Good Yoga - Inspiring Self Acceptance and Gentleness

"I’ve taken lots of yoga over the years and your class has been my all time favorite. Really. For several reasons: You know your stuff. You are a great teacher, but you also don’t get so focused on form and the asanas to the point of rigidity. Your class is very fluid. You have a great sense of humor and I appreciate that. You also set a tone that is self-care oriented, and honoring of the body and where each of us is in the journey. That’s important to me. I’ve learned some new postures in your class and have also appreciated learning the Sanskrit names for the postures, just from hearing you use them routinely. You obviously have found your Calling, your heart shines through when you are teaching. I love being in class and want to get on the mat at other times than just at class time. Thank you for being you and providing what you do. I appreciate you and your work in the world very much. I’ve recommended your class to several people and will continue to do that."

~ Gentle Flow Student

"Dear Kelly, I have nothing but great things to say about you & your class. I've spent a lot of time in yoga classes in different cities I've lived in, so appreciate you and your way of teaching, the wholeness and "full-circle" quality of each class."

~ Gentle Flow Student

"Dear Kelly, I truly enjoy your classes; Always a new adventure, never a sense of the ‘same old stuff’. I like your personality, what you say as we stretch and continue to stretch; the entire experience is delightful... continue doing what you do, for it is most enjoyable."

~ Moderate Flow Student

"Dearest Kelly- Yoga with you has opened the door for so many feelings of gratitude and love. The class is a beacon of light and hope for my body, heart, mind and soul, and has become 'my church'."

~ Senior Stretch Student

"Kelly, I started yoga in 1960 -- it's 46 years of experiencing a lot of different teachers. You top all of them. Mainly because you are giving a personal dedication to learning the philosophy behind Yoga. Most teachers seem to learn the "how" but not the "why" -- most of the "why" I learned on my own. But now I just learn from you. Also, I like your integrating other disciplines into yoga, because most of them are basically similar. I just wish that your spirituality could be absorbed by me! Lady, you're the greatest and I love you!"

~ Gentle Flow Student

"I have reaped many rewards since November when I started with you. Physically, I used to have a lot of stiffness in my thumbs and just resigned myself to some age related arthritis. Well my thumbs are totally flexible with no discomfort now. I also had fairly regular hip pain, but realized this morning I have not had any in a long time. I have lost 15 lbs since January, having changed the way I feed myself. But the body awareness that yoga has given me has contributed to this weight loss being easy. I love feeling the increased ability to bend and stretch. I have much less fat around my middle making some postures easier and more enjoyable. So those are some physical rewards. Emotionally and spiritually, I have been taking better care of myself and Good Yoga is a critical component of that self care. I laugh sometimes as I hear your loving voice in my head, gently reminding us to engage the mulabonda( spelling?), or suggesting that I choose a suncalpa(spelling?) for my day. So the once weekly practice has permeated my psyche throughout the week. I find myself wanting to meditate more regularly and enjoying it when I do. Frankly I would love to be in yoga 2x a week, that would be ideal!!! I love the class and you, thank you so much."

~ Gentle Flow Student

"With a slightly sore bod today, I want to take a moment to express my graditude for everything you have given me to date. I so often find myself checking my shoulders (up, down, back) and pulling the smiley face of my core up to strenghen the region, as well as more frequently noting the sense of well-being of my body/mind as a result of your gifts to me. All-in-all, my body/mind loves working out with you and shines with graditude today.
Yesterdays workout was delicious and I look forward to many more sessions
with you."

I'm already looking forward to next week's class. I love how you use the yoga vocabulary in your teaching together with your calm and friendly assurances and instructions. My body is happy with me this morning, nothing overdone in class.

Thank you for the opportunity to have a space in your class. You and your teaching have a wonderful reputation and I believe, deservedly so!

Hey, Kelly! I wanted to tell you that your scones saved my biscuits last Friday. I was going to Los Angeles for a meeting of the National Independent Theatre Consortium and I had a 9:45 flight -- or so I thought. When I got to Charlotte, there was a delay of over two hours. By the time I got on the plane, it was lunch time. The flight was going to be about 6 hours long. They offered some really awful looking lunches for $7 each, and then promptly ran out! Luckily, I remembered I had put one of your scones in my briefcase! It's fiber goodness and a lot of water, and I was good to go for the next 6 hours. As a sidenote, because I had yoga the night before, I wasn't the least bit uncomfortable on the long flight, whereas several of my fellow passengers were suffering with knotted-up backs. Now, if you had only been there to save me from having my luggage lost...TWICE...and having my return flight cancelled and turned into a red-eye so that I was traveling 24 hours straight.... well, I guess yoga can only do so much!

I want to thank you for all of the extra attention you paid to me and my stomach. It has paid off royally; my operation is a big success and that I can come back to yoga as soon as I feel like it -- the yoga has done wonders for my insides.

The warmth and tenderness you radiate and extend to us in class is remarkably generous; the images you use, the words you choose, so heartfelt and so evocative! Your kind ‘embrace’ takes me out the door and through my day, cushioning, swaddling, loving, but also offering ideas for perceiving the world and myself in new, more creative, dynamic and accepting ways. You are truly a gifted communicator! Although I still resist coming to your class, I don’t for a minute question how much it nourishes me. Thank you!

I am thinking that when we ladies come into your home we give you control of our being because we know and trust you. We have basic trust and confidence in you and we relax our souls and in a way are at peace for one hour and a half. It is a wonderful feeling, here we are a group of older ladies going through the exercises you have us do and when we leave we feel better for it, we are no longer tense and life just better for all of us being together. For that I thank you.

I wanted to let you know that last Tuesday's session in which you worked a lot on the shoulders and neck was truly therapeutic. I have a lot of problems in those areas due to an injury from a car accident. To be honest, I was really sore the rest of the day on Tuesday. That night I took a long soak in the tub with Epsom salt, got a good night's sleep, and have felt very good since then. My neck and shoulders are noticeably softer and more relaxed than I can ever recall.