Local Yoga Classes in Beaufort
Back to Health Yoga at The Beau Coast Clubhouse on Shearwater Lane
Tuesdays & Thursdays 9am-10am
This all levels class focuses on increasing well-being through thoughtfully curated sequences to open the mind and body. Strength your core, reduce pain, enhance embodiment and build balance in this class designed to support your physical and emotional health through longer-held postures and hands-on assists to take you deeper. Beginners and advanced practitioners welcome.
Inclusive Donation-Based Classes ~ All are welcome; no experience necessary.
Suggested donation $15-$20
Sign up and pay in person. Cash (preferred), check, or Venmo.
Betsy’s Style
Betsy’s compassion-based yoga classes nourish and nurture the nervous system. Her classes re-align and energize the body and mind through longer holds thoughtfully sequenced in intentional flows. Pranayama practices (breathwork), therapeutic adjustments, and yoga philosophy give students the opportunity to experience embodiment on and off the yoga mat. With a desire to make yoga accessible to all people, her classes are great for beginners as well as seasoned practitioners and are a safe space for bodies of all ages, shapes, and sizes.
Other Offerings
Private Yoga & meditation: Individual and Group sessions
Private yoga classes offer an array of unique benefits for both beginners and seasoned practitioners. All private classes are customized to your body’s needs and include a pre-consultation to discuss your health goals. You will receive documentation of each session to keep as a reference guide. Each class includes mindful assists and therapeutic adjustments to support you in deepening your practice. Read more about the benefits of private yoga below.
Yoga & Meditation workshops for Work teams
Gift your staff a yoga and/or meditation workshop designed to reduce stress, enhance focus, cultivate calm, and support well-being. Customized workshops allow your staff to rejuvenate while fostering team cohesion. When you invest in the health of your team, you invest in the long-term health of your business by improving employee satisfaction and increasing employee retention rates.
Yoga for Children & Families
One-on-one yoga for children of all ages mitigates anxiety, cultivates calm, develops confidence and courage, and enhances overall well-being. Betsy highly customizes these classes to best suit the individual child. She also offers small group classes for birthday parties, homeschool groups, aftercare programs and more. Additionally, she teaches private family yoga classes. In these unique sessions, she works with families to build a nurturing sequence for everyone.
Email elizabeth.bertram1@gmail.com to book a private session or workshop
Benefits of Private Yoga Sessions
Honoring limitations & Injuries
Transform injuries and limitations into opportunities as Betsy supports you in developing a practice that honors your abilities. Let yoga be a part of your healing process.
Developing a Home Practice
With a customized home practice designed specifically for the areas of the body you want to strengthen and stretch, you are can practice anywhere, anytime.
Working on specific postures
Receive alignment cues and adjustments to support mastering specific postures.
Cultivating Emotional Well-being
Yoga supports mental and emotional health as much as physical health. Learn how to regulate your emotions through breathing and moving.
Celebrating Life’s Events big & Small
A yoga class is a fabulous addition to any celebratory event ranging from a birthday party to a wedding weekend and everything in-between.
Giving a gift
Give the gift of bliss in the form of a rejuvenating private session.
Background
Betsy’s yoga journey began when she attended her first class at age eleven. After nearly a decade of practice, she earned her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in 2011. In August of 2012, she returned to Kripalu to complete Shake Your Soul Yoga Dance Teacher Training with Daniel Leven. Additionally, she completed the Thousand Petals Yoga six-month immersion program in 2014 and the five-month meditation program in 2019. She has taught yoga for over twelve years to diverse students from ages four to one hundred.
She believes yoga is for everyone and every body of all ages, shapes, and sizes. As a yoga teacher, she strives to make the practice more accessible through a supportive, safe, and non-competitive environment that cultivates connection to self and others. Yoga supported her in recovering from a decade-long struggle with an eating disorder and body dysmorphia, which informs her conscious, body-positive approach to teaching. Her compassion-centered classes inspire exploration, embodiment, and enjoyment. Healing on an individual and collective level is at the core of her teaching philosophy.
