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🌸 FAQ – SAS Holistic Support

Q1: Who can participate in SAS sessions?
A: We are only accepting female and woman-identifying individuals.

B: Male-identifying individuals can connect with our counterpart trainer, Mackenzie Swan: @swanstong.ca.

Q2: What types of sessions do you offer?

  • 🧘‍♀️ Trauma-informed holistic yoga

  • 🤲 Gentle and energetic movement & yoga therapy

  • 💆‍♀️ Thai Yoga Massage & body-based practices

  • 🧘 Mindfulness & breathwork

  • 🛌 Reiki, sound baths, sustainable sensory tools, daily rituals and tarot

  • 🌍 International Yoga Teacher Training (at your pace, yours or our space) we teach the teacher

  • We are continuously updating our knowledge base, certifications, and integrating science-based, Ayurvedic, yogic, and trauma-informed practices. Contact me

Q3: How can I participate and where are sessions offered?

  • 🏠 In-studio (Fort McMurray → Edmonton)

  • 💻 Online: live-stream & on-demand

  • ✨ Special events: tarot, group circles, holistic workshops upon request contact me

  • 🌍 Private/online 200-hour yoga teacher training

Q4: What is your approach to perimenopause / midlife support?

  • We teach and live how to honour the body, regulate energy, thrive during transformation, find power within, breathe and relax in a self united sustainable way

Q5: Where can I read reviews about SAS?

Q6: About SAS – Our Background

  • Mission: Empower women, especially in perimenopause/midlife

  • Philosophy: Trauma-informed, holistic, science + Ayurveda + yogic philosophy

  • Offerings: Yoga, Thai Yoga Massage, mindfulness, sensory tools, spiritual events, 24-month teacher training

  • Core Belief: “Your body is your friend, your vessel, your temple. The more you honour it, the more it supports you, and support begins within.”

Q7: What types of holistic trauma-centered yoga styles do you offer?

  • 🌀 Kundalini Yoga our Modern Approach with an Ancient Yogic Technology.

  • 🔄 Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and Yoga Therapy for Active Energy Cleanse and Flow

  • 🌿 Restorative Yoga and Sensory Relief for deep, supported rest

  • 🧘‍♀️ Yin Yoga for an Activated or Restorative experience

  • 💤 Yoga Nidra with Nervous System Decompression

Q8: I am already working with a lab with hormone testing, how can SAS offer support?

  • How I Work With Lab Results within my scope of practice, without diagnosing or prescribing, we work together alongside your medical provider or lab service.

  • You order your tests through a licensed clinician, natural path or approved lab partner, and I receive a coach-friendly summary.

  • My role is to help you holistically embody and understand what the patterns mean for your lifestyle

  • Connect the dots between symptoms, stress, sleep, movement, habits, and hormones

  • Build a grounded, holistic plan to support your nervous system and overall well-being.

  • Your doctor handles the medical side.

  • I guide you through the daily practices that create real, integrated and lasting change and sustainability, anytime, anywhere around anyone.

  • “We custom create these styles of trauma-informed yoga and movement and adapted for women in midlife or perimenopause.” Shantal

🌟 Empower Yourself. Regain Clarity. Feel Steady Again.