Soledad is a Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) and Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) who uses bodywork and conscious movement to help her clients know more their own body and themselves.

In the one on one movement practice with clients, she integrates elements of Iyengar yoga, Ashtanga yoga, Akhanda yoga traditions with Pilates, the alignment and body awareness of dance, and the functional and strength of resistance training, to create an enhanced practice that maximizes the benefits to the whole individual. She is also a passionate Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Teacher. 

“ Dancing and movement are a part of life on the island of Puerto Rico where I grew up. As a child I knew the innocence of relaxed breathing. But I really discovered the power of breath when I was 19. After a yoga practice, during Savasana (corpse pose) as I was lying still on the floor, letting the gentle flow of the breath move my body I felt the edges of my body open up and melt away. I realized my body started to open and surrender. My mind followed and I experienced a new openness that set the pattern to further investigate the real meaning of what was happening.

By then I thought I had an understanding and a connection with my body. I had been dancing for years in a semi-professional contemporary dance company. Dancing was a way of expressing and giving form to the formless inside. But it wasn’t complete.

More of that depth came as I was faced with intense difficulty. For me it happened in the break up of my first long term relationship. It felt like the world had ended and I had a choice, either to open or close into the pain. Somewhere in my heart I chose to open. And with that experience I learned the value of openness. My world as I had known it had ended and as I kept opening there was the unexpected and the new.

I spent the next few years learning all I could about different types of yoga, and massage. After finishing a BA in Anthropology I started a long trip to South America and was introduced to Vipassana Meditation. These silent ten-day meditation retreats were an amazing tool that showed me to be still, see and discover the world inside. In the years that followed I continued my studies in massage therapy, I worked assisting in the teaching of massage therapy classes and I had a private massage therapy practice in Argentina.

My first Yoga Teacher Training was in Iyengar tradition, then I started teaching yoga in 2007. I had the opportunity of attending the Yoga Teacher Training with the big-hearted Yogi Vishvketu in 2010.

I’m enormously grateful to my teachers for the light that they bring on the meaning of life and the beyond.”

Soledad and her husband Mariano created Integrated Therapies together since 2011, and also collaborated in the creation of their beautiful children.  Soledad has taught yoga and Yoga Teacher Trainings at different studios in Edmonton. She also enjoys gardening, forest walks and training her dog. 

Provided Treatments:  Massage Therapy, Relaxation Massage, Deep tissue, Prenatal, Couples massage, Private Yoga