Small World Yoga

There is still time to give as part of National Nonprofit Day! Through the end of August, we have a community member matching any donations made, so you can support your favorite yoga nonprofit and know your gift is being doubled!

Give today: https://smallworldyoga.kindful.com/

Every dollar helps us make a difference in the Nashville community, bringing yoga and mindfulness to all!

$5 Fridays! 🏷️

For the month of September only, we're giving y'all $5 Fridays at the studio! All classes that day are just five bucks. Start off your weekend with us, and bring a friend while you're at it!

On Fridays we have class at 9 am, noon, and 4:30 pm, with select dates for Kundalini yoga from 9:30–11 am.

Purchased class packs do not apply.

We have a modified Labor Day schedule! 🤸‍♀️

Monday, September 2
9 am with Angela
6 pm with Jordan

Saturday and Sunday this weekend have normal schedules. Come flow with us as part of your long weekend!

https://smallworldyoga.org/about-the-studio/studio-schedule/

Vote for us for the Nashville Scene's Best of Nashville!

🗳️ Best Yoga Studio (under Health, Beauty & Fitness)
https://vote.nashvillescene.com/health-beauty-and-fitness/best-yoga-studio

🗳️ Best Nonprofit (under Retail & Services)
https://vote.nashvillescene.com/retail-and-services/best-nonprofit

This first round of voting ends September 4.

Are you a yoga teacher wanting some tips for teaching yoga to kids? 🤸

How to Teach Kids Yoga
Saturday, September 14
1–3 pm
SWY Community Studio

This two-hour workshop designed for teachers will equip you with skills, techniques, and best practices to teach all school ages, from pre-K to high school students! Led by Mikka Parrish.

You will learn how to lead kids yoga games, how to make yoga accessible for children, and how to relate to each age group through yoga mindfulness and meditation.

Cost:
Current SWY teachers - FREE
Non-SWY teachers - $40

Sign up: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=671159&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000284&date=09/14/24

We had a wonderful time with Gabby at her last studio class! Until next time, Gabs! 🧡🩵

Get to know Katie Mandlehr, one of our studio teachers!

As a licensed occupational therapist, Katie is passionate about somatic healing, neuroplasticity, and sensory integration, so if that's your jam, Katie would love to geek out with you about it! With Katie, you get the best of both worlds: catch her either on Fridays at 4:30 pm for a power flow, or on Sundays at 6 pm for a slow, restorative practice.

🍌 Favorite yoga pose lately?
Bananasana (a full-body side stretch)—in bed in the morning, standing, or seated during work breaks, as frequently as possible.

🤸‍♀️ What can people expect in your class?
I always want yogis to feel free to do their own thing. Being in exploration with our bodies and feeling safe to do what feels best in the moment is such an empowering feeling!

❤️‍🔥 When do you like to practice at the studio?
In the winter is my favorite, when the heat holds you like a warm hug.

🎸 Favorite music lately?
Peter Cat Recording Co and Palace.

🧠What books are you enjoying?
The Diane Alber children’s books for social/emotional learning with my patients!

🌞 What’s a hobby you enjoy outside of yoga?
Being in nature to hike, swim, cartwheel, and explore!

Calling all bookworms! 📚🪱

We're starting a book club! This is a group that will meet at the studio on the second Wednesday of each month from 7:30–8:30 pm to discuss books related to yoga, health, wellness, and mindfulness. The first gathering on September 11 will simply be an interest meeting to go over the format and details of the club. Discussion led by Sarah Ellis.

Each month, the group will have a structured discussion around the chosen book, enjoy potluck refreshments, and engage in a short activity inspired by the given book, such as a themed meditation or breathing exercise. At the end of each meeting, the group will vote on the next book.

This group is for anyone who has a goal to read more, who enjoys chatting about books, or who simply wants to get to know more people at the studio around a shared interest. This is an inclusive space for people to share different thoughts and perspectives, come together around a common goal, and ultimately encourage and support one another.

