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Hope Spragg Yoga & Art

Thursdays 5:30-6:30

TAC - Tuesday After Class

@ Be Loved Bodywork &

Yoga

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Tuesdays 4:15-5:15

Thursdays 5:30

@ Performance Health & Fitness

This class is booked through Performance Fitness Website

Thursdays 7:15-8:15

Gentle Flow & Restore

@ Be Loved Bodywork &

*Use code FIRSTONEISFREE at checkout for a free trial

Click here for NEW CLASSES on the east side of IOWA CITY @Life's Your Stage

Class Descriptions

Gentle Flow & Restore

@ Be Loved Bodywork & Yoga

Ease into your evening by getting out of your head and into your body. Half gentle movement, half deeply relaxing restful poses will send you home wind-down ready to enjoy your evening routine and blissful sleep. The beginning of class will focus on connecting to the breath and releasing tension in the body preparing for longer held restorative poses and closing with an extended relaxation pose. The practice is complimented with soothing music, aromatherapy and a warm cup of tea offered for your way home.

Yin Yoga

@ Performance Fitness

Performance Fitness is a membership fitness club, however, they do offer one week free trials, one class free trials and $15 drop-in options.

During the practice of Yin yoga, poses are held for longer, allowing the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) to release tension with longer holds allowing the fascia and connective tissue of the body to soften. These gentle postures cue the body into a safe space of wellbeing, activating the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) and encouraging rest, healing and restoring balance in the body. Yoga means "union" and this practice offers a welcome union of the mind and body in a day likely filled with much busy-ness.

Book Classes at Be Loved

Single Class
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15 US dollars
4-Pack
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15 US dollars
Private Yoga for 1-4
1 hr
60 US dollars

Classes at Be Loved are booked through this website. Classes at Performance Fitness and Life's Your Stage are booked booked through those websites, which you will be redirected to by clicking the link on the class.

My sister and me after our first yoga training together!

A little about my yoga journey:

My fascination with yoga began nearly three decades ago when I took my first yoga class in Amritsar, India during my art education student teacher assignment abroad. I appreciated that class, consisting of seated breathwork, with wonder and curiosity. I continued to dabble in all sorts of classes wherever I've landed in life, from Saginaw, MI, to Asheville, NC and finally, here, on my mat, in Iowa City, Iowa. My dabbling turned into more of a deep dive the last several years, becoming an essential touchstone of personal well-being.

My appreciation is multi-faceted: from the Yoga Sutras and hot yoga lineage via India to the many teachers and styles I learn from today. I honor the historic lineage of yoga with authentic study and appreciation in my personal (and now teaching) practice. Likewise, I acknowledge the great gift of the teachers who are making these healthful, mindful practices accessible to us, here in the United States, who could use a few tools in our sanity boxes. My favorite yoga studios include: Hot Yoga Asheville, Martha's Hot Yoga Studio, Muddy Feet Yoga and Hot House Yoga because I am a sucker for a hot studio but I also love all yoga workshops and frequently check out Heartland Yoga and Downward Dog's schedules. I'm excited to add the brand spanking new Be Loved Bodywork & Yoga and Life's Your Stage (brand new) yoga classes to my list of favorites and I hope you do too!

I received my first 200RYT at Hot Yoga Asheville in November of 2024 (with my sister, that was special!) and plan on many more hours of teacher training, because I love it. My goal as a teacher is to bring yoga to anyone who wants it, however they want it. I LOVE a challenging flow and breaking down peak postures AND restorative (what I lovingly refer to as layaround yoga). I also enjoy creating cross-training sequences to complement fitness or other personal health goals: running, lifting or cycling. Eventually, my goal is to offer intergenerational yoga and folks in the recovery community. One benefit of my yoga ho-in' around town is that you will never hear me say there is one right way. I respect and study a variety of styles and lineages and know that you are the expert on your own body, together we can approach practice with confidence and curiosity.

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