SUMMER 2016 - Outdoor summer yoga classes: I will meet everyone (who registers) at a park for walking yoga at 6:00 pm. We'll walk and do yoga postures along the way and contemplate breath, view, quietness within--- the ideal times of day for exercise to burn off weight & to keep your digestive fires burning efficiently - is 6:00-10:00 am or pm, so our walking yoga class we will meet 5 minutes earlier to walk and practice yoga for about one hour (6:00-7:00). Free class at the MN Landscape Arboretum, the 3rd Monday of the month. See the schedule to find out the time, register online and I will email all registered to let you know where we'll meet at the park. Entrance fee is free on the third Monday, and so is the class!
GO TO CLASS SCHEDULE to make a reservation. Every week from April 19 through the first chilly weather (with time off for vacations of course). 4 class package/$20. Single class only $8. purchase class here. This package and single class is good ONLY for Walking Yoga Class
SUMMER 2015 (last year)
July 2015 - Outdoor classes: Tuesdays 9 am, Thursdays 7:30 am and one free at Arboretum see schedule or home page for more info.
Healing. In July, I am continuing to work hard at healing my body. Since 2010, I have suffered on & off from sciatica, due to an athletic injury to my right hip/pelvis area and a genetic scoliosis. It wasn't helped by the bike vs bus accident that year. Then this winter, I had been grieving so intensely from the passing of my son since over a year now, that I realized that I needed some help. With help from my chiropractor, Burke Mays, massage therapist, Susan McCarl, and also Lynn Shuck, an Eischens Yoga teacher, I have been working hard at recovering my health. Last week (July 4th) marked the first week I didn't schedule an appointment with my chiropractor and declared independence from being dependent on him (or AS dependent - with the scoliosis, the regular visits are necessary). I joined a BICYCLE CHALLENGE on my phone APP called Map My Hike. My goal is to bike 500 miles in 21 days. I have 20 days to go and many many miles left. Biking is the best therapy for my hip/sciatic/sacrum/hernia injury according to a research study I read. It feels very empowering to commit to this.
Publishing. Also this summer, I am working on editing my book and another yogi/meditator's book. This woman is from India and grew up around the Great Master (you can google him), and our master Ishwar Puri. She wrote a book entitled "Samadhi Yoga" and I get to edit and publish it for her. I have already edited and published one book for Nagin Sanghavi, another elder yogi from India. You can find his book on Amazon (A Brief History of Yoga).
A. B. Kinnard Masonry. Another fun thing - since I needed to cut back on teaching (to heal), I decided to put some effort into supporting my husband (administrative support) in his business more. It's working well. You can see his website and also please "Like" his page on Facebook!
January 2015 -
I am committed to providing my community with high quality yoga instruction, this means that I continue developing myself as a teacher through my own practice and taking classes from other teachers. I currently attend Ashtanga yoga primary series classes weekly and private session with Lynn Shuck, an Eischens Yoga master-teacher. Over the past several years, we have helped many people recover from injuries and their own personal life tragedies. We have provided happiness, peace and well-being in a troubled world. Even in a privileged community such as Eden Prairie, there is suffering. I hope to keep providing this oasis of peace well into the future here. - Karen
BACKGROUND:
Yoga Prairie studio opened in 2008 with a vision to provide the highest quality yoga instruction available to our community in Eden Prairie and to become a place where everyone can find some peace and healing. The business was started with a dream and a loan guaranteed by my Uncle. We built a studio in a retail shop near the mall.
Shortly after opening the studio, the recession hit us hard. We borrowed, we worked hard to stay open. By 2009, we were worried about being able to stay open - many students either had to go back to work in lower paying jobs or lost their jobs - everyone was cutting back. In 2010, tragedy hit in the form of a bus knocking me off of my bicycle. It took two years to recover from head, pelvis and neck injuries.
By 2012 the studio was in danger of closing due to back rent due. I received an eviction notice and was fortunate to have our community of teachers and students rally and help us to bring in donations through a fundraiser/auction to convince the landlords to allow us more time to recover. THANKS TO THE SUPPORT of our yoga community, we survived through it all and caught up on back rent.
In 2014 tragedy struck again with the death of my son Jacob, this time causing me to close the studio and rent space at Dance Esteem. Change doesn't always bode well in business. I needed to cut back on classes and the teachers & I parted ways - business wise, but not friendship wise. The experience of running a retail yoga business has taught me a lot: that my work must be authentic (yoga should not be stressful), that perhaps the true essence of yoga does not belong in a retail business, it taught me how to hone my teaching, management, and marketing skills as well as what is truly MOST important in my life: that is my family, my own well being and teaching yoga. I feel I have arrived now at a lovely balance and it is reflected in my teaching.
