IF YOU CAN BREATHE, YOU CAN YOGA
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Body Awareness Yoga offers practices that invite curiosity, awareness, and gentle exploration of sensation. Rather than striving for perfect postures, the emphasis is on cultivating presence and reconnecting with the body's natural rhythms.
In this space, movement becomes a way of listening. Breath becomes a way of softening. Awareness becomes a pathway toward balance and integration.
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Welcome to Body Awareness Yoga.
Sometimes the body holds what words cannot easily express. Through mindful movement, breath, and stillness, yoga creates space to listen.
This practice invites curiosity rather than perfection — an opportunity to reconnect with the body as a source of awareness, regulation, and wisdom.
Retreats
Body Awareness Yoga offers small retreats designed to deepen the practice of awareness.
Retreats create space to step away from daily demands and reconnect with the body through movement, rest, and reflection. In a supportive and peaceful environment, participants are invited to explore what becomes possible when we slow down and listen.
These gatherings are intentionally intimate, allowing each participant to move at their own pace and engage with the practices in ways that feel supportive.
Colette is also available to be booked to lead yoga sessions at retreats and wellness events.
The Practice
The practice focuses on breath and body awareness rather than how a pose is supposed to look.
The goal is to help students tune into their bodies, move mindfully, and develop a deeper sense of connection and balance.
Through intentional movement and breath, participants are invited to slow down and notice the subtle signals of the body— areas of tension, ease, resistance, and flow.
The practice emphasizes
Mindful Movement
Curiosity Without Judgment
Breath Awareness
Space for Rest
Nervous System Regulation
Integration
The goal is not performance. The invitation is simply to notice and respond with compassion.
About Body Awareness Yoga
Body Awareness Yoga was created from the belief that healing often begins with awareness.
By learning to notice what the body is communicating—through sensation, breath, and movement—we open the possibility for deeper understanding and restoration.
This approach is informed by both yoga practice and professional experience in psychotherapy and trauma-informed care. While these offerings are not therapy, they are grounded in an appreciation for the connection between body, mind, and emotional experience.
Participants are invited to approach the practice with curiosity, patience, and compassion for themselves.
Hi, I'm Colette
Colette holds an MSW from UC Berkeley and has worked for many years in social welfare and psychotherapy, supporting trauma survivors and underserved communities.
Trained in EMDR, she integrates trauma-informed care with yoga through Body Awareness Yoga, a Bay Area–based private home studio focused on somatic healing, breath, and body awareness.
The practice offers private sessions and nearby Bay Area retreats designed to help people reconnect and restore within reach of home.
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Sign up for info to register for upcoming retreats : Sept. 9-11