Therapeutic Yoga Style & Benefits

Who This Yoga Is For ?
Women over 50, healing, recovery, and spiritual depth.

I offer online or in‑person yoga and therapeutic sessions for clients in:
Sandia Park, Cedar Crest, Tijeras, Edgewood, San Antonito, Carnuel, and the Albuquerque East Mountains.

This Revitalize Flow is a thoughtfully designed yoga session that supports students in building stamina, strength, flexibility, and most importantly; confidence.

Whether you're working through fear, anxiety, or simply looking to reconnect with your body, this practice offers a grounded and empowering path forward. This slow, intentional Vinyasa Flow emphasizes functional movement, breath awareness, and intelligent sequencing.

The practice builds strength and flexibility while calming the nervous system, making it accessible, grounding, and deeply transformative. You'll explore foundational postures (asanas), breath techniques, and movement with awareness; all presented in an accessible, innovative way.

Perfect for beginners, active seniors, or anyone returning to the mat, this style invites you to move at your own pace while gradually increasing vitality and resilience. As your flexibility and confidence grow, the postures begin to feel more natural, and you'll leave each private session feeling energized, uplifted, and truly revitalized.

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woman over 50 practicing slow vinyasa flow for balance

Slow Vinyasa Flow for Healing, Strength & Inner Peace

A gentle, innovative restorative yoga class born from my own recovery journey after Traumatic Brain Injury. When traditional practice felt impossible, I created this approach to keep moving, maintain sanity, and find balance.

Through a thoughtful blend of deep passive stretches and brief strengthening poses, you'll release stagnant energy, improve mobility, and enhance your body's natural flow. This practice reduces stress, calms an overactive mind, and helps rehabilitate injuries or chronic pain.

Perfect for anyone seeking deep rest while still nurturing their body. You'll leave feeling lighter, clearer, and completely renewed—all without straining.

Everyone welcome!

Therapeutic yoga pose to heal and Restore for injury recovery
Therapeutic yoga pose to heal and Restore for injury recovery

Restore & Heal Yoga Practice Rooted in Wisdom

Who Is This Yoga Style For ?

This yoga for injury recovery is designed for individuals experiencing pain, injury, limited mobility, or post-rehabilitation needs who are seeking a safe, mindful, and personalized approach to healing through yoga.

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Therapeutic Yoga for Injury Recovery

When your body is healing, it needs more than a routine, it needs precision, nurturing, and care.

These specialized Injury Rehab Sessions support deeper recovery for those living with chronic discomfort, healing after surgery, or still seeking relief after physical therapy or conventional treatment. With nearly 30 years of teaching experience and a deeply therapeutic approach, I offer a holistic path to healing. Each session is tailored to your injury, your body, and at your pace.

You’ll move through a customized protocol blending modified postures, and corrected alignment to restore mobility, ease pain, as well as rebuild strength safely and sustainably.

We begin with a free 20‑minute consultation to understand your injury and goals. From there, we determine the right number of sessions (typically 3–6) and create a structured plan for you to follow between sessions.

Your healing is supported with additional holistic tools, including:

  • Herbal remedies and topical salves,

  • Targeted nutritional suggestions and simple recipes,

  • Supplement recommendations to support tissue repair and reduce inflammation.

Your body is wise and capable of full recovery when given the right tools and consistent care. You do not have to live with discomfort—even if you’ve been told otherwise.

This is where healing begins again.

Common Conditions Supported

  • Rotator cuff injuries (with or without surgery)

  • Scoliosis

  • Chronic back pain & posture correction

  • Neck pain

  • Plantar fasciitis

  • Bulging or herniated discs

  • Hip issues (dysplasia, SI joint, psoas)

  • Joint & ligament instability

  • Carpal tunnel syndrome

  • Supportive care for MS and more...

Gentle, Effective, and Personalized Yoga for Healing

The Transformative Benefits of Yoga

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Yoga is a deeply transformative practice that goes far beyond the mat. With regular sessions, you can begin to dissipate chronic body pain, improve your posture, and breathe more deeply and calmly. Yoga helps settle nervousness, supports emotional balance, and helps you feel better in your body and in your life.

