What is Yoga?

Yoga is a holistic physical practice that will help you master your mind, body and spirit. For centuries people have used Yoga as a path towards well-being, and spiritual growth. The combination of physical practice (Asanas), chanting/singing (Kirtan), breathing techniques (Pranayama) and meditation is one of the most powerful healing modalities in existence and has changed millions of lives. Yoga’s ancient techniques relieve stress, energize and tone your body. If you are looking for peace of mind and a strength that glows from the inside out, Yoga is for you. No matter what your age, current physical condition, or health challenge is, you can master YOGA.

Is Yoga right for your needs?

Yoga is beneficial for everyone, but group classes may lead to bad habits, injury and discouraging results. Amy Secada, a Yoga Alliance Certified Yoga instructor and founder of Bellagaia Yoga offers you her extensive knowledge and personalized care. Secada has over a decade of teaching experience and 20 years of dance and martial arts to contribute to her Yoga expertise. Secada ensures a carefully guided personalized practice and is passionate about helping you reach your spiritual, health and fitness goals.

Does the Gym Bore you?

Looking for a lifestyle change not just a work out?

Do physical aliments such as asthma or bad knees make it difficult to stay in shape?

Stressed out, frazzled energy?

Want to be able to exercise without weird props and workout machines?

Want a healthy glow, toned body and natural energy?

What are the benefits of Yoga?

Free yourself from pains and past injuries.

Feel Energized naturally.

Relieve anxiety, stress and depression.

Lose weight and tone your body.

Raise your metabolism.

Align your spine and musculoskeletal system

Increase your bone's density and joint's range of motion.

Improve your ability to be creative, patient and focused.

Learn to control your mood with breathing techniques.

Become more in tune with your body and its needs.

Injuries

Your personalized practice will be safely adjusted to accommodate and relive injuries past or present. Yoga has helped millions of people looking to alleviate pain and suffering. If you are facing health challenges, Secada is here to help you manage your condition, reduce your symptoms and improve quality of life.

Health Issues

Modern medicine can alleviate symptoms, but the actual HEALING process is much deeper than popping pills. Yoga is a holistic approach to balancing your bodies systems on an emotional, energetic and inter-dimensional level. Vital energy, and open heartedness are restored impacting the entire body. In the beginning you will use Yoga to compliment to your current health regimen. After time, you will find no need for medicine and will tap into your innate ability to heal yourself. Bellagaia clients have greatly relieved long term health issues such as hypo/hyperthyroid, arthritis, menopause, stress, cancer, diabetes, IBS, fatigue, back pain, slipped disks, and migraines.

Private Yoga Instruction is extremely beneficial if you are practicing Yoga to address a particular health issue. One-on-one sessions will be carefully formatted to focus on your health challenge and energy blockages.

New Students

As a new student, the public classroom environment may intimidate you. Private sessions allow teachers the opportunity to focus on you and make sure you don’t develop bad habits and a mold a firm foundation to prepare you for public Yoga classes.

Private Yoga sessions are especially useful to beginners or if you have fallen out of shape over the years and are scared you may hurt yourself. To ensure proper body alignment and injury prevention, private sessions in combination with hands-on adjustments add to the benefits and therapeutic experience available to you by practicing Yoga.

Experienced Students

Experienced students can also benefit from personalized sessions. Take your yoga practice to the next level. You will learn deeper variations of familiar postures, breaking through your plateau and challenging yourself again.

Bad habits and areas of tension or concern will be addressed. You will finally get to work on those inversions, advanced postures and variations that you have always wanted to try but were afraid and wanted to learn safely. Private yoga classes can also give the experienced student time to learn about yoga philosophy or other aspects of interest, such as meditation, Yogic diet and breathing practices.