Yoga In DeMun

10/25/2025

Maybe your struggle is a message, a gateway, a new beginning?

Maybe there’s no one in your life teaching you how to love yourself
Maybe you don't have the tools to claim your personal power
Maybe you can’t show up for yourself and use your voice
Maybe you are blocking your healing with old, loveless narratives
Maybe you’re ready to stop mistreating yourself, stop struggling, suffering
Maybe resistance can be traded for acceptance
Maybe you are ready to forgive yourself for missteps and let go of the past
Maybe your mind is stirring, wanting more from life
Maybe you’re hearing the inner call to be more
Maybe you can commit to healing your pain

Maybe it’s time to see your pain as a healing journey

YOU ARE THE ANTIDOTE TO PAIN
There’s someone in your life that loves you deeply
There’s someone that owns your personal power
There’s someone that shows up and boldly speaks your truth
There’s someone enabling your healing with loving, calming narratives
There’s someone being kind, encouraging, energizing your life
There’s someone accepting of all your flaws, insecurities, self-doubt
There’s someone forgiving of your missteps in the past
There’s someone wanting more from life
There’s someone hearing the inner call to live and be more
There’s someone committed to healing your pain as an ongoing journey

"Someone" is YOU and you can choose to heal your mind, body and your heart. - Julie Corpora

The essence of our work is to evolve our minds to a greater understanding of our health and well-being.

When we begin to experience ourselves differently, we experience life differently, we feel more expansive, more at ease, more joy and happiness. Things will begin to manifest with greater ease through intention.

09/26/2025

Dear everyone,

In Chinese Five Element theory, autumn corresponds to the Metal element, which is linked to the Lungs and Large Intestine meridians. Metal represents clarity, letting go, and refinement—just as trees shed their leaves, we too are invited to release what no longer serves us.

The emotion connected with Metal is grief. In balance, grief can help us process loss and open space for new beginnings. Out of balance, it may turn into prolonged sadness or difficulty letting go. By nourishing the Metal element, we strengthen the lungs, support immunity, and create emotional resilience.

Autumn is therefore the season of:

Breath → deepening our connection with life energy (Qi/ 氣).

Letting go → physically (colon elimination), emotionally (releasing old attachments), and mentally (clearing cluttered thoughts).

Reflection → appreciating what is essential and true

Join me yoga in the park for a class focused on deepening our connection with lung health, bone density and mental resilience

https://www.yogaindemun.com/class-schedule-

09/12/2025

Hello, I hope you are doing well! Join me to loosen the grip of both the conditioned body and mind. By practicing yoga in nature, deep stretching exercises, and mindful listening, we'll explore ways to release tension and find greater freedom in our physical and mental spaces.


9/13 (Sat) 9:00 a.m. Yoga in the park : grounding your energy, allow the flow of your breath to open your body while surrounded by the park's natural beauty.

9/16 (Tue) 7:00 p.m. Deep Stretching and meditation Here: Release physical tension stored in the body through gentle yet effective stretching sequences designed to create space and freedom in tight areas

Audios on Soundcloud: I have recorded 3 audios exploring insightful inner worlds of thoughts and meditation (see links below). I'm currently developing a supportive system to help you explore the interconnection between body and mind, ultimately finding more ease, presence

Class schedule:
https://www.yogaindemun.com/class-schedule-

Audio here:
https://soundcloud.com/yoga-in-demun

09/04/2025

Christy’s Sacred Pause for inner Integration (9/8–10/5)

The more I teach, the more I recognize the importance of making time for my own growth.

Just as a caterpillar retreat into its cocoon during the pupal stage, a person, too, may enter a period of stillness and inward focus. On the surface, this stage may appear quiet or even stagnant, but beneath that stillness lies profound change. Old patterns, identities, and ways of being begin to dissolve, creating space for something entirely new to emerge. It is a sacred pause—an in-between space where growth is invisible but essential. Like the caterpillar, the person is not losing themselves, but transforming into a fuller, freer version of who they are meant to become. So, with all the work I have done on myself, from the foundational level, I will be taking a short break to enter my pupal stage to focus on integrating three streams of wellbeing and personal growth that I have been working on since 2022 for the new birth of Yoga in DeMun. This will enable me to be better prepared and qualified to continue supporting you on your unique journey—as a yoga/meditation teacher, as a certified transformational coach - Inner Alignment Journey Here, and as a guide of life by leading a journey of Pilgrimage for Renewal through the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu in 2026 and forward.

