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What are Yoga Privates?

Yoga privates are one-on-one sessions tailored to address your unique needs, body shape, and personal history. This method of teaching has been practiced for centuries, while group classes are a more recent development. In a private session, there are no one-size-fits-all approaches; every aspect of your practice is customized to meet both your immediate and long-term goals.

Why try Yoga Privates?

Privates serve many purposes.

  • Beginners use them to get comfortable before entering group classes.

  • Assist in the recovery from an injury. 

  • Cross-training/recovery for golf, pickleball, tennis, cycling and running.

  • For students needing adaptations for a condition (e.g., pregnancy, low back pain, hip replacement, scoliosis, osteoporosis).

 

The majority of my private clients wish to more consciously address a medical condition or physical limitation. I have extensive experience adapting yoga poses for those with scoliosis, disc injury, and other spinal conditions. 

What Can I Expect?

Privates take place in a beautiful room with hardwood floors and lovely plants. It's equipped with props and wall ropes (traditional tools for traction/making space in compressed joints). At our first meeting, I take the time to listen deeply to your story. The multiplicity of factors that has lead to injury or illness is considered carefully during this in-depth history. Often this is the first time a client has had a chance to fully be heard and had their insights honored. Next I take a Body/Postural Assessment. This is how I detect asymmetries and postural imbalances. This head-to-toe analysis includes photos (optional), a visual body map and a written summary of findings. Your goals and intentions are discussed. Goal-oriented sessions (4-5 privates) can culminate with written personalized home practice sequences, each pose, action and breathwork exercise customized to meet your unique needs. These sequences are tailored to your lifestyle (practice frequency, time of day, amount of time available, learning style and energy level).

Who Benefits from a Yoga Private?

My students are ordinary people dealing with pain, athletes cross-training to improve performance, professionals looking to reduce stress and find ease, and super-parents needing someone to nurture and hear their needs. I work with all genders, from teenagers to seniors. The beautiful thing about yoga is that it meets you where you are. No prerequisites are necessary, no flexibility or athleticism required.

Student doing Side Plank in his home during a yoga therapy private

Sarah Westbrook, C-IAYT

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Sarah Westbrook, C-IAYT

The Yoga Map LLC

Heartwood Center

1818 Dempster Ave.

Evanston, IL 60202

Yoga Alliance Continuing Educator Provider Credential for Sarah Westbrook
Yoga Alliance Credential for Sarah Westbrook

*The yoga therapy components of my practice are derived from Doug Keller's Therapeutic Wisdom of Yoga Trainings, as certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapy, not derived from my instructor status as E-RYT and YACEP with Yoga Alliance Registry.

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