GET AWAY TO THE MAT
Leave hectic schedules, work demands, and your to-do list behind while you enjoy an energizing practice that focuses on breath, alignment, and personal exploration.
GET AWAY TO THE MAT
Leave hectic schedules, work demands, and your to-do list behind while you enjoy an energizing practice that focuses on breath, alignment, and personal exploration.
The Offering
Sweet Flow
A mindful vinyasa practice, Sweet Flow brings attention to connecting breath and movement. The class is an active hour of yoga (meaning you’ll work up a sweat) that incorporates sun salutations, standing poses, hip-openers, seated poses, balances, twists, and back bends. Through regular practice, you’ll enjoy increased flexibility, strength, balance, and relaxation.
Tranquility
A slower-paced practice, Tranquility focuses on stretching, alignment and breath to safely open joints, relieve common aches and pains, and quiet the mind. The class is a calming hour of yoga that incorporates hip-openers, seated poses, twists, and back bends. Through regular practice, you’ll enjoy increased flexibility, restore your body’s natural alignment and release tension.
Yin Yoga
A quiet, meditative yoga practice, Yin focuses on lengthening connective tissue. Poses are passive — you relax muscles and let gravity do the work. And they’re long — so you’ll practice patience too. The class will consist of a short warm-up usually followed by 10 poses, held for 5 minutes each, with 1 minute of rest in between. Yin yoga compliments active yoga styles and focuses on deeper release.
The Teacher
Kristen Leigh
RYT-200, CYT-240
After being a student of yoga for several years, in 2009, Kristen Leigh completed a 240-hour Classical Hatha Yoga Teacher Training Program with Paul Jerard of Aura Wellness Center and became a Certified Yoga Teacher (CYT-240). In 2012, Kristen completed the 108-hour Anusara Yoga Immersion program with Gina Minyard at Atlanta Yoga. Expanding on that Anusara foundation, in 2019, she completed the 200-hour Body of Light Yoga Teacher Training program with Gina Minyard at Atlanta Yoga Collective (RYT-200).
In 2010, with a vision for outdoor and other unique practice experiences, Kristen launched Sweet Escape Yoga. She spent the next ten years organizing and teaching private, corporate, and public yoga classes and events in natural and creative spaces in the Metro Atlanta area. Currently Kristen works exclusively with private yoga clients in-person and online.
Kristen’s Yoga Philosophy
“For me, yoga is all about balance, mindfulness, and tranquility. I love that yoga, with its attention to breath and alignment, can draw focus away from a busy, chaotic day and toward a calming moment. As one moves the body through poses that require balance and concentration, external stresses start to float away. I like teaching others to move in a way that brings awareness of abilities and limitations and encourages peace within them. I believe yoga is best when incorporated into your entire day – not only on the mat, but as you go through life. My classes focus on traditional poses with a little flow and variety to keep it fun.”
Love Notes
Kristen’s easy going approach and straight forward poses are perfect for any level. A lovely experience.
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