YOGA IS FOR YOU!

Jolene's classes 

Guide all levels of students to find flexibility, strength, balance, and breath.  Through gentle movement you can start to understand how and why your body holds onto tightness, tension, and possibly chronic pain.  As your body starts to release you will notice that the body AND mind has a chance to relax.  When you RELAX your central nervous system has a chance to reset and respond to the benefits of yoga.  
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​when you practice yoga

The postures can become difficult but you will start to  recognize what happens to the active mind, the stressed/relaxed body, and the breath.  Everyone has days that can throw them off balance.   Yoga is a tool to help ground us, motivate us, or even remind us to laugh a little.   

​Yoga is a tool

Just as a toothbrush is a tool for dental hygiene.  You can skip a morning brush but overtime you will get a cavity.  Skip movement & connection then your body will hold onto tightness, tension, mental clutter, and other various types of issues that can build in the tissues.​

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​a combat veteran

Adventurer, and a lifetime student, Jolene continues to make the commitment to practice yoga on a daily basis.  Movement and meditation started in her teens but it became lifesaving after a military deployment to Iraq in 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.  


​Yoga is not a religion

Yoga is union.  Developing a practice on how to take care of your body and your mind.  Learning how you can continue to do your best each day, so that you can be happy,  healthy, & THRIVE in your community.  

life is simple, life is hard...lets embrace it!

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  • 2008 Bachelors Degree In Forestry & Outdoor Recreation SIU-Carbondale, IL with traveling adventures to work with endangered Spotted Owls, forestry timber sales, wildfire mitigation, and so much more in Oregon, Colorado, and California.  
  • 2012 RYT 200 OM TIME (Gina Caputo, Shannon Paige, and Nancy Kate Rau) Boulder, CO. 
  • 2013 Level 1 certified Mindful Yoga Therapy teacher through the Veterans Yoga Project.   2013
  • Y12SR The Yoga of 12 Step Recovery Leadership Training 2017
  • 2014 RYT 300 Kindness Yoga with Senior faculty in Denver, CO​
  • 2018 BFY becomes a Registered Yoga School and hosts its first class, Sullivan, IL
  • 2019 BFY hosts second yoga teacher training, Effingham, IL
  • 2019 200hr Thai Yoga Bodywork & Healing Studies with Paul Fowler, Chicago


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​Gone but not Forgotten

Any deployment is a hard deployment, so my heart will always go out to all soldiers who served in the military while doing any job.  My heart especially goes out to these 5 soldiers who served and gave the ultimate sacrifice.  
2004 deployment stationed at Log Base Seitz 1544th Transportation Unit out of Paris, IL National Guard.
Ivory Phipps
Jeremy Ridlen
Shawna Morrison
Charles Lamb
Jessica Cawvey
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