Do This For A Happy Healthy Body

For an overall happy and healthy body practice these exercises and movements from your home on Mind the Mat's FitClinic App. These everyday movements are for anybody and everybody and can be easily incorporated into your daily routine. You can and should come back to them over and over again. Led by experts in physical therapy, massage therapy, speech therapy, yoga, and Pilates.

Breath and Spinal Health with Caroline Deitch, E-RYT 500hr, Trauma-Informed Therapeutic Yoga Educator: speech therapy and yoga-inspired exercises that will teach you how to breathe optimally for whole-body wellness and the harmonious functioning of all your major bodily systems.

Neck and Shoulder Mobility with Sara VanderGoot, CMT, e-RYT 500: massage therapy and yoga-inspired techniques. These are everyday movements you can come back to over and over again to keep the muscles, joints, and nerves in your neck, shoulders, and hands happy, healthy, and working together in harmony. If you experience clicking, tingling, numbness, burning, or aching in your neck, shoulders, or hands, this is for you!

Hip Savers with Dr. Megan Brown: physical therapy and Pilates-inspired movement for hip health. Includes a good beginner hip mobility class that covers the basics, but challenges balance, motor control, and stability while improving range of motion and strength. You can come back to this class many times over when you feel the need to move. Save your hip joints from breaking down over time!

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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.

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Alexandria, VA 22301

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