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Cheers to 14 Years!

Northern Life Yoga founder, Allie Brawley, reflects on the 14th Anniversary and her vision for growth. “Northern Life Yoga is poised for more growth in 2024 and beyond! The entire NLY team is passionate about yoga, fitness and healing arts, and we remain committed to sharing these gifts with you.”

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Change is in the Air

As Northern Life Yoga approaches (lucky!) year 13, we are announcing three upcoming changes that will be part of our evolution.

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The Inclusivity of Yoga

Read the benefits real Northern Life Yogi’s have received from their practice. Learning that yoga brings us together, showing us we’re all more similar than we think.

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Sharon Kennedy & the Lessons She Leaves Behind

It is unfathomable how someone so healthy and full of life can be completely present with us one day and gone forever the next from a tragic and untimely accident. The loss of someone so loved and dear to all of us leaves a void so deep that it would be easy to wallow in perpetual tears and questions. Pause. Deep breath. Another deep breath. Yet we can all take inspiration from Sharon’s example – to keep moving…figuratively and literally. The Sharon Kennedy we all know was a person always on the go – industrious with her time to make the most of each day, balancing family, work and serving the community…all while managing to fit in as many fitness classes as possible.

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Reiki, Belly Dance and Lola

Enjoy this article on our beloved yoga instructor and friend. We explore her many talents and dive deeper into Reiki and Belly Dance.

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Transitions

Learn how we're transitioning our NLY instructor and management team and studio space…and continuing to find positive changes for growth despite challenging times.

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The Next Adventure for Studio Manager, Gabbie Pepin

I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for an amazing year at Northern Life Yoga! It has been a pleasure to assist Allie with running the studio and helping all of you navigate this strange year of classes—shifting online to in-person to online to in-person and so on. This is a beautiful and amazing community that has welcomed me with love and compassion and patience as I, too, learned how to navigate online classes and scheduling software and the studio’s relationship with each of you.

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Get to Know Morgan VanWinkle, Newest Instructor at NLY!

Northern Life Yoga Welcomes Morgan VanWinkle as its newest instructor and future studio manager. Behind the scenes, our NLY team has loved getting to know Morgan, and thought that you might like to learn a little bit about her before you meet her in the studio!

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NLY Keeps March-ing On

March is shaping up to be a busy month at Northern Life Yoga. Not only did we reopen our studio doors on the first of the month, but we also have a virtual workshop and a couple series coming your way!

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The Month of Love Turned Inward: What is Self-Care?

What if, instead of looking at self-care as prescribed methods of relaxation, we break down what it means to simply take care of yourself—your entire self?

Everydayhealth.com says, “Self-care means taking care of yourself so that you can be healthy, you can be well, you can do your job, you can help and care for others, and you can do all the things you need to and want to accomplish in a day.”

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2021: A Year of Honor

As we fully immerse ourselves in this new year, we thought we would introduce a theme for 2021: honor. You’ve already begun to see it pop up in our January Facebook posts, and we believe this theme applies to many avenues of our lives. We may think of our families or our reputations when we hear the word honor, and while those, too, possess calls to honor, so do the various aspects that make up individual parts of who we are and how we live our lives.

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Reflecting on 2020 with Gratitude

As the saying goes, “flexible people never get bent out of shape,” and our yoga community has remained flexible as we evolved our business through the pandemic: from virtual classes in the spring, to outdoor and virtual classes in the summer, then our hybrid studio and virtual classes this fall, and back to virtual only classes in November.

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