Slow, private yoga for stress and burnout, at home or at work

If you are reading this at the end of a long week in Makati or BGC, you probably do not need another class to keep up with. You need an hour and a half where nobody asks anything of you. That is what these lessons are for.

I teach private yoga in Makati, BGC and the rest of the city, at your place rather than a studio. It might be a condo after a late finish, with a private yoga teacher in Poblacion, or a quiet room in a house, with yoga at home in Forbes Park and Dasmariñas.

I am 200-hour trained at House of Om, Bali, and before I began teaching I worked in corporate advertising in New York and know the long days and full calendars that come with that kind of work. I have also completed a 10-day Vipassana silent meditation retreat, and what those ten silent days involve is written up in the guides.

What a lesson involves

A private lesson is 90 minutes, at your home, condo or office. We start by talking briefly about how you are arriving: tired, wired, sore, or all three. The lesson is shaped around that.

Most lessons mix three things:

• Slow movement to loosen the places that tighten at a desk: neck, shoulders, upper back and hips.
• Simple breathing that you can take back to your desk or your bed.
• Supported rest, with bolsters and blankets taking your weight, often borrowed from restorative practice and slow Yin yoga.

Every private lesson ends with savasana, a mini massage for the neck and shoulders, and sound healing to close, the same sound healing I bring to sound baths in Makati.

What these lessons are not

They are not therapy, and they are not treatment for any condition. I do not diagnose and I make no medical promises. If you are struggling with anxiety or depression, or you feel close to the edge, please talk to a doctor or a mental health professional. A yoga lesson can be one calm thing in your week alongside that help, not a substitute for it.

Who it suits

These lessons suit professionals, founders and expats who are running on empty or find it hard to switch off. You do not need any yoga experience.

For executives whose calendars fill weeks ahead, a lesson at home before the day starts, or in a quiet room at the office, is often the one hour nobody else can claim. If you have just moved here, where I teach across Metro Manila shows the areas I come to.

How booking works

Message me on Viber. Tell me where you are, roughly when suits you, and how you have been feeling. We agree a time, I arrive with mats and props. If you are arranging something for your whole team, see yoga for the whole team at work instead.