Toni Ann Riedel

I continue my professional yoga continuing education to help a variety of populations including: women, men, seniors, veterans, youth-at-risk and people with special needs – Anxiety, Depression, Grief, PTSD, Back Pain, Scoliosis, Heart Disease, and Multiple Sclerosis to name a few.  In 2010, I enrolled in an intensive workshop entitled Mindful Resources for Youth-At-Risk and PTSD  withYogaEd. This training is especially good for working with youth who live in under-resourced or high-needs school districts and veterans. In 2014, I started a 500-hour Yoga Therapy Teacher Training, through Healing Movement, which includes learning therapeutic and adaptive teaching methods for a variety of special populations including: children with special needs (autism, cerebral palsy, etc.); Teaching Adaptive Yoga for Multiple Sclerosis, Scoliosis, Back Pain, Cancer, Thai Body Work and many more specialties.

Besides asanas (postures) and meditation (quieting the Monkey Mind), breathing (pranayama) is one of the disciplines that can be helpful to us in our every day life.  It is said that if one can breathe, the mind becomes calm and our entire being moves into a state of calmness. This peaceful state is important, especially, when life throws us unexpected curve balls (illness, loss of a loved one, divorce or job loss). These challenging moments can be very difficult to manage. Yoga and breathing help us attain a balanced state of mind so we can make better decisions and continue to function in our every day life whether it is at work, home or in the community.