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We enthusiastically seek to develop and unite all parts of ourselves: body, mind, including our reasoning and intuitive capacities, and our emotions, including the deepest virtues of our heart. We practice to infuse strength, confidence and self-reliance into our beings. We learn poise, tranquility and emotional understanding, which prepares us to face life with balance.
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About Blue Heron Yoga & Sarah Louisignau:
I have been devoted to the practice of yoga for many years, teaching since 2008, and growing and learning exponentially each day. I decided to teach after evaluating my experience; concluding I could do so with my student’s best interests and integrity as my first priority.
Yoga to me has been balancing and transformative, and coming from the perspective of an athlete I feel it brings grace and balances overuse of certain muscle groups. Yoga has enriched my life in so many other ways, spiritually and emotionally, physiologically and physically. Yoga builds long, lean and efficient muscles, stretches connective tissue, and brings balance to any physical activity. From the perspective of yoga as therapy I have found the asanas, pranayama and the philosophy of yoga helps people move through trauma in a very unique way. I have begun to appreciate yoga’s therapeutic benefits, as I have experienced incredible personal healing. I am exploring yoga as a therapy for illnesses, trauma, abuse and other forms of human suffering.
I feel strongly about the power of community and individual mindfulness, self-inquiry, awareness;
and the communication of discoveries found within. Yoga, to me, is so much more than asana. It is about connection with the self and finding the whole of the universe there. It's about union of equal and opposite energies.
I describe my teaching style as a reflection of my students’ needs and desires. I have studied under many different teachers and styles including Vinyasa, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Yin, and Anusara. I feel I have the tools of creativity, intuition and knowledge to teach just about any group or individual dynamic. I have experience teaching children, adults, elderly, athletes, those recovering from injuries, those with emotional and spiritual trauma; beginners and advanced practitioners alike.
About the Name: Heron medicine teaches us about the power of knowing ourselves so that we can discover our gifts and face our challenges. We learn to accept all of our feelings and opinions and not to deny the emotions and thoughts that go with them. The Great Blue Heron encourages us to follow our intuition and to take the empowering journey into self-realization. Blue Heron comes to us encouraging us to dive into the world of our feelings and to look for our truth.
My whole life I have had a variety of nicknames, and one seems universal: Sarah Bear. It seemed too obvious to my sister Joelle to name the site YogiBearYoga.com; I wonder sometimes, but it stuck!