I am committed to providing my community with high quality yoga instruction.
Karen Kinnard, owner, Yoga Prairie
GO TO CLASS SCHEDULE to make a reservation. Every week from April 19 through the first chilly weather (with time off for vacations of course). 4 class package/$20. Single class only $8. purchase class here. This package and single class is good ONLY for Walking Yoga Class
SUMMER 2015 (last year)
July 2015 - Outdoor classes: Tuesdays 9 am, Thursdays 7:30 am and one free at Arboretum see schedule or home page for more info.
Healing. In July, I am continuing to work hard at healing my body. Since 2010, I have suffered on & off from sciatica, due to an athletic injury to my right hip/pelvis area and a genetic scoliosis. It wasn't helped by the bike vs bus accident that year. Then this winter, I had been grieving so intensely from the passing of my son since over a year now, that I realized that I needed some help. With help from my chiropractor, Burke Mays, massage therapist, Susan McCarl, and also Lynn Shuck, an Eischens Yoga teacher, I have been working hard at recovering my health. Last week (July 4th) marked the first week I didn't schedule an appointment with my chiropractor and declared independence from being dependent on him (or AS dependent - with the scoliosis, the regular visits are necessary). I joined a BICYCLE CHALLENGE on my phone APP called Map My Hike. My goal is to bike 500 miles in 21 days. I have 20 days to go and many many miles left. Biking is the best therapy for my hip/sciatic/sacrum/hernia injury according to a research study I read. It feels very empowering to commit to this.
Publishing. Also this summer, I am working on editing my book and another yogi/meditator's book. This woman is from India and grew up around the Great Master (you can google him), and our master Ishwar Puri. She wrote a book entitled "Samadhi Yoga" and I get to edit and publish it for her. I have already edited and published one book for Nagin Sanghavi, another elder yogi from India. You can find his book on Amazon (A Brief History of Yoga).
A. B. Kinnard Masonry. Another fun thing - since I needed to cut back on teaching (to heal), I decided to put some effort into supporting my husband (administrative support) in his business more. It's working well. You can see his website and also please "Like" his page on Facebook!
January 2015 -
I am committed to providing my community with high quality yoga instruction, this means that I continue developing myself as a teacher through my own practice and taking classes from other teachers. I currently attend Ashtanga yoga primary series classes weekly and private session with Lynn Shuck, an Eischens Yoga master-teacher. Over the past several years, we have helped many people recover from injuries and their own personal life tragedies. We have provided happiness, peace and well-being in a troubled world. Even in a privileged community such as Eden Prairie, there is suffering. I hope to keep providing this oasis of peace well into the future here. - Karen
BACKGROUND:
Yoga Prairie studio opened in 2008 with a vision to provide the highest quality yoga instruction available to our community in Eden Prairie and to become a place where everyone can find some peace and healing. The business was started with a dream and a loan guaranteed by my Uncle. We built a studio in a retail shop near the mall.
Shortly after opening the studio, the recession hit us hard. We borrowed, we worked hard to stay open. By 2009, we were worried about being able to stay open - many students either had to go back to work in lower paying jobs or lost their jobs - everyone was cutting back. In 2010, tragedy hit in the form of a bus knocking me off of my bicycle. It took two years to recover from head, pelvis and neck injuries.
By 2012 the studio was in danger of closing due to back rent due. I received an eviction notice and was fortunate to have our community of teachers and students rally and help us to bring in donations through a fundraiser/auction to convince the landlords to allow us more time to recover. THANKS TO THE SUPPORT of our yoga community, we survived through it all and caught up on back rent.
In 2014 tragedy struck again with the death of my son Jacob, this time causing me to close the studio and rent space at Dance Esteem. Change doesn't always bode well in business. I needed to cut back on classes and the teachers & I parted ways - business wise, but not friendship wise. The experience of running a retail yoga business has taught me a lot: that my work must be authentic (yoga should not be stressful), that perhaps the true essence of yoga does not belong in a retail business, it taught me how to hone my teaching, management, and marketing skills as well as what is truly MOST important in my life: that is my family, my own well being and teaching yoga. I feel I have arrived now at a lovely balance and it is reflected in my teaching.
I am committed to providing my community with high quality yoga instruction.
Karen Kinnard, owner, Yoga Prairie
