Integrity

Empowerment

Unity

Hi, my name is Lily Goodman! I am a 500-Hour Registered Yoga Instructor, YACEP, and a Usui Reiki Master/Teacher.

I received my yoga teacher training in 2022 at the beautiful Baja, Mexico campus of Yandara Yoga Institute, a Yoga Alliance certified school that has trained teachers since 2003. I trained in Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, and Restorative styles of yoga as well as Breathwork, Meditation, and Bhakti.

Yoga has been a tremendous resource for me in relieving anxiety and stress. Not only does it feel good to get your body moving through yoga, but yoga can produce powerful impacts on the nervous system.

So many of us spend the majority of our lives in the sympathetic nervous system, the network of nerves that activates the “fight or flight” response. Yoga activates the parasympathetic nervous system, the network of nerves that relaxes your body and helps run your body’s life-sustaining systems. This is a huge reason why I believe yoga has changed my life and can change other people’s lives.

I specifically enjoy teaching Yin and Restorative yoga because I feel that these styles are more conducive to activating the parasympathetic nervous system and staying in that relaxed state for longer.

I have taken continuing yoga education courses in various styles of yoga and became a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher and Registered Continuing Education Provider with Yoga Alliance in 2025.

While in Mexico, I took the opportunity to receive my Reiki I training and attunement from Allison Eaton. I deepened my Reiki channeling through performing self-Reiki, Reiki for friends & family, and by working with a group of established practitioners. I decided to receive my Reiki II, Master, and Teacher trainings and attunements from Jeannette Hollenbeck at her Reiki Essence Institute in Virginia Beach. I have been conducting full 1:1 Reiki healing sessions for my clients since 2022.

I grew up in a spiritual environment and have worked with crystal energy ever since I was a young girl. My mother is a tarot reader and she studied Feng Shui and crystals to write her novel Feng Shui Love. She taught me much of what I know about crystals and tarot. Through years of working with crystal energy, I have found the benefits of these energetic tools to be very powerful. My work with chakras started before I attended my trainings. After recognizing some chakra healing that I needed to perform for myself, I dived into the topic. Little did I know that I would learn much more about the chakras and how to heal them through my yoga and reiki trainings. I have found these tools to enhance the benefits of yoga and reiki for myself, which is why I incorporate them into my offerings for others.

Outside of these practices, I am working towards becoming an international law attorney. I received my Bachelor’s and Master’s in Global Affairs from George Mason University, and am currently attending law school at University of Richmond. In my free time, I like to bake, read, and get together with friends and family. I jump at the opportunity to travel whenever I can. I love to step out of my comfort zone and immerse myself in different cultures.