Kristi Ried-Barton, E-RYT 500, Life Coach and Reiki II certified, is founder and director of IT'S YOGA! STUDIO™ INC. As a Life Coach and Registered Yoga Trainer with Yoga Alliance, she has been teaching yoga on a daily basis to students and clients in Upstate South Carolina for the past 21 years.
Kristi combines the methods of Yoga Masters, Amrit Desai, B.K.S. Iyengar and T.K.V. Desikachar as well as restorative and therapeutic.
As well as teaching for beginners through advanced levels, pregnancy, and teacher training classes, Kristi teaches in the Upstate through the hospitals, clinics and physical therapists working with cancer, cardiac rehabilitation, multiple sclerosis and therapeutic needs.
Yoga, as we teach it, is a system of health and nutrition maintenance that is long lasting and cultivates a sense of happiness and fulfillment. We can help you to achieve this by teaching you how to tap into inner energy reserves and generate health and happiness from within. True happiness is a result of a daily investment in health. Through a regular practice we can help you to counter general physical decline due to aging, negligent care of the body, use of medical prescriptions and/or the accumulation of excess tension.
Our Yoga methods meet you where and when you need it. We are concerned with your over-all health, indicating where the imbalances need correction. We address your lifestyle, immune system and organ strength. We look at your whole well-being, on the physical, mental and spiritual aspects that make up who you are. We guide you to increase your vital life force, the powers of healing that reside within each of us.
Our sessions give you more overall comfort in the body and the mind, improve the posture, encourage deeper breathing, balance energy, improve concentration, and nurture a sense of inner calm.
The focus of this yoga practice is on breath and spinal aligning postures for better health, mental clarity, and inner peace. The benefits of these balanced routines are numerous. The body can maintain increased energy, flexibility, ease and awareness, to allow the internal workings of the body to function optimally.
Through consistent practice with our programs it will lead you to delayed aging, increased energy and a remarkable zest for life.
Julie Shabkie, LMBT, Massage Therapist
Enjoy a massage specific for you! Julie has been a certified and licensed bodywork therapist for over 15 years.
She specializes in:
- Swedish
- Deep Tissue
- Polarity and Cranial Sacral Therapy
- Neuromuscular
- Pre-Natal
- Reiki, Reflexology and Shiatzu
- Jin Shin Jyutsu
- Myofacial (Trigger Point)
- Sports/Athletic massage modalities
- Rain Drop Technique
Rates and Packages:
Session Length Individual Package of 5 Package of 10
Session
30 minutes $35 $130 $260
60 minutes $60 $250 $500
90 minutes $90 $370 $740
Stephanie Solazzo, Thai Yoga Massage
Our Thai Yoga Massage Therapist, Stephanie Solazzo, has 15 years of experience of
teaching for health and well-being. She studied yoga at The Temple Kriya Yoga in Chicago, Illinois, later continuing her education through YogaFit and Flow Yoga. She received her Thai Yoga Massage certification in 2007 through Lotus Palm School of Thai Yoga Massage. Thai Yoga Massage
Rates and Packages:
Session Length Individual Package of 5 Package of 10
Session
30 Minutes $40 $180 $360
60 Minutes $70 $315 $630
90 Minutes $90 $405 $810
Call 864-354-2882 for appointments.
Our Instructor, Brenda Ellis, has been practicing and teaching yoga since 2006. She's certified in several areas of group fitness and is a graduate of IT'S YOGA! STUDIO INC. Teacher Training Institute. Brenda teaches in the Hatha Yoga tradition, especially Vinyasa, and has been influenced by BKS Iyengar and Anusara methods. She believes that students begin a Yoga practice in order to restore and strengthen the body. As they transform their bodies those who continue their practice receive Yoga's most important gift - a renewed spirit.
Athena Seay received her certification over five years ago and has taught over 1000 class hours since. She is inspired by her students energy and their willingness to learn.
Athena has learned from many great instructors including Dharma Mittra, Baron Baptiste, Shiva Rea, and Sean Corn. She teaches a mix of hatha, kundalini and astanga yoga for all levels, from beginner to advanced, as well as restorative and pre/post natal classes.
Pam Allison, RYT-200 and Reiki II Certified, has been practicing yoga for over 7 years. As a graduate of It's Yoga! Studio Teacher Training Institute, she has been teaching personal yoga sessions and Reiki healing attunements. Pam continues her studies in nutrition and holistic alternatives of living.
"When we are not seeking excitement, life becomes exciting in a very deep way. It is joy without excitement. Then when excitement comes, it is not like a rushing river but like deep still water. There is hardly any movement on the surface."
Yoga Amrit Desai
