Practicing yoga with Sheila has been and continues to be a discovery of myself. It is beautiful to discover who we are with our weaknesses and insecurities but also our strengths, which we often don’t realize. We just need to stop…breathe…and discover who you are, if you want, and if you don’t want to now, then you will do it another day, it doesn’t matter. But it is completely natural, it comes with the practice. Since I began practicing yoga with Sheila I feel more woman, more mother, more wife, more daughter, more sister, more friend….because at last, I feel myself. Thank you Sheila!

A powerful and invincible energy lives in us: the power of thought. Other energies support it: emotions, encounters. The universe listens, and responds. You arrived: powerful, passionate, delicate, prepared. You observe, you listen…..you found me. Your knowledge awakens my heart and banishes my fears. Your words are a path and a refuge. My experience with you and the group reinforce in me the will to push myself beyond and re-find those parts of me still vibrating in mental cages and the inner judge. And so I thank you, I thank me, I thank my fellow travelers…the road is long but together it is simpler.

If I think of my yoga practice with Sheila, I feel I have undertaken a journey. A journey that has brought me, and that is still leading me now, to know, to touch, and sometimes imagine new possibilities and openings for myself. Thanks to the practice of yoga and the loving presence and always competent and respectful guidance from Sheila, I feel my body flexible, sinuous, harmonious, strong and determined–like my will power. It is a journey that is allowing me to feel and see and learn to harmonize the various facets of myself, also those parts that are the most painful that have finally been welcomed. Sheila helps me and offers me tools to remain present, to re-find my center when I lose myself, to live ever more in the here and now…..with a loving and compassionate gaze towards the past and with love and trust for myself and what is yet to come.

We all know the benefits of yoga, but the benefits of yoga with Sheila is something more. I began this practice after a challenging surgical intervention. My back and my muscles had been badly damaged. Thanks to this beautiful practice, I am recovering elasticity and flexibility. Beyond the physical benefits, I have also gained an incredible psychological wellness. During the day I am distracted by a thousand thoughts and thanks to the tools I have learned with Sheila, in the evening all it takes are some simple practices/rituals and the tensions and negative thoughts disappear. With Sheila we work with visualization and feeling sensations. Through these practices I have learned to handle any sensations or feelings that my body sends me, welcoming them without judgement. Thanks to Sheila I have found a beautiful inner harmony. She has become a refuge: a tranquil palace where anxiety, sadness, and pain remain outside. Thank you

Practicing yoga with Sheila is one of the most beautiful gifts I have given to myself. Accompanied by her loving and attentive presence, I have learned to enter into deep listening of my body and let go of mental control. Practicing yoga with Sheila is to offer a prayer to the divine that lives inside of us and to the divine in all of its manifestations.

I am forever grateful Sheila, that our paths crossed, when I joined your yoga classes years ago. Since then I have attended many of your retreats and now rely on you as a teacher and guide on my path. I deeply appreciate your compassion and empathy, your sound advice and your precious gift, to always show me the positive side of any situation. You are a solid and unfailing support with a big open heart and humor when you least expect it, just to take the sting out of it. I have so much trust in you Sheila, with you I am in a safe space where I can show my true self, break down and continue stronger than before. You help me nurture my soul, you are the wise woman I wish to become one day. I appreciate the sessions with you enormously, they help me to grow and be myself and to get to know me better and with you there is so much trust, understanding and connection.

Simply the delicate vibration of her voice carries me in a state of stillness and with just a delicate and gentle touch during a pose and the rigidity in my joints softens. Sheila’s capacity to understand the needs of the moment is surprising. Her yoga lessons are always different, unique, and irreproducible and they carry me to a level of love and awareness that is difficult for me to experience in everyday life.