Meetings are free, and participants are expected to procure their own copies of the chosen book. Have suggestions for a book? Drop them below! 👇

Sign up: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=671159&stype=-107&sTG=26&sVT=1038&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000087&date=09/11/24

We had such a magical time at the sound bath this weekend! Thank you to everyone who came! 🪔🕯️

We love our community over at Hermitage Library!

Join us Wednesdays at 6 pm for free gentle yoga!

Join us for a rejuvenating yoga session with Small World Yoga tomorrow, August 17th! This fun, one-hour vinyasa class kicks off at 11am in our taproom. Sign up now at the link below! Your $10 class fee includes your first post-stretch beer, so stick around while you sip and connect with your fellow yogis.

🎟 Sign Up ➡️ https://bit.ly/4drEmy3

Today is National Nonprofit Day!

August 17 recognizes the positive impact nonprofits have on their communities and the world. The observance encourages you to take some time to learn more about nonprofits and give if you're able. At Small World Yoga, donations make up 45% of our total revenue—gifts from our community are crucial to the continuation of our organization and the fulfillment of our mission to bring yoga to all.

This month, a generous community member is matching donations up to $10,000! When you support Small World Yoga this month, your gift will be doubled!

If you've been wanting to donate to Small World Yoga, August is the time to do it! Your money goes twice as far toward getting someone on a yoga mat who otherwise might not have access to this life-changing practice.

Giving to SWY helps sustain our ongoing outreach programming in Middle Tennessee and beyond, providing free yoga and meditation to over 3,500 students monthly at 80+ community partner locations. It also helps support our daily operations, teacher continuing education, forging new partnerships, and community building events.

Donate: https://smallworldyoga.kindful.com

Thank you for supporting Small World Yoga!

Get to know Jessie Genet, one of our studio teachers!

After finding yoga as she aged out of sports, Jessie got certified in 2018 and has been teaching for us since 2022. She's also our development coordinator, helping us win grant funding, and teaches at the studio on Wednesdays at noon.

🧘🏼‍♀️Favorite yoga pose lately?
Extended side angle.

💪What can people expect in your class?
To be challenged while also encouraged to create whatever they may need on their mat.

🤸🏼‍♀️When do you like to practice at the studio?
These days I'm usually practicing a 9am or noon!

🎧Whatcha been listening to lately?
Turnpike Troubadours and Caamp.

🎬What's your all-time favorite movie?
Legends of the Fall.

🏊🏻‍♀️What’s a hobby you enjoy outside of yoga?
Spending time with my family, more specifically taking our one-year-old to play in the pool or taking our dog to swim in the river!

Liz recently wrote a few words reflecting on ten years of Small World Yoga, on staying present, taking risks, and looking ahead:

In yoga, we’re often invited to stay in the present moment—to notice our breath, for example, in child’s pose. But about twenty minutes later, we’re asked to look ahead in crow pose, to grow and change, to make goals and take risks. How do we reconcile these two ideas, particularly when it comes to stepping off our mats?

The reminder to be present is so needed in our fast-paced society. We are hyper-focused on what’s next, rarely pausing to appreciate where we are and how far we’ve come. It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of growth and what’s next, even in yoga. (After all, growth is one of our core values at Small World Yoga.)

And yet, setting our sights ahead or aligning to something bigger, sometimes what we call our “true north” in yoga, has positive attributes, too. I can think of phases in both my professional and personal life where that “look to the finish line” mentality has been crucial to my success, and most importantly, to my happiness.

Read more: https://smallworldyoga.org/ten-years-of-small-world-yoga/

Gabby's last class at our studio is Wednesday, August 21 at 6 pm! 🥹

Gabby DeLorenze is moving to Connecticut at the end of the month, and so her last class at our community studio is next Wednesday. We're sad to see her go, but we're so excited for this next phase of life with her growing family, and we feel a little better knowing she's sure to visit us in the future!

We are so grateful for Gabby's insight and knowledge that she's shared with our teacher training groups over the years. She's been an integral part of our community, and we need your help giving her a proper send-off. There are two more opportunities to practice with her before the big move!

Happy Monday! We can't wait to see y'all in the studio this week! 🥰

The wall knows what's up.

