Rachel is a personal trainer, yoga instructor and dancer based in the District of Columbia. She is passionate about helping people move better and attain an improved quality of life by nurturing the mind-body connection. She believes movement is one of the most powerful and integrated routes to self-discovery, health and happiness and seeks to empower her clients to transform their lives and relationships to their bodies and exercise. She believes in the benefits of variety in fitness and challenging people to step out of their comfort zones for improved results. Her own transformative weight loss journey several years ago gives her special insight into making fitness a lifestyle and empowering others to achieve their goals. She approaches training with creativity to meet each individual’s needs, and trains a wide variety of clients with goals ranging from weight loss to muscle gain.

Rachel first started taking yoga classes intermittently over 10 years ago as part of her dance training. After returning more seriously to her practice a few years ago to study with Eric Schwarz, she realized just how much she needed yoga in her life. As a dancer and personal trainer, Rachel’s relationship with movement and physical practices has always been at the root of her identity and yoga became the vehicle she was seeking to balance and bind her experiences together with a spiritual grounding. She found in yoga the peace she now seeks to create in herself and others and decided to pursue her yoga teacher training at The Studio DC in the fall of 2015. She hopes to share with her students the beautiful reward of balancing effort with acceptance, and fire with surrender, while maintaining a rigorous alignment focused practice.

She believes that challenging ourselves in safe and accepting environments is the truest path to self-realization, and approaches all instruction with a creative spirit.

We are physical beings- find your path and MOVE through your life.

Credentials:

National Academy of Sports Medicine Certified Personal Trainer & Fitness Nutrition Specialist

Certified TRX Suspension Training Instructor

Functional Movement Screen Professional Levels 1 & 2

Yoga Alliance RYT 200 Vinyasa Instructor

BA in English Literature and Minor in Modern Dance, Washington University in St. Louis

For Teaching Schedule, see:

http://www.thestudiodc.com

http://vidafitness.com/locations/city-vista/schedule/