New Class — Yoga for Healing with Lindsey Kontovich
Monday at 1:30PM
Yoga for healing is a trauma informed yoga class that focuses on creating a safe, sensitive space for all students. Practicing yoga in a safe space led by a trained and trauma informed yoga teacher can be beneficial to healing from trauma and other mental health issues.
First, trauma informed yoga allows students to have choices about their body and how it moves during the practice. Next, it can increase how they understand and sense their body both internally and externally. Furthermore, it can allow them to notice the present moment and how it is different from the past. Finally, it can assist students in gaining mastery over emotional regulation.
This approach acknowledges that any student coming to a class may have experienced trauma, so all classes are taught with specific trauma informed principles in mind. The class is led by a licensed mental health professional who has been trained in creating the necessary space for healing.
Lindsey is a licensed mental health professional and yoga is a beautiful and important part of her self care and often recommends yoga to her clients. An avid runner, Lindsey has found yoga to be a nice balance to training and feels like her mat is a safe and grounding place to find a sense of calm. Bridging yoga and mental health seemed like a way to have the best of both worlds and after seeing how much the current research supports yoga as an adjunct to healing trauma, Lindsey began looking for a trauma informed yoga teacher training program. Lindsey received her 200 hour certification through K10 yoga school and became registered with Yoga Alliance in May of 2019. When Lindsey is not seeing clients, running, or practicing yoga, you can find her with her husband of 8 years, who is an ultra marathoner, and her two precious and wild children, Benton and Nora.
Please visit Lindsey’s website at lindseykontovich.com to learn more about her class offering and if you are ready to begin your healing journey.
Amanda Massey is a Certified Level II Reiki practitioner.
Amanda is a gentle and heart-forward energy worker dedicated to guiding her clients into a state of balance and healing. She is beyond excited to be a part of the Breezeway Yoga family.
Connect with Amanda for an appointment: innerlight.studio77@gmail.com
NEW CLASSES
Wednesday at Noon: Feel Good Flow with Mary June Thompson
This class invites you to “find what feels good” and is appropriate for all levels. We will mindfully move through a series of standing and floor poses as we focus on the breath, reducing stress and tension in the body, and cultivating flexibility, balance, and strength in the body and mind.
Friday at 4:30PM: Aroma Yin with Mary June Thompson
Yin is a gentle, healing practice where floor poses are held for 3-5 minutes to target the joints and connective tissues, as well as energy meridians in the body, resulting in better flexibility; mobility; joint health; improved, balanced energy levels; reduced stress; and a calm mind. Specifically selected pure essential oils are used in class for an enhanced healing effect on the systems of the body being targeted. Perfect for active yogis, seniors, athletes, and everyone else.
NEW CLASS — Wednesday at 1:30PM
This Yin practice brings the opportunity to slow down and give yourself the ultimate gift. The gift of creating space in the body and the mind that may not have been there before.
Practice moving into stillness, perhaps one of the hardest things to do, as we are always multitasking. This challenging practice will leave you relaxed, energized, and mindfully at peace.
Contact Karen at rodgerskm@aol.com
NEW CLASS — Friday at 2:00PM
Power Vinyasa with Stephanie Soldano
Power Vinyasa
This 60 minute Power Vinyasa flows through foundational poses to strengthen the body and the mind. Connecting the breath with movement and intention. This power flow will build endurance, strength, balance, and allow the body to move freely with fluidity. It will allow a healthy release of tension, and you will develop a positive means to channel your energy within. You will find challenge and deepen your practice physically and emotionally. You will practice skills to utilize on and off your mat. So, take one moment of each day to honor your body.
NEW CLASS — Monday at 4:00PM
Hatha Thai Yoga with David Morgan
A slow flow for the inflexible, out-of-shape, and anyone else. Great intro to yoga for beginners and people returning to the mat from life’s distractions. We’ll create space in the body, release stress, and have some fun in the process.
David Morgan is a Kripalu Yoga teacher and SomaVeda Traditional Thai Yoga practitioner. He was first introduced to yoga in 1992 while studying abroad in India, and has been fascinated by it ever since.
Contact David at david@davidmorgan.me.
Thinking about trying power yoga but not sure what it’s all about? Start here with this ‘Introduction to Power Yoga’ class. Learn the basics of Vinyasa (flow), practice foundational poses, develop strength, endurance, flexibility, and balance. While this is an introduction to Power Yoga, it will be moderately challenging so be prepared to sweat and get your heart rate up while getting a full-body workout.
