It's The Season For Specialized Workshops At Mind the Mat

Wellness
Written By Sara VanderGoot

The Mind the Mat programming team works passionately to offer specialized in-depth workshops for clients who desire movement during every stage of life. Every weekend this fall, we have incredible workshops on the schedule. Workshops provide clients an opportunity to work with an expert in a group setting and delve into one aspect of movement or wellness that calls to them. During the holiday season, our signature seasonal workshops offer our community a way to celebrate together.

 

Alexandria Studio:

Are you about to have a child or already have a little one? 

Child & Infant CPR on October 23 or December 11 with Laura Punaro, experienced intensive care nurse. This workshop provides you with important skills you need as a caretaker.

 

Do you wonder what Hawt Pilates is and why everyone loves it? 

Hawt Pilates Techniques on October 24 with Logan De LaBarre-Hays. She'll rock your world and your core!  

Looking for a healthy way to have fun for Halloween?

Halloween Candlelit Flow on October 30 with experienced yoga instructor Debora Jackson. Seriously, who can pass up a special outdoor candlelight yoga class on a beautiful fall evening?

 

Did you have a baby and want to know how to exercise again safely and effectively regardless of how you gave birth?

All About Mamas: After Baby Fitness on November 6 with expert post-pregnancy Mind the Mat instructors! 

 

Are you in need of stress release and deep restoration?

Autumn Restorative Yoga & Essential Oils on November 14 with Mind the Mat owner, experienced yoga instructor, and massage therapist Sara VanderGoot. This one is her signature workshop. Don't miss it!

 

Looking to get in a good sweat before your Thanksgiving feast?

HAWT PILATES: Thanksgiving Edition on the morning of November 25 with Katie Goodie. This woman knows how to celebrate - fun and entertainment guaranteed!

 

Indulge in the spirit of the season! 

Flow & Rejoice: Yoga to LIVE Harp Music on December 4 with popular instructor Caroline Deitch. Space is limited. Sign up now!

Are you pregnant and wanting to learn more about how to prepare for labor and delivery?

Childbirth Intensive on December 5 with experienced RN and childbirth educator Carol Wyman.

 

Looking for a meaningful way to connect to your community this holiday season?

Christmas Yuletide Flow & Yin on December 24 with popular instructor Julie Weiland. Space is limited. Sign up now!

 

Start of the new year prioritizing your health!

New Year's Day Sweat & Reset yoga on January 1 with popular instructor Caroline Deitch. Space is limited. Sign up now!

Arlington Studio:

Looking for a healthy way to have fun for Halloween?

Halloween Glow Flow on October 29 with popular instructor Allie Menchel. Space is limited. Sign up now!

 

Want to challenge your yoga practice?

Intermediate Inversions & Arm Balances on December 11 with popular instructor Kevin C. Space is limited. Sign up now!

Sara VanderGoot

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Co-Owner | Mind the Mat Pilates & Yoga

Sara VanderGoot, CMT, e-RYT 200, RYT 500, is Co-founder of Mind the Mat Pilates and Yoga and Director of Mind the Mat Yoga Alliance certified teacher training program. Sara is an experienced Registered Yoga instructor with Yoga Alliance. She studied Interdisciplinary Yoga with Don and Amba Stapleton in Nosara, Costa Rica and at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Sara is Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, licensed by the Virginia Board of Nursing. Sara has been practicing massage therapy, including specialties Prenatal Massage, Postpartum Massage, Deep Tissue Massage and Thai Yoga Massage, in Del Ray, Alexandria for over 15 years and a yoga instructor for 7 years. At Mind the Mat she specializes in Prenatal Yoga, Postpartum Core Yoga, Mommy and Me Core Yoga, Partners Yoga, and Hot Flow Yoga. Sara frequently acts as a birth companion for many of her clients, doing massage and yoga during labor and delivery to facilitate comfort during both medicated and unmedicated births. Before becoming a massage therapist and yoga instructor, she was a lawyer in the Washington D.C. area and found that the healing practices of massage and yoga brought a balance to her life that she had been searching for.

Mind the Mat Pilates & Yoga was founded in 2008 by Megan Brown, Doctor of Physical Therapy and Polestar Certified Practitioner of Pilates for Rehabilitation and Sara VanderGoot, Nationally Certified Massage Therapist and Registered Yoga Teacher (e-RYT 200, RYT 500). In their private practices as physical therapist and massage therapist respectively Megan and Sara observed that many of their clients were coming in with similar needs: relief for neck and shoulder tension and low back pain as well as a desire for more flexibility in hips and legs, stability in joints, and core strength.

Together Megan and Sara carefully crafted a curriculum of Pilates and yoga classes to address needs for clients who are pregnant, postpartum, have injuries or limitations, who are new to Pilates and yoga, and for those who are advanced students and are looking for an extra challenge.

www.mindthemat.com     

2214 Mount Vernon Avenue

Alexandria, VA 22301

703.683.2228

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