Shine Yoga + Wellness Studios by Katrina Marie Yoga

05/04/2026

🤲 Mudra Monday — this week we’re practicing Adhi Mudra for presence, stillness, and strength. Come home to your body with this one. 🫶🏻

Come home to your body with Adhi Mudra — a grounding practice that cultivates presence and stillness, soothes anxiety, and builds inner strength while connecting to the root chakra and deepening your connection to the earth element.

04/27/2026

🙌🏼This week’s mudra: Pranidhana.
For softening into calm. For allowing surrender. For trusting what you know is true.

Release tension, soften stubbornness, and return to trust with Pranidhana Mudra. This root and sacral chakra practice supports surrender, nervous system calm, and the liberation of your true nature through the water and earth elements.

08/04/2025

♌️Explore the powerful practice of Ratna Prabha Mudra, a hand shape that inspires you to radiate confidence and authenticity. It helps you achieve mental clarity so you can get clear on what your life purpose is. And it gives you the enthusiasm and vitality needed to manifest it into your reality!

Ratna Prabha Mudra is a wonderful handshape to work with anytime you want to cultivate self-esteem, confidence, and a sense of purpose, but especially during Leo Season when the energy naturally wants this for you too!

Leo is a fire sign and it somatically rules the heart space. This mudra helps you tap into the confidence and vitality of the fire element and the heart-centeredness of the air element so you can confidently let your heart lead with radiance. It is a shape that physically supports digestion and circulation and energetically supports your solar plexus and heart chakras.

♌️Find a comfy space and follow the guidance to connect to the your radiance and purpose!

♌️We encourage you to incorporate Ratna Prabha Mudra into your week as we embrace the light energy of Leo Season!

07/31/2025

🧘🏻‍♀️+☕️= 🥰 Join us tonight, July 31st, at 6 PM for an evening of relaxation at for a calming, all-levels yoga session led by — followed by your favorite drink!

$30 includes:
✔️ 50-minute yoga session
✔️ Large drink voucher (redeem anytime!)

Reserve your spot in person at The Coffee Barn – space is limited!

Let’s stretch it out, sip it up, and feel amazing.

07/08/2025

♋️Explore the healing practice of Tejas Mudra, a hand shape that helps you open to trusting the process of opening your heart.

What would it feel like to live with your heart wide open?
Slightly terrifying?
Really freaking empowering?

Oftentimes, when our hearts get wounded, we guard them, often unconsciously, to protect them. But when we do that we protect them from all of the love and joy too.

Tejas Mudra helps you find a sense of trust so you feel empowered to open your heart wide. It helps heal old wounds to make space for new joys in the process.

Tejas Mudra is a wonderful handshape to work with anytime you want to feel into trust, radiance, and vulnerability, but especially during Cancer Season so you can make the most of its heart-opening energy. It helps you connect to the air and fire elements and gives some love to your anahata, or heart chakra.

♋️Find a comfy space and follow the guidance to give yourself the trust you need to open your heart!

♋️We encourage you to incorporate Tejas Mudra into your week as you lean into the light side of Cancer energy!

Check out our latest blog post to trust yourself and the power of your heart with this mudra and other tools to support its intention!

Check out ways to practice mudras live with our empowering yoga community on our live class schedule!

07/01/2025

♋️Explore the powerful practice of Shanka Mudra, a hand shape that helps you open to vulnerability and give yourself permission to feel to heal.

It often seems easier to ignore or completely numb your feelings. But doing that for the not so great feelings means doing it for the really great ones too.

When you numb yourself to sadness, anger, or fear, you also numb yourself to joy, determination, and courage. We learned with Ida Mudra that your emotions, while often intense and sometimes not so pleasant, come to you for a reason - to guide you! And once they guide you, they need to move through you to create ease and well-being.

Shanka Mudra helps you find a sense of safe-enough so you open to the vulnerability of feeling. And it is in the feeling that you find the healing!

Shanka Mudra is a wonderful handshape to work with anytime you want to feel to heal, but especially during Cancer Season or when you want to work with any water sign energy or your sacral chakra.

♋️Find a comfy space and follow the guidance to give yourself the reassurance you need to truly feel!

♋️We encourage you to incorporate Shanka Mudra into your week as you learn to navigate the shadow side of Cancer energy!

06/27/2025

Work with the stability of earth and the fluidity of water so you can balance your emotions through your physical body. Your emotions are here as guides, not rulers. Let your body help you receive their guidance gently rather than letting them take over your life through the shapes and movements of this krya. This way you can use their messages intelligently.

Join us to experience the profound potential of Kundalini Yoga in a safe, supportive, exploratory, and inclusive setting.

06/26/2025

How does Cancer Season feel to you so far?
Sensitive?
Same!

If we lean into it, we can let it guide us.
If we fight it, we will just waste energy.

No thanks!

So let’s lean in, together, guided by Chelsea!

To support your heart’s healing and deepen your connection to self-care, we invite you to join our Restorative Yoga Class focused on nurturing and settling into this sacred season.

