The Way Of Embodied Healing                                           with Ariana Schwarz

Ariana has been practicing yoga for over 25 years. Growing up, she spent many holidays with her family in India and from a young age, developed a keen interest in yoga, holistic healing, meditation, and nutrition. She realized the intimate connection between the mind and body and began to cultivate the skills to be able to share the practices she found so healing. She embraces Eastern thought and applies it judiciously to our Western lifestyle. Her passion lies in fusing science and Spirit for individual, collective, and planetary healing.

As a child, Ariana developed a great love of movement, spending most time outside of school in soccer and dance. When she was 16, she blew out her knee on the soccer field. The ensuing period of forced inactivity led her to struggle with poor nutrition and depression. To regain the equilibrium in her life, she deepened her exploration of holistic health and rehabilitation. She was assisted in this evolution by Carla Goodman, a yoga teacher to whom her mom had first introduced her when she was only nine years old--a meeting that would eventually change her life.

Ever since her teenage health crisis, Ari has been passionately deepening her practice and understanding of holistic healing. In addition to her personal experiences, watching her father live in physical pain and endure surgery after surgery to no avail drove her desperately to learn more about preventative and rehabilitative practices. Her continuing study of yoga, nutrition, aromatherapy, and other holistic healing practices informs her yoga therapy, allowing her to give clients the tools they need to positively shape all aspects of their lives. Taking a special interest in each of her clients’ unique circumstances, Ariana specializes in discovering and designing the best methods to suit their individual needs--whether that be increased flexibility, balance and strength, dealing with chronic pain or recent injury, or even losing weight.

Ari’s classes are a dynamic expression of everything she has learned through years of practice and study. With a strong emphasis on breath as well as finding your personal edge, her classes flow around sun salutations, balancing poses and postures that stretch and strengthen, leaving you feeling nurtured and renewed. Ariana encourages you to listen to your body, learn your limitations, and determine how to move past them, allowing you to create your own practice, of which the benefits are felt far beyond an hour-long class. Ariana’s greatest pleasure is in helping each person with whom she works to develop a yoga practice that enhances and can be easily integrated into their daily lives. And she is always seeking new opportunities to expand her own expertise.

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Education and Experience

· Philosophy BA - University of California at Santa Cruz

· Psychology BA - University of California at Santa Cruz

· Yoga Teacher (E-RYT500+) – Always studying with Janet Stone. Also studied with Tiffany Cruikshank, Carla Goodman, Emily Galvin & more. Teaching since 2014

· Sound Healer – Continuing studies with Susy Markoe Schieffelin at The Sound Healer's Academy after graduating Level 1 during Spring of 2023.

· Reiki Master – Completed in 2018

· Bach Flower Remedies – Studying since 2023

· Trauma Informed & Trauma Release Exercises – Studying since 2017

· Functional Movement Screening (FMS) Level 1 – Completed in 2018

· Craniosacral Therapy – Completed with Joyce Thom in 2018​

· Fascial Stretch Therapy – Studying since 2018

· Traditional Chinese Medicine – Studying since 2014

· Longevitology – Completed in 2015

· Daoist Healing Techniques – Studying with Joyce Thom since 2016

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Loves

· Jiu Jitsu

· Sailing

· San Jose Sharks

· Reading

· Tai Chi

· Archery