Erin Gugliuzza

Erin Gugliuzza

Erin Gugliuzza

Professional

(716)523-7685

Hello Welcome to My Practice and Website that introduces you to my professional Profile.

I have been in practice for 20 years and recently completed a 200-hour training program from the Himilayan Institute of Yoga Philosophy and Asana Studies in Buffalo, NY.  I am now a Registered Yoga Teacher.

My BIO & Benefits of Yoga and Massage

Services that I offer to you that will allow a space within yourself that heals along with accessing the best part of who you are to become your most authentic self in love. 

Erin Gugliuzza, LMT, AAS, CST, RYT-200, BS

     Erin has been in the healing realm for over twenty years and at an early age she fell into the natural flow and alignment of love while healing her own body when injured falling from a tall tree and many other accidents to follow as a child.   She met the true meaning of life through many forms of physical exercise when running for cross country and track. Due to knee injuries accrued from wear and tear in running she learned through physical therapy the truth to hands on healing and movement therapy. It was then she knew she wanted to practice massage therapy and entered massage therapy school at age twenty.  After many car accidents in her adolescence and at no fault of my own, along with childhood trauma and many broken bones as a climbing tree enthusiast, she learned that yoga has allowed a pathway to her inner self that helped turn on all the healing mechanisms or (Chakras) of her subtle body, that which we cannot name but explained as pure consciousness, had a tremendous healing attribute and connection to her inner peace and recovery along the journey to health, vitality and wellness.  

She added to her healing journey many types of healing and movement therapy as medicine never relying on western medicine except for her hearing and sight.  She has journeyed into Massage Therapy, Ayurveda (the science of living), Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Yoga, Tai Chi, Gong Meditation, Meditation (guided relaxation therapy),  all serving her whole being into a holistic and integrative approach to wellness. 

Erin enrolled at the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Studies and Philosophy of Buffalo in September of 2014 and has since then fell deeper in alignment of her true dharma (true calling). 

She has practiced many types of yoga; as well as pilates, power yoga, restorative yoga, Flow Vinyasa Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Yin Yoga, Hot Yoga, Bikram, Acroyoga, SUP Stand Up Paddle Board Yoga, and a meditation practice for the last 15 years.  Her major influences and teachers from the yoga world and mentors are;Jesus of Nazareth, Swami Rama who is the founder of the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy with the headquarters in the USA and branches in India and Europe, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Yogananda, Rodney Yee, Rod Stryker, Luke Kettering, Seane Corn, Sandra Anderson, Julia Kress, Sarah Guglielmi, Patanjalis Yoga Sutras, and Dr. Rolf Solvik and his wife Mary Gail who are now the president and spiritual director of the Himalayan Institute of Honesdale, PA. They have all been a great influence on her philosophical yoga studies, meditation work and deep understanding of Ayurveda, and healthy living. She keeps an inner peace from meditation and while she cultivates a presence and awareness she loves to teach her yoga practice that helps her experience intuitively and lead from source that ultimately finds her in a flow deeper sharing her yin yoga practice. Erin also is part of yogi in service for her local elementary school at Anna Merritt Elementary in Lockport, NY where she shares with the 4th graders the beauty of gratitude and breathing exercises while incorporating fun circle yoga time to help kids incorporate strategies of calming and focusing attention.

Erin has also been in practice as an LMT NYS Licensed Massage Therapist since 1997. She states that this experience has lead her to appreciate and practice the healing modalities of myofascial release technique, kinesiology taping, trigger point therapy, Cranial Sacral Therapy and movement as medicine in yoga and massage therapy. She then moved on years later to attain a 200 hour yoga teacher training (RYT-200) Certification from the Himalayan Institute of Buffalo May of 2015.  She has also worked in various hospitals across WNY as a Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) since 2010 and is registered through AST-NBSTSA Certifying Agency for Surgical Technologist. She finds that western and eastern medicine help her approach healing in a more systematic and integrative way. She has learned to be more conscious while engaging in patient procedures and safety and entrusting in them good ethics for prevention of infections.  She realizes that yoga can be practiced anywhere just by being in the now.  She appreciates both sides of medicine and it helps her trust the system when understanding how to utilize as a whole. 

Erin’s approach to yoga and massage has cultivated within her own personal health, conscious focused breathing along with intuitively engaging each client with presence, and kindness.  

 

 

I am currently the working in the educator role as a Program Director of the Surgical Technologist Program at REOC Rochester Educational Opportunity Center of SUNY College at Brockport. I have five years’ experience as a Surgical Technologist scrubbed in on several different  surgical and medical, healthcare cases, one being two years at Roswell Park Cancer and Research Institute of Buffalo, NY since 2012, and currently teaching CST requirements in the SUNY system of NYS education since 2014.

    My diverse background in Healthcare and of anatomical, critical thinking, kinesthetic and instrumental teaching skill sets, have given me the experience hands on, qualifying me to guide students into a safe meditative and asana practice of postures.  Thus, creating a healing environment, as well as bring into the classroom a diverse set of perspectives from eastern and western complimentary medicine.  I am consistent with my CEUs within all healthcare professions and continue my education within the realm of healing arts in Yoga, Massage therapy and the Allied healthcare field of Surgical Technology.   My abilities are current and competent and agile to adapt to any given hospital, ambulatory, rehabilitative or educational environment as a practicing LMT, CST or RYT, (Yoga Instructor). 

