Marie Blair's weekly yoga classes return to O'Neal Library this summer. Sessions begin today and run for an hour each Thursday morning until July 14. Register for one session, or all of them!
It's the event you've been waiting for! Marie's yoga classes will be offered on select Thursdays in June & July. After a break in August, be on the lookout for weekly classes on Tuesdays after Labor Day.
Marie has a loyal following among yoga practitioners in our community. If you have taken her classes before, you know what a great teacher she is.
For those who are unfamiliar with Marie's practice, she is a certified Mindful Yoga teacher who conducted her training at Oregon Health and Science University developing the tools of breathwork, meditation and body awareness to alleviate the symptoms of chronic pain and cancer.
Studying at Duke Integrative Medicine with Kimberly Carson and Carol Krucoff, Marie’s knowledge of the physiology and anatomy of aging informs her sequencing to build bone health and improve circulation.
Studying with Matthew Sanford in Minneapolis, she has explored adapting yoga to persons with disabilities.
An E-RYT 200-hour registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance, Marie is pursuing 500-hour certification as a therapeutic yoga specialist with Yoga Medicine. Her expanding expertise includes reproductive health, the nervous system and restorative yoga, myofascial release, principles of Traditional Chinese medicine, the function and dysfunction of the spine, hip, and shoulder.
Book learning aside, it is in her home practice that Marie experiences yoga just as you will when you join her. Marie encourages a beginner’s mind – curious and alert – to cultivate a mature yoga practice.
What else to know about Marie? Smitten spouse of Duncan for 38 years, proud mother of two extraordinary adult daughters living in New York, retired children's librarian, community advocate for children and healthy neighborhoods, cradle east Tennessean, lifelong learner.
AGE GROUP: | Adults (Ages 21+) | Adults (Ages 18+) |
EVENT TYPE: | Regular Series | Exercise/Activity | Adult Events |
TAGS: | yoga | weekly | marie blair | health | gentle yoga | free | fitness | exercise | adult events | adult |