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Balanced Yoga & Wellness

BYW is a referral-based private practice in Berlin, MD that offers evidence-informed Yoga Therapy Why not strive to become as fully integrated as possible?

BY&W employs an inter-disciplinary approach to the art and science of yoga: from mindful movement and breath-centered practices, to positive psychology and the latest in anatomy, neuroscience and pain research, our aim is to bring the nervous and musculoskeletal systems back into functional balance, to increase stress resilience (our ability to 'cope'), and from that space, encourage integration of the body-mind-spirit complex. The goal is a sense of self-empowerment through connectedness - whether it's the lumbo-sacral rhythm, the head-to-heart (thoughts-to-emotions), the gut-to-brain (the enteric nervous system), or the Self-to-the-Whole...what we create on the microcosm of our sticky mat, we bring to the macrocosm of our world.

11/16/2025

Tucson has been a part of our family since 1996 when my parents moved there from Baltimore after Dad retired. They fell in love with the mountains, the saguaros (native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona), the warm, dry, sunny climate, and never looked back.

While the southwest didn't hold the same appeal for me, I do appreciate the unique beauty of Arizona sunsets and landscapes, and I love hiking in the mountains with my family. I'm proud of Mom (76) and Dad (79) who return with me to Catalina State Park every year for one more trail adventure.

This year's trip was extra fun with the addition of William & Brooke (son and GF), Veda & Eddie (niece and husband). I hope one day we can ALL be out there together at the same time!

11/14/2025

As the body and breath find more space, the mind quiets, emotions stabilize, and clarity emerges.

Truth or in-sight appear to ‘land’ in your awareness, when it’s actually been there all along. You’re just softening the static, diminishing the distortion that comes from internal contradiction — where you know one thing, and act on something different. Where you know what is True (for you), but follow conflicting instructions based on outdated or substitute beliefs adopted out of necessity, acceptance, safety or survival to maintain stability of your nervous system.

The shift you long for is structural coherence - simply put, a state of harmony between thoughts, feelings and actions, free from contradiction, registered as ease, alignment, flow, stability.

This image is a reminder: even when the mind feels tangled, the heart knows the way. The signal of Truth is constant - steady, strong, stable.

11/11/2025

Every body holds its own story, and every session is guided by what arises in the moment. Individual work is about attuning to your unique needs, supporting you in reconnecting with your body in safe, intentional ways. This work isn’t about performance, it’s about presence. It’s about meeting yourself exactly where you are, with care and compassion.

11/09/2025

The same hands that once held your pain can also hold your peace. This is the gift of being human -- that within us is both the ache and the balm, both the wound and the healing.

11/07/2025

Somatic Experience
Free Online Classes

In this season of thanks, I am inviting you to pause, breathe, and move with awareness. Join me for two free online Somatic Experience classes designed to help you reconnect with your body and find ease through gentle movement.

Applied Somatics is movement reeducation rooted in awareness. It is a root cause approach to chronic muscular pain, discomfort, and stiffness caused by the stresses of life.

Somatic movement is appropriate for every body. No previous yoga experience necessary.

Sunday, November 23, 2025
6:30 to 7:30 PM EST

Monday, December 22, 2025
7:00 to 8:00 PM EST

Advance registration required
balancedyogawellness.com

Sharing is encouraged if you know someone who might enjoy this experience.

11/04/2025

Applied Somatics is movement re-education rooted in awareness; it's a root-cause approach to chronic muscular pain, discomfort, and stiffness caused by the stresses of life.

Somatic movement is appropriate for every body - no previous yoga experience necessary.

Thursday, 11/20 [6:30 to 7:45 pm] - SALISBURY, MD

Location: Abbi Custis Art Studio
1930 Northwood Drive,
Salisbury, MD, 21801

$35, go to www.balancedyogawellness(dot)com to register!

11/03/2025

I am so grateful for all the curious and courageous folks who took a leap into unknown territory with me last week. I shared in all three of my workshops (Online, Salisbury and West Ocean City) that I was more nervous than usual with this offering, as the nature of Somatics is slow and mindful, the changes subtle, and sometimes even delayed. The micro-shifts, to become accessible within our awareness, require a commitment to being with ourselves in a deeper, quieter way. To differentiate between muscle activity states of “on” and “off” demands our full attention. This alone makes this work challenging to some, boring to others, and for many - emotionally evocative.

So while Somatics isn’t ‘sexy’ or glamorous in terms of group movement, I aim to make it a fun, educational, and safe way to deepen our connection with our Self and restore harmony between effort and ease. Clarity and coherence consume way less energy than contraction and contradiction.

