Anna Schneider

Anna’s offerings are rooted in her own personal practice (since 2001) using yoga therapy tools to address mental health challenges and related physiological conditions, including symptoms relating to her own pelvic health. She feels it is an honour to support others on their paths to integrative wellness as a yoga therapist certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She is also a psychologist and passionate about the science of well-being and resilience. 

Anna specializes in translating current research and evidence-based best practices in yoga, trauma recovery, pain care, and somatic science, into personalized and effective tools for genuine and long-lasting healing. Her services are grounded in the tenets of trauma-informed yoga therapy: accessibility, respect for individual experience and agency, a focus on therapeutic effect, mindfulness, and a holistic approach to health.

She is dedicated to empowering clients to take an active role in their own healing by developing greater self-awareness, safe-embodiment, and self-regulation. Connection to the pelvic floor can prove challenging for so many reasons including: the subtlety of noticing pelvic resting tone, of guiding activation and relaxation, and dissociation from the pelvic area due to trauma or pain.

In both her personal and professional experience, Anna has found yoga can be a powerful complementary therapeutic modality, in part, because of how it supports connection to the pelvic floor and to its responsive patterns. Yoga weaves interoception into all practices and offers a felt-experience of the pelvic floor in dynamic relationship with the nervous system, respiratory system, and alignment. Anna recognizes all of her client’s layers of experience including how pelvic health impacts emotions, thought patterns, participation in the world, relationships and sense of hope. 

Anna invites clients to reclaim their health and vitality by engaging in practices tailored towards their personal goals and it brings her great joy when together they discover just the right movement, shape, breathing pattern, or visualization that makes everything click. She deeply values meeting all clients with kindness and compassion and creating a space that feels wholeheartedly welcoming to all.