This class is designed to help you gently release tension, open your heart, and cultivate deep inner peace. Through soothing, supported poses and mindful breathing, you’ll create space for emotional nourishment and intuitive rest— PERFECT for aligning with the nurturing energies of Cancer.

Wear something super comfy. If you are joining us virtually be sure to have cozy props like blankets, cushions, or yoga blocks to enhance your relaxation nearby.

Together, let’s lean into the energy of this season with compassion and gentle self-love. We look forward to doing just that alongside you.

🧘🏻‍♀️ Thursday, June 26th
🧘🏻‍♀️ 5:30pm CST • 6:30pm EST • 3:30pm PST
🧘🏻‍♀️ Shine Yoga GARAGE + Virtual

We can’t wait to share this heart-nourishing experience with you!

06/25/2025

This is THE moon for reparenting yourself so you can nurture your inner child in all the ways she needed all along!🌒 ♋️

Embody this with child’s pose or balasana.

🧘🏻‍♀️Gently move onto hands and knees. You may want to place a folded blanket under your knees for extra comfort.
🧘🏻‍♀️Inhale deeply. Exhale to send your hips back towards your heels as you drape your body over your legs and bring your head towards the Earth.
🧘🏻‍♀️You may choose to widen your knees or bring them closer together.
🧘🏻‍♀️Add support under your head, hips, or torso, if you’d like. Find what makes you feel comforted and nurtured in your physical body.
🧘🏻‍♀️ Let this help you connect to your own inner child as you breathe deeply for 3-5 minutes.

As you are ready, gently and intuitively transition to any comfortable place to reflect and/or journal on the prompts offered here.

Want to lean in even further to nurturing yourself this new moon? Join us for Cancer New Moon Yin + Meditation guided by !

🌒Cancer New Moon Yin + Meditation.
🌒Wednesday, June 25th at 5:30pm CST
🌒50 Minutes
🌒Locally at Shine Yoga GARAGE (LaSalle, IL)
🌒Virtually
🌒Free for KMY Members

06/24/2025

♋️Explore the powerful practice of Ida Mudra, a hand shape that helps you connect to sensitivity and receptivity.

Your emotions, while often intense and sometimes not so pleasant, come to you for a reason - to guide you!

The moon is a glowing beauty up in the sky that helps remind you to allow yourself to connect to your sensitivity and receptivity. She has the power to move the ocean. And we are made up of a lot of water, so of course she influences us too!

Ida Mudra helps you connect to the energy of the moon and the water element. It reminds you that there is immense strength in sensitivity. It isn’t brave to push things down, it is brave to call them up for feeling and eventually healing!

Ida Mudra is a wonderful handshape to work with anytime you want to lean into your own sensitivity, but especially during Cancer Season or when you want to work with any water sign energy.

♋️Find a comfy space and follow the guidance to connect to the guides that are always there for you and awaken your feminine nature!

♋️We encourage you to incorporate Ida Mudra into your week as we welcome Cancer Season!

06/20/2025

Embody the truth that you are made of the same brilliant radiance as the sun! Let it fuel confidence within you to inspire you to live with no limitations so you can be your brightest and boldest self. Because that is how you will light up the world!

Join us to experience the profound potential of Kundalini Yoga in a safe, supportive, exploratory, and inclusive setting.

06/19/2025

The solstice reminds us of the importance of relaxation. This class is a beautiful combination of two incredibly healing practices to welcome relaxation at the deepest level.

Begin with Yin Yoga, which allows you to explore longer holds, deeper breaths, intentional mindfulness and self-awareness. It is a gentle yet inspiring practice that invites you to slow down and deepen your experience of yoga and yourself.

You’ll be guided through a series of passive poses that are held for extended periods, typically three to five minutes. These long holds allow you to open energetic channels (meridians) and gently target the deeper connective tissues of your body, like ligaments and fascia, which helps release holding patterns to promote joint health and increased range of motion.

Then experience the profound practice of Yoga Nidra, often referred to as “yogic sleep.” This is a guided meditative practice that induces deep relaxation and explores a state of consciousness that plays between waking and sleeping. Evidence-based research highlights its benefits in reducing stress, enhancing sleep quality, and improving overall well-being.

Simply rest in a comfortable position as you are guided through several stages, including setting an intention (sankalpa), body scan, breath awareness, and visualization. These elements work synergistically to activate the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting relaxation, reducing cortisol levels, and rewiring neural pathways from limitation to possiblity. Studies have shown that regular practice of Yoga Nidra can lead to decreased symptoms of anxiety, depression, and insomnia, making it a valuable tool for total being health and happiness.

Join Chelsea, Katrina, and our community for the potent combo of rest, healing, and rejuvenation!

🧘🏻‍♀️ Thursday June 19th
🧘🏻‍♀️ 5:30pm CST • 6:30pm EST • 3:30pm PST
🧘🏻‍♀️ 1 hour
🧘🏻‍♀️ Shine Yoga GARAGE + Virtual