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 (against 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.