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We all benefit from quality instruction and a little external motivation. We offer Tacoma a wide range of yoga, fitness classes and special events. Whatever your interests, experience, or goals, we have a class for you.
Beginning in January 2022 Grit City Wellness now offers a variety of 5-week yoga and fitness class series that supports all levels. Series change quarterly. Take a look at our lineup for Winter 2022! (Check back regularly for updates)
Pilates focuses on improving core strength, flexibility, coordination, and balance in the body along with strength and flexibility in the back and spine. Attention is given to executing Pilates mat exercises with proper form, alignment and focus on the mind/body connection.
This 5-week series offers a full-body workout to build muscle endurance and strength to maintain functional movement. We will incorporate light weights, bands and isolation balls to target specific muscles and progressively build strength. Each week we will add new moves to challenge the body and core.
What's included:
This 5-week series offers a whole-body workout that builds strength and aerobic endurance. Our Bootcamp sessions will provide a challenging, varied, and fun HIIT workout. HIIT is an acronym for High-Intensity Interval Training. As the name suggests, HIIT workouts are intense, with the rest periods observed using controlled intervals. The HIIT workout incorporates full-body, mixed exercises, which are done in short bursts followed by short rest periods.
The Full Body Bootcamp is designed for beginner to advanced students. Together in this small class, we will arrive to meet our personal goals while supporting one another in the successful completion of a HIIT workout. We will begin our day feeling accomplished, successful, and ready to tackle the next personal or professional goal.
HIIT workouts are very effective given many of the following fitness benefits:
What's included:
Join us for 5 weekly sessions where we learn to create a mindfulness routine you can actually stick to. Using powerful Vinyasa yoga, we will spend 45 minutes of our session moving and energizing our bodies, and the other portion learning how to effectively incorporate mindfulness and wellness into our daily routine. If you’ve been needing a kick in the pants, this series is for you. Reset your routine and connect mind, body and spirit. Learn how yoga and its philosophy can help you go after your biggest goals and live in your most authentic way.
Bring: comfy clothes to move in, water and a journal for notes
We will cover:
What's included:
We offer a variety of special events adding another essential layer to personal and collective wellbeing. Browse our current special events.
Fall Dates:
Cost: $40
According to the law of physics, everything vibrates. The frequency at which an object naturally vibrates is resonance and each part of the body has its own natural resonance. Stress, illness, environmental factors cause the resonance to get out of tune, and sound healing helps tune the body, recalibrating and returning the body to its inherent healthy, balanced, natural resonance. In this healing session, a variety of frequencies from instruments such as crystal singing bowls, gongs, chimes, and drums are utilized to tune the body. This subtle energy therapy allows the body to heal itself, influences our emotional bodies as well as our physical bodies, slowing brain waves and producing powerful effects at a cellular level shifting from disease to ease.
About the Facilitator:
Michelle Lavonne Kucera-Jewell brings together nearly 25 years of experience working within for-profit and non-profit organizations, from guiding wilderness trips to facilitating corporate team building. After transitioning out of her role working in leadership development for Apple she found a passion and desire to commit fully to holding sacred space for her community. Her desire as an RYT 500, Chi Nei Tsang & Cacao Practitioner is to help people know that they are worthy of love, not because of their doing; simply because of their being. Michelle utilizes skills developed through her Master's Degree in Cultural Studies along with her certifications and training as an Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist through the Himalayan Institute, Laughter Yoga Leader, Yoga Behind Bars, and Reiki Practitioner. She is humbled by the opportunity to learn from and co-create healing, transformational space in every sacred session. Learn More
Yoga is an ancient practice with many approaches. Our expert instructors help people of all backgrounds and skill levels engage with various yoga formats, always with one goal in mind. Not flexibility. Not mastering poses. Not building core strength. Our aim is always love. To help you appreciate and be more in touch with the body you're in. Our Tacoma Yoga class schedule changes on a rotating basis, but here's a sampling of what we offer.
Check the booking calendar for real-time class updates.
*Summer Outdoor Class at Dune Peninsula Park in Point Defiance, weather permitting.*
Begins Wednesday, Nov. 17 - December 15th at 5:30pm - Register Here
What to expect:
This 5-week series offers a movement experience that draws upon foundational principles of yoga over the last 5,000 years. Each week experience an asana (physical posture) practice and discover yogic principles and philosophy that enable you to build a safe, sustainable and well-rounded practice with greater confidence.
In this series, we’ll explore the 8 limbs of yoga and simple, yet profoundly helpful queuing and adjustments allowing us to take what we learn on the mat, off the mat and into our daily lives.
Who is this class for:
Though this class is perfect for beginners who have no yoga experience it can also be beneficial for more seasoned practitioners curious about refinement and exploring the subtleties and nuances of a deeper, more conscious practice. After this fundamental series, you will walk away with a deeper understanding of yoga, pranayama (breathwork), mindful movement, and meditation.
The details:
In an ideal world, every yoga class would provide one-on-one guidance to help you unlock the potential of each technique. Unfortunately, that's just not possible. Private instruction can help you get more out of your yoga practice and make group classes more enjoyable.
Our Yoga Healing Practitioner Brooke is a 200hr trauma-informed registered yoga teacher with a passion for helping you feel aligned in your mind, body and spirit.
What Brooke's clients are saying:
"Brooke brought me more awareness about my body and breath, as well as educated me about yoga and its types. I became more mindful of myself. I definitely appreciate Brooke's personal approach and our communication. The last 10 minutes of our lessons are the best, especially when she reads poems.
She is an amazing teacher and a very good person. I'm so glad I know her and I definitely recommend others to get private lessons with Brooke." - Ana F.
*An assessment is required if this is your first time working together. This appointment creates an opportunity for Brooke to get to know your personal goals and to see if it is a good fit to work together.
