About me & Beyond Vinyasa
I’m extremely passionate about helping you heal from your past trauma.
My name is Rob Hanrieder, owner of Beyond Vinyasa, your guide to healing and transformation.
I help you find and release the barriers and blockages that are holding you back from achieving what you want in life.
By using intuitive breathwork and coaching, I can help you release deeply buried trauma without the need for conscious mind involvement, unlike traditional talk therapy.
- Transformational Breath Coach
- Certified Yoga Instructor
- Reiki Practitioner
- Intuitive Wellness Coach
“I had always wanted to get into yoga and I had attended many classes but was never able to turn my brain off long enough to see any benefits…until I met Rob. There was something so calming and peaceful about his classes and the way he spoke. He always seemed to deliver the right message when I needed it. Fast forward to January 2022 when I received an autoimmune diagnosis.
Everything I read pointed in the direction of unhealed trauma and how you carry it within your body. I did not want to accept my fate and believed that I could heal myself but I knew I needed help and I knew who I felt comfortable enough with to start this journey.
Rob took time to get to know what was happening in my life and what had happened in my past and from there he came up with healing, guided meditations, many hours of talk therapy, movement and Reiki. I left every session feeling like I had excavated old crap and was excited to move forward.
Having been working with Rob for the better part of a year now, I can clearly see the benefits of everything he has done for me and helped me work through. Old triggers no longer trigger me, I can process and work through issues faster and the biggest impact is that the pain from the autoimmune disease has been completely manageable without needing immune suppressing drugs. I believe you cross paths with people for a reason and I will be forever grateful that I met Rob.”
From Stressed to Blessed
This Was Me Back In 2010
I was the CFO for my own Oilfield Manufacturing company. We had grown our business from grass roots to 5 divisions across two provinces in Northern Alberta and British Columbia Canada. We had hundreds of employees and had been thriving for many years.
This was a picture taken by Northwest Business Magazine for their cover. This was a picture of me standing in our stress relieving oven at our Grande Prairie Location.
Under that painted on smile I was dying inside. I had followed societies model for life, goto school, get a job, get married, have some kids, buy a house, make lots of money and you’ll surely be happy.
I was 36 years old with no personal debt, lots of money in the bank, beautiful wife and two amazing daughters and a plan that haunted me to end it all. The stress & anxiety led to panic attacks and I began to spiral out of control.
I was using prescription drugs (SSRI’s) and alcohol to numb the thoughts to get through to the next day….
This only worked for so long.
In late November 2011. I woke up like any other day and vomited due to having a touch of a hangover and a ton of hangxiety. I pulled myself together went to work, sat at my desk and went in a catatonic state, for how long I’m not sure.
My business partner walked into my office and clearly saw I was NOT OK and asked me what was wrong. With tears rolling down my checks I shrugged my shoulders and I was sent home. That day I hit my first major line in the sand moment of my life.
My Nervous BreakThrough.
Fast forward 6 months.
I relocated my family to Sylvan Lake, Alberta. We bought a house and decided to start fresh. I continued to heal trying so many different modalities, most being traditional like medications and talk therapy. They were bandaids for what was really causing me the pain and struggle.
Suppressed, Oppressed and Repressed trauma from the past. Decades of buried painful emotional experiences.
In 2014 I came to realize there was a yoga studio a few block from my house. There was something about the place that intrigued me.
Yoga was never on my radar.
After a dozen or more nudges from the universe I worked up the courage to set foot in the door. I was so unbelievably terrified of judgement. At the time I was close to 300lbs and I had this idea that only fit people did yoga and I would be judged as not being there for the right reasons.
I did my first Yoga class in January of 2014 and all I can say is WOW!!!
It was f*cking difficult to move my body through the poses and I did it anyway. Something shifted when I was able to be told what to do, how to breath, where and how to position my body moving through the asanas.
After about 15 minutes of breathing and moving, stuck energy that I had suppressed, compressed and oppressed for many years started to gradually release from my subconscious heart space. Trauma was slowly, naturally releasing from my heart space like layers being removed from an onion. One by one, class after class and it felt amazing to use something other than drugs and alcohol to cope.
Who KNEW? Lol.
That first year I practiced so many different kinds of yoga at this studio several hundred times. With every class a little bit of the old me returned. No longer needing alcohol or my prescriptions to navigate daily life.
In the fall of 2015, my friends at the studio said, “Rob you should really take a teacher Training”.
So I did….
In November of 2015 I took a 100-hour hot yoga teacher training. In 2016 I took another 200-hour yoga teacher training and began my teaching journey in June of 2016.
To date, I have taught over 3000 classes and counting at a dozen different studios and places around the world.
10+
years of experience
1,100+
people guided
3,500+
classes taught
Persistence beats Resistance
A mantra I used when I was struggling on my mat to move my body into the shapes the practice called for.
I fell in love with the healing process that breathing and moving my body intentionally gave me access to.
This handstand on the left took me two years and 60 lbs of weight loss to be able to hold for only a few seconds. Every time I accomplished what my mind said was impossible I became stronger and regained much of the qualities I had lost with my breakthrough. Confidence, self love, compassion to name a few.
I’m a science guy and I get bored easily
Fast forward to 2018, I found a program online called Architect of BEing.
A program that tied psychology, hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) together and gave me the understanding of the science and how I could tie it to spirituality. I learned the ultimate tools of how to unwind my mind.
This was a 26 week program offered over zoom weekly with so much to learn and in in turn weave into my way of BEing.
I was blessed in the fact that I was teaching 5-6 yoga classes every week and as I was learning I was naturally implementing this knowledge into how I taught my classes.
I began to see the correlation between breathe and movement and it’s importance in how we can heal the emotional body (Trauma). When I’m able to tap into the zone, my FLOWSTATE, I am able to see, feel and hear the energy of my students. How to read their body movements and breath. Their bodies telling me what they need in each moment of their class.
I completed that program and went on to be a master trainer for it, teaching hundreds of people all around the world before and during the covid years.
This gave me the gift of reflection. How to connect with people at a very deep vulnerable level and spurred me into intuitive wellness coaching.
I had been trained in hands on assists in my yoga trainings and for many years helping students find their fullest expression in each pose. After classes students would come to me and ask how or why they would feel different healing energies through my touch.
I never really understood other than I was sending positive energy through me to them when I offered assists?
At this point I consciously really didn’t understand energy work (reiki) so I did what any curious guy would do and signed up for a Level 1 & 2 reiki course. In April 2021 I took my in person Reiki training and oddly enough I fully understood the principles and realized I was a natural Reiki practitioner.
My Certifications
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