Private Instruction
A Meditative, Compelling Approach
The advantages of private yoga instruction include increased attention to your special needs, and enhanced calm. The development of physical flexibility, supported by deep breathing, mental focus, proper alignment, strength, and healthful visualizations encourage a positive outlook.
Yoga for People of All Ages and Fitness Levels
People of every age and degree of health can benefit from private yoga instruction, which modifies to the level and specific needs of the practitioner. Portia's 15 years of teaching experience give her skills to evaluate and offer a program just for you.
Prenatal Yoga
The practice of yoga during pregnancy is perhaps the most helpful exercise a woman with child can undertake. It is slow, strong and gentle. It prepares the woman's body and breath to open as it will need to open during labor and childbirth. Yogic techniques of breath, movement, sound and visualization provide a confident basis for smooth passage through this most powerful of life experiences. All exercises are modified for safety through to term.
Postnatal Yoga
The time after giving birth is one of sea change. Private or semi-private yoga instruction in your home will help you return your body to a state of ease and comfort. Mother-baby partner exercises will bond and delight you both.
Yoga to Inspire the Mature Body
At age 49, Portia is aware of how the body can change over time into a state of slow grace when nurtured through the age-appropriate practice of yoga. Her teaching reflects years of observation of her own body and those of her many students.
Bio
Portia Brockway holds the senior 500-hour certification through the National Yoga Alliance, and is certified through the nation's largest yoga center, Kripalu, in Lenox, MA.
Portia is a Cantabrigian of 25 years, born and raised in Darien, CT, with a Quaker education. She is linked through her American father into the yoga tradition of Indian mystic and saint Sri Ramakrishna (1836-86).
Form a Yoga Village
Invite your allies over for semi-private sessions in your solarium, shaded yard, porch, or spacious living area.
Rates:
Semi private rates: 1-2 people one-hour session in Cambridge and vicinity: $100
each additional person: $20
Did you see us in the Globe?
click here to view article: The Boston Globe
See the full set of Boston Globe photos of a session taught by our own Portia Brockway:
"...Portia Brockway, owner of Yoga in Harvard Square, a studio housed in the University Lutheran Church, goes to people's homes to teach one-off 'yoga parties,' as she calls them. Her clients will have a yoga class, says Brockway, then 'go drink their wine, have their dinner -- whatever they want.'
There are no statistics to measure the number of people engaging in this trend, but, Brockway, who's been teaching yoga since 1993, says, 'It's gotten more popular in the past two or three years.' "