Yoga therapy grounded in compassion and connection

for integrative health and resilience. 

Hi I’m Anna (she/her),

I’m a certified yoga therapist dedicated to helping you heal patterns rooted in trauma and dissolve barriers to flourishing and feeling well.

My services are grounded in the tenets of trauma-informed yoga therapy: accessibility, respect for your individual experience and agency, a focus on therapeutic effect and an integrative approach to health and resilience.

‘Take heart’ expresses both courage and comfort when facing life’s challenges. It is my hope that our collaboration nourishes both these qualities: comfort in a felt-sense of greater ease in mind, body and spirit; courage to turn inward and get to know yourself, to reclaim your voice and vitality, and to engage with the world with authenticity and purpose.

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TRAUMA-INFORMED YOGA THERAPY FOCUSES ON

gently growing our capacity for self-awareness,
safe-embodiment, and self-regulation.

From this foundation of feeling grounded, empowered, and resourced, in collaboration with a yoga therapist, we can learn to skillfully meet waves of experience without getting pulled under.  

Maybe you are new to seeking support and feel personalized trauma-informed yoga therapy is the right first step for you…

Maybe you have experienced years of trying other paths to growth but you feel you have plateaued and you need the added benefits of somatic work…

Maybe you feel mainstream movement, mindfulness and breathwork techniques don’t work for you, or even make things worse…

Whatever your experience, yoga therapy can be a powerful healing modality, especially when complementary to other medical supports. I know this personally to be true, as yoga was vital to my own healing journey and my lived experience enriches my professional training in yoga therapy and psychology.

All of you is welcome here, and you are not alone.

  • "I'd say the most important change was gaining a feeling of hope. No longer was my pain a physical mystery that multiple doctors, physios and other practitioners hadn’t been able to solve. Instead, it became something that I had control over. I learned how to speak to my body, communicate safely and disrupt the repeating cycle of pain."

    Y.V.

  • “The courageous heart is the one that is unafraid to open to the world. With compassion we come to trust our capacity to open to life without armoring.”

    Jack Kornfield, The Wise Heart

  • "Anna’s style of setting the tone of kindness, humour, sensitivity, choice of participating or not, openness and knowledge of variations of positions created a welcoming, safer and hopeful atmosphere. Greatly appreciated!!"

    L.B.

  • “The yoga therapeutic practice becomes a mechanism through which to explore habitual ways of responding to life and to find new relationships with the body, mind, and environment.”

    Marlysa Sullivan, Understanding Yoga Therapy

  • "Anna was a compassionate and super engaged guide with a lot to offer! Taking time to explore instead of kind of just being told, putting the knowledge together and applying it to my own body was a really deeply educational experience."

    S.

Why Choose Take Heart Yoga Therapy?

  • No unfounded wellness trends, dismissive positivity or magical recovery promises here. Just personalized evidence-based practices that nurture growth and transformation in small shifts, at a pace that works for you.

  • I can personally relate to how mental health challenges and trauma often impede trying to do more mainstream yoga, meditation and mindfulness practices. I take great joy in finding ways to make yoga accessible and inviting, and teach tools I use myself.

  • Yoga therapy is a collaboration and I am committed to offering practices that respect your experiences, identity, lineage, autonomy, and accessibility needs and I am always open to feedback and dialogue.

  • I am a certified yoga therapist and member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists (C-IAYT) – the Association ensures high professional standards of practice as well as a professional code of ethics and engagement with empirical research. 

    I have experience working with teens and their families, adults, and elders, with folks who are fully mobile to those with mobility challenges, with enthusiastic yogis and those who are scared or skeptical. All are welcome here.

Services

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