Val Wicks

With over 25 years of dedicated yoga practice and 5 years of teaching experience, Valerie brings a warm, encouraging energy to every class. Her sessions strike the perfect balance between fun and challenge, helping students grow in strength, flexibility, and focus.

Valerie is passionate about the many ways yoga supports overall well-being—nurturing the mind, strengthening the body, and fostering a positive outlook on life. She believes regular practice can help prevent or ease many of the challenges we face as we age.

Classes are thoughtfully designed to be accessible and restorative, with a gentle background playlist to set a calming tone. Students make use of props such as bolsters, blankets, yoga blocks, and belts to deepen stretches, enhance alignment, and increase comfort in many poses. Valerie also incorporates self-discovery work using yoga balls to release tension and restore elasticity in the fascia, the body’s connective tissue.

Participants leave feeling more open, mobile, and energized—having stretched, strengthened, and awakened both body and mind.