Hi, I'm Vanessa

My yoga journey began with great apprehension about the practice and my abilities. However, within two minutes of class, Vanessa’s spirit and compassion set the stage for what would become a life transforming experience with yoga. It was Vanessa and her yoga class, and her additional classes of Yamas and Niyamas that shifted the way I view life and opened my heart to greater understanding and most importantly equanimity. She is not only a master yoga teacher, she is an inspirational mentor, coach, and guide. Just being in her presence will transform you.

Vanessa is both a gift to our community and to my life. She brings years of experience and a heart for service that rings through every class she conducts (with grace and inclusion for all, I might add). Before yoga with Vanessa each week my life was marked with anxious achievement – now, life seems to flow more naturally and effortlessly as I’m learning to breathe, trust, and cultivate a life of alignment. Vanessa is much more than a yoga instructor; she is one of those people I’d like to bottle up and take a swig of when I’m feeling out of balance and ungrounded. I come to her class to reconnect with myself each week, and through her patient guidance, I always do.

Calming, soothing, growing, breathing, accepting, and trusting…just some of the words that come to mind immediately when I reflect on my experience with Vanessa Widen Coachng. My life was filled with anxiety, distrust, and drama – and although I started working with her for those reasons, we wound up taking a drastic turn when I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in the middle of our sessions. Vanessa was the first person I called when I got the news. She shifted gears immediately and calmed me down with techniques that led me into a state of clarity that I felt was impossible upon recieving my diagnosis. To this day, I use all the practices she taught me and nearly six years later I am without cancer in my body. Vanessa helped me heal my body and mind…and when that happened, the cancer disappeared with no surgery, chemo, or radiation. Getting your mind right is the key, Vanessa can guide you to PEACE, and that’s where we all should live.