About Me

Renée started out in the Fitness Industry in 1989 teaching aerobics, then a few years later became a  Personal Trainer.  After a knee injury in 1999, she shifted  into yoga and was immediately hooked! She  began teaching yoga full-time in 2005 and owned a Yoga Studio/Wellness Center in Indianapolis.   Throughout the past 21 years in Indianapolis and while in Sedona, Arizona, she  has led group yoga classes as well as several Corporate and Private Yoga sessions along with  plant based nutrition workshops,  and  Reiki treatments.  She has  served many diverse populations from executives to teachers, college athletes to children, to those with health challenges /previous injuries and everyone in between.  Renée has  led multiple seasonal yoga retreats in Indiana, taught yoga to children in Malawi, Africa in 2007 as part of a volunteer humanitarian trip, as well as coordinated and led her own Yoga  Retreat and  Humanitarian Service Trip to Costa Rica in 2008. 

  After the pandemic in 2021,  Renée completed her first Qigong Teacher Certification.  She began teaching Qigong  while slowly winding down her yoga classes-then  continued to dive deeply into studying advanced Qigong, Somatic Movement/Dance and trauma informed approaches.    It became clear Qigong, Somatic Movement  and Ecstatic Dance would be her new priority-to empower others to go deeper into healing, longevity  and raising consciousness.   
    Renée is Registered Experienced Yoga Instructor with Yoga Alliance (2005 to present), a Certified Qigong Instructor with the American Dragon Gate, also Certified ZY Qigong Level 1 Instructor,  Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Reiki Master(Teacher) and Certified Vegetarian Raw Foods Facilitator and soon to add Somatic Movement and Ecstatic Dance Facilitator Fall 2026.

 

 Welcome!, I am so grateful you landed here.   I am Renée Bogard, and I am honored for the opportunity to be a part of your transformative wellness journey.  My personal journey through fitness, Yoga, Reiki, and now Qigong and Somatic/Ecstatic Dance(coming later 2026), has been a decades long return to wholeness that continues to inspire, challenge and reward me every day. 

 When I began practicing yoga in 1999, I didn’t think I could get much out of it, being that I was inflexible, overwhelmed with several challenges, and working through a knee injury. To my surprise, I found yoga and meditation to be an anchor in times of uncertainty. It helped me access peace and mental clarity to deal with adversity, and it was a way to regain strength and range of motion in my knee where other fitness routines had failed.  Qigong  and Somatic/Ecstatic Dance has been an even deeper healing and revealing practice of  self discovery and empowerment while navigating middle age years.

As your "Full Spectrum Movement Specialist",
my focus and intention is on safe alignment/form as well as  making Qigong/Yoga/Ecstatic Dance relevant and accessible to a wide variety of people.  My diverse  background  has given me  several unique tools and a wholistic approach to support my  clients in actualizing  vibrant health and to make heart- centered mindful living  part of  everyday life.