About Rita Meier
In 2003, I took up yoga. That changed everything and I’ve never looked back. Throughout my life, I taught in one capacity or another. So, in my retirement, I decided to become a yoga teacher and took the 200-hour training at Moksha Yoga in Chicago. A few years later, I completed the 500-hour advanced teacher training at Prairie Yoga in Lisle, IL. My interest is Iyengar-style Yoga with an emphasis on alignment and the use of a lot of props. Currently, I teach yoga in the Lisle area. For over two years, I’ve taught cancer survivors on a weekly basis at the DuPage Medical Group facility in Lisle on Thursday nights at 6PM. It’s a free program for cancer survivors and we welcome new students.
Over the last years, I’ve developed a specialization in the Pelvic Floor. I teach workshops in “Pelvic Health” and “Yoga for the Pelvic Floor” for women of all ages. This has been very popular for the cancer survivor community as it touches so many women. Women have found this workshop very helpful to overcome incontinence, pelvic pain and a host of other issues related to the pelvis.
Pelvic health is a subject that simply does not get enough attention. There is a certain reticence in our society in this regard. But a little humor goes a long way, and soon everyone is relaxing and sharing their own stories. The 6-hour workshop is half lecture and half exercises. There is so much that can be done to gain more control!
My article,
“Yoga for the Pelvic Floor, Kegels are Not Enough!” was
published in the November/December 2014 issue of
YogaChicago. 
