am a certified yoga instructor (RYT 200), am certified in both adult and child CPR/ AED, have been practicing for 12 years, and have yoga liability insurance.  I teach yoga for mixed martial arts and have ballet, barre-work, and tap experience.

 

I am an intensely passionate person and my passion is contagious. There is a solution to every problem and therefore, it is not acceptable to accept life if you don’t like it. Every second of every day you have the chance to change things. Do it!. My instruction and form are impeccable. It is very important to explain how to move and motivate. I am a wonderful example for others because I empowered myself. Practicing yoga for 12 years is essential to my instruction.

 

My yoga workout is fast paced, cardio intensive, strength-building, muscle toning, and mind-centering. The goal is to achieve not only wonderful health (body and mind), a beautiful and muscular physique, and stamina, but it most importantly empowers you. I use a combination of traditional yoga, Iyengar, and other athletic-intensive styles of yoga with ballet barre-work and pilates moves to achieve a very high level workout with high results in a very short period of time.  My signature class, "Dani's Heroic Power Flow," is an intense strength and endurance building Vinyasa. The class is a combination of Ashtanga sequences, Hatha holds and breath, Iyengar alignment and technique, Kundalini Pranayama and cries, and my signature abdominal and Cardio workout.

 

I specialize in correcting breathing patterns and use of practical exercises to prepare my students to be healthy on and off of the mat. I also teach intense chair-yoga classes, mat-work sessions, and couples yoga.  I have spent much time and passion teaching yoga for seniors, therapeutic yoga, and restorative yoga.

 

I use yoga to empower the body and mind to be strong. Empowering others is my purpose.

 

Below is my yoga story:

In 2009, I woke from sleep and suddenly had lost all feeling from my hands up to the elbow and from my toes up to my knees. I could not walk. I was diagnosed with a severe vitamin B12 deficiency. The deficiency caused massive nerve damage. I saw countless doctors and sought out help from hospitals all over the world for help with no success. Both mind and body lost functionality and no help from any physical therapist was of any use.   So after waiting for months for help from doctors (with no ability to take care of myself at all) I opened up a book that I refer to as the bible, B.K.S. Iyengar’s “Light On Yoga,” and reread the opening to the book. Iyengar wrote of his childhood filled with major health problems that labeled him as severely disabled. Iyengar took ownership of his own life and hit the yoga mat in India and went from disabled to the most famous yogi still to this day. After reading, I hit the mat. I  conquered the initial frustration of going from very experienced yogi with the ability to do guru level asanas to a person with no control or use of the body with enormous success. I kept hitting the mat every day and in 4 months I could walk normally and do many asanas. My B12 deficiency is part of my life every day. Every day I hit the mat (with complete loss of  feeling in the limbs) and then walk with beautiful prana radiating from my body and no one would ever know.