Welcome to

Honored Self

Yoga and Meditation!

 

Honored Self Yoga and Meditation offers Svaroopa® Yoga, and Svaroopa® Vidya Meditation tools and techniques.

 Sanskrit is the language of yoga. Svaroopa is a Sanskrit word pronounced 'swa-roopa.' Svaroopa mean bliss of your own being. Vidya is pronounced like it looks: 'vid-ya.' Vidya means knowing from your experience. 

Svaroopa® yoga classes are focused on releasing tension, so your body and mind gets stronger, more peaceful and healthier.  You learn to strengthen and use your arms, legs, and abs so your spine can be free from tension and blockages. When your spine is free, your life improves. More than that, you begin to shine outside and inside.

 

 

 

Your teacher:

Atmananda

Valerie Light Trautlein RYT-500

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Atmananda has over 2000 hours of combined yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and meditation teacher training. She has practiced many kinds of yoga for 27 years. She has taught Svaroopa® yoga for 14 years, and offered Svaroopa® yoga therapy sessions for 13 years. She has 20 years experience facilitating retreats, workshops, private sessions, individual and group yoga therapy sessions, and classes.

 

Atmananda is registered with Yoga Alliance as an RYT-500 for having taught over 2000 hours since completing her teacher training. She has Certification as a Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher (700 hours); Svaroopa® Yoga Therapist (800 hours); Embodyment® Therapist; Vichara-Yogic Self Inquiry Therapist; Svaroopa® Vidya Meditation Teacher; Yoga Philosophy Discussion Group Leader; Half Day Workshop Leader; Reiki Master; and 9-Dimensions of Consciousness Initiator.

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Atmananda studied Svaroopa® tools and techniques with the originator of Svaroopa® yoga and meditation: Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati. She gave her a Sanskrit name: Atmananda.

This name Atmananda means

'the bliss of the self:

the one and the many.'

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Atmananda wants you to know: "I have found tremendous support for honoring my self in the tools and techniques that I teach. They support me to grow into the self I want to be tomorrow. They help me face and offer love, acceptance, and healing to the self I was yesterday. Most importantly, they offer me an opportunity to fully be the self I am today.

 

I am honored to join you on a yogic adventure of offering love, healing, and inspiration to

our selves together!"