Finally! A yoga program built around you, not around a class.
The Empowered Yogi Method is a private 5-month yoga & qigong program for adults living with chronic joint pain and anxiety. Three 30-minute sessions per week, fully personalized to your body and your needs.
If you've tried everything and still wake up in pain, keep reading.
Living with chronic joint pain or anxiety is exhausting in a way most people don't see. You've probably already tried things, maybe medications, physical therapy, and other classes. Some helped a little. Nothing helped enough.
What you haven't tried is a practice designed entirely around your body, your pain patterns, and your nervous system - adjusted week by week as you actually heal.
What the program includes
3 customized 30-minute virtual sessions per week: yoga, qigong, breathwork & meditation
Weekly text check-ins with Maggie, with practices adjusted based on how your body is responding
Fully private, 1-on-1 experience, no group classes, no generic routines
Do sessions on your own schedule; these practices are yours to use anytime
Grounded in the methods from Maggie's book, The Empowered Yogi Transcend Chronic Pain and Anxiety Associated with Autoimmune Conditions
How the five months will unfold
1) We start with your story. Maggie learns your pain history, anxiety patterns, movement history, and goals. Your first practices are designed from this.
2) You move at your own pace. Three 30-minute sessions per week, done on your schedule. No class to rush to, no one watching you struggle.
3) Weekly check-ins keep it honest. You share what's working and what isn't. Maggie adjusts. The practice evolves with your body, not against it.
4) By month five, your body has changed. Less pain. Calmer nervous system. A practice that is genuinely yours, and that you know how to use for the rest of your life.
5) Accountability and support from Maggie. Too often, we start off strong and then lose our steam. Maggie will help you stay accountable so you can reach your goals.
This program is built on 20 years of research and practice
Maggie's book The Empowered Yogi: Transcend the Chronic Joint Pain and Anxiety is the foundation of the Empowered Yogi Method. Everything in this program is grounded in the same principles, tested, refined, and proven on real people with real pain.
Meet Your Instructor, Maggie Heinzel-Neel
“The peaceful feeling I receive from practicing yoga asana (poses) and pranayama (breath work), as well as the empowerment from becoming strong and flexible, is at the core of my teaching. After years of debilitating back pain and a very inflexible body, I finally took my first yoga class. People say they’re not flexible enough for yoga if they only knew what I looked like (for a very long time) in my practice! But what made me stick to it is how I felt afterward: elated.
Adding Qigong to my yoga practice provided an anchor for my mind, which soothed my anxiety. The combination of yoga and qigong keeps the joint pain away, and my anxiety is non-existent!”