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WHY PRIVATE SESSIONS?

 PERSONALIZED

Unlike group classes, your lessons will always perfectly support you at your particular age, weight, health, and flexibility level.  Sherry will create, and continually refine a series of poses and meditations just for you.  You can let Sherry know what you need on any given day and she will respond with skill and compassion.

ACCELERATED

With Sherry’s attention focused completely on you, you will advance quickly and safely.  She provides hands-on adjustments, verbal feedback and focused support to guide your progress toward greater health and peace.

CONVENIENT

You can choose to have Sherry teach you in the comfort of your own home or you can meet with her at her private studio.  Choose times that work with your personal schedule.

 WHY DO YOGA?

§ Increased strength and vitality

§ Flexibility and suppleness

§ Relief from chronic pain and stiffness

§ Lower blood pressure

§ Better health

§ Enhanced sleep quality

§ Improved focus and concentration

§ Mental freedom - release the need for intoxicants, suppressants, or compulsive behavior

§  Grounding – balance your energy, calm your mind, develop patience

§  Wisdom – learn to release tension and trust your inner guidance

§  Wholeness and healing – create greater peace and contentment in your life

§  Profound relaxation

WHAT CAN I EXPECT FROM THE SESSIONS?

§ A personalized series to do at home, starting with just a few basic poses and building at your own pace

§ Demonstrations of the poses and clear, methodical instructions

§ Spoken cues and gentle, precise hands-on adjustments

§ Breath techniques to manage stress and invigorate you

§ Guided relaxations, visualizations and meditations

§ Thai Yoga Massage techniques

§ Respect for your time

§ Regard for lifestyle issues such as diet, sleep and work habits

§ Compassion and sensitivity

§ Confidentiality

§ Professionalism

ABOUT SHERRY SUMMERS

Sherry Summers is one of St. Louis’ most experienced and respected Yoga teachers. Her teaching draws upon the richness of her own 18 year’s commitment to Yoga.  She has trained extensively in Iyengar and Tibetan yoga and is accomplished in multiple forms of movement and dance.

For the last 5 years, Sherry has taught Tantra-Hatha Yoga in the Himalayan tradition learned from her renowned teacher, Rod Stryker.  Sherry, certified E-RYT 500 hours by the accreditation organization, Yoga Alliance, soon receives her 200 hour ParaYoga  Dedicated Teacher status from Stryker.

Both new and experienced Yoga practitioners connect with their natural state of health and happiness under Sherry’s guidance. Her teaching focuses on precision, principles of alignment, breathing techniques, visualization and meditation – all within a framework of joy, nurturing and insight as to specific needs of mind, body and spirit.

Sherry’s students include other yoga professionals, homemakers, doctors, lawyers, and CEOs.  She founded a Yoga and meditation program for homeless women.  She has been a Yoga studio manager and consultant and leads retreats, workshops and trainings in the Midwest and beyond.

Sherry’s own joy in teaching comes from supporting a student’s new understanding, a release from old patterns, or a fresh way of relating with others and one’s self. She reveres Yoga as a means for healing.  Sherry is a certified Thai Yoga Massage Therapist and Level 1 practitioner of the Yuen Method of Chinese energetic healing.

WHAT DO PEOPLE SAY ABOUT SHERRY SUMMERS?

"I found working with Sherry to be a life-altering  experience.  My job and stress levels were consuming me. I needed peace, calm, and confidence and to feel better physically and spiritually.  Learning to practice yoga with Sherry  brought me energy balanced with a new sense of calm and joy.  Her gentle voice and touch moved me to tears at times when we were going into issues while that I needed to explore with someone I could trust. She is a natural counselor and healer. Today my back pain is less,  and I manage stress so much better.”

Denise Murphy, RN, MPH, CIC

Vice President & Chief Safety and Quality Officer

Barnes-Jewish Hospital

”Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!  I am truly blessed to have such a compassionate and beautiful Yoga instructor.  Thank you for everything you have taught me.  It has brought much relaxation and ease into my stressful routines.  I feel the peace I find in Yoga is not only great for me, but I can expand that positive effect into the world around me.”

Cheryl Hoard

Owner

Cheryl’s Herbs

“I am both a personal trainer and a busy trial lawyer... Sherry has taken me from a fit, but inflexible, 60 year-old to a devotee who will now embrace yoga for the rest of his life.  Sherry is incredibly knowledgeable about yoga... She is conscientious  and cautiously transitions her students into an ever-expanding experience.  Her enthusiasm and personal touch take her efforts far beyond that of an instructor.  Indeed, she is instead a truly inspirational and caring ambassador for yoga and its accompanying lifestyle.”

Hardy C. Menees

Attorney

“I have had the pleasure of learning from Sherry for the last three years.  Sherry epitomizes the yogic ideal, living and teaching principles that are universal and accessible to us all.  I find her instructions and teaching to be joyful, compassionate, and ultimately pragmatic. As a middle aged male with arthritic problems, this is very important to me.  Sherry individualizes lessons based on that person's needs, creating a safe environment with which to explore the edges of our physical and perceptual boundaries.  I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to learn with Sherry.  Her presence has enriched my life."

Laurence Berarducci, M.D.

”As a professional with a demanding career, I find private yoga sessions with Sherry to be vital to my physical and emotional well being.  Because we work together one-on-one, she is able to focus on precisely what my body and spirit need at any specific time.  Personalized yoga with Sherry is always an energizing, balancing experience.”

Ann Tretter

Executive

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