Classes

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The cold truth about losing weight (and keeping germ free): Research shows keeping yourself cool DOES have a host of health benefits

Three children who needed dropping off and picking up constantly; the house in disrepair; a partner often away on business and an unpredictable workflow. I was exhausted.

The children, though, were fizzing with energy. Where did it come from? Observing their behaviour led me to one answer: not wearing a lot (which makes it all the easier to run and jump) and not being indoors much.

So, worn down by round-the-clock chores and having tried every energy snack, I followed suit. Keeping cool was the answer.

Twenty years later I’m still following the cold cure.

For much of the year I’m in T-shirts and plimsolls — even when passers-by are wrapped in fleeces and scarves. I’m rarely cold, or short of energy or struggling with menopausal weight gain as many contemporaries seem to be, and I attribute this to keeping my body feeling cool.

And what was once seen as eccentricity now has a stack of science behind it. Research shows that being cold activates our brown fat tissue, the type that helps burn calories.

Brown fat — unlike white fat which is seen in abundance around midriffs, bottoms and chins — is invisibly and compactly distributed deep inside, especially around the shoulder blades, spine and kidneys.

It is created in a process known as thermogenesis in response to low temperatures and burns up energy to keep our bodies warm when in a cold environment.

Read more herethis link will leave breezewayoga.com: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9135949/The-cold-truth-losing-weight-keeping-germ-free.html

Cultivating Calm in Times of Crisis

I don’t know about you, but this past week my emotions have been jostling each other like contestants on a reality show.

I’ve been sad, happy, angry, joyful, content, fearful, empathic, hurt, grieving, blissful, ashamed, anxious, and much more – sometimes within seconds of each other.

I’ve also wondered at various times throughout the day. . .(read more here)

Take good care?,

Kristine

P.S. Please check out my free eBook Weather the Storm: A Subtle Yoga Guide for Building Resilience and my new online course, Cultivating Calm in Times of Crisis.

P.P.S. Please join me for a free, 1-hour workshop this Saturday, April 11, at 10 am ET (3 pm UK time), A Journey Through the Body for Greater Inner Awareness, Self-Knowledge and Clarifying Your Sense of Meaning and Purpose in Difficult Times.

Kristine Kaoverii Weber, MA, C-IAYT, ERYT500, YACEP
Director, Subtle® Health, LLC and Subtle® Yoga Professional Trainings
P.O. Box 727
Asheville, NC 28802

Weekly Class Descriptions

 

Restorative Yin with Karen

Mondays @ 9:30am

Yin yoga is a healing practice that increases mobility in the joints, ligaments and fascial networks. This passive practice moves one into stillness, allowing healthful benefits to occur in the body as well as the mind.

This Yin practice provides 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. Take the time to connect with the present moment, and notice how your perspective begins to shift.

This challenging practice will leave you relaxed, energized and mindfully at peace.

Connect with Karen via email: rodgerskm@aol.com


Mindful Noon Flow with Mary June

Mondays @ 12pm

This class uses the linkage of movement with breath to create a mindful yoga experience as we move through a slow to moderate paced Vinyasa-style flow. Each class centers on a specific theme to help practitioners find that mind-body connection and cultivate focus during the practice, allowing the mind to become quiet and tension and stress to leave the body.

Examples of themes explored in class include more mentally challenging practices, such as balance; to more physical practices such as working with poses for maintaining a healthy back or building upper body strength; to energetics, such as working with chakras. There is lots of variety in this class and something for everyone as we focus on cultivating and maintaining the health of our minds, bodies, souls, emotions, and energy fields.

Some yoga experience is helpful but not required.

Connect with Mary June via email: maryjunethompson@hotmail.com


Yoga Basics with Claire

Mondays @ 5:45pm

Claire loves the mindfulness of yoga – connecting movement with breath, and the beauty of learning to be ok with where you are at that moment. Her class is based on an Iyengar-based practice which is focused on alignment, breath, strengthening and lengthening. Most classes are balanced beginner flows with liberal instruction and use of props.

Connect with Claire via email: clairehyrka@gmail.com


Beginning Wu-Style Tai Chi with Russell

Please contact Russell for more information about his upcoming 10-week series beginning March 11th!