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Laura began practicing yoga in 2015 as a way to relieve stress and add a new form of physical activity to her routine. She was hooked immediately and it wasn’t long before she sensed that yoga was going to be a transformative power in her life. She’s been truly amazed by the many benefits that yoga has provided in her life including a more positive self-image, self-compassion, confidence, physical and emotional strength, and an openness to embrace life. She felt a calling to share the gift of yoga with others and completed her 200-RYT training in 2018 with Kim Lomonoco at The Glowing Body in Knoxville, TN. She enjoys practicing and teaching power flow, Yin, and gentle yoga.
Connect with Laura via email: lauraclinganyoga@gmail.com or visit her website:https://www.lauraclinganyoga.com/
Some benefits of Restorative Yin yoga include:
• calms the mind
• regulates energy
• lowers stress/relaxation • greater stamina
• lubricates joints
• helps TMJ/migraines
• increases mobility, especially joints, connective tissue/flexibility
• aids in Yang practices (flow/vinyasa, etc)
• teaches you to listen to your body
For more information, email Becky at tnbekka@gmail.com
Becky Maze is a Knoxville native and has shown an interest in yoga since her college days. She is also a Dental Hygienist and holds a B.S. in Health Education. Her desire to know yoga’s balance intensified in 2005 as her life changed and growing pains ensued. She studied yoga under Asheville’s Cindy Dollar (Iyengar Method) at the Glowing Body and she claims Patty Dougherty to be one of her most precious mentors. She has a love for vinyasa and yin and is a Reiki Master. Her personal yoga journey has brought her into a more balanced lifestyle, which she delights in sharing with others through teaching.
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Congratulations, Rebekah!
Rebekah Knause, L.Ac., LMT, RYT is now a licensed acupuncturist. She recently graduated from Jung Tao School of Chinese Medicine and will begin offering acupuncture appointments at Balanced You Studios on at 6712 Kingston Pike in Bearden. To schedule an acupuncture session with Rebekah, call 865-888-5342.
News from Breezeway
Breezeway Yoga Studio in the Knoxville News Sentinel
Article by Carly Harrington, Knoxville News Sentinel
Driving down Kingston Pike past the Kroger in Bearden, you may never notice the shopping center’s somewhat hidden breezeway connecting various businesses.
Just beyond Wigs by We3 and Roger’s Shoe Repair shop, Patty Dougherty said she found the perfect location to open her newest yoga studio.
“It’s right in the heart of one of the busiest parts of town, but it’s set away at the end of breezeway. I feel like you should have a yoga studio near where you live, and so many of my clients live in this area. It made sense for me to open the studio. The clincher was when I found the location,” she said. “It was such an ideal location that I was willing to make it work no matter what I had to do.”
Breezeway Yoga Studio, a cooperative of yoga instructors and therapists who offer various styles of yoga, opened in the Knox Plaza shopping center Aug. 1.
The studio is located just down the road from The Practice Yoga in Western Plaza, which recently closed. It was where Dougerty’s four largest classes were taught.
At the other end of Bearden, Dougherty, a clinical therapeutic practitioner, also co-owns Balanced You Studios at 6712 Kingston Pike with Rebekah Knause. It’s a smaller studio that opened two years ago and can accommodate up to 10 students or private or semiprivate instruction.
“The first business is great. It’s profitable. I just needed a place for a larger class,” she said.
Dougherty grew up in Knoxville, beginning her career working as a writer, producer and director at WBIR Channel 10. She was promoted to Chicago but later started freelancing, allowing her to travel around the world. She eventually made her way to Southern California, living on a sailboat for seven of her 10 years there.
At the time, her weight had topped out at more than 200 pounds. Dougherty had just started studying yoga and mediation when her doctor suggested putting her on various medications.
“I looked at this stack of prescriptions and said, ‘No way,'” she recalled. “Once I recognized how beautiful I could heal myself, that’s when I decided to start getting trained.”
When her father became sick, Dougherty began commuting back and forth to Knoxville. In 2010, she moved back, making Knoxville her home.
“My heart was breaking every time I left Knoxville,” she said. “I decided I wasn’t willing to leave my mother, so I just came here to stay.”
Breezeway Yoga Studio, which features cork floors, will offer classes that include yoga basics, restorative, vinyasa, power, flow and yin yoga. It will soon offer ashiatsu massage therapy, which uses feet to apply pressure instead of hands.
Business reporter Carly Harrington may be reached at 865-342-6317 or harrington@knoxvillebiz.com.
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