Yoga, Yoga Therapy & Reiki
Amy has been practicing yoga on and off for most of her adult life and teaching yoga since completion of her 200-hour training with Rebecca Niamtu/Yoga for the Planet in 2016. She has completed the Yoga of 12-Step Recovery (Y12SR) Leadership training with Nikki Myers, Trauma Informed Yoga with Hala Khouri, and various other trainings focused on the healing power of yoga. She completed 300-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher training and Yoga Therapy certification with JJ Gormley at Surya Chandra Healing Yoga School (SCHYS). She is a certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT) with the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT) and holds specialty certificates in substance abuse and addiction, trauma healing, respiratory issues, neurological issues, sleep and insomnia, and back issues. She is also a Reiki Master Teacher, offering private Reiki sessions and group trainings.
Amy teaches from the heart and truly lives her yoga, encouraging students towards self-empowerment and improving physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health. In addition to group classes with a focus on mindful breath and body awareness, Amy offers private sessions, specializing in helping clients with addiction issues, trauma/PTSD, chronic pain, and autoimmune disorders. When not teaching and studying, Amy enjoys paddle boarding and spending time in nature, exploring new places, writing, and reading inspiring memoirs. She also co-leads local and international wellness and yoga retreats.
Group & Private Sessions:
Gentle Flow, Thursdays at 9:30am - Asheville Community Yoga
Vinyasa Flow, Saturdays at 10:30am - Asheville Community Yoga
With experience in consistently teaching a wide range of students and over 1000 hours of training, Amy can help you meet your goals so that you can live happier, healthier, connected, and more fulfilled. Customized sessions with a therapeutic approach are available one-on-one to meet your specific needs and to help you gain better health of body, mind and spirit.
Contact Amy for pricing options and booking details.
Rise Wellness & Yoga Retreats
We offer local day retreats as well as domestic and international wellness and yoga retreats to various inspiring locations. Our retreats are catered to women and encourage finding deeper connections with nature, one another and oneself to inspire, uplift and evolve. Stay tuned for details on our next adventure or join our mailing list to get priority access to announcements.
About your retreat leaders: Amy Sawyer, C-IAYT, ERYT-500 & Mandy Bernard, ERYT-500
It is our intention and deepest desire to support women in creating a strong connection with themselves and each other. We share a calling to teach and provide tools for healing and to be of service for the highest good of all. In hosting retreats, our goal is to assist in guiding you to peel back the layers and get to know yourself a little better in order to cultivate the life you desire and deserve.
Are you Ready to Reconnect?
It is time and long awaited for, our next ladies retreat to Costa Rica! We fell in love with the magic of Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica in 2020 and have been patiently waiting to return. That year our retreat theme was Connection and after the past few years we feel that connection to nature, ourselves and each other is needed now more than ever. If you long for authentic, meaningful connections this retreat is for you.
Women are nurturers by nature, and we so often devote much of our time to nurturing others that our needs fall to the bottom of the list. Maybe it’s time to shower yourself with the same love and attention that you so freely give to everyone else, and connect with like-minded women on a deeper level.
If the thought of this level of self care made your heart skip a beat, join us for five nights and six days of pure connection in this intimate retreat.
Dates: Wednesday, February 8th - Monday, February 13th, 2023
Interested? Send me an email for additional information.
"I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul."
- Rumi