Meet Your Coach

For more than 20 years, Sytera has helped thousands of students, from elite athletes to desk-job workers, realize the life-changing physical and mental benefits of healthy movement. A biomechanics expert with a Harvard certification in anatomy, Sytera also trains massage therapists, yoga teachers, physical therapists, chiropractors, and personal trainers — empowering them with practical, science-based tools to help their own clients thrive.

 

After healing from a traumatic leg injury in her teens, Sytera dedicated her career to helping people feel clear, energized, and engaged in life rather than depleted by it. She developed the Nadi Ball Method® for stress reduction, pain relief, and increased mobility. This innovative method integrates massage balls into movement, stretching, and strengthening. As Northern Virginia Magazine explained in a 2020 feature, “The balls work into the fascia lines, creating openness and encouraging correct alignment, and students can feel how sensations are connected throughout the body.”

 

Through Sytera’s easy-to-access instruction, students begin to understand where they hold stress and tension—and because they can feel the difference immediately, they often describe the method as “magic.” Sytera’s highly individualized approach analyzes each person’s movement and postural patterns to help them achieve unrestricted movement. Her philosophy: the key to sustainable well-being is to challenge your body to stretch toward your goals without overwhelming your system—you bend, but don’t break.

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The key to sustainable wellbeing is to challenge your body to stretch toward your goals without overwhelming your system. You “bend but don’t break.” Sytera’s highly individualized training analyzes your movement and postural patterns in order to help you achieve unrestricted movement. The result is feeling clear and energized, feeling engaged in life instead of depleted by it. Sytera’s goal is to bring a creative and uplifting spirit to each session to help you meet your unique wellness goals and bring out the best of what is uniquely you.

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Sytera’s uplifting, creative spirit has earned her a loyal following among both individuals and corporate clients, including Mars Inc., the Discovery Channel, PartnerMD, and Share Our Strength. She partners with the National Spine Health Foundation, United Wellness and Sports Rehab, and Inova Wellness.

 

Her method and teachings have been featured in numerous media outlets, including:

• Yoga Is More Than A Pose, National Spine Health Foundation's Get Back To It podcast, March 9, 2021

• Understanding Yogic Nadis - The Energetic Lines In Your Body, Curious Monki podcast, February 21, 2020 

• McLean’s SyteraYoga Launches Its Unique Nadi Ball Method, Northern Virginia Magazine, January 2020

• Developing the Nadi Ball & Expanding a Yoga Studio, Mastering the Business of Yoga podcast, October 21, 2019

• Learning to Trust My Body Again after Traumatic Injury, Balance Your Life podcast, October 10, 2019

• How to Become a Private Yoga Teacher, Mastering the Business of Yoga podcast, November 7, 2016