About Us
Denise O'Hearn, RYT
Vibrant Moves Founder
I am passionate about helping busy, overwhelmed women find more balance and joy in their lives. I want to help them find grace and ease to age blissfully and consciously, by providing tools to live more comfortably in their bodies and minds. I enjoy empowering women who are really good at taking care of everyone and everything else, and who are ready to learn effective, simple techniques to reconnect with their own health and happiness.
Before I began practicing yoga, I was very busy running my own graphic business. Newly married, working many late nights, with a lot of intense deadlines, I'd fall into bed at night exhausted, only to get up the next morning and do it all over again. The stress on my body triggered an old injury, and I'd sometimes awaken with terrible spasms in my neck and back. At times, the pain was so intense I'd have to miss days of work. I spent years masking the pain with medication, but knew I needed, and wanted, something more natural for my body and mind.
After taking my first yoga class, I felt like I had come home. I had been very active when I was younger, and loved the physical movement that yoga offered. What I didn't expect were the amazing benefits that yoga had for my mind. I found that I was so much better equipped to handle my stressful days. I also discovered that I wasn't breathing right (?!). What a difference breathing correctly makes! Through yoga and other healing modalities, I learned effective ways to manage and prevent my pain. I was so excited about my own feeling of relief that I knew that I had to share this with others.
Yoga was my gateway to healing from my chronic pain and anxiety. I've been teaching yoga now since 2000 and am so grateful for its power to heal. However, it wasn't until I experienced a great personal loss that I realized I didn't know how to fully express my emotions or how to be fully present with someone else's emotional pain.
When we stuff our emotions down, we stop the flow of "Source" energy that flows through us all and connects us. We kink the hose, and our emotions get stuffed down, instead of being felt and released. Emotions are energy in motion; they are meant to move. If we deny ourselves our emotions, we are setting ourselves up for more suffering, pain, and potentially dis-ease.
Learning to trust the process, the unfolding of life, the uncertainty, and accepting what is in each moment, even when it's difficult -- will help it pass, and you will heal. We each have our own unique journey; it's all about finding the path that is right for you.
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Denise is a Kripalu-certified Yoga Teacher and a Reiki Master. She holds multiple certifications from Chopra Global: Ayurvedic Health Instructor, Meditation Instructor, and Total Well-Being Coach. She also offers classes and workshops on the amazing benefits and uses of Essential Oils. She teaches and coaches groups and individuals both online and in person. Denise is a strong yet gentle and compassionate guide who is enthusiastic about sharing the benefits of natural healing.
Group, corporate and private yoga classes.
Individual Reiki Sessions,
Private or Group Ayurvedic
Health Classes, Meditation, and
Essential Oil Classes
are also available.