Hannah Carrizoza

As the bookstore operator at The Rio Retreat campus I preform many tasks and duties. Some of my duties include, taking inventory of merchandise, displaying and pricing inventory, purchasing bookstore merchandise and necessities for the Rio Retreat, managing and calculating bookstore finances and more. I also construct bookbags for the weekly participants, create signs and schedules, print copies and anything else needed to help the workshops run smoothly and assist the therapists.

As the Activities Coordinator at the Rio Retreat Center my main objective is to manage evening activities for workshop participants. Some of these activities include Thai chi, live music, equine assisted learning, a weekly 12 step meeting, yoga, acupuncture, and aquatic free time. Along with making sure these activities are put in place I also participate in facilitating many of these activities including providing auricular acupuncture, teaching yoga, providing sound healing and aroma therapy, leading the weekly 12-step meeting, and stepping in as the lifeguard during pool hours. Along with facilitating and managing activities I do many other duties to include opening the retreat on Sundays and welcoming participants as they arrive, providing tours and serving Sunday night dinner. It is my job in the evenings to make sure our guests are comfortable and supported, assisting and resolving any maintenance or housing difficulties, organizing shuttle rides into town, and providing any emotional support for participants as needed.

Kula Yoga is community-oriented yoga studio offering a wide variety of classes, specializing in restorative yogic style classes and offering ‘Soul’ classes, which integrate the Christian faith into the spirituality of the class. I teach several classes here weekly. All of the classes I teach are gentle classes that integrate components of Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga and Yoga Nidra.

This is an independently owned and operated business of which I established May of 2018. I have traveled to many different business locations valley wide to include: Proving Ground MMA, Remedy Fitness, The Rio Retreat Center, The Meadows Ranch and Evo Fit, providing various healing modalities both in a class setting and privately. Electric Lotus Yoga Classes and workshops are structured around providing immense relaxation and restoration as well as teaching stress-management and resiliency skills. Electric Lotus Yoga also uniquely provides yoga specifically catered to release trauma. These classes teach participants valuable skills on using body awareness, breath technique and life coaching to restructure cognitive distortions associated with physically manifested trauma. Utilizing the tools taught in this course, participants can begin to release held tensions and trauma, improve self-esteem, improve mind-body connection and reprogram the mind to approach adversity and stress from a relaxed state of awareness as opposed to over-reactivity.