Below we’ve shared our most frequently asked questions (FAQs). Don’t see the question you have? Feel free to contact us!
A life coach is a professional who can help you set and reach goals, overcome obstacles and live your best life. Just as a sports coach helps athletes create greatness on the field, a life coach helps clients create greatness in life. A life coach is someone who can provide judgement-free support, motivation and accountability in different aspects on a client’s life. Most life coaches have specific areas of expertise. For example: Fitness, Financial, Relationship, Executive, Religious, Recovery, etc.
Holistic well-being. We focus on offering clients a holistic approach to helping them reach their personal and professional goals. We coach the whole person, not just the problem. We work with clients to understand and live their values, live each day with purpose, and enhance their personal and professional relationships.
Improving communication skills
Finding the ideal career
Discovering your passion
Enhancing relationships
Making it through an important transition
Having more fun
Decreasing effects of negative stress
Breaking through fears
Overcoming obstacles
Setting and achieving goals
Improving work-life balance
Getting promoted
Today, most people in the western world practice yoga as the “asanas” or poses. Many people believe that yoga is just stretching, or that they can’t do yoga because they aren’t flexible. While most of us will improve flexibility during a physical yoga practice, it is not the only benefit nor a prerequisite. Some benefits of a physical yoga practice include:
Increased muscle strength
Improved respiration and energy
Improved focus and memory
Decreased risk of injury
Improved cardiovascular health
Increased flexibility
Decreased pain
Improved posture/protects spine
Improved sleep duration and quality
Boosted immunity
Increased happiness and sense of well-being
Yoga Therapy can be defined as the application of Yogic principles to a particular person with the objective of achieving a particular spiritual, psychological or physiological goal. Yoga therapy can be beneficial to all, regardless of age, gender, culture, ability, or occupation. Yoga is beneficial as prevention and treatment.
We practice Vinyasa yoga, sometimes referred to as Flow yoga, meaning breath-synchronized movement. We have instructed classes of over 100 people, small groups, and individuals. We have worked with executives, stay at home moms, disabled veterans, seniors, children and many other different groups of people, however, Larisa’s specialty is in using yoga to help prevent and treat depression, anxiety, and PTSD. As a 20 year Air Force veteran living in the DC area for most of her life, she has seen the necessity of offering different prevention and treatment options to use in conjunction or in place of traditional medicine. She also uses her training in crisis intervention and resiliency in her yoga therapy. She believes that yoga can be very preventative in nature, however, she has also seen yoga help treat many different mental and physical issues. She believes that due to the many different styles and aspects, yoga can be beneficial for everyone.
High blood pressure
Insomnia
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Migraines
Sleep problems
Back pain
Anxiety
Arthritis
Depression
Fibromyalgia
