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Prayer Yoga is an offering of St. Brigid’s School for Imagination, Creativity, and Practice at Grace Episcopal Church. Yoga classes are free to attend; donations to further the work of St. Brigid’s School are welcome.
When Wednesdays beginning September 9
Where Grace Church parish hall
Cost free; donation welcome
Contact Karen Murphy
Register below prior to attending
Answering the call of St. Brigid’s School for Imagination, Creativity, and Practice, Grace will offer in-person chair yoga and flow yoga classes in the parish hall on Wednesday afternoons beginning September 9. Chair yoga will be 4:15-5:00 PM and flow yoga 5:15-6:15 PM.
Come join us for an “embodied”/spiritual practice as we pray and move with our bodies. The gatherings will honor the four annual seasons and our Episcopal Liturgical seasons. We will work on balance, strength, flexibility, grounding, and breathwork as we pray with our bodies and deepen our inner peace and calm.
Prayer yoga is intended for participants 18 years and up. Classes are free. Please bring a mat for flow yoga.
Wednesdays, 4:15 – 5 PM
Wednesdays, 5:15 – 6:15 PM
Please register here prior to attending your first class.
Retired elementary school teacher, Karen Murphy will lead the classes. She has been practicing yoga about 25 years and completed Hatha Yoga Teacher training in 2014. The Holy Spirit led her take “Yoga and Resiliency and Trauma Recovery” Training Level I, II, and III over a period of time and then “Trauma Sensitive Yoga Skills” from The Minded Institute in 2023. She has attended further workshops on Yin Yoga, Chair Yoga, and Iyengar Yoga over the years.
Karen taught yoga for the girls at the Regional Youth Detention Center for four years, for girls at Eagle Ranch for two years, Gateway Domestic Violence Center for four years and for Sacred Roots Farm for eight years, and has provided yoga for adults at Family Promise. She has led yoga at Kanuga Conference Center in N.C. for retreats and presented at the Christian Education Conference at Kanuga. For multiple years she has led yoga sessions at Grace and at women’s retreats for St. Mary and St. Martha Episcopal Church in Buford, Ga. and for Grace Women’s Reteats at Montreat. She has taken the Episcopal Church’s Safe Church trainings-Safeguarding God’s Children and Safeguarding God’s People. Karen is a lay chaplain through Community of Hope International and is on the leadership team for Grace’s COHI chapter. Karen is a member of the Grace choir.
Prayer Yoga is an offering of St. Brigid’s School for Imagination, Creativity, and Practice at Grace Episcopal Church. Yoga classes are free to attend; donations to further the work of St. Brigid’s School are welcome.