Explorer Yoga

09/12/2025

Need to rebalance and/or reset? Come for a group practice! For a little while, you’ll have nothing to prove and no where else to be. Time to listen to what your body and heart are telling you. Are you helping or hurting others right now? What can you reframe? What stories are you telling yourself that don’t ring true (and maybe never really did). Remember that a different perspective can change everything. Lead with love, and your path will find you. Keep exploring, friends 🙏🏼❤️🕊️

09/04/2025

We highly recommend Dr. Gabor Mate’s work 🙏🏼❤️

08/01/2025

🌻 Our Fall Schedule is here, and we’re excited to share some joyful updates from the studio! 🎉

✨ We’re welcoming back the amazing Roberta Milliken, who’s returning to teaching after retiring from OU-C. She’ll be teaching Mondays from 5:30 -6:30 PM starting in August!

🧘‍♀️ And we’re happy to report that Denise is recovering beautifully from her double mastectomy in June—so much so that she’s been cleared to return to teaching! She’ll be offering two supportive, feel-good classes this fall:

• Midweek Yoga Reset — Wednesdays, 5:30–6:30 PM
• Not Your Mama’s Chair Yoga — Thursdays, 5:00–6:00 PM

Rounding out our schedule:

>>>The amazing Nancy Kennelly will continue to teach on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings from 9:30 am - 10:30 am.

>>>The lovely Kendra Everhart will continue to teach her “Sunday Soothe” class on Sundays from 5:30-6:30 pm.

Whether you’re just starting out or returning to your mat, we’re here with accessible, down-to-earth yoga that meets you where you are. 🩵

👉 Full class descriptions for all our classes are on our website at www.ExplorerYoga.com and the Schedule Bliss app. Come take some time for YOU—we’d love to see you soon! 🙏🏼😊

07/27/2025

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This painting is often misread by settlers as a role reversal: an imagined act of vengeance upon colonizers. But to see it as revenge is to once again see through the eyes of colonialism, replicating its same mechanisms. What is expressed here is far more profound.

This is what rematriation looks like: sacred power returning to the soil, the bodies, the breath of this continent.

It is ceremony stretched across time, where tenderness dares to meet trauma and does not become it. The Land Back movement does not wish to mirror the blade of conquest. The Land Back movement extends the medicine of memory, the salve of restoration. It teaches that healing is relational, that the oppressor too has been disfigured by the machinery of empire.

Colonialism severed all of us from the sacred, leaving us hollow and haunted in different ways. It taught us to hoard, dominate, fear one another. But this has been an inherited fear passed through generations until someone decides to create a new path.

The new path signaled in this painting.

The work ahead is not to punish or displace, but to reconnect. To disarm the heart. To return what was taken, yes, but also to repair what was severed in all directions.

What Charles Hillard offers is not merely a reimagining of North America, it is a global invocation. A visual promise that healing is possible. That rematriation begins when we dare to remember. And that remembrance, fierce, tender, and rooted, is the healing balm.

07/19/2025

Join Kendra on Sundays from 5:30-6:30 pm. Book on the Schedule Bliss app or go to www.ExplorerYoga.com ☺️🙏🏼

Yoga tomorrow 5:30-6:30p Explorer Yoga

07/11/2025

We love this story ❤️

Before there were campsites and trailheads, there was Caesar.

Many assume Caesar Creek was named after Julius Caesar, but its true namesake is a man who lived, resisted, and endured right here on this land.

Much of Caesar's life remains a mystery. Historians believe that Caesar either fled the South to escape slavery or was taken prisoner by the Shawnee tribe. The first historical record of Caesar appears in 1773, when he worked as an interpreter for the Shawnee people.

Caesar was a man who lived between cultures. Reverend David Jones described him as "a foreigner who knows something of a religion," suggesting Caesar was a well-respected member of the Shawnee community. He married a half-Shawnee woman, raised two children, and stayed mostly out of sight, likely due to the constant risk of recapture.

His children would go on to fight in the War of 1812 alongside Tecumseh.

Caesar Creek was not named by colonists but by the Shawnee themselves. This land honors a man whom history has tried to overlook.

Next time you hike our trails or fish along the lake, take a moment to remember Caesar, who may have walked these same paths hundreds of years ago.

07/01/2025

Hello, friends, it’s Denise.

I’ve been meaning to share an update here on the studio page, especially since many of you have asked why I haven’t been teaching lately. I also mentioned that new classes were coming in July and August — and they are!

✨ Roberta Milliken is back with Slow Flow on Tuesday evenings at 6:00 PM starting in August.

✨ And we’re excited to welcome Kendra Everhart, who will be offering Sunday Soothe from 5:30–6:30 PM starting July 6th.

Now, for the personal part.

In April, a routine mammogram led to a diagnosis of breast cancer. After follow-up scans and three biopsies, I made the decision to have a double mastectomy. My surgery was one week ago (June 23rd), and I’m recovering well and in good spirits.

As many of you know, I’m an RN as well as a yoga teacher, and I’ve always understood how critical early detection is. I also know that cancer doesn’t play by the rules — even with a healthy lifestyle, sometimes it still shows up.

Right now, I’m under strict instructions not to lift, stretch, or do any yoga asana (physical postures), but yoga is so much more than movement. I look forward to sharing other aspects of the practice — breath, mindfulness, and connection — while I heal.

As I ease back in, I’ll be offering gentle chair yoga and restorative yoga classes — calm, supportive practices that meet the body right where it is. I’m also planning a weekend retreat this September, and I’ll be sharing more details on that in the next week or two.

I’m incredibly grateful for the support of my husband Bret (who has been amazing), my family, friends, and good insurance. My first post-op follow-up is tomorrow, and I’ll continue to share updates on my personal page (Denise Arnett Ruby) if you’d like to follow along.

Thank you all for your love, patience, and support. I’ll be back in the studio when the time is right — and I can’t wait to see you.

With love,
Denise

, I made a mistake with my original post. 😅 Roberta recently retired from her position as Dean of OU-C and is taking some well deserved time off. She’ll return to teaching at the studio in August, not July. ☺️🙏🏼

05/23/2025

Artist friends, one of you needs to start beautifying the sidewalks in downtown Chillicothe like this! 🤣☺️❤️

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05/19/2025

A beautiful afternoon with some amazing people ☺️🙏🏻❤️

05/18/2025

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