RESCUE YOGA MISSION
My mission is to reduce stress, ease pain and bring peace back into peoples lives
by reminding them of the natural balance they have within them all the time. Using
yoga as a health care management system, we can unify the mind, body and breath
to increase overall well being and health.
RESCUE YOGA BIO
Hello, I am Jennifer Alterman. I started Rescue Yoga in 2003. I first started doing
yoga by accident while in the Army. I taught kickboxing and step aerobics in Asia
(1997) when I realized all the training the Army had given me wasn't working out
all the kinks of having a very physically demanding lifestyle. Sure I could run
many miles at a time and perform under stressfull conditions, but I always hurt.
I had seen a Tae Bo video with Billy Blanks doing some intresting stretching at
the end of the session and thought those moves were uniques and felt so good. I
began to incorporate those moves in to our units daily physical training and
saw wonderous results, both in myself and in my fellow soldiers. In 1999 when I
moved with my husband and daughter to Irving TX, I was looking for a new way to
stay in shape but still maintain a full time job, full time mom and wife, and part
time student lifestyle. So I did what I thought was the civilian thing to do, join
a health club. In 2000 one of my friends dragged me (aginst my will) to a yoga studio
in Dallas where I was not so shocked at how boring yoga was. The teacher told me,
"give it three times and you will love it." Well, I did as she recommended and I
was hooked! After that I became a yoga nomad, taking yoga classes whenever and wherever
I could get them. Eventually I became a teacher because my teacher was moving and
the gym I was a member of was going to cancel the class due to no teacher. Shortly
thereafter, yoga became a job for me, I felt that my practice reached a lull, with
most of the classes seeming like they were lacking essence and fun. Enter Meg Plotsky,
whom had trained with Baron Baptiste. Once I began training with Meg, I entered
a whole new realm of yoga, practicing rather than posing. Unfortunately in 2004,
my husband and I were in a car accident and we were unable to work for many months
due to spinal injuries. With the help of my chiropractor, a massage therapist and
Meg , I was able to go back to work and get my spine into better shape than before
the accident. Over the years I slowly began instructing group and private sessions
again. With the knowledge of my own injuries and that long road of recovery, I learned
what it is like to be frustrated and misunderstood about injuries and the psychology
that goes with it. Our bodies are the only bodies we will ever have and if
we don't take of them who will? My goal is to teach people how to listen to their
bodies and to treat them with the nourishment they deserve. So it is with great
attention that I pass on my passion and philosophy of yoga to help others restore
thier natural balance.