Come explore the tranquil flow of Wu Tai Chi. Experience for yourself how to dissolve stressful tension with this easy-to-learn method of connected movement.

Russell has been practicing the art of Tai Chi for 46 years. 

Contact Russell to register for his next class series: whirlingstillness@gmail.com


New Class! 1 Body Yoga with Cheri

Tuesdays @ 10:30am

Cheri invites you to take time each week to celebrate all that is YOU! Join the fun as we celebrate our imperfectly perfect selves. Her weekly class will inspire you to grow through breath and bodywork. Cheri invites you to move at your own pace and listen to the wisdom of your body. This class is for all ages and stages of life. 1 Body Yoga! is designed to help students learn to better trust themselves and deepen their understanding of body and spirit.
Show up for yourself and discover what is possible.
Connect with Cheri at: functionalfunk@gmail.com

Gentle Yoga & Meditation with Wayne

Tuesdays @ 12pm

Unlike Hatha Yoga, this gentle Kundalini class employs lots of movement but does not require precise alignment or advanced knowledge of yoga asanas.  Unlike vinyasa or Pilates, it’s not a physical workout in the usual sense.  The emphasis is on meditation, focusing on the breath to lead the movements and cultivating awareness of every sensation in the body.

Connect with Wayne: yogaway249@gmail.com


Alignment Yoga Levels 2 & 3 with Ron

Tuesdays @ 6:30pm

This class is an upper-level class, so you have already earned your stripes by being in several series of an alignment style (like Iyengar) yoga at Level 1. This class builds on that beginner’s level, refines it with more advanced poses and introduces you to a theme type practice.

This class is taught in an 8-week series format, but drop-ins will be allowed with permission from the teacher. Please check with Ron directly for pricing, registration, and other class information.

Connect with Ron with any questions or to register for the series: ron_felix@bellsouth.net


 

Mindful Noon Flow with Mary June

Wednesdays @ 12pm

This class uses the linkage of movement with breath to create a mindful yoga experience as we move through a slow to moderate paced Vinyasa-style flow. Each class centers on a specific theme to help practitioners find that mind-body connection and cultivate focus during the practice, allowing the mind to become quiet and tension and stress to leave the body.

Examples of themes explored in class include more mentally challenging practices, such as balance; to more physical practices such as working with poses for maintaining a healthy back or building upper body strength; to energetics, such as working with chakras. There is lots of variety in this class and something for everyone as we focus on cultivating and maintaining the health of our minds, bodies, souls, emotions, and energy fields.

Connect with Mary June via email: maryjunethompson@hotmail.com


Alignment Level 1 with Ron

Wednesdays @ 5:30pm

This is the foundational level (Level 1) to alignment yoga.

This is the foundational level (level 1) to alignment yoga.

It is based on the Iyengar style of yoga which is famous for its emphasis on precision & alignment. B.K.S. Iyengar wrote the seminal book “Light on Yoga” as well other books on yogic practice and philosophy.

The class will emphasize the standing poses or learning to stand on your own two feet. You will develop strength, stamina, concentration and body alignment.

Each class will have an emphasis on the dynamic interplay between how your body is built (anatomy) and how your body moves (kinesiology).

What to expect from this teaching format:

  1. Beginners get to start at the beginning.
  2. Poses will be taught one at a time and in a safe orderly progression.
  3. Demonstrations highlighting specific points of action in each pose.
  4. Poses will be modified to your particular needs using props such as blocks, straps & blankets.
  5. Individual corrections and adjustments as necessary.

This class is taught in an 8-week series format, but drop-ins will be allowed with permission from the teacher. Please check with Ron directly for pricing, registration, and other class information.

Contact Ron for more information and/or to register for this series: ron_felix@bellsouth.net


Alignment Yoga Level 2 with Ron

Wednesdays @ 7pm

This class is an upper-level, so you have already earned your stripes by being in several series of an alignment style (like Iyengar) yoga at Level 1. This class builds on that beginner’s level, refines it with more advanced poses and introduces you to a theme type practice. A theme could be a class focusing on back bends or forward bends etc. In addition, you will be working on an inversion practice as your knowledge and experience as a beginner has taught you what not to do as compared to what you can do.

