Yoga with Sylvia is truly unique. Sylvia teaches KRIPALU-STYLE MINDFULNESS YOGA with a language of loving-kindness and compassion towards oneself. Whether one is a beginner, intermediate, or more advanced student, Sylvia will individualize and enrich each one’s yoga practice.

There are many styles or traditions of yoga being offered in Fort Myers and surrounding areas. All teach the same basic yoga postures. After many years of practicing yoga and being exposed to several different traditions, when Sylvia decided to become a yoga instructor, she wanted to become a yoga teacher who could bring the gift of inner-peace, awareness and growth to her students—the gift she received from her practice of yoga. It was Kripalu-style yoga that spoke to her heart. It was Kripalu-style yoga that helped her achieve calmness and inner peace during many of life’s challenges – both on the mat and off the mat.

Work brought Sylvia’s husband to Fort Myers in January of 2005. Sylvia, who was a full-time science teacher at that time, immediately embarked on an aggressive path of yoga teacher training. She knew that when she moved to Fort Myers in 2006 that she would give up her position as a science teacher and become a yoga teacher. Since that time, Sylvia has developed a full-time Kripalu-style mindfulness yoga teaching practice in the Fort Myers area with a concentration on mindfulness and stress reduction. Although south-west Florida is a mecca for seniors, Sylvia soon realized that this was an underserved population. Thus she was determined to make yoga for seniors a priority in her studies and in her classes. Her “chair yoga” classes are primarily yoga for seniors classes. Because her other classes are multi-level and because of Sylvia’s ability to work with seniors like herself, yoga for seniors is easily incorporated in all her classes. The senior yoga participants provide both inspiration and challenge to the younger students. Students from many surrounding areas attend her classes.

"No mud, no lotus."Thich Nhat Hahn

Just as the lotus rises from the muddy waters, so our most triumphant moments on the mat and in life bloom after our most challenging experiences.

Until we are able to love and take care of ourselves, we cannot be of much help to others.”

May I be peaceful, happy and light

in body and spirit.

May I be safe and free from injury.

May I be free from anger,

afflictions, fear and anxiety.

May I learn to look at myself with

the eyes of understanding and love.

May I be able to recognize and

touch the seeds of joy and

happiness in myself.

May I learn to identify and see the

sources of anger, craving and

delusion in myself.

May I know how to nourish the

seeds of joy in myself every day.

May I be able to live fresh, solid,

and free.

May I be free from attachment and

aversion, but not be indifferent.

from Teachings on Love,

Thich Nhat Hahn

Namaste...

I honor the place in you in which the entire

universe dwells. I honor the place in you which

is of love, of truth, of light and of peace.

When you are in that place in you

and I am in that place in me,

we are one.

YOGA FOR VETS

War Veterans who have served, or currently serve, in the U.S. military receive 4 free classes at either of the above locations. Thank you for your service.