Private Yoga in Edmonton

Private Yoga in Edmonton

One to one, at your place

Private yoga sessions in Edmonton, taught at your home or wherever suits you. I bring what is needed; you need a bit of floor space and somewhere to put a mat. No studio, no schedule to work around, and nobody else in the room.

I teach group classes at Oxygen as well — Chappelle, Windermere and Edgemont — and for a lot of people that is the better and cheaper option. Private work is for when a class is not the right shape: because of your body, your confidence, your calendar, or simply because getting to a studio is the thing that keeps not happening.

I take a limited number of private clients, because I am fitting them around teaching and around coaching. That is worth saying plainly rather than pretending to unlimited availability.

When private makes more sense than a class.

Most people who book one-to-one sessions fall into one of a handful of situations, and none of them are about being advanced:

You want to start, and a heated room full of strangers is not where you want to do that. You are working around something specific — a hip, a shoulder, a back with a history — and a class moves too fast to account for it. You cannot reliably get to a studio, whether that is mobility, transport, shift work or small children. You want the hour spent on one thing rather than a general sequence. Or you have practised for years and want someone to actually look at what you are doing.

One situation comes up often enough that it has a page of its own, and it is taught the same way — at your place, one to one:

Chair yoga and gentle yoga for older adults.

Seated and supported practice for people who want to keep moving well and stay independent, without getting up and down off the floor. Often the most useful thing I do, and the audience least well served by a studio timetable. Full detail on the chair yoga page.

What coming to you actually involves.

A cleared space roughly the size of a mat with room to reach out to the sides — most living rooms manage this once a coffee table moves. Hard floor or low carpet both work. If you have a mat, use yours; if not, I bring one.

I cover Edmonton and the immediate surrounding area. If you are further out, ask anyway and I will tell you honestly whether the travel makes sense for both of us rather than quietly adding it to a bill.

Sessions can also run outdoors in summer, in a community room, or at a workplace over a lunch hour. Small groups work too — two or three people in one house costs the same as one, which is often how a couple or a pair of friends ends up doing this.

How a first session goes.

We talk first — what you want out of this, what your body has been doing, anything a doctor or physiotherapist has said. Fifteen minutes, before anything else happens.

Then we move, at whatever level tells me something useful. A first session is mostly me watching how you actually move rather than putting you through a sequence. By the end of it you will have two or three things to work on and a sense of whether this is worth continuing.

After that, sessions are built around whatever we established. Some people book weekly for months, some book a handful to learn enough to practise alone, and both are fine outcomes. I am not going to sell you a package you do not need.

Rates

$90 an hour, in your home, anywhere in Edmonton and the immediately surrounding communities. That covers the session, the travel, and a mat and props if you need them.

Two or three people in the same house is the same $90 — a couple, a pair of friends, or a parent and an adult child. It is the same hour of my time, so it is the same price.

If you are outside the immediate Edmonton area, ask. I will tell you plainly whether the travel works rather than quietly building it into a rate.