FAQ

Yes! I have clients across the globe! These online sessions are powerful. I use the Zoom platform to connect with clients.

I take credit cards, PayPal, or Venmo.

I give a 20% discount to college students and all graduates of SSYS training programs. These discounts take up my sliding scale opportunities.

I prefer to work with people for 90 minutes. Since this is a body-based therapy, it takes time to greet the session’s needs, get into the body, breathe, and then debrief and integrate.

I’m glad you asked! Our consultation is a free 20-minute conversation where I hear more about your needs and assess the best way forward with Holli Yoga Therapy.

You can book that via phone call at (503) 801-9207 or online.

My Yoga Therapy uses yoga postures, breath, energy centers, and energy lines to shift patterns in your body and mind.

Traditional yoga is a healing modality rather than purely exercise. Yoga requires mentoring individually because people need to move and breathe in a particular way to balance their systems – mind, body, and physiology.

I listen to your body, mind, and breath to intuitively guide postures, breath, intention setting, embodied affirmation, and perception shifts. This approach will ultimately create changes in your body, your physiology, and in the patterns of your mind.

There are a few schools of Breathwork. My Breathwork Counseling is a psychotherapy practice that uses Conscious Connected Breath (CCB) and mind-body techniques to support physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.

This practice fosters awareness, attention, and intention for your inner life, healing past patterns, and allowing you to focus on the present moment.

Breathwork is a different training and modality than yoga therapy; however, I integrate my Yoga Therapy with Breathwork Counseling. Generally speaking, we will do more yoga postures in our first sessions, leading to more Breathwork. Then, once we establish a base with our work together, the two methods will seamlessly merge.

Read my About page to get a more detailed outline of how the methods unfold in sessions.

Great question! No, you do not need yoga or breathwork experience. I have worked with beginners in yoga classes and therapy for a decade.

On the other hand, if you have a strong yoga practice or Breathwork experience, you will also get a lot out of the therapy. I have worked with experienced yoga teachers and practitioners for over a decade.

I know how to adjust and provide the appropriate postures and Breathwork for you!

Let’s start with the physical. You will build strength where you need it and softness where you need softness. You will feel less pain in your physical body.

The breath will be more connected: extensive, broader, and expansive.

The most significant benefit will be clearing the mind and emotions of clutter and negativity. This clearing will allow you to feel free and confident in your life.

One of the definitions of health I live by comes from an ayurvedic text: When you are healthy, you feel established in yourself. My therapeutic intention is to give you the tools and means to develop yourself!

The main difference between the benefits of yoga therapy and Breathwork versus other methods is that they address your body’s connections to your mental needs and desires. You cannot fix the mind with the mind! You have to go through the body and breath. So other talk-based therapies always reach a wall or a limit to their ability to heal.

I started my yoga training in Austin, TX. I took two 200-hour courses. One course involved Dharma Yoga – a tradition that merges Buddhist philosophy and yoga practice; the other with Eastside Yoga – a lineage of TKV Desikachar.

Following these courses, I did my yoga therapy training with Swara Yoga in Bali, Indonesia. The focus was on healing through the five elements of yoga, meridian theory, and ayurvedic philosophy.

I then did an advanced 300-Hour, Level 2 training with Melissa Spammer. These courses involved traditional one-to-one training and through the lineages of T.K.V. Deskichar and Angela Farmer (a student of B.K.S. Iyengar).

My most recent training was in Breathwork with Cindy Aulby in Hobart, Tasmania. I also did this training one-to-one. The focus was psychotherapy merged with Connected Conscious Breathing (CCB).

I believe the power of individual mentorship is vital to our growth!

Yes, and no. I say a beautiful prayer each morning and evening. My teacher taught me this prayer, which she learned from her teacher, Dr. Vasant Lad, an Ayurvedic doctor.

The prayer ends with these words: “I am healing, and I am healed.”

I have to heal a little every day, yet, when I look back and see how much I’ve grown from my old patterns, I know I have healed. I am here, intact and competent in my relationships and career, which means I must have healed!

And yet, there is always healing still to be done.

For in-person, I will provide everything. There will be mats, props, blankets, and warm drinks, and I will use the Kleenex brand!

If you prefer your mat, etc., please bring them.

Short answer: No. However, OMing can be incredibly healing and powerful, even if it initially makes you uncomfortable.

I have worked with folks that never Om’d in our sessions. I have also worked with clients who thought they never would and requested different chants for their take-home practice a year into our work together!

I will never ask you to do anything you do not want to do. But I will challenge your comfort zone from time to time.

I am a big theatre, television, and cinema nerd. I often look at them from a writer’s perspective.

It’s always hard to choose favorites; but as a southern tomboy, the strength, humor, beauty, and pain of Fried Green Tomatoes had an incredible influence on me.

Both! I love animals! Unfortunately, my partner is allergic to both. If we do get a pet one day, it will have to be hypoallergenic. Luckily, these breeds aren’t as hard to find these days! For now, we have chickens. 😊