Elemental Yoga Under Gaia

Overview

Get out of your mind and into your heart as you deepen your connection to yourself and Gaia. Join us for a five-week series connecting to a new element each week, culminating in a joining of the elements Saturday, November 9 at 9 a.m.

This elemental flow incorporates earth (foundation), air (the breath), fire (passion, heat and energy), and water (fluidity within transitions, fluid movements, adding the aspects of sun and moon). This energizing fluid sequence is a variation of the moon namaskars and sun namaskars to bring the elements and aspects of self into our awareness facilitating a deep connection to creation.

Each class will connect and flow with each element during fluid and thoughtfully sequenced practice that combines movement and breath. Exploring the relationship between yoga and the natural elements helps you feel energized, uplifted and inspired. This yoga style links breath with movement, from one pose to another, mixing vinyasa flow with deeper, restorative stretch postures.

Sydney Duarte (Instructor 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, and 11/2)

A 300-hour certified E-RYT teacher, Sydney has an eager appetite for finding new ways to connect to the soul through movement while weaving in the art of play throughout each practice. In each of her all-levels classes you will experience an engaging, light-hearted, inclusive yoga class, designed to both challenge AND support you.

All-levels means ALL are welcome regardless of your experience. Sydney will lovingly guide you every step of the way to reconnect to your mind and body. Her style mixes vinyasa flow with deeper stretch postures and is designed to revitalize and restore your body, calm the mind, increase energy, and reduce stress.   

If you've never been to a Vinyasa class before, this style is designed to revitalize and restore your body, calm the mind, increase energy, and reduce stress. Great for all levels of yoga experience, vinyasa yoga links breath with movement. This class mixes vinyasa flow with deeper stretch postures.

Kim Savage (Instructor 11/9)

Kim approaches each individual human and equine with reverence and respect focusing on tuning into the body and listening. Her goal is to facilitate the body’s innate healing to create comfort in body, mind and spirit. Her massage technique, sacred sound healings, meditation and yoga teaching are influenced by the methods she has studied – massage, sacred sound and vibrational healing, intuitive energy, the energetic body, thai vedic bodywork, neuromuscular pain patterns, medicupping, aromatherapy, meditation, ayurveda, equine massage and yoga.

Kim is a graduate of the NC Massage School with certificates in Clinical Neuromuscular and Structural Bodywork, Thai massage, Thai vedic bodywork, ayurvedic bodywork, ace medicupping, massage cupping, hot stone massage and Equine massage.

Kim is a certified sound healing practitioner with International Sound Therapy Association and Medical Sound Association. 

Integrative healer, intuitive bodyworker, holistic massage therapist {LMBT 17714}, equine bodywork and massage therapist, certified therapeutic sound practitioner, meditation facilitator, Reiki Master and Yoga E-RYT