Join me this weekend 9/6 & 9/7 in the studio
https://www.yogaindemun.com/class-schedule-

9/8–10/5: I will teach Tuesday's 7 pm Deep Stretch and Meditation, and weekend's 9:00 a.m. yoga in the park when the weather is nice.

After 10/6: A new schedule will be introduced (Private session, studio and Zoom class) Your membership and class credits will not be affected. Instead, you'll receive additional benefits from what I'm creating for you beyond regular yoga classes.
Zoom live sessions, and online resources available for you to work with me remotely. Support materials including reading, audio, and video coming fall 2025–spring 2026.

To love, to learn, to teach, to work, to share
Christy

08/28/2025

In my yoga journey, I have met many amazing people—students, teachers, and healers. Debbie Mayo is not only a beautiful soul and healer, but she is also human. Despite helping so many people, she too has faced life's tests and trials. Last spring, she received a cancer diagnosis. However, she is now cancer-free and wants to share her personal journey and story with you. She hopes you'll find inspiration or hope from hearing her experience.

From Healing to Hope with Debbie Mayo

Thursday, 8/28, 1 pm Central Time

Join Zoom Meeting ID 739 827 0431

Passcode: 12345

08/15/2025

On Tuesday evening, Bill and Kathy returned to Deep Stretch and Meditation class for the first time after fighting stage four Mantle cell lymphoma cancer for more than one year, after he was told he had about 6 weeks to live. Before the diagnosis, they were both in great shape and good spirits. Exercise and running were part of their lives—they were even training for an Ironman competition before receiving this heavy news from their doctor after a checkup for back pain that seemed to come from nowhere.


They knew they were fighting against odds and time, a challenge so much greater than Ironman. They were walking an unknown path with little time, putting nothing but positive energy toward moving to the other side. I stayed connected with Kathy during this challenging time. I understood how hard it was for a full-time caregiver with two high school kids while traveling between St. Louis and Charleston. She is an amazing person and soul. I love them a lot. There was very little I could do, but I knew good vibrations help calm the system, so Bill could shift his focus toward peace while he suffered. He told me that the music kept him calm during that time, and he listened to it on his flights back to St. Louis.


After class, he shared that being in class one year later was a miracle. His heart was filled with gratitude for his family and his amazing medical team, especially his doctor, not only for her knowledge but also her calming nature at the Siteman Cancer Center. I recognize he is a completely different man now. I could sense his presence as big as a whale in the room. In fact, I have heard many stories like Bill's over the years, including my father-in-law who fought cancer for over ten years. I asked myself what I could do to create something for people who need calm and peace the most.


Yesterday, inspired by many of you, amazing you, I began recording an Insight Meditation series called "The Practice of Freedom Here " I've made it public and sharable for everyone. The first recording is "Insight Meditation Intro with Tips," and I'll continue explore with the topics like acceptance and how to be with pain when there's no escape, and how can we shift our focus and meditate in that impossible moment.


And for many of you who work diligently in the healthcare system, and many more of you who contribute effort and work to lift the light and spirit in the community for many families—you are truly the light in the darkness, and I am inspired by you every day.

Hello, this is Christy Lin. These simple meditation introduces and tips are here to walk you through the basics of meditation and share some helpful tips to help your focus and presence while you prac

08/10/2025

Honoring Sunday Restoration

Thank you for this day of tranquil noiselessness. I'm grateful to learn how to be without sound, to close up shop in order to recharge my healthy, well-used voice.

Let no one mistake my muteness for reticence. Let my monologues be shared another time, trusting that the very good ideas that surface will return when I plug back into the world.

Commit me to the ceremony of fasting from language.

Press pauses on my thoughts and concerns, and help me tune out all but the radiant resonance of my being. Connect me to my breath, situate me comfortably, and ease the chatter of my mind. Give me a quiet place to lie down and indulge in my sacred space.

Dismiss my desire to work things out, to jump up to write something down, to tend the many loose ends; help me position a blank backdrop around me and release all tension. Let everything drain out of me and into the Earth.

Allow me to restore and soothe my senses under a midnight moon, or on the soft sand of a shoreline. Calm the space around me, and my need to explain, to share and to be heard. The hands I gesture with when speaking, the spine that works hard to hold my body upright. Hush the room I stay in, and pacify me into neutrality. Melt me down, and seal me inside a womb of peace.

