I started doing yoga over a year ago to try to eliminate some old sports injuries from skiing. The experienced instructors at the Yoga Studio are helping me to do stretching correctly so I will stay flexible and be able to do my sports at a high level for many years to come.

Peter Roelands

corporate jet, helicopter pilot

professional ski instructor

Yoga at the Yoga Studio has given me tremendous personal benefits over the last 25 years. Weekly yoga classes and personal practice helps me handle business stress, sleep when traveling and aging inflexibility. A yoga practice is the most complete mental and physical activity I found for good health.

Richard Schwallier
farmer and retired airline transport pilot

In addition to strength, balance and flexibility, yoga has, over the years, helped me achieve a quieter mind.

Sr. Mary Navarre,OP
Grand Rapids Dominican Leadership Team

I have been studying at The Yoga Studio for several years and what I have learned from Carolyn and the highly skilled teachers on her staff has been an invaluable tool for my own personal growth. The Iyengar method that they teach is the right method for me. It focuses on precise alignment and uses props so there is less risk of injury. It also connects both the body and mind through its holistic approach and integration of all the limbs of Yoga.

Jim Gebben
photographer

Yoga is just as much a necessary part of my life as water, food and air!! I don’t feel complete without it! And my body, mind and heart let me know when I am not in balance. Yoga is always the remedy!

Laurie Gardiner
community activist for children and youth

"During the 25 years I have been practicing yoga, I have enjoyed the health and mindfulness that it brings to my life. I have found it's not just a lot of movements and held positions creating a bit of exercise but a real system that affects how I live my life and how life affects me. In all of the years I have taken classes from Carolyn, I have always been amazed that year after year she has been able to take me deeper into the philosophy behind yoga while helping me correct and fine-tune the movements leading into each stance and to appreciate the subtleties of each pose. She has deepened her own practice by continued study and concentrated effort, and I continue to be grateful for what this has brought to my understanding and practice of yoga."

Mary Reusch
artist

"Since a car accident in my mid-twenties in which I injured my back I have been practicing yoga. At first it was simply to stay limber but after a while I found a new source of strength through which to uncover more of myself. This has been yoga's gift to me and it has been the backbone of my life. I recently discovered the Yoga Studio and love the mastery and compassion I found there. This is a safe place to explore your limits and expand your boundaries."

David Lockington
conductor, Grand Rapids Symphony

"I come to the Yoga Studio because it's a place where I can continually come back to myself and find myself. The physical work has a spiritual context and a community context- balancing, centering, opening. It's a kind of retreat, and it's also about moving 'toward' toward one's self, toward each other."

Jean Bahle
actor, director, playwright, teacher

Rick Stevens
artist

"At The Yoga Studio, yoga is about more than the body; it is about how the body connects with the mind and spirit."

Lisa DeFerrari
attorney

Don Smalligan
architect

Jay Van Lenten
owner, Spirit Dreams

Diane McElfish
violinist, Grand Rapids Symphony