Hi there! My name is Olga Kabel. I am a yoga practitioner, yoga teacher, and yoga therapist who is constantly striving toward balance on and off the mat. In my daily life, I wear many different hats.
About
I practice yoga
My yoga practice has carried me over the peaks and valleys of my life for the past 25 years. During this time, my practice has evolved in response to the changes that I have gone through. I use yoga to keep my body strong and limber, to keep my physiology running smoothly, to keep my mind clear and focused, and to maintain a sense of perspective and connection. In short, I practice yoga to balance out everything else that’s happening in my life and facilitate change that translates into living a more balanced, joyful, and fulfilling life.
I teach yoga classes and work with students one-one-one
I have been teaching yoga classes and working with students one-on-one for many years. While I do enjoy the energy and the comradery of yoga classes, I find that the most profound shifts happen when we work with students privately. When you work with someone privately, you have the responsibility to make yoga work for that particular person. To make it possible, you have to learn as much as you can about the student, carefully choose the elements of the practice that are appropriate for them, plan the practice according to their needs, and help them integrate it into their life. I find that through this process, the student takes ownership of their practice, which leads to significant changes in how they approach their body and their life. It is this fundamental shift in perspective that I find so exciting and fulfilling to observe.
I write about yoga and yoga therapy
Over the past 12 years, I wrote over 500 articles about using yoga and yoga therapy. Most of my articles/posts focus on the following:
- How to use yoga to become more resilient on every level of our system
- How to choose appropriate yoga practices and apply them effectively
- How to arrange different elements of the practice for the best outcome
- How to make our yoga practices potent, simple, and effective
- How to integrate yoga practices into our lives in a meaningful way.
Most of my writings are contained within this blog.
I develop and manage the Electronic Health Records System
I originally founded Sequence Wiz because I needed a tool to create my own yoga practices and organize my student files. After ten years, the system continues to grow and evolve in response to the feedback from our members. As yoga teachers and yoga therapists, we all face similar challenges. Some of us feel like imposters in our yoga teaching and need help developing our teaching skills and experience. Some of us stumble over the administrative aspects of running our teaching practice and getting organized with all the necessary forms, policies, procedures, records, and other aspects of student management. Many of us don’t know how to share our knowledge and gifts with the world to attract the right kind of students and build our practice. At Sequence Wiz, we strive to support our members in each one of those areas.
Sequence Wiz is a membership-based electronic health records system (EHR) for yoga teachers and yoga therapists that allows members to gather information about their yoga students, store it, analyze it, create a treatment plan, design yoga practices, and keep track of students’ progress. It also contains an extensive library of educational content on EHRs and yoga therapy and supports yoga therapists on their professional journey.
My Education
2008 – 2011 American Viniyoga Institute
Yoga Therapist Training (certified in April 2011)
2004 – 2006 American Viniyoga Institute
500-hour Yoga Teacher Training (certified in June 2006)
Summer 2002 Mt Madonna Center
200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (certified in August 2002)
1994 – 1999 Omsk State University, Russia, majored in Education
My Endeavors
Potentials Yoga Studio, Portland, OR
Owner, yoga teacher and yoga therapist
August 2007 – September 2013, Portland, Oregon
Sequence Wiz yoga sequence builder and electronic health records system
Founder and Managing director
August 2012 – present
My Books
How to Create Yoga Student Profiles: A Simple Step-by-Step Guide to Keeping Records of Private Yoga Sessions
