Services include one-on-one counseling, nutrition, yoga classes, workshops, and retreats, focusing on self-love, embodiment, grief, and loss. Renee is taking a short seasonal break and will once again offer public classes in the Summer of 2023. In the meantime, Renee is offering virtual Ayurvedic Counseling sessions. Renee works with clients online and in-person supporting individuals' health and
wellness goals. Renee is a lifelong student, teacher, and founder of Sun Mountain Yoga Therapy. Renee teaches public classes and provides individual Yoga Therapy and Ayurvedic Counseling locally in the Pikes Peak Region as well as online with a mission to bring integrated preventative health care to rural communities and empower people to utilize the teachings and practices of yoga and ayurveda for their own physical, mental, and spiritual well being. Renee started her personal yoga practice in 2001 and formal training in 2016 in Colorado Springs. She is in her final year of an 800-hour yoga therapy certification training and the first year of a 3500-hour advance ayurvedic practitioner program. Renee is drawn to yoga and eastern medicine for their benefits in mental health and pain care. Additionally, Renee works full-time in fundraising for a non-profit providing mental health for our nation’s veterans and provides part-time business development support for a Colorado-based yoga therapy training school. Renee’s background includes stewarding university donors, managing donor-supported student programs, and executing successful fundraising events. Renee served six years as the development co-chair and director on the board of Catamount Institute, connecting kids to the outdoors through education and adventure. Renee is a certified Wilderness First Responder and Reiki I/II practitioner. Born and raised in Colorado Springs, she is a Colorado native. Renee and her partner manage a small homestead near Guffey, CO. In her free time, Renee loves to cook, spend time outdoors hiking and paddleboarding, as well as make jewelry, and spend time with her four dogs, two barn cats, and flock of hens.