Your Yoga Your Way: Kelly Magnuson

Over the course of her 20+ year journey, she credits yoga with providing her with the anchor that always steadied her ship, even in very stormy seas. While there were times she drifted away, yoga was always there, ready to be her refuge, never judging and never criticizing for leaving and returning. Yoga was the constant, ironically, during the times she was not practicing consistently. She credits her practice with enabling significant positive mind-set changes which in turn created health and life changes. Only recently, though, has Kelly realized that yoga is purely individual. “The postures are most meaningful in the body when they are tailored to the body expressing the shape. The day I realized my Warrior II needed to feel good in my body and did not need to look a certain way was both humbling and incredibly freeing. It changed me.” Kelly has practiced a number of types of yoga over the years, and she is currently certified in Vinyasa, Yin Yoga, Chair Yoga and Yoga Nidra. In her classes, she ensures that postures and shapes are tailored to what feels good in an individual’s body. She leads a practice with a focus on steadiness and ease, where breath meets body and mind in the most beautiful place possible.