    Yoga Teacher:  I have been practicing Yoga and Pilates for over 15 years. I am a member of the Yoga International for Yoga Teachers Association (HITTA) as well as registered with Yoga Alliance as RYT-200.  I am currently practicing & Teaching Yoga Sessions at:  IGOE2YOGA Wellness Center Studio, in Lockport and Medina NY.   My Yoga classes consist of Relaxation, Strengthening, Flexibility, Balance and Meditation with focus on Breath awareness (Prana).

    The Himilayan Tradition has been around since the Vedic period, and encompasses the philosophy of yogic teachings in Hatha, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, Transcendental Meditation practices and of the Tantras and Raja styles, and primarily focuses on “Prana" (life force energy) or “Breath awareness” while incorporating warmups, stretching, strengthening and repetitive lengthening through poses or “Asanas” within our core abdominal region or navel center.  I help with movement in the entire musculature system while engaging the nervous system to relaxation mode, thus connecting our whole “being” into balance reaching our fullest potential through mind, body and soul awareness. Our focused attention on breath helps for a more creative happy feeling of life itself. 

**Yoga is transformative when incorporating the power of breath through movement and mindful body coordination. We also incorporate the Purification of Thoughts and emotions:  To prevent internal disturbances from extraneous thoughts and sentiments arising during meditation one needs to practice purification such as the 5 Yamas: non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, abstinence from sensual indulgence, non-possessiveness and the 5 Niyamas; purity, contentment, practices that lead to perfection of body and mind and senses, study that leads to knowledge of the Self, surrender to the ultimate reality.  The 4 Brahma-viharas or right attitudes: Friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.  The antidotes to the disturbing thoughts, prati-paksha-bhavana to ward off the thoughts (vitarkas) opposed to the yamas, niyamas, and brahma-viharas, and so forth.  The practice of all these leads to: 

Ethical Behavior

Loosening the bonds of Karma

Clarity & Purification of mind, making the mind pleasant and clear 

Firming up the physical and mental stability and steadiness in life and during meditation.

 

Another aspect of Purification is the conquest of the Vikshepas; Nine Disturbances in the path of concentration: Sickness, mental laziness, doubt, lack of enthusiasm, sloth, craving for sense-pleasure, false perception, despair caused by failure to concentrate and unsteadiness in concentration and their 5 accompaniments: grief, despondency, trembling of the body and irregular breathing.

**With Mindfulness, Breath Awareness and Asana Practice you will help to conquer disturbances and steady the Mind and create Peace, Peace and More Peace into your life in its entirety. 

 

Points of Practice: 

Practice in a clean, quiet and well ventilated space

Practice on a firm carpet or non-skid surface

Practice with bare feet or yoga socks with skid free sole bottoms.

Wear non-binding clothing for free movement

Props can be helpful; not essential

Practice on an empty stomach and bladder; preferably after a bowel movement

Common practice times are before breakfast and before the evening meal

Practice on a regular basis

Commit to an amount of practice time based on your daily schedule.

 

Benefits of Hatha Yoga

Postural improvements (skeleton)

Joint flexibility

Increased muscle stretch

Increased Muscle Strength

Improved physical balance

Nervous System regulation

Improved endurance

Cardiac fitness and improved circulation

Improved Physical coordination

Cleansing / nourishing of tissues (through respiration/circulation)

Improved concentration

Improved Self-awareness / sensitivity

Better emotional balance

 

 

Description of Yin Yoga: 

 

A Yin Yoga class usually consists of a series of long-held, passive floor poses that mainly work the lower part of the body—the hips, pelvis, inner thighs, lower spine. These areas are especially rich in connective tissues. The poses are held for up to three to five minutes, sometimes longer. Yin Yoga is based on the Taoist concept of yin and yang, opposite and complementary principles in nature. Yin is the stable, unmoving, hidden aspect of things; yang is the changing, moving, revealing aspect. 

In the body, the relatively stiff connective tissues (tendons, ligaments, and fascia) are yin, while the more mobile and pliable muscles and blood are yang.

 

Benefits:

Different Yin Yoga poses stimulate and remove blocks in the myofascial meridians in the body. This has the effect of balancing the body’s internal organs and systems.

You learn to observe only the pure physical sensations of emotions, without getting caught up in the stories about those emotions.

Stillness: calms and balances the mind and body

Stress and anxiety reduction

Increased circulation

Improved flexibility

Fascial release

Greater joint mobility

Balance to the internal organs and improved flow of chi or prana through meridian stimulation

 

Principles of Yin Yoga Class:

 

Find your appropriate edge: Move slowly and gently into the pose. Don’t go straight to your “maximum” in the pose and never stretch so far as to cause pain.

Stillness: consciously try to release into the pose, and to remain still, without fidgeting or shifting position too much.

Hold the position: start with holding a pose for 1-3 minutes and progress to 5 minutes or more.

 

 

 

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Erin Gugliuzza

443 Vine St
Lockport, NY 14094

Erin Gugliuzza

443 Vine St
Lockport, NY 14094