Hi I'm Shana, a devoted mother, yoga & meditation teacher, sound healer and holistic wellness coach. For the last fifteen years, I've been committed to living my life in accordance with yogic practices and principles. It is my passion and pleasure to share the benefits of doing so with others. I have dedicated my life's work to studying,
Hi I'm Shana, a devoted mother, yoga & meditation teacher, sound healer and holistic wellness coach. For the last fifteen years, I've been committed to living my life in accordance with yogic practices and principles. It is my passion and pleasure to share the benefits of doing so with others. I have dedicated my life's work to studying, practicing and teaching yoga and meditation with a focus on supporting women through prenatal and postpartum yoga. I have been formally trained to teach various levels of classical Hatha Yoga including Prenatal Yoga at Integral Yoga Institute in NYC with lifelong yogis and monastics. Shortly after beginning to teach Prenatal Yoga, I became pregnant and was able to experience the incredible benefits of yoga during pregnancy for myself. In my own postpartum months, I studied and certified to teach Postpartum (Mommy & Me) Yoga with Jyothi Esther Larson at Karma Kids Yoga. From then on, accompanied by my son, Adrien, together we've journeyed through all of the phases with yoga from Baby & Me Yoga to Toddler & Me Yoga and then Children's Yoga classes together. Sharing the practice and benefits of yoga with women and children has been a natural calling of mine long before any formal training. In my college years, I spent summers working with children in a fitness based summer camp program where I initiated a daily yoga ritual for the campers to begin their day. Inspired by the benefits felt from my own yoga practice and witnessing the needs of the children, it was natural to share the practice and begin what would be a lifelong teaching journey. I have been sharing the practices and benefits of yoga with family, friends and students ever since.
As a Holistic Nutrition and Yogic Lifestyle Embodiment Coach, I use the practices and principals of yoga to guide my clients to finding more ease in the body, peace of mind and joy in life. Having extensively studied a wide variety of healing modalities and dietary theories at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and the T. Collin Cam
As a Holistic Nutrition and Yogic Lifestyle Embodiment Coach, I use the practices and principals of yoga to guide my clients to finding more ease in the body, peace of mind and joy in life. Having extensively studied a wide variety of healing modalities and dietary theories at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and the T. Collin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, I am aware that no two individuals are alike. My coaching method has a strong focus on bioindividuality, not dogma. The most important skills I teach my clients is how to make informed and empowered choices for themselves by tuning into their intuition and truly listening to their own inner guidance system. Using the sciences of yoga, holistic nutrition and positive psychology as a baseline for optimal health & wellness.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
William Paterson University
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology 2008
Institute for Integrative Nutrition Holistic Health Coach Certification 2017
Integral Yoga Institute
Yoga Teacher Training 200 hour RYT 2009
Intermediate Level Yoga Training 2010
Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training 2010
Gong Master Training w. Don Conreaux 2014
Karma Kids Yoga
Postnatal Baby & Me Training
w. Jyothi Esther Larson 2011
T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies: Plant Based Nutrition Certification, 2014.
Spirit Junkie Master Class w. Gabrielle Bernstein 2016
My journey into healing with sounds...
"Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit." - Beethoven
I worked back stage and behind the scenes in live and recorded music production for nearly a decade in NYC. Time and time again, I witnessed and felt the undoubtedly, profound, transformative and healing effe
My journey into healing with sounds...
"Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit." - Beethoven
I worked back stage and behind the scenes in live and recorded music production for nearly a decade in NYC. Time and time again, I witnessed and felt the undoubtedly, profound, transformative and healing effects of music and sound vibration.
Sometime in the Spring of 2014, I took a kundalini yoga class at Golden Bridge Yoga and for the first time, I experienced the profound and transformative effects and healing vibrations produced by the gong.
I left that class forever changed and inspired, unsure of where my consciousness drifted off to during the sound bath but satiated with a renewed sense of tranquility and peace that I was left with after.
As fate would have it, the following week, I'd enter Integral Yoga Institute to see an offering for Gong Master Training with Grand Gong Master Don Conreaux and completed the training in May 2014.
I continued to dive deeply into exploring and practicing healing with sound vibration both experimentally and through mentorship and study. Over the years I've hosted various sound healing ceremonies under the New Moon, Full Moon, Solstices, Equinoxes and other meaningful celebrations where community has been built and healing and transformation has occurred.
It has been an honor and a privilege to hold and create sacred space for vibrational healing. I am dedicated to creating healing and uplifting sound vibrations to all those who can benefit from them.
"There is only one thing that can supersede and command the human mind- the sound of the gong." - Yogi Bhajan