This class is taught in an 8-week series format, but drop-ins will be allowed with permission from the teacher. Please check with Ron directly for pricing, registration, and other class information.

Connect with Ron with any questions or to register for the series: ron_felix@bellsouth.net

 


Energy Medicine Slow Flow Yoga with Caroline

Thursdays @ 10am

With Caroline’s passion for Eden Energy Medicine and yoga, she infuses slow flow yoga with simple yet powerful energy medicine techniques. Her Slow Flow class is a breath-based, mindful movement practice. Students will be guided through a sequence of reclining, seated, and standing postures while moving and transitioning with the breath, gently opening the body and developing more strength, stability, flexibility and energy. Slow flow yoga is a happy medium where one can reap the benefits of vinyasa and flow practices, in a way that is more attainable for beginners and experienced yogis alike. Energy medicine techniques are also ancient and powerful. One of the many benefits of integrating these techniques with yoga, is that it greatly amplifies one’s regular yoga practice, thereby increasing vitality, strength and resiliency in a new and powerful way.

Connect with Caroline: carolinemunday@gmail.com


Gentle Yoga & Meditation with Wayne

Thursdays @ 12pm

 Unlike Hatha Yoga, this gentle Kundalini class employs lots of movement but does not require precise alignment or advanced knowledge of yoga asanas.  Unlike vinyasa or Pilates, it’s not a physical workout in the usual sense.  The emphasis is on meditation, focusing on the breath to lead the movements and cultivating awareness of every sensation in the body.

Connect with Wayne: yogaway249@gmail.com


Yoga Basics with Claire

Thursdays @ 5:45pm

Claire loves the mindfulness of yoga – connecting movement with breath, and the beauty of learning to be ok with where you are at that moment. Her class is based on an Iyengar-based practice which is focused on alignment, breath, strengthening and lengthening. Most classes are balanced beginner flows with liberal instruction and use of props.

Connect with Claire via email: clairehyrka@gmail.com


Move to Meditate: Viniyoga-inspired Functional Movement with Sarah

Thursdays @ 7:15pm

Moving our bodies helps quiet our minds. Dynamic, breath centered movement paired with guided meditation and extra-long savasana help to leave your body and mind feeling calm and refreshed.  *Trauma informed, beginner friendly*

Reach out to Sarah for more information: bush.sarah.e@gmail.com


 

Yoga for Gentle Grounding with Rachel

Fridays @ 10am

Yoga for Gentle Grounding offers a gentle, balanced combination of yoga poses, stretching, conscious breathing, and intervals of relaxation and reflection. We will emphasize seated and reclined poses, offering us the opportunity to connect with the earth and feel rooted in our bodies. Supported by the ground and within ourselves, we will cultivate calmness, while continuing to build strength and flexibility.

This class is suitable for all practitioners. Beginners to yoga are welcome, as are those with somewhat reduced mobility. There are also benefits for more experienced yogis who would like the time and space afforded by a slow-paced class to enter deeply into the poses and to practice grounding and reconnecting with themselves.

Connect with Rachel: luxrefulget@gmail.com


Yin Yoga Series with Mary June

Fridays @ Noon through 4/19

“Harmony exists only when yin and yang are in balance.” 

Yin is a slow-paced and therapeutic style of yoga that uses a specific series of floor poses held for a length of time to provide a “deep tissue massage” for the body that also calms and balances mind, body, and soul. From this class, you will also see these benefits:
  • Improves flow of prana (energy) to the vital organs and the entire body
  • Releases fascia, therefore improving joint mobility and enhancing range of motion
  • Increases circulation and helps alleviate pain, stiffness, and tension
  • Less stress and anxiety and a deeper connection to self
  • A “workout” for your connective tissue, lubricating and lengthening tendons, ligaments, and fascia that don’t respond to more active forms of yoga or other exercises (yang)

Use your Breezeway class package or drop in for $15/class. Contact Mary June for more information about this series: maryjunethompson@hotmail.com


Slow Flow with Jill

Saturdays @ 9am

Jill’s Slow Flow class combines elements of traditional vinyasa yoga with strength and mobility work, offered at a slower pace and with creative sequencing to challenge both mind and body in new ways. She is a firm believer that one size does NOT fit all when it comes to alignment and encourages students to explore variations so they can get to know their own unique bodies better.

