46 Year Old Yoga Teacher Finds Relief At The End Of The Day On Her Biomat

            A typical day for yoga teacher Nancy Candea includes 2-3 yoga classes, 1 or 2 personal clients, 3-6 hours at the computer, one walk with two dogs, home chores, and miscellaneous parenting activities (she has two daughters).  Although she loves her work and her home, her body can feel like a bag of children’s blocks and silly putty by the end of a long day.  “I used to wish that I could teach the dogs some massage therapy to justify their laying around all day, so I could put them to work when I stepped in the door,” says Candea with a wistful look on her face, which is quickly replaced with a smile, “Well, until I got my Biomat.”

            The Biomat is an infrared heat pad that releases negative ions and incorporates the healing power of amethyst crystals.  It was built using Nobel Prize-winning research on negative ions, infrared heating technology from NASA, and ancient knowledge of the healing properties of amethyst.

            Candea says that the Biomat’s effects on her entire being became quickly apparent. She felt more clear energy, better digestion, “happy joints”, warmer, and calmer. “This feels like yoga at the beach and then a shower under a waterfall,” says Candea who recently moved to Colorado from Hawaii.

            For more documented studies and a free introductory session on the Biomat please contact Nancy Candea at 303.447.YOGA (9642) or candea@peakpeak.com

(written by Nancy, who interviewed herself after a nice long session on her Biomat)

Boundless Yoga Center
Introduction Level classes
4-5 students/class
Thursday 4:30 pm
Friday 9:00 am

PrAna (Broadway and Pearl)

Wednesdays 6:00-7:30pm

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Sundays 8:30 am
Mondays 7:00 am

Alchemy of Movement
Tuesday 12:00 pm
Thursday 12:15 pm

Nancy has over 3500 hours teaching yoga and has creating her personal approach to teaching yoga through many years of her own practice and  inspirations  from fabulous senior level teachers in Ashtanga, Anusara and Iyengar style yoga.  Her classes are designed to help bring a strong core strength and alignment base to a vinyasa flow practice. The classes are designed to be challenging for all levels of experience with instruction given for individual pose modification. Class consists of dynamic yoga poses for strength, flexibility, balance, breath work and deep relaxation poses to finish the practice. Hands on adjustments, understanding of our subtle energy core and vitality, and how the work of our yoga practice translates to our lives are all included in Nancy’s energizing flow yoga practice.

Yoga BodyWork

Philosophy

 I think that the only way to truly help someone make positive changes in their health and fitness is to find out what their passion in life is, what in their daily routine sparks their vitality and what zaps their energy. Although the hour or two or three that they spend with me in a session or in class every week is important unless a client understands how living a healthy lifestyle is the support system for doing what they love, all the yoga, weight training skills or nutrition facts that I give them will fall to the wayside 3-6 months down the road.

Strength and Flexibility and Cardio Training:

 Personal training begins with an assessment to help you understand your body's specific needs for proper alignment and for overcoming strength and flexibility imbalances.  In depth core work can serve as a foundation with the goal of creating realistic and fun fitness plans to improve overall strength, cardio, flexibility, breath work and focus.

Nutrition Coaching.
 My approach to nutritional coaching involves working together one-on-one to bridge the gap between where a person is with their current bodyweight or food patterns and where they want to be with them.  I think that most people just need some fine tuning to their current diet and encouragement to keep up with healthy eating patterns that they intuitively know. Nutrition coaching can be done alone or added onto an overall training program.

E  D  U  C  A  T  I  O  N

Adult CPR and AED and Standard first Aid, 2007

Certified Personal Trainer, NESTA, 2006

Certified Fitness Nutritional Coach, NESTA, 2006

Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance, 2004