About Me
I love my job.
I love my job. I get to witness yoga change people’s lives for the better. When a person is diagnosed with a terminal illness or disease, quickly doctors run out of options. I’m not suggesting that yoga will cure them, it won’t. But it teaches them how to control the breath and the mind, how to work with your body and not against it. Which can help with anxiety, depression, pain, mobility. Yoga gives people comfort and control. From that comes hope.
I celebrate when my clients and students find joy in small milestones and I mourn when my elderly or terminally ill clients pass away. I am forever grateful for the imprint they left on me.
I want everyday of my client’s life to be filled with light, calm and hope. Every journey is different and yoga provides a way to embrace each step.
Warmly,
Haley
“From the beginning Haley and I have been mindful of research and evidence based practices of the body’s connection with the mind. Haley has a profound ability to adapt yoga positions to my physical abilities. I was born after an injury to my brain that affected the motor skills on the right side of my body. I have worked through several physical injuries with her during the last 12 years. Haley has worked well with my doctors in coordination with what I'm doing physically. I have seen remarkable improvement in my balance, memory and movement as a result of my work with Haley.”
Sally F. Sears
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Haley Hayes has been teaching and studying yoga for over two decades, focusing on its benefits in clinical populations. Haley’s passion is to make yoga accessible for all abilities and has seen firsthand its transformative power.
Haley’s yoga journey began in 2001 when enrolled in D’ana Baptiste’s 200 hour teacher training program. Along with D’ana’s teacher training she has also completed 200hr RYT at Yoga Jo’s, 300hr and Level 1 Yoga Therapist certification at InBody Academy, 25 hr certification in the Ashtanga primary series, 10 hr intensive with Ana Forrest and participated in workshops with Baron Baptiste, Bryan Kest and Kathryn Budig. She has received instruction at the Jivamukti Yoga Center in NYC, The Iyengar Institutes in NYC and San Francisco, The Kundalini Center in San Francisco and Sonic Yoga in NYC. In 2020, Haley completed her 300 hour and Level 1 yoga therapist teacher training at InBody Academy.
In 2016, Haley graduated from Utah State University receiving her BA in Interdisciplinary Studies. For her senior project, she designed and taught a yoga practice specifically for individuals with Parkinson's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis studying the effects yoga has on movement and mood. Inspired by the outcome of that project, Haley decided to continue to study yoga and pursue a Master of Science in Health & Human Movement specializing in Exercise Science at USU graduating in May 2019. Haley presented her thesis titled “The Effects of a Yoga Intervention on Reactive Balance in Older Adults” at IAYT’s 2019 Symposium on Yoga Research at Kripalu.
Haley is an adjunct instructor for Utah State University’s Yoga Studies minor program teaching Yoga Anatomy, Technique 2 and Yoga 1. She is passionate about sharing the benefits of yoga and has taught classes for CAPSA, Cache County's female inmates, secondary schools throughout Utah and USU's gymnastics, softball and football teams. In 2019, through a grant from the Provost, Haley taught a workshop on self-care to USU academic advisers and gave a presentation on Compassion Fatigue at USU's statewide adviser meeting. Haley also teaches privately yoga therapy classes focusing on individuals with neurodegenerative disorders, anxiety, depression and trauma.
Haley’s love of adventure has led her to some fantastic experiences. She has been scuba diving in Honduras, ice climbing in Switzerland and traveled across Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway. But her greatest experience and most amazing adventure is being a mom to her two beautiful children.