Jill Covert, Yoga Therapist, LMSW
Our bodies are places of storage, enjoyment, struggle, love and hate. We take care of them and abuse them. We hold onto things that don't serve us any longer and don't know how to let them go.
Start connecting with your body. Learn how to listen to it, how to heal it and how to improve connection with yourself and others, create unconditional positive regard for yourself and others.
Yoga therapy lets you do this using movement, awareness, breathing. and meditation.
Yoga therapy is somatic movement that helps you to connect with your body and realize your potential by creating acceptance and change.
Back pain, headaches, high blood pressure, arthritis, fatigue, depression, anxiety, sleep issues, relationship issues, and other physical and emotional conditions are all improved by yoga therapy.
Let me hold space for you to be in your body.
We will move slowly and with your needs. There are no expectations of flexibility or previous experience and nothing we need to do during our session other than being with things as they are in the moment.
Therapeutic Offerings
Individuals
Connect with yourself in a quiet supported setting using yoga and supported postures with the gentle direction and support of a certified yoga therapist to create present centered awareness and promote healing.
Groups
Experience yoga therapy in a group setting. Move your body in a slow and mindful way, allowing for connection.
Couples
Take time with a partner to connect and support one another while noticing the dynamics of your relationship with the support of a certified yoga therapist.
Yoga Nidra
Join me for yoga Nidra on it's own, with sound healing, movement and other options to relax, reset and rejuvenate.
Menopause Gatherings/Retreats/Classes
join me in a variety of Menopause/Perimenopause classes, retreats, and a free menopause gathering monthly.
Meet Jill
I'm Jill Covert, a Certified Yoga Therapist and Licensed Master of Social Work
I have been a Yoga Therapist since 2023. I work with individuals, groups and couples to help them explore their inner world and their relationships. I am a social worker who has worked with medically complex older and disabled adults with anxiety, depression, and prolonged stress. I was seeing that they couldn't be in the body. They were taking medications and seeing multiple doctors, but it wasn't getting to the root of the problem. Living in poverty, history of trauma, and chronic stress were the real problems and no one was addressing it through the body.
In Yoga Therapy it's about the body. working from the bottom up (body first and then involving the mind) instead of top down (thinking and adjusting behaviors to affect the body). Through the use of movement, yoga, meditation, and tools like Ayurveda and breathwork we will explore what is really going on in your body and you will gain practical insight from yourself about the next steps.
It can be hard to be in the body for many reasons including trauma, medical illness, and pain but yoga therapy can help by moving slowly and exploring the origin of these challenges in the body. In my own life, yoga therapy has changed everything; improved stress management, relationships, self-awareness and acting from a place of inner awareness instead of overwhelm.
Individual sessions allow me to work with my clients to find what is important to them, how they're showing up in the body and how to move forward with increased awareness and insight. No quick fixes here but the opportunity to experience yourself in a way that increases connection and brings you home to yourself.
I am also in Perimenopause and offer classes for women in Perimenopause and Menopause and people looking to stay strong in their bodies as they age. This is something that's become very important to me as I have started moving into the final part of my life. Perhaps you are looking for an 8-week menopause group that allows you to connect with other women and learn about yourself and your body in this transition, I offer these too and a free menopause gathering monthly.
Ready? Schedule a time to talk to me about what you are looking for or sign up for one of my classes or menopause gathering.
Contact Me
I am currently offering in person private yoga therapy sessions, group classes and couples sessions, in Canandaigua and online anywhere else. If you are interested, please reach out to me. I would love to talk to you more about yoga therapy and the ways it can work for you.
New Address as of 11/1/26
24 Coy St Canandaigua
5297 Parkside Dr
Suite 413
Canandaigua NY 14424