Harmony Within Yoga
 

Yoga is for Every Body and Mind

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Kripalu Yoga - in person, indoors (in a beautiful space!) masks optional

Gentle to Moderate Kripalu yoga classes combine mindful breathing, flowing warm-ups, foundational yoga poses, accessible balances, and deep relaxation.  Appropriate for beginners through seasoned yoga practitioners. We minimize transitions: we are on the floor for part of the class, standing for some of the class, and back on the floor to complete our practice. However, we do not get down and up and down and up repeatedly. Special attention is given to balance, core strength, and development of personal awareness for individual experience within class. Certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher Cheryl Sabo leads with clear verbal cues and physical modeling. Soft music enhances the space and the space is beautiful with a soft wood floor, high ceilings, and stunning gardens surrounding the buildings. The Mount Vernon Unitarian Church chapel, where classes meet, has plentiful free parking with a ramp or 4 stairs to enter the building.​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Yoga teacher Cheryl Anderson Sabo, M.M., RYT 200 is a Kripalu Yoga and Let Your Yoga Dance teacher with certificates in both from the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Massachusetts. She has taught music, language, dance, and yoga to students of all ages for over 25 years. She is a Fairfax County Public School Multilingual Learners middle school teacher. In her spare time she enjoys learning with her teenagers, hiking, playing with her dog, and gardening.

 

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How I discovered Kripalu Yoga and YogaDance

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My very first memory from childhood is skipping and jumping happily across a huge room to music.  I must have been 3 or so, and though the details of the class are fuzzy, the the memory of the feeling - pure joy while moving freely to music - is crystal clear.  I have not always been so connected to my physical self.  Sadly, as a teenager I became critical and worried about what everyone else thought of me.  It was my great good fortune in college to have a dance teacher who created a safe environment where we could move and experience the joy of being connected to our physical selves just as we were, without constant striving to be 'more of this' and 'less of that.'  I fell in love - again - with dance! 

I discovered Kripalu Yoga shortly after my first son was born.  From the very first class I attended with Sandy Chute, I knew I had found 'my yoga.'  Sandy's way of gently leading us away from the stress of our daily lives and deep into our inner experience felt organic and whole, and I craved more of it!  The feeling of being at home in my own skin, of body being happily tired and mind joyful yet calm, was familiar and wonderful.  I was a student with Sandy for 10 years before she encouraged me to complete the teacher training at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. In 2015, she moved out of Alexandria and passed the yoga teacher hat to me. I am forever grateful.    ​

       - Cheryl

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photography by Diana Sherblom

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