Reach Your Personal Goals!
Train for balance, stability, mobility, flexibility, and achieve healthy aging
Mary currently teaches at LCPY
About
Mary Bridget Hart retired from her practice as a physician in October 2024 and began to build her dream, feeding her passion- teaching yoga and strength and conditioning.
She has practiced yoga for 30+ years, initially studying with one of the senior Iyengar teachers in the US, John Schumacher.
She teaches group classes at LCPY, and private sessions in Yoga, Strength and Conditioning, and Core.
Especially welcomed are yoga beginners, those who are reluctant to enter a crowded studio, and individuals who “used to” have a fitness routine but feel unable or unmotivated to start again.
How It All Started
During the covid lockdown, she offered free classes daily to her clinical staff, with a mixture of Yoga, Core and strength training, and offered guided meditations to provide some respite from the in-hospital work during the epidemic. As an adjunct medical school professor, her medical students, residents and fellows in training also participated. This experience, and the gratitude of her students, cemented her desire to teach after retirement.
Yoga Expertise
Over the years, she has practiced Hatha, Vinyasa, Hot yoga, Ashtanga, Yin and Restorative, concentrating on Iyengar, Hatha, Vinyasa, and often “blending” the different forms. She is especially interested in alignment and form, so that her students receive maximum benefit from their practice.
She completed her 500-hour Yoga teacher training in 2021, with the Yoga and Ayurvedic Center, where she earned her Yoga Alliance Certification (RYT 500). Since that time, she has completed additional Yoga Alliance accredited yoga teacher training and immersion, with certification in Yin Yoga (studying with Paul Teodo), Restorative Yoga, Chair Yoga and Pranayama. She has had a personal meditation practice for many years.
Strength and Conditioning Expertise
Mary has always been active in sports and fitness. An avid downhill skier, she raced in college. Through her adult life, she has run several marathons (Including the Boston Marathon), played singles tennis with the USTA, trained in distance swimming, taken many years of private Pilates instruction, and participated in strength and resistance training for more than 25 years.
She earned her Certification as a Personal Trainer from the North American Sports Medicine program (NASM) in 2021.
Let’s get started!
Fill out this health questionnaire and your sessions will be developed to reach your goals, meet you where you are, and have fun falling in love with fitness! As a physician, Mary will guide you through attainable goal setting in a safe progessive format.
Mary also teaches group Yoga and Strength and Conditioning at Left Coast Power Yoga, voted Best in Oakland by readers polls (Oakland Magazine) for several years. Check the website for her classes:
https://www.leftcoastpoweryoga.com/
Balance and Stability
Mobility and Flexibility
Healthy Aging
Pricing
Sessions can be scheduled with Mary directly by emailing mbridgethart@gmail.com
Generally sessions are offered between 9AM and 6 PM, Monday through Friday.
Some weekend sessions may be scheduled based on availability
Private Session
$80/hr
Shared Session (2 ppl)
$45/hr each
Senior Discount*
$70/hr
Options to add on 15 minutes for additional training, cardio, or meditation are available.
Class packages of 5 ($325) and 10 ($650) are available at a discount. These must be used within 6 months and can be transferred to others.
*Senior discount (over 55 years old) is offered at $70 / hour, with no more than 2 seniors in any class.