7-7:45am: Pilates Equipment Express! – All Levels with Libby Bradley

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New Yoga Classes at EVOLVE- North Raleigh!

 10:45-12:15 Vinyasa Flow Level 1 

1. Worked for a theater company in London for the writers of Jerry Springer the Opera.
2. Is proficient in cocktail crafting after working as a mixologist in Los Angeles for 3 years.
3. Is a vegetarian who loves to drink most her diet, juicing is the best!
4. Was a design assistant on ABC Extreme Makeover Home Edition.
5. Is a avid music lover, always on the look out for the newest band.
6. Performed as a character at Walt Disney World in shows and parades.
7. I am allergic to avocados :(
8. Worked on Gossip Girl for the First Season.
9. Deathly afraid of sharks but loves surfing and snorkeling.
10. Before Jersey Shore existed Pauly D tried to get her number.  He failed.

Libby Bradley started doing Pilates in Los Angeles and completely fell in love with the method. After growing up a competitive gymnast for 10 years Libby was looking for something that would help heal old injuries while still feeding her love for challenging exercise. Libby is very excited to share her love of Pilates with you!

Libby is currently doing privates as a Fresh Instructor for $45 and Semi-Privates for $30/session.

She also teaches group classes at EVOLVE- North Raleigh:

Wednesday:

6-7am: Pilates Group Apparatus Class- All Levels 

7-7:45: Pilates Equipment Express!- All Levels

12:15-1pm:   Pilates Equipment Express!- All Levels

Thursday:

7-8pm: Pilates Group Apparatus Class- All Levels

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Carla Forte started practicing yoga because it simply felt good to her body. Shortly after starting her practice, she became ill. Two weeks passed and she could hardly breathe or talk. Having exhausted tons of home remedies, she remembered how much heat she generated in her body and how good she felt after her practice. So she went to the mat! She believes the sun salutations helped open her breathing passages and helped facilitate her healing. She’s been hooked ever since!

Carla completed her 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training with Carson Efird at EVOLVE Movement in the fall of 2010. Her background is in Social Work (MSW), Business (MBA,) and Psychology (BS). She is currently serving the community as a Clinical Social Worker and Addiction Specialist providing mental health therapy and coaching.

Carla loves the Yoga Spandakarika quote, “There are two human beings. One helps the other only because he shows her that she is free and gives her the information that will allow her to make this extraordinary discovery on her own. Everything is there, marvelously present, ready to open and blossom. It is only a matter of giving oneself the space to acknowledge this power.”

“I love seeing the look on a student/client’s face when they become aware of strength or power that they thought they did not possess!”

It was love at first sight when Holli took her first yoga class 10 years ago in Chapel Hill as a student at UNC. As fate would have it, shortly thereafter, she suffered a series of health problems that culminated in needing total hip-replacement surgery at the age of 22.  It was during these years, as she funneled her passion for running and gym workouts into her burgeoning yoga practice that it’s healing and truly transformative powers began to take hold. She practiced throughout the Southeast with many different teachers over the next decade as her love for yoga deepened, eventually leading her to pursue her Yoga Alliance certified 200 hr training through Raleigh NC Yoga in early 2011. Highly influenced by Vinyasa flow yoga, Holli’s classes are a testament to moving meditation. Connecting movement to breath and mind to body, yoga has a real ability to transform and heal, allowing the rich beauty of life to be experienced fully. Holli’s classes will guide you to live in the moment and savor it, always with a smile. Life is simply a series of moments, none of which we should take too seriously.

10 Things you might not know about Denise:

1.      Went to her first yoga class with her grandmother when she was 4 years old.  She wore her Minnie Mouse leotard.

2.     Grew up in Barbados.

3.     Completed an Ironman triathlon.

4.     Works for a non-profit to sustain ocean resources in Latin America and the Caribbean

5.     Was a synchronized swimmer.

6.     Worked as a professional mermaid in college.

7.      Met her husband at hot yoga.

8.     Is passionate about supporting small and local businesses.

9.     Dreams of opening a bed and breakfast one day.

10.  Has traveled all over the world and feels lucky to call Raleigh home.

We are extremely excited to welcome EVOLVE Prana Flow® Yoga Teacher Trainees as they kick off their first weekend of teacher training lead by Carson Efird, Prana Flow Certified, E-RYT 500.  

