Snowy Cedar Center for Wellness
Healing at the Root of Our Belonging
About Snowy Cedar Center for Wellness
Healing at the Roof of Our Belonging
Snowy Cedar Center for Wellness was established in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in 2019 by Danielle Foertsch Newman with the mission of offering timeless embodiment and wisdom practices to facilitate belonging on your wellness journey. We want you to feel fully supported to be your authentic self and to heal through belonging. Seeing a client's face light up as they find their rhythm, passion, and joy in everyday life is what fulfills us. Wellness has never been purely about the physical body. Rather, it's about finding ease, peace, and truth as you interact with others and the world each day.
Snowy Cedar Center for Wellness brings a unique approach to wellness ~ one that is focused on belonging, self-trust, shared stories, and embodiment of the physical, energetic, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of authentic well-being. We don't look at any aspect of your life in isolation because we believe that healing is not a destination, it is a relationship. A relationship with the body. A relationship with community. A relationship with nature. A relationship with purpose. At the root of each of these relationships is belonging. And where belonging grows, healing follows.
Our Team
Here to Help You Heal at the Root of Belonging!
Danielle Foertsch Newman
C-IAYT, AYC CYT-L3, RYT 500, E-RYT 200, YACEP
Certified Yoga Therapist, American Yoga Council Certified Yoga Teacher - Level 3, Yoga Alliance Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider, Usui Reiki Ryoho Level 2 Practitioner, Sound Meditation Guide, Thai Yoga Bodywork Student, Architect, Hiker, Expert Agate Finder, and Lover of Sunrises
Danielle Foertsch Newman is a relatable, authentic yoga therapist and teacher trained in the lineages of hatha and SomaYoga. Her focus on SomaYoga partners well with her additional expertise in gentle yoga, adaptive yoga, yin yoga, restorative yoga, chair yoga, and Yoga Nidra as well as yoga’s sister science of Ayurveda. Danielle approaches each student with a unique appreciation for and awareness of their being. The practices she facilitates are both trauma-informed and spiritually-integrated.
Danielle enjoys working in private or small group yoga therapy sessions, in outdoor locations, and with community and religious groups to offer both yoga therapy and yoga classes. In addition to teaching at Fresh Coast Yoga, she is available for off-site classes and welcomes the opportunity to work with new clients in either private or group settings through her small yoga therapy business Snowy Cedar Center for Wellness. Danielle also offers continuing education courses for yoga professionals and community education and corporate wellness workshops.
Danielle completed a 1000-hour yoga therapy training program at Yoga North International SomaYoga Institute in Duluth, MN to become a SomaYoga Therapist in July 2024. Danielle previously completed a 200-hour teacher training program at Yoga North International SomaYoga Institute and a 300-hour training program through My Vinyasa Practice based out of Austin, TX. Danielle recently completed a 200-hour Kundalini yoga teacher training program with Yoga Farm Ithaca to expand the types of yoga practices she offers. Danielle’s practice and teachings incorporate all eight limbs of yoga moving beyond asana to a more wholistic experience of well-being. In addition to classic asana, she incorporates a variety of techniques in her classes including somatics, breathwork, sound healing meditation, mudras, guided relaxation, Thai yoga bodywork, and the yamas & niyamas to ensure a strong mind-body-spirit connection. Danielle is also a certified Reiki practitioner and has competed additional training in adaptive yoga with Matthew Sanford, restorative yoga with Judith Lasater, yin yoga with Miriam Hanson, Yoga Nidra, chakra reading, sound meditation with the Sound Healing Academy, shamanic journeying with Sarah Seidelmann, Vedic astrology with Robin Stamp, numerous Ayurveda and yoga courses with Indu Arora, and and a Viniyoga Therapy course with Gary Kraftsow. She is currently completing ongoing training in Thai yoga bodywork with Margaret Harstad of Muggymoose Massage and Thai Yoga Bodywork to bring even greater relaxation to her clients.