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Passing The Torch

A Message from Rae Lynn & Jeff

 

Looking Back......

In a blink of an eye 14 years have passed, 14 wonderful whole-hearted, "we're-ALL-in" years of creating and building Yoga On York. Fourteen years, WOW! We look back with amazement, big grins and warm hearts, we look back and remember.  I was just 33, Jeff 36, our son Noah 3 years old (and our future daughter, Ava was pure potential at minus 4), when we started this journey fully embracing Helen Keller's quote, "life is a big adventure or nothing at all".

 

Hearing but not heeding the words of the well-intentioned nay-sayers, we went for it, uprooted our Florida life, left the "security" of family and our more typical jobs (Jeff as a home renovator, myself immersed in an Occupational Therapy career) and we set out, first cross-country to San Francisco to take yoga instructor trainings and then continued to follow our hearts to York, Maine on a dream, a prayer, and faith in ourselves, each other and the benefits of yoga.

 

Our regular yoga practice had enhanced our lives with renewed energy, increased strength, weight-loss, mindfulness and an increased connection to inner peace. We felt so passionately about the benefits we experienced personally from yoga that we had to share but could we "make it" opening a yoga studio in a small New England town?

 

The NOW

  Flash forward 14 years, Jeff has celebrated his 50th, Noah is a strapping 17 year old young man, Ava is 10 and I well, I am still 33. 

Yoga On York is a thriving community yoga center, a peaceful, safe sanctuary in the heart of York w
ith 25-30 mindful yoga classes weekly, for everyone taught by a team of 12 professional teachers, with advanced levels of training.

 

 Yoga On York is COMMUNITY, a place you are always welcomed, a place of friendship and support, a place for wellness & wholeness, a place to exhale and to connect in a meaningful way with yourself and others. 

 

Yoga On York is all of YOU, all who have come and keep coming thru the doors, students and teachers, it is the power of community and connectedness, doing the good work, "the practice" of making the effort to be present, come to the NOW, thru breath and body.   This is Yoga (union) and this is Yoga On York. We are incredibly grateful to all of you who have joined together with us to create Yoga On York.

 

Looking Forward....

 

Yoga On York will continue on as your community yoga center.

 

We are blessed to be able to remain active in the community of Yoga On York while at the same time pass the torch of studio ownership to Cherise Fegan.   Jeff and I are so very grateful to Cherise for her whole-hearted desire to carry Yoga On York forward. Cherise is strong and capable with a passion for the wellness brought to mind and body thru the practices of yoga, mindfulness and massage. She has experienced the benefits of a consistent yoga practice since 2003, graduated from both our 200hr. and 500hr. teacher trainings and has been actively teaching yoga since 2009.    

 

"Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings."  
The Essential Rumi

 

Cherise is ready to expand into this new journey and we are ready to contract inward a bit, take a pause, reflect and then re-expand.  We stand right beside Cherise with our full mentorship and support to her.  We thank her deeply for keeping the good work of Yoga On York going!  

 

Thank you....  

With our whole hearts, we thank all of the yoga teachers of Yoga On York, present and past!   We are deeply grateful to all of YOU, everyone who has spent one class, 300 classes, 1,000 classes at Yoga On York. Thank you for allowing us to share our yoga teaching with you, thank you for building this community with us.  

 

                             We celebrate the continuation of the Yoga On York community!

 

Namaste,

Rae Lynn, Jeff and Cherise 

 


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