Prana Flow is an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga cultivated by Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective of Teachers. Students of all levels are empowered to experience prana – the universal source of breath, life-energy and conscious intelligence – as the navigating source of yoga practice and vital living. Practitioners learn classical and innovative approaches to vinyasa yoga and the state of flow drawn from Krishnamacharya’s teachings, Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, Somatics and Shiva’s teaching experience from the last fifteen years.

 We will be hosting special drop-in classes lead by Carson Efird.

Come support our blossoming yoga teachers and plant your own intentions for personal growth and evolution this weekend:

Friday (1/6): Yoga Mala: 108 Sun Salutations on Friday night (5:45-7:15 pm)

Saturday (1/7): Surya Namaskars: Honoring the Energy of the Sun (8:30-10:00 am)

Sunday (1/8): Chandra Namaskars: Honoring the Energy of the Moon (4:30-6 pm)

 Pre-registration strongly recommended. These classes WILL fill up! Sign up HERE!

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10 Things You May Not Know About Stacy Ingham!

1 – I grew up in Kansas, and although I have never worn ruby slippers, I do have a couple of vivid memories of waiting out tornadoes in the basement.
2 – I am completely addicted to cooking shows!  Especially the competition ones – Chopped, Top Chef, etc…
3 – I am a cat person more than a dog person…not that I don’t like dogs… ;-)
4 – I have done some local community theatre in the past – I played the Mother in A Christmas Story a few years back!  It was really fun!!
5 – The only form of yoga that I have ever really studied is Ashtanga – I’ve tried a few classes here and there in other disciplines, but kept coming back to Ashtanga.
6 – I’ve never broken a bone…knock wood!
7 – There aren’t many foods that I don’t like…Feta cheese is one of them.
8 – I recently (in the past year) began learning and practicing the Advanced Series of Ashtanga yoga – really fun and challenging!
9 – I have two fabulous boys – Chris (14) and Ben (11) – and I love spending time with them – and with my hubby Dave also!
10 – I once went on a date with James Taylor…Really!!  He had a sister named Liz!

Stacy teaches Ashtanga Yoga at our Namaste- Cary location:

Ashtanga Express: Tuesdays 12-1pm Register HERE!

Ashtanga Express Level 2: Thursdays 5:45-6:45 Register HERE!

Moon Sequence Devolped By Matthew Sweeney: Sundays 9:30-11am Register HERE!

Stacy Ingham was a brand-new stay-at-home mom in a new city and was looking for a way to get out of the house a little more. She saw an ad at the local community center for a 6-week intro to “Power Yoga” and signed up. She loved it because the practice included strength, flexibility and endurance, and she could practice at home when she wanted. It was based on the book by Beryl Bender Birch, and she loved it from the very beginning. Stacy began teaching at a health club and then completed the Level I Yogafit teacher training. With over 12 years practice in the Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga tradition, and 9 years experience teaching Ashtanga yoga in the Triangle area, Stacey takes regular workshops in the Ashtanga tradition with various teachers including David Swenson, Annie Pace, Matthew Sweeney and David Keil.

Stacy’s personal philosphy about yoga is about empowerment and freedom. “From a physical standpoint, I am stronger than I have ever been. From a spiritual and emotional standpoint, I am stronger, more flexible, and more disciplined than I have ever been. Yoga has been a gateway to what is possible in all of us, whether staying calm through the storms life brings us, or being physically able to play more and have fun doing what I love and being with my family and friends.”

Stacy enjoys teaching because it “reinforces what I learn from my own practice. Often I will “figure something out” while I am practicing in the morning, and will take that with me to a class. I love sharing these insights and discovering more layers as a class or practice progresses. I have also just met so many amazing people through teaching and learned so much from being a part of the yoga community, both locally and globally.” Her favorite quotation is “Wherever you go, there you are” ~Buddha

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