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Heidi Sormaz, Director

Heidi Sormaz, Ph.D., E-RYT 500, is the founder, owner and director of Fresh Yoga. She has studied Yoga for 17 years and taught for 11. For many years Heidi's focus was academic, studying the interrupting of cognitive habits (habitual thinking) with specific attention, focus and meditation. She brings these principles to her classroom, encouraging students to work with their minds as specifically as they work with their bodies creating an intensely mindful and dynamic class. Working this way allows you to understand the emotional walls you have created from your life experience and break the habits which keep you stuck in your body and life. This way of working helped her move through her own challenges of dealing with severe social anxiety and recovering from an eating disorder.

Heidi is a certified Forrest Yoga teacher and Forrest Yoga Mentor. She has assisted Ana Forrest in her national workshops and foundation teacher training courses. Heidi has also studied Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga. In addition, she has extensive training in the martial art Taijiquan and the internal art Qigong. She is a senior student of Master Steven Bennett and has taught Taijiquan and Qigong at Yale University.

Heidi received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Psychology from Yale University. She is an expert on the influence of arousal and attention on performance, how anxiety affects thinking, stress management, and performance in pressure situations. She has been an educator, speaker, and corporate trainer with over 10 years experience in designing and leading seminars on stress management, meditation, and educator training. HDR Press published her book Performing Under Pressure, and Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine published her article "Meditation can Reduce Habitual Responding."

In 2008, Yoga Journal selected Heidi as one of their "Next Generation of Yoga Teachers". To read article click here!

Private Sessions

To schedule a private session call Heidi at 203.927.7604 or e-mail heidi@freshyoga.com. Private session rates are $100 per hour.

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