About Dahlia

        I’ve studied dance and choreography since I was a child.  Although I attended some yoga classes in those early days, it wasn’t until 1995 that started my personal practice.  It was a transformative time in my life when I was looking for a spiritual discipline and exercise regimen.  I found a book on yoga in my mothers library that stated through this practice, my body would find it’s correct weight and become properly proportioned.  I would be more alert - alive.  This was what I was looking for!  I immediately started taking classes and was hooked.

Teaching yoga quickly became a natural segue from my primary role as a student.  With a background in the movement arts, I found myself developing my own choreography's or lesson plans to teach family and friends.  My style is a combination of Iyengar (structure and alignment) and vinyasa (flows).  

       “Yoga has improved my life on all levels.  As I perform the postures (asanas)  with corresponding breath control (pranayama) in a series of flows (vinyasa), I feel my whole mind and body “wake up”. I have increased endurance, flexibility, attention and overall well being.“  

                                             - Dahlia Elizabeth Wist


I have always had a strong desire to help people achieve their highest good and well-being.  In addition to yoga, I also earned a Certificate of Ordination to be an Interfaith Minister in 2005.  In this training I learned meditation instruction, guided visualization, prayers, spiritual counseling, aura energy clearings, clairvoyance and clairsentience.  

My mission is to provide spiritual services that help you create a life of beauty, connection and flow.  Feeling meaning, value and purpose in life where everything supports one another and you're accomplishing what's important to you.  The methods I use involve removing energetic and mental or emotional blocks that are holding you back from fully radiating your True Light.

I live in the Finger Lakes Region of New York ,and can work with clients in any location via Zoom or phone.  For information on services I offer and how to attend a class or set up an appointment, please email me at dahlia@dahliyoga.com.

EDUCATION

Student with Julianne Rice 1995-1999
Understanding the Tarot with Charlene Roache 1997
Teacher Certification with Erich Shiffmann - Moving Into Stillness 1998
Ordained Minister - Universal Church of the Master 2000
Teacher training workshops with Kali Ray 2001
Iyengar training with Lisa Walford 2002
Iyengar workshops at Iyengar Institute of San Francisco 2002
Teacher Certification with Joyce Anue YES - Yoga Education Seminars 2003
San Francisco Yoga Conference 2010
Toastmasters International 2017 - 2021
Ancestral Clearings with John Newton 2020