Welcome!

Namaste! (“My spirit honors your spirit!”) Please contact me for personalized individual and couples’ Yoga Therapy sessions, or for spiritual guidance sessions. In addition, I can arrange and teach a group Yoga class for your own private events (holiday parties, birthday parties, etc.).  Yoga sessions are wonderful gifts, too! 

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Services:
Yoga Therapy – There’s only so much personalization that can occur in a group yoga class. We all have unique physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual issues which can be addressed through yoga. In private sessions, the student works more deeply with the teacher on unique needs and issues affecting not only the physical yoga practice, but also daily living. The student has access to more specialized teaching and practice with breathing techniques, concentration and meditation, or other subjects of personal interest. Yoga Therapy is particularly helpful for people recovering from injury or surgery, or living with chronic illness or pain.

with my daughter, Sarah, at Blocker Norfolk Family YMCA

Spiritual Guidance – Spiritual companions are intuitive spiritual friends – accountable and compassionate. You may come to spiritual direction for a variety of reasons, including to identify and trust your own spiritual experiences; integrate spirituality into your daily life; prayerfully discern and make difficult choices; share your hopes, struggles, and losses; and live the essence of your spiritual affiliation with integrity.  I also combine restorative yoga with Spiritual Guidance for anyone who is interested. As a minister of Integral Yoga, I am available to help facilitate Engagement (Vows of Intent) Ceremonies, Death and Dying Services and Memorials, Interfaith Services, and House Blessing Ceremonies.

Lotus flower at Norfolk Botanical Garden

Bio:

Jivani has been teaching Hatha Yoga since 2000, and taught Raja Yoga at Old Dominion University for twelve years. She believes the ancient teachings and practices of Yoga are as fresh and relevant as ever for the modern world. Her teaching integrates the spirituality of Yoga with the more widely known physical and mental benefits of the practice. Her background combines a solid foundation and certification in group fitness with training as a mental health counselor and spiritual director. She is a National Certified Counselor (NCC), a certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) and certified Integral Yoga Teacher. Jivani loves sharing Yoga with the world because truly, Yoga is for everyone!

Jivani is also a certified Spiritual Director through the Spiritual Direction Institute of Tidewater, a program founded by Msgr. Chester Michael in 1989.  This is a Christian-based program, but Jivani is open and respectful toward all religious and spiritual paths. In answering a deeper call to the spirituality of Yoga, she was recently (July 2024) ordained with Integral Yoga Ministry.

Raja Yoga classmates and teachers at Yogaville

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I’m looking forward to working with you!  Please visit the “Contact” page above to send me a message, or message me via my Facebook teacher page here.  My online Yoga classes are offered on Facebook.

OM Shanti….
Jivani Lisa Drago-Bauer, M.S. Ed., C-IAYT
Yoga Therapist, Integral Yoga Minister (IYM), and National Certified Counselor (NCC)

She’s the best. Always professional. She brings in the meditation parts of yoga too.

John Cabeen

Jivani is an instructor who creates enthusiasm and eagerness to learn the benefits of all classes she has taught and currently her dedicated practice and instruction of yoga . Jivani takes time to explain and demonstrate why and how proper technique and form are so important to every student .

I get the full benefit from each of her classes.

Molly Hubard