Jill’s lighthearted approach and eclectic playlists are the finishing touches on this well-rounded practice that is sure to be a fun start to your weekend!

Connect with Jill at: flutistyogini@gmail.com


Sunday Stretch & Release with Rachel

Sundays @ 4pm

Give yourself time on Sunday afternoons to reset for the week as we stretch through the body and expand through the mind and the breath. This gently paced class focuses on fully stretching the body by means of targeted yoga poses in coordination with deep breathing. We will invite tight muscles and tissues to loosen and find movement in areas of stiffness or soreness. In addition, we will take some time to experience stillness and increase conscious awareness with guided breathing and extended relaxation.   

This will be an accessible experience, perfect for those who wish to increase flexibility, release stress, and recenter the mind.

For more information about this class, connect with Rachel: luxrefulget@gmail.com


Click here to find information about upcoming non-weekly classes/special events: https://breezewayyoga.com/our-community/

 

Yoga Class Pricing

Classes are $15 for a drop-in or purchase a class card and receive 10 Classes for $120 (excludes weekly prepaid series and donation-based classes–see below). 

Student rate is $10/class with valid ID.

**Please note: We can only accept cash, checks, or Venmo.**

Please check with Russel Sauls and Ron Felix directly for their class series pricing & registration requirements.

Wayne‘s Tuesday/Thursday noon classes are donation-based.

We welcome drops ins at Breezeway! Advanced sign-up/registration is only required as noted for certain class series and for special events. 

Rebekah Knause, L.Ac., LMT, RYT

Rebekah Knause, L.Ac., LMT, RYT is the owner of Balanced You Massage. Rebekah was born and raised in West TN and has been in Knoxville since 2001.

She is a licensed Acupuncturist with the state of TN and holds diplomate status with the NCCAOM. Rebekah graduated from the Jung Tao School of Chinese Medicine in Sugar Grove, NC in July of 2018. Rebekah has been a practicing massage therapist for the past 16 years as well as during her years studying at Jung Tao,

She began her massage career working with Apple Health & Wellness for seven years and learned various massage modalities and human anatomy. She discovered the many ways that a body can be injured – either by accidents, bad posture habits, poor ergonomics in the work place, and, how stress can create disfunction in the body. Throughout her time with Apple Health, she was constantly investigating how these injuries happen and asking the doctors about the various ways of treating people and their injuries.

During her time practicing massage at Balanced You, Rebekah developed various neck, low back and shoulder issues. Her repeated attempts to treat her pain with massage, chiropractic, and exercise therapy did not quite provide the healing she sought. That is when she tried Acupuncture. She was so impressed with the results she received from her treatments that she knew this was what she wanted to study and practice for the rest of her working life!

Rebekah began her education at Pellissippi State and then studied for four years at Jung Tao where she received her licensure. She knew that she needed to train other massage therapists to learn deep tissue therapeutic massage so that she could make her transition out of massage and into the field of Acupuncture.

“I truly enjoy teaching fellow massage therapists how to perform effective massage without hurting their own body and improving the well-being of our clients.” she said.

There are now three highly-trained, certified massage therapists that can provide various styles of massage at Balanced You. Our specialty is Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy, a technique that uses the feet to apply pressure and massage instead of the hands. As well as being an incredibly deep and relaxing massage, Ashiatsu offers healthier ergonomics for the therapists.

Rebekah’s goal, along with her staff of therapists, is to provide a holistic way to teach and facilitate balance within themselves and continue to promote that balance to the community of Knoxville.

In Rebekah’s spare time, she loves to spend time with her husband Ben and daughter Lydia. She loves to be outdoors, hiking, swimming, paddle boarding, and drinking coffee.

To discuss your massage and acupuncture therapy, call the appointment line: (865) 888-5342.