Private Yoga Sessions

Types of Private Yoga Sessions

  • Foundations

    Receive individualized support in establishing the building blocks of your yoga practice and finding the confidence to step into a public class. Ideal for students who are new to yoga, a Foundations Private will give you the time and space to navigate and integrate foundational alignment in all poses.

  • Advancing Your Asana

    Is there a certain pose that you never quite have enough time, space, or clarity to “get it” in a public class? An Advancing Your Asana Private will offer individualized and focused building blocks to help you work towards a pivotal pose, find clarity in particular angles, or learn common sequences. Ideal for students growing their practice, seasoned practitioners, and yoga teachers.

  • Therapeutics

    For anyone working through a new season of life, physical injury, mental or emotional pressure, or major transition, a Therapeutic Private offers individualized sequencing of poses that offer time and space for healing. This type of session will vary greatly by individual, but students can generally expect lots of prop use, hands on adjustments, and a conversational approach to practice.

  • Self-Care

    Take an hour to be cared for and care for yourself. A Self-Care Private offers a combination of focused movement, assisted stretching, hands on assists, and depending on the teacher, may incorporate additional modalities such as sound healing, astrology readings, or massage.

  • Pre and Postnatal

    Find confidence and ease in your yoga practice during the ever-changing season of pregnancy. Pre- and Postnatal Privates are led by trained and experienced yoga teachers who can offer you variations and modifications of common poses to keep you practicing throughout pregnancy, as well as specialized sequences for managing many of the common experiences of growing and delivering a baby.

Semi-Private Yoga Session

Schedule a private yoga class for you and up to two others. Get personalized support to learn the basics with a friend, find movement together with a partner or learn modifications with other moms-to-be. You organize the party and the cost is a flat rate of $150 for the group.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • A private is a 60-minute, one-on-one session between a student and teacher. Different from the pace of a public class, a private allows for student and teacher to remain in an ongoing conversation, address specific questions and needs through prop use + hands on assists, and to slow things down in a way that isn't typically possible in a large group.

  • Anyone can benefit from a private session! If you have specific questions you would like answered, want to build your confidence in public classes, have an injury or circumstance that you're learning how to navigate, are building towards a specific pose, or simply desire some individualized care, then a private can be just the thing.

    • To begin, select a teacher that is right for your needs. All of our teachers have their own unique style and each offer different specializations and private types. You can read through their bios and offerings below.

    • Click the "Request to Book" button to view your selected teacher’s Calendly scheduler availability. Select a date and time.

    • Once your request is confirmed, you will receive a confirmation email from our administrative team, along with a link for online payment. Your session will not be reserved until payment is received.

    • Need help deciding who is the right teacher for you? Fill out the form at the bottom of this page and our team will help find someone who meets your individual needs.

  • Pricing for a private session is based on the teacher's level of experience and specialty training. Cost per session typically ranges from $100-$150.

  • No, tips are not accepted for private sessions.

  • The full, non-refundable cost of the private session is due at confirmation of booking. If you need to reschedule your session, you may do so 24 hours or more in advance. Any session cancelled within 24 hours is non-refundable and non-transferrable.

Our Teaching Team

Alice Lucas

  • Alice Lucas is a multi-disciplinary 500-hour yoga instructor and teaches anything from a gentle restorative class to a fast-paced vinyasa with artful intelligence. Before becoming a full-time yoga teacher, Alice taught first grade and loves sharing her passion for yoga with people of all ages and ability levels. While pregnant in 2023, Alice earned her prenatal yoga teaching certification and loves working with mothers in pregnancy and postpartum. She also offers reiki energy healing and loves to incorporate this modality, as well as hands-on assists and sound healing, into her sessions.

Amber Green

  • Amber has been teaching yoga for 16 years, has thousands of hours of yoga training and is in school to become a physical therapy assistant. For private lessons she focuses on a therapeutic, alignment, and technical approach steeped in the cultural roots of yoga. She works with people who want to deepen their understanding of alignment, deepen postures and breath, are working with an injury or want to reset the nervous system. Tactile, verbal and hands on adjustments will be given in each private lesson unless you would prefer no physical adjustments.

Ann Fancy

Cindy Levine

Claire Sophia

Elyse Brogdon

Faith Sheffield

Jess Ackerman

  • Jess is a yoga instructor specializing in yin and restorative yoga for renewing the mind, body, and soul. A high school teacher, Jess understands firsthand the chronic stress and busyness that we embody on a daily basis, and believes deeply that intentional practices of rest are essential to find balance within ourselves. She works with people who want to explore what it means to be rather than to do, those who want to experience what it means to feel deep ease for simply existing. For private lessons, you can expect a customized experience of physical, mental, and emotional rest with long holds, supportive props, and gentle adjustments. Jess’s intention is that you leave each lesson feeling nourished, rested, and at ease.

Kacee Must

  • Kacee brings to Citizen, and her teaching, the unique gift of helping you redirect your mind to gain insight through asana. As owner and founder of Citizen Yoga, her teaching is grounded in tradition, and is focused on alignment of body, mind and intellect. Always a student, Kacee embraces all schools of yoga, building upon her deep Vedanta foundation finding truth in different traditions, methodologies, and lenses such as Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda.

Najee Robbins

  • Najee has been teaching yoga and mentoring teachers in the Metro Detroit area for over ten years. With a special focus in restorative yoga and a background in birth doula work, her approach to teaching centers integrity, support, curiosity and agency. She offers all five variations of privates sessions at Citizen. Her Therapeutics and Self Care sessions center around restorative yoga which can be particularly supportive for folks who are caregivers, experiencing grief, difficulty with sleep, and/or living with chronic pain.

Melissa Wagasy

  • ​​Melissa teaches physically challenging classes in an inclusive and accessible manner that shows students what they are capable of. Alignment, connection and breath work are focuses of each practice. She has a way to bring lightness and fun to the practice, as well.

    Melissa is a E-RYT 200 teacher through Yoga Alliance and did her teacher training with Citizen Yoga. She is currently studying for her Katonah Yoga and 500 hour certifications.

Samantha Mee

Shay Smith

Sitara Bird

Soojin Kim

  • Soojin has been teaching yoga since 2013. She has over a thousand hours in teacher training with a diverse background in understanding from alignment yoga, therapeutic yoga, kundalini yoga, Ayurveda, Yoga Nidra, to Bhakti yoga. Her biggest intention is holding a safe and brave space for practice and exploration.

    Soojin loves to empower students by connecting them to their bodies through breath and deepen their connection of self-understanding and acceptance through physical asana, breathwork and other movement modalities such as qi gong and somatic movement.

Steph Dallman

Let’s work together.

Not sure which teacher or private type is right for you? Let our expert studio manager determine which teacher is the best fit for your needs or goals.