Yoga

  • Troubleshooting - Hitting a road block in your asana practice?  Let's figure out what you can do about it.  I provide individualized wellness assessment and yoga instruction for beginners to advanced practitioners with injury history or prevention and optimization in mind.  
  • Get started - No yoga experience? No problem. Pure beginners welcome!  Everybody must start somewhere.  I can help you develop a home practice sequence and/or help you prepare to attend public classes.
  • Re-starting - Did an injury, surgery or birth of your child take you away from yoga or change your practice?  Let's work together to develop modifications and get you back on the mat.  We can even develop a home practice sequence based on what you need and enjoy. 
  • Groups - more affordable customized sessions for a small group with similar goals.  Maybe you and a friend or two are all getting over a shoulder injury?  Join forces, save money, and learn from each other!

Telehealth

  • For some services, we can work together remotely via Skype, Google hangout, phone or email if you don't live in the area, or just prefer the comfort of your own home

Physical Therapy

  • Evaluation and treatment in a one-on-one environment with your physical therapist.  Patients as young as 5 y/o accepted!
  • Heal from yoga injuries, sports injuries, and everyday aches and pains
  • Learn prevention strategies so you can keep yourself out of trouble in the future
  • Prepare for transition back to yoga or other fitness activities by looking at specific poses or exercises and learning how to do them the best way for your body
  • Running & Cycling sport specific injury prevention and healing
  • Ergonomics for work, home, sleep

Pelvic Health

  • Pelvic floor rehabilitation
  • Incontinence / Leaks
  • Urinary Urgency/Frequency/Hesitancy
  • Constipation / Dyssynergia
  • Abdominal, Pelvic and Genital Pain
  • Sexual Health and Function Concerns
  • Weakness and/or Prolapse
  • Diastasis Recti
  • Pelvic/abdominal scar management
  • Pregnancy and postpartum - tough to get out of the house after baby?  No problem!  We can do home care visits so you can take care of YOU without all the hassle!

Education

  • Public Workshops - applied anatomy, injury prevention, yoga for body regions, special populations
  • Teacher Intensives - advanced anatomy, injury prevention, asana mechanics
  • Guest Teaching in Yoga Teacher Training.  A&P modules available for 200hr and 500hr TT
  • Mentoring/Consulting - individualized q&a and instruction for physical therapists and yoga teachers/therapists
  • Adjunct Lecturing in Physical Therapy Schools on Yoga/Wellness
  • Professional In-services for physical therapists, physicians and other medical providers on benefits of yoga, screening for pelvic health

Health Coaching

Holistic/Integrative hormone-balancing functional nutrition, Ayurveda and lifestyle specific to women's needs throughout the lifespan

Research

Currently in the Movement Science PhD program at Washington University in St Louis with interest in hip dysplasia and hypermoblity, the hip's relationship to pelvic floor disorders, and implications for yoga.

What folks are saying...

"I am so very appreciative of all your help with my condition.  The treatment and wisdom that you shared with me has been so very valuable.  I know I will continue to benefit from your instruction for the rest of my life, and I'm super grateful for that!”
​~Private Client
"She is fantastic. So engaging, such great material.  I am deeply inspired by her ability to integrate complementary/alternative medicine into manual high-level ortho skills – I feel these realms have been mutually exclusive up to this point in our program.  She is clearly an excellent therapist and a boon to our profession. Please have her back each year. Basically, I feel today’s class has introduced another fantastic professional role model to me, and opened the door to a whole different professional path I may never have realized I want to take if I had not been in this course.  So excited!!!"
~Physical Therapy Course Participant
"She is amazing (I want to be like her one day ☺)!  Great at explaining complex topics in simple words. Love the pelvic floor discussion, gave me a lot to ponder on and inspires me to expand my knowledge on the topic."
~Physical Therapy Course Participant
"I love working with Stefanie Foster. I think that she is a genius about the body! I am 60, and am starting to have aches, related to alignment issues. Other physical therapists have done very generic work with me. Everything that Stefanie has done is very specific to my exact issues, and I have become much stronger, with significant pain relief."
~Private Client
I would totally recommend this! I really liked the balance - some time spent explaining and discussing, and some time spent doing different exercises, with time in between sessions to observe and try out new solutions. I really appreciated the safe and respectful environment, the candid but also sensitive explanations and answers, and the overall positive and encouraging atmosphere. I have more insight into issues and strategies to improve my situation. More than worth the money!!
~Workshop/Series Participant
"She was really great about answering all our questions and tailoring the lecture to what we didn’t know and spending more time than planned explaining things"
~Physical Therapy Course Participant
"Stefanie is very engaging. She presents sensitive subject matter with gentleness and dignity that is authentic and engaging.  I understand this was in introductory class. Given the personal nature and potential for trauma stored in the pelvic floor, I felt that Stefanie struck the perfect balance between depth and keeping a safe container that prevented individuals from getting triggered in class, needing attention that would need to be more focused on their specific circumstances.  I am more interested in working one on one with her at this time."  
~N.K. Workshop/Series Participant
"Stefanie is very knowledgeable in her field and continues education in physical therapy"
~Private Client
"I have had anatomy classes before but I especially appreciated Stefanie's point of view as a PT as I know that there is a sound foundation behind what she teaches. Her approach included both anatomy and practical "takeaway" exercises I can use with my students to help them achieve their goals."
~Amy Bogan, RYT-200
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