I really fell in love with yoga!
While working as a full time trainer at Snowcreek Athletic Club years back, I decided to try a
yoga class on my day off. I will never forget my first yoga class with Kelly Doyle (McCoy). Such a sweet soul and amazing yoga leader. We did our class in the gym. The same gym I would train clients of all levels of fitness. I fell in love with the practice and learned it was much more than a stretching class. Yoga primes the body for weight lifting and any other activity you can imagine. It makes you better at knowing your body and it builds the mind muscle for razor-like focus. If you find yourself running from, through, and towards your workouts with a feeling of dread, you most likely have lost touch with your body. I am certified in level 1 and level 2 YOGAFIT. I love Beth Shaw’s approach to yoga. It was this science based format that made a difference for me. It is called the 3 mountain format. A beginning, middle, and end. Taking this age old practice of yoga and modernizing it with the knowledge of today. Yoga is not a religion. I teach classes to all levels of athletes (you are an athlete) and I include it with all my training clients. When my clients keep up a regular yoga practice along with training, the biggest transformations take place. The kind of transformations that stick. I have lead clients from yoga class to the weight room, from the weight room to yoga class. I love teaching all levels but really have a heart for the newbies. It’s exciting to have a new student in class. I have had students come back years later and tell me they could never find a class like mine. Find your flow, your style, but give yoga a fair chance. You will never know unless you try! -Kathy D
