Shine Yoga + Wellness Studios by Katrina Marie Yoga
We are the safe, empowering yoga studio for women seeking to reclaim their power and own their authenticity.
Practice with us virtually from wherever you are or visit one of our local studio havens in the Illinois Valley.
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!
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!
Join us for a community class to benefit the pavilion and check out our studio after!
*you must register to attend
Start your morning with yoga and help support Reimagine Mendota's fundraiser for the Mendota Pavilion on Main project!
More member events can be found at mendotachamber.com/events
06/16/2025
☀️Explore the powerful practice of Surya Mudra, a hand shape that helps you welcome the Summer Solstice and the confidence and fun it inspires!
☀️Find a comfy space and follow the guidance to cultivate a radiance, confidence and renewed life purpose. This mudra offers a connection to your solar plexus chakra and the fire element. As you hold the shape, take a few deep breaths, and reflect how you could shine your inner light even more brightly and boldly.
☀️We encourage you to incorporate Surya Mudra into your week to help you make the most of the upcoming solstice!
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Katrina, Miss Kat or the car girl yogi is a teacher of many things. Katrina discovered yoga after being diagnosed with celiac disease. She makes use of her biology degree, love of anatomy, and multiple yoga teacher trainings to heal herself holistically by incorporating her knowledge of human anatomy, physiology, and nutrition not only into her diet, but also into her yoga practice and her life. She began to incorporate more and more meditation and energy healing into her practice to help manage her anxiety and PTSD. When she began to dive even more into the chakras she really began to heal on an even deeper level.
Her motto is always keep your head up and heart open. Through yoga, meditation, and working with the chakras she gained the strength needed to truly step into her power and would love nothing more than to help others find that place.
Yoga proved to be a way to calm her mind, body, and especially tummy while still allowing her to gain physical and mental strength without disrupting the delicate balance of managing her conditions. She recognized a need for the benefits of yoga in her own preschool classroom. She began including it in her curriculum and now focuses only on teaching science, nutrition, and yoga. The children don't go a day without asking to do yoga. Merging her passion for educating children and her love and knowledge of yoga resulted in the pure magic that is her kids yoga classes. Now parents and teachers all over our area are witnessing the benefits of more zen children who are empowered by having the ability to manage their own feelings and bodies through movement and breath. She could go on and on about why all children need yoga in their lives, just ask her, she'll tell you all about it. But she doesn’t stop there, she wants all the big people to feel the benefits of yoga.
She decided to share her passion with grown ups too and has used her extensive knowledge of human anatomy and physiology to help all ages of individuals use yoga to improve their wellness and live more fulfilled, happy lives despite various health issues. She genuinely cares about each individual and caters classes to your needs. She might occasionally speak to the grown ups in kids yoga language and tell you to be a snake or a dog, but that’s just all part of the fun! Kids and adults alike are guaranteed to leave her classes feeling happy, cared about, like they just had a ton of fun, like they did something really good for their bodies, and like they left a bunch of stress on their mat!
She would love nothing more than to share her passion with you or your children so catch her on her mat at one of her kids or adult classes or contact her to connect privately through yoga, meditation, or energy work!
