Calming Yoga with Julie Pierce

Tuesdays & Thursdays at 9:30-10:30 am
In-person at Trailside

Calming Yoga Flow – Join for a practice utilizing a mat, chair, and other props for yoga postures with gently flowing transitions, breathing exercises, and meditation with mental, physical, and spiritual health benefits. Benefits include stress reduction, improved body awareness and balance, increases in flexibility, strength, and muscle tone, pain management, and increased lung capacity. In addition, yoga may help you cultivate peace with yourself and others and deepen your own personal faith. This practice may be modified to your own fitness level from beginnners to more advanced, however, participants will be required to transfer up and down from the floor independently. Please bring your own mat if available. The cost per class (paid directly to your instructor) is $4 drop-in, $30 for a 10-visit punch card or $55 for a 20-class punch card. These punch cards are good for any of Julie’s classes). Instructor, Julie Pierce, is a certified group exercise instructor with a Master of Science degree in Physical Therapy.

Julie Pierce received a M.S. in Physical Therapy in 1993 from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is a Certified Group Exercise Instructor (Athletics and Fitness Association of America) with more than 20 years experience instructing a wide variety of class formats. For the past 15 years Julie’s focus has been leading fitness classes for older adults (age 50+), including mat yoga, chair yoga, balance/fall prevention, SilverSneakers, Pilates, low-impact aerobics, step aerobics, cardio kickboxing, and strength intervals. Julie and her husband, Jeff, moved to Midland from South Carolina in July 2021. They have one adult daughter who works as an RN in Nashville, TN. Julie’s mission statement: to glorify God and honor Jesus Christ by promoting peace and wholeness through exercise for mind, body, and spirit. All are welcome in Julie’s classes and she invites you to join her on her journey toward JOY in 2021!