In humble thanks to my community (and if you’ve read this far…welcome, you are that!), and to continue nurturing this mind-body-spirit dialogue, I am offering two 60-min F*R*E*E* Somatic Experience classes ONLINE to help you through the holiday season:��

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2025
6:30 to 7:30 PM EST

MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2025
7:00 to 8:00 PM EST

You will receive a Zoom link upon registering at my website: https://www.balancedyogawellness.com/

Please share with anyone who would enjoy unwinding some stress and tension in their body during the cra-cra of the holiday!

10/31/2025

Halloween traces back to Samhain (pronounced SOW-in), the ancient Celtic festival marking summer’s end and winter’s beginning — a threshold time when the veil between worlds was said to thin. It was a moment to honor what had passed, release what was complete, and make way for new life to take root.

This turning of the seasons still whispers to us today: we let go of beliefs, perceptions, and relationships we’ve outgrown with grace and stability, and rest in the quiet assurance of clarity emerging.

10/28/2025

"I find that the more work that you do for yourself, and the more that you show up for yourself, the ability you have to show up for the people that are most important in your life... it magnifies itself. It's important."

The work is always ours to do. Courtney's story is one that embodies this message in a beautiful way.

Courtney Moore: Mother, wife, friend, and Owner/GM/Trainer/Instructor at Olympia Fitness Clubs, LLC

Photography: Bridgette Harmon of BLONG

10/26/2025

Love is the answer. Not worldly love, dependent on conditions. Not a love that you give, receive or “do.”

Love that you undeniably ARE…coherence, harmony in your system. The state of quiet composure that trusts in your system’s ability to expand with life moment-to-moment. Neutrality is not coldness; it’s connection without distortion, the ability to remain present with what is without leaving yourself or outsourcing your stability.

Everything else is just noise.

When we recalibrate to this, striving softens. The questions, the resistances, the what-ifs, the how-dare-theys dissolve; the system rests in steady presence rather than practiced composure.

What felt complicated becomes simple.
Love is.

10/23/2025

I am excited to host A Vacation for Your Soul: Recharge~Reflect~Restore workshop in studio tomorrow night - her art studio is such a magical place to practice together!

One unique aspect of my in-person workshops is that they are 'pre-set' with all the mats, blankets and props to welcome you into ease from the moment you walk in the door. All you need to bring is your whole, authentic Self (and maybe a water, journal and pen :-)

There are a few spots left in my West Ocean City, MD workshop on Sunday (10/26) from 4:00 to 6:15 pm at Meta Yoga studio , above Pancho & Lefty's.

I would love to offer you an experience of unwinding stored tension, recharging your battery, expanding through inquiry and restoring in stillness.

If this sounds delightful to you, visit my website: https://www.balancedyogawellness.com/offerings for more details, or message me with any questions!

10/21/2025

Applied somatics is movement re-education rooted in awareness; it’s a root-cause approach to chronic muscular pain, discomfort, and stiffness caused by stress and trauma.

Gentle, mindful movement and breath will shine a flashlight of awareness on how we move, noticing what isn’t moving well, where we may feel some stickiness, or stuttering – or where we may feel nothing at all – and aims to bring fluidity, engagement, a sense of embodied awareness to these areas.

Somatic movements are focused on re-awakening sensory-motor pathways and soothing and resetting the nervous system. In this practice, we do not stretch, we pandiculate, the way animals do upon wakening. It’s a yawn in the body, an expansion that brings an experience of wholeness.

Nature has her own design, and when we tap into this design and move in an intuitive way, as nature intended, we bring our mind-body system back into homeostasis.

Join me in person or online to explore these concepts within your own Soma at one of my upcoming workshops, A Vacation for Your Soul: Recharge - Reflect - Restore

WED, 10/22 [6:00 to 8:15 pm] - ONLINE (Zoom)
FRI, 10/24 [6:00 to 8:15 pm] - SALISBURY, MD [SOLD OUT]
SUN, 10/26 [4:00 to 6:15 pm] - WEST OCEAN CITY, MD (Meta Yoga Studio)

$75, go to https://www.balancedyogawellness.com/offerings to register.

Address

10045 Old Ocean City Boulevard
Berlin, MD
21811

Telephone

+14108122119

Website

http://www.balancedyogawellness.com/

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BY&W employs an inter-disciplinary approach to the art and science of yoga: from mindful movement and breath-centered practices, to positive psychology and the latest in anatomy, neuroscience and pain research, my aim is to bring the nervous and musculoskeletal systems back into functional balance, to increase stress resilience (our ability to 'cope'), and from that space, encourage integration of the body-mind-spirit complex. The goal is a sense of self-empowerment through connectedness - whether it's the lumbo-sacral rhythm, the head-to-heart (thoughts-to-emotions), the gut-to-brain (the enteric nervous system), or the Self-to-the-Whole...what we create on the microcosm of our sticky mat, we bring to the macrocosm of our world. Why not strive to become as fully integrated as possible?