Get to know Mikka Parrish, one of our studio teachers!

One of our outreach managers and a Nashville native, Mikka's been teaching for us since 2020. She took her first group yoga class with Small World at Mill Ridge Park, where she now teaches. How neat is that?

🐠Favorite yoga pose lately?
Supported fish pose.

😅What can people expect in your class?
To work, sweat, and be playful! I love to add in fun challenging flows and balance that with some nice time to cool down and just be at the end of class.

⏰When do you like to practice at the studio?
I practice at the studio mostly on weekends. You can find me in a Saturday or Sunday morning class for sure!

📺Favorite music or TV series lately?
My favorite music is truly all the above! If you come to my class you will definitely see this with my class playlist every Sunday morning at 9 am and Tuesday nights at 6 pm. My favorite TV series right now is Fallout!

🎨What’s a hobby you enjoy outside of yoga?
Outside of yoga I like hiking and being outside as well as painting.

Yoga at Small World isn't just about movement—it's about connection. To ourselves, to each other, to something bigger than any one of us. 🤝

That idea is being exemplified beautifully here by our Summer 2024 teacher training graduates!

Our next breathwork session is this month!

🧘Transformational Breathwork Journey🫁
Sunday, August 25
5–7 pm

In this session, you will be invited to contemplate where your edge of comfort is and if it’s still supporting the vision of your ideal lived experiences. Breathwork is an incredible field to reveal, feel, and release so you may more readily embody your most radiant truths, be that through setting boundaries, taking risks, or living through your unique expression in full view.

This month we will also be incorporating a few restorative yoga poses before and after breathwork to encourage the meditative theta brain state where the subconscious mind is even more available to rewiring and intentional influence.

As always, the suggestions of intention made by Alexandra are simply that, and you are free to practice without expectations or energetic focus, however you deem best.

What to expect:
Meditation, breathwork, journaling, light refreshments and group sharing.

Cost:
$35
$20 Active SWY teachers

Sign up: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=671159&stype=-107&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000287&date=08/25/24

Happy Saturday! Hope to see you on your mat this weekend 🧡🩵✨

Get to know Meghan Henry, one of our studio teachers!

A high school English teacher, Meghan's been teaching for us since 2018. Catch her power flow class on Thursdays at 4:30 pm, and if you happen to be a Buffalo Bills fan, you better talk to her about it!

🧘‍♀️What's your favorite yoga pose lately?
Humble warrior.

🎶What can people expect from your class?
To jam out to fun singalong tunes and a powerful flow!

🤸‍♀️When do you usually practice at the studio?
I love a 4:30 class—right after school to drop off the day.

📚Been reading anything good lately?
Yes! Summer thrillers, Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley.

🐾What's a hobby you enjoy outside of yoga?
Reading and enjoying my dog and cat Finn and Gizmo!

What a joy to teach the Urban Leadership group of high school kids at the Gallatin Shalom Zone! Thank you for having us!

Our gentle yoga class at Goodlettsville Library this week was a sunny one! Join us here Mondays at 6:30 pm for free! ☀️

Happy Hips workshop: How it started vs. how it ended 🩵

Thanks to everyone who joined us for this workshop!

Can't believe it's already been two weeks since Baron Baptiste visited and taught at our studio! We loved seeing you all fill up this space and share your breath and energy!

Happy one-year anniversary to our Nashville skyline mandala mural! 🥳

Our next sound bath at the studio is coming up!

🪔Sound Bath🥣
Friday, August 16
6:30–7:30 pm
with Kristin Gore
$30

Through guided meditation and healing sound vibrations, your mind will be transported to a deeper state of consciousness, creating space for profound relaxation, harmony, and peace.

Students will leave with:
- A calmer state of mind and relaxed nervous system
- An overall sense of wellbeing
- Greater present-moment awareness

Wear comfy clothes and bring your yoga mat. Pillow, blanket, and/or eye mask optional.

Sign up at the link in our bio!

Our Edmondson Pike Library friends took a little field trip to the studio today while the library's unavailable for early voting. It's such a treat to have gentle yoga in our studio space!