Testimonials
Betsy’s combination of attention to breath, postures, and mindfulness is perfect. -Maria Brown
Before she even begins a class or private session, Betsy's open, compassionate spirit allows her students to relax. Her nurturing approach to teaching creates space for spirituality and self-reflection, but never feels too serious. Before, during, and after each class with Betsy, I experience an innate sense of comfort, rejuvenation, and vitality. She is one of the best yoga teachers I've ever had. - Marley Parker
Betsy Bertram not only brings expert training to your yoga practice, but she brings heart and healing hands. Wherever you are in your practice, beginner, elder, advanced, if you are searching for someone to inspire you to get on the mat, help you realize your health goals, or just get more out of your current practice, Betsy is the best!! Her beautiful voice guides you through a concentrated flow all while giving really helpful, clear instructions on how to improve and develop deep mind-body connection. I love working with her. - Barbara McKenzie
“Balancing skill and soul, Betsy’s yoga instruction is grounding and inspiring. I always leave Betsy’s yoga class feeling enlivened, aligned and inspired. I’ve practiced yoga with more than 70 teachers and Betsy is one of my top five ever.” - Megan Toben
“Betsy is a very bright light in this world. She vulnerably shares herself and her experiences to help others along on their journey through life. Being guided through yoga asanas with Betsy is unique from anything else I have ever encountered. Besides the fact that she is exceptionally knowledgeable about the practice, the real magic is in her presence and energy. Her soothing voice, words, and gentle assists are nourishing to the mind, body, and spirit. She intuitively offers the yogis exactly what they need. It is a deeply healing experience." - Amy Smith
“Betsy is a gifted teacher and knows anatomy and yoga and meditation that she puts together in her classes to make sure we get the most of the hour without injury. We attended a private lesson with Betsy and she was so helpful getting this stiff old man into some poses by adaptations. Her genuineness, her kindness and her skills make her the consummate yoga instructor.” - John Hughs
“Betsy's gentle spirit and warm welcome for each student make her yoga class one you will remember and want to return to. She thoughtfully guided us through early morning classes with her soothing voice and perfect demonstrations so that I always left with a sense of calm, connection, and increased vitality. Her private sessions allowed her to address our personal goals and bodies with gentle assists and recommendations. Betsy is a gifted yoga teacher for all ages and I fully recommend her classes.” - Charlotte Hughes
“We had the pleasure of working with Betsy when our son joined her for private yoga lessons. Betsy made practicing yoga engaging, fun, restorative, and peaceful. She was playful, adaptable and made the yoga poses relatable for him. They pretended to be superheroes, she let him dress up in his costume and do poses, roaring like lions to learn some breath work, and helped him really take in the core elements through his lens of a child, with ease. She was so creative and incorporated nature into some of the elements as well. Our son loved working with Betsy and I personally found Betsy to be so delightful, so attuned, and ideal for any age to work with her on their yoga practice. We went to a wonderful group class with her later on and our son could enter, more confident with the foundational skills from his time with her. Besty has a natural gift for connecting with others, especially kids, and finding the wonder and joy in them and their time together. We highly recommend Betsy!” -Rachel Thomas
I’ve been doing yoga on my own for several years in various classes. Working with Betsy takes the experience to another level as she customizes her approach based on the poses or areas I want to focus on as well infusing Reiki into her practice for healing and stress relief. Her guidance and patience combined with her ability to articulate the process make each move easy to visualize— and accomplish! Betsy’s meditative approach and healing touch enhance my overall well-being. Her presence is a comfort and she is a joy to work with. I’m so grateful. -Landie Canfield
“Each week we look forward to our young daughter's yoga sessions with Betsy as her calmness and nurturing energy radiate throughout our chaotic household bringing grounding to us all the moment she walks in the door! Betsy is creative and playful while teaching age appropriate nervous system regulation skills, in addition to yoga poses. The tools she's learned from Betsy have empowered her to re-regulate during stressful times. We are so grateful to have a role model for our daughter who embodies warmth and genuine connection, promotes peacefulness and pours love into her work which resonates in our daughter and through our whole family. Betsy is such a gift! Anyone at any level will benefit from practicing yoga with her.”
-Ashely Johnson