You’ll learn how to relax, develop a personal home practice, and create lasting change—organically. With time, yoga helps prevent further wear and tear on your joints, muscles, and ligaments, while also slowing down the aging process.

Expect to feel revitalized, reshape your body, increase bone density, and even support weight loss. You’ll become more limber, stronger, and agile—all while tuning in to your spirit and your true self. Many students report improved sleep and noticeable progress within just one or two sessions.

  • Dissipate chronic body pain

  • Improve your posture and alignment

  • Learn to breathe deeply and relax

  • Settle anxiety and calm your nervous system

  • Feel better about yourself and your life

  • Develop a personal home yoga practice

  • Prevent further deterioration of joints, ligaments, and muscles

  • Slow down the aging process naturally

  • Revitalize your energy and feel fantastic

  • Increase bone density

  • Support healthy weight loss

  • Reshape and tone your body

  • Become more limber, strong, and agile

  • Introspect and reconnect with your spirit and true self

  • Experience organic, lasting life change

  • Enjoy deeper, more restful sleep

  • See visible progress—often within just 1 or 2 sessions

What to Expect from Your Yoga Practice

This therapeutic approach can be explored through private yoga instruction or short recovery programs designed to support healing.

👉 Private Yoga Instruction

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What Students Experience

I intend to come to your class as much as I can, I am so happy in your classes, you always make me smile.
I always leave Yoga class better than before.
Sandia Park, NM


Laurence Nichols

Portrait of woman in white button up shirt. yoga student @ Higher Altitude Yoga Studio
Portrait of woman in white button up shirt. yoga student @ Higher Altitude Yoga Studio

The best thing about Marie-Aude's classes, other than the music she plays that is just a joy and inspiration to our practice, is the unique character of each class. That is, Marie-Aude makes each class special, both in the emphasis on improving different body functions, and also in the routine variations.

No class is exactly the same, and I've heard more than one Yogini comment on the fact of this class by class variety being what keeps them coming back. I am also especially grateful that Marie-Aude appropriately links our physical aspirations to our spiritual needs. I leave class feeling refreshed, calm, and peaceful.

Sandia Park, NM

Portrait of a smiling senior yoga student at Higher Altitude Yoga against a warm wall.
Portrait of a smiling senior yoga student at Higher Altitude Yoga against a warm wall.

Cynthia Ann

★★★★★
★★★★★

I'm loving your classes. You are so knowledgeable.
I have done a tremendous amount of yoga over the years. It is not easy to find someone with your knowledge and talent. So glad I found you.
Cedar Crest, NM


Portrait of a smiling yoga student with curly hair at Higher Altitude Yoga studio.
Portrait of a smiling yoga student with curly hair at Higher Altitude Yoga studio.

Jeanne Stephen

★★★★★

I have been practicing yoga under the tutelage of Marie-Aude for about 6 months.
We are so lucky to have her!
I am making steady progress in my yoga practice.
I suffer from a chronic illness and have made great strides in energy, a sense of well-being, and positive self-talk, all of which have been helped along by her yoga instruction. She is empathetic and kind.
Sandia Park, NM


Joe Barker

★★★★★
Smiling male yoga student at Higher Altitude Yoga sudio with dark curly hair and a beard.
Smiling male yoga student at Higher Altitude Yoga sudio with dark curly hair and a beard.

I'd like to thank you for your knowledge and pleasant teaching style. Between my divorce and raising 3 kids alone, my twice-weekly yoga with you last year was such a blessing.
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Joy Winslow

yoga practitioner at Higher Altitude Yoga studio.
yoga practitioner at Higher Altitude Yoga studio.
★★★★★
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Inspirational yoga quote overlaying a vibrant field of pink and white wildflower cosmos.

This therapeutic yoga style supports students seeking healing, resilience, and a deeper spiritual yoga practice.