Blue Lotus Yoga
Welcome to Blue Lotus Yoga, a community-based yoga studio in Woodlawn.
Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual practice tracing its origins back over 5,000 years to ancient India. The practice of yoga combines a series of postures with awareness, focused breathing, mindful living, and meditation. Yoga is proven to reduce blood pressure, lower heart rate, calm and soothe the mind, counter depression, improve balance and sleep, decrease joint and muscle pain, and countless other benefits.
Our mission is to promote health, wellness, healing, and community in a warm, accessible, trauma-informed and stress-free environment. We offer yoga classes suitable for all ages, sizes, shapes and fitness levels with a focus on mindful breathing, connection to one’s body, relaxation, increasing flexibility and building strength. We also offer private classes, workshops, and space rental for events and special occasions.
The Lotus flower has long been a symbol of spiritual enlightenment and rebirth, historically in Buddhist and Egyptian cultures. Its roots take up their home in muddy river bottoms and every night the blossoms submerge into the murky water and rebloom each morning, untouched by the dirt. This flower is an incredible metaphor for life. The phrase ‘no mud, no lotus’ is commonly used to mean in life there is always hardship and difficulties, and rising through and learning from those challenges reveals our lotus, a life more beautiful than ever. In Buddhism, the Blue Lotus flower represents knowledge and intelligence and is rarely depicted in full bloom, representing the never-ending quest for knowledge. At Blue Lotus Yoga we take this meaning to heart and it is our mission to continue to learn and grow towards wisdom to serve our community to the best of our ability.