When I emerge, allow me time to communicate my fresh understanding through the soul of my new eyes. Remind me that sound isn't the only way to forward the news.

Help those close to me be comforted by my renewed presence, and help me make it possible for them to retreat for needed rest, too.

By Pixie Lighthorse

Sunday 5:00 pm Restorative and Release (2 spots left today)
https://www.yogaindemun.com/class-schedule-

08/05/2025

In teaching meditation, I often advise students to develop a "soft and spacious mind." But once when I used that phrase while teaching in a financial group setting, I found that "soft mind" meant something quite different to people there from what I had intended, because we were surrounded by three giant wall-sized black screens. I felt cold and tight in their environment. So it seems important to elucidate what I mean.


I mean by "soft and spacious mind" the quality of acceptance. For example, suppose you are watching your breath in meditation and you feel a sense of struggle or tension. This feeling of struggle may be a sign that something else is happening in your experience that you are not recognizing or allowing. Perhaps you are not opening to some other sensation in the body, some discomfort, or some underlying emotion. Or perhaps you have become caught up in expectation, with too much effort or striving, wanting the experience of the moment to be different from what it actually is.


Softness means opening to what is there, relaxing into it (a deep stretching for the mind). At such a time, try this self-allowing: "It's okay. Whatever it is, it's okay. Let me feel it." That is softening of the mind. You can open to your experience with a sense of allowing, and simply be with whatever predominates: sensation, emotion, thoughts, image, even pain, anything.


Softening the mind involves two steps: First, become mindfully aware of whatever is most predominant. That is the core guideline for all meditation in any way, because meditation is shapeless, formless. So the first step is just to feel, sense, be aware, and be open. You can see it as your first few steps into the water before you are going to swim.

For the second step, notice how you are relating to whatever arises. Often we can be with an arising appearance but in a reactive way. If we like it, we tend to hold on to it; we become attached. If we do not like it because it is painful in some way, we tend to contract, to push away out of fear, irritation, or annoyance. Each of these responses is the opposite of acceptance.

The easiest way to relax is to stop trying to make things different. Rather than try to create another state, simply allow space for whatever is going on. Allow yourself to fully merge into the water, and be part of everything.

08/02/2025

Happy Saturday!

Join Us for Morning Yoga in the Park – 9 AM!

The weather is absolutely beautiful, and it’s the perfect day to stretch, breathe, and move under the open sky. Bring your mat, enjoy the fresh air, and start your day feeling refreshed and centered.

Class for All-levels
Date: 8/2 & 8/3, 9:00 a.m.- 10:15 a.m.
Location: We will be in the park across the street from DeMun Kaldi's Cafe!

Sign up here:
https://www.yogaindemun.com/class-schedule-

07/25/2025

Hello, Happy Friday!

Overheating doesn't just affect our bodies; it also impacts our minds and emotions. Physically, it can cause fatigue, dehydration, and inflammation. Mentally, it leads to irritability, brain fog, difficulty staying focused, and restlessness. Emotionally, we may feel more anxious, impatient, or overwhelmed.


Yoga offers a gentle way to restore balance during these times. We make slight adjustments to bring harmony to your body and help you achieve your personal goals: We give more time for the body to cool down. Slow, deep breathing to activate the body-breath connection, and calming meditation can help regulate body temperature, soothe the nervous system, and bring emotional clarity. It's a simple, yet powerful way to stay grounded and centered when the heat rises.


Check out the schedule here:
https://www.yogaindemun.com/class-schedule-

Have a lovely weekend!
Yoga In DeMun

07/18/2025

Did you know music can influence brain waves? One of the challenges for many people is slowing down their thoughts, or they feel they are doing many things all the time and having a hard time finding quiet moments for themselves. This weekend, you can try slowing down, for example, walking or driving without listening to podcasts, audio books, any conversational media or the most updated news. Let there be space for nothingness— At first, you will notice it is not easy, because we are so used to feeding something to our brain as we value knowing more rather than less. Let there be more silence and less words. Listening to slow drum beats and gentle wind chimes helps synchronize your brain with your heart, bringing inner harmony throughout your body, and peace in the heart 🌺

Slowly inhale and exhale the Air with the strong intention of balancing Your Heart Chakra (anahata chakra). When it is balanced, you can freely give and rece...