About Me

My Way Of Health & Life

Gita Carpenter, lmt, cmt

A native of Colombia, Gita has been studying, practicing, and teaching alternative therapies over the last 30 years. Gita is currently the director of the Integral Center for Yoga and Self Healing Therapies in St. Augustine, Florida. She is a licensed massage therapist, yoga and meditation teacher, as well as a spiritual healer who employs her expertise and experience in breathing techniques, cranial sacral, and reiki therapies. Gita also teaches international vegetarian cooking classes. Gita is a member of the yoga alliance. She founded and manages the Integral Retreat and Healing Farm.

Yoga Instructor

Massage Therapist

Chef/Instructor

Experience

I have been practicing, studying, and teaching yoga for the last thirty years. I consider myself a universal being as a teacher, a healer, and a peace loving soul.

I am certified by Dr. Den Ornishes as a yoga therapist for cardiac and cancer recuperation helping patients recuperate thru foods, breath work, and yogic exercises along with mindful meditation.

I am certified as a Phoenix yoga therapist assisting students in enhancing their well-being implemented thru Kripalu yoga practice.

I am certified thru the Florida School of Massage for Craniosacral and NeuroMuscular Therapies.

I also am trained in Trigger point Reiki and other modalities of therapies geared towards enhancing the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual well- being.

I have taught in many facilities throughout Florida, West Virginia, New York, India, and Thailand.

What My Clients Say About Me

Gita has been my yoga teacher and masseuse since 2015. I greatly appreciate her experience and knowledge of various yoga teachings, her way of connecting with her students/clients, and her generous friendliness. Lately, her outdoor yoga sessions are to dream for!

Anne Laure

I have been enjoying yoga and meditation classes with Gita for several years. Gita has a very special instinctual ability to guide her students into a mindful state of wellbeing. With humility, her ability to tap into and connect the mindful, spiritual and physical health of her students is unlike any other yoga instructor I have met. I highly recommend Gita to anyone who wishes to overcome imbalances in their life or simply wishes to enhance their physical, mental, emotional & spiritual self. Love her!

Elizabeth Michaels

Realtor

I moved to St Augustine, Florida from Santa Cruz, California in October of 2019. Before I moved I was checking out the yoga studios in the area online and came across "Gita's Healing Farm". I felt reassured that I would be able to find a doorway to a home through this place. I nearly cried with relief during my first yoga class with Gita in her warm peaceful studio surrounded by nature and Gita's soft voice guiding me to release both the physical and emotional pain I had gathered during a very stressful relocation. Then came the massage, and the tea, and the music, and the meals, and the friendship. This was not just my new yoga studio, this was indeed a full spectrum healing farm where I could safely plant my spirit and trust it would be nurtured to grow and blossom.

Leslie Adams

The moment I met Gita I knew instinctively that I had come to the right place. During my very first yoga class with her, as she asked me to send my breath to my heart, I started to cry. She asked me to name the emotion I was feeling and all I could say was: gratitude! My inner spirit had been needing me to pay it some attention to myself for a very long time. I have experienced continued opening of my spirit, and huge growth and healing since I came to The Healing Farm!

Jody Morehouse