About Us
Optimize your Wellness
Here at Up Yoga Center, we believe that health is a constant balance, not an endpoint. Our approach is a super personalized experience designed for your specific needs. We are a virtual therapeutic yoga studio and advanced teacher training center that offers personalized and small group classes, wellness retreats, and teacher development that combine ancient philosophy with modern mental health interventions and movement practices to help our students feel their best.
Mission:
Combine modern, innovative, and ancient healing practices to help our students learn tools to enhance their mental, physical and spiritual health. Inspire hope in the individual and for humanity at large. Empower students to take an active role in their health and wellbeing, especially when it comes to feelings, behaviors, and spiritual growth.
Prepare the next generation of yoga teachers to work therapeutically with their students through integrative teacher trainings, continuing education courses, and workshops. Nourish ethical, knowledgeable, compassionate, and caring teachers.
Vision:
Empower our students to have an active role in their health and healing practices. Nourish individuals who are empathetic, kind to others and themselves, and who are hopeful for the future. With this attitude, our students encourage love, kindness, wisdom, and humility to their communities and the world.
Empower teachers to support their students' healing journeys and work in harmony with all healthcare systems. Our teachers honor the student/teacher relationship and work ethically, sustainably, and with deep compassion and care.
Our Students:
Our students are adults of all ages from diverse backgrounds. What unites them is each of our students is eager, open, interested, and willing to learn and grow. Our students have already identified in themselves that they are ready to make changes and are interested in studying and working towards their goals. They see the value in healing with a holistic model that combines many different modern and traditional practices.
Enhance your Teaching Skills
We offer teacher development for yoga teachers. Our goal is to nourish ethical, knowledgeable, compassionate, and caring teachers through advanced study and mentorships.
We find that many people leave their 200 YTT needing a support bridge between what they learned and how to apply that as a teacher. We help teachers build their teaching toolkits, find their voice, and how to skillfully and thoughtfully plan yoga classes that are engaging and appropriate for their individual students.
We offer Advanced Trainings and Continuing Education (CE) workshops accredited with Yoga Alliance® to support teachers in elevating their teachings. Be sure to follow us on Instagram for our updated workshop and training schedule.
Behind the Name
UP is short for union and peace. Yoga can be translated to union. One of our goals as yoga instructors is to unite body, mind, and spirit. We want to help our students feel peace in the present moment, and help cultivate deep self discovery and connection.
We also value a strong community of yoga teachers. We believe there are students for every teacher, as each teacher has a unique gift and style that they bring to their students. We strive to support our teachers in creating and fulfilling their career goals and lifting each other UP.