Toes Yoga

Beth found yoga over 20 years ago as a young mother looking for a way to relax and have an hour once a week to herself. Since that time yoga came and went in her life. In 2012 she once again found herself on her mat again. Beth completed 200 Hr CYT training at the Fox Valley Yoga Teacher Training in Batavia, IL in 2016 with Karen Weber. She and her husband, two dogs and two cats moved to Chattanooga in September 2016 in search of a change of scenery and more fulfilling way of life. She completed a 300 hr Shamanic Yoga teacher training with Dolly Kaup in April 2018.

Beth’s classes focus on integrating breath and motion and settling the mind. She believes that any Body can do yoga because yoga goes beyond the body into the soul and the spirit. She is also passionate about using sound and vibration in her healing and yoga practices. Many of her classes finish with a mini version of the Sound Baths she presents around the area to leave her students refreshed and rejuvenated in mind, body and spirit. 

“I came back to yoga in 2012 with a beginner’s mind and try to keep returning to that in my personal practice as well as when I am teaching. No matter how old we are or how much experience we have with something we can always find something new and continue to learn and grow.”

When not teaching or practicing yoga Beth enjoys hiking many of the beautiful trails in and around the area and dreams of hiking the Appalachian Trail. She also enjoys traveling, making things with her hands, gardening and herbalism and reading. 

Missy Crutchfield, 500 RYT, and loves teaching all levels, all ages, and is proud to call Toes Yoga home.  Her morning classes:M-F Yoga Fit HIIT (7:30-8:30am)and Rise and Shine (8:30-9:30) are designed to help open body, mind and spirit to greater possibilities of building strength, focus, cardio (HIIT class) overall health and mindfulness. Missy is also Founder of GAIA Talks The Earth Speaks, Co-Founder of Be Magazine, and Co-Founder of Gandhi Global Center For Peace (which she co-founded with Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Arun Gandhi). She is a passionate and globally recognized animal rights/human rights & vegan activist.

I attended my first yoga class in 2002, as a big favor to for a stressed out co-worker.  She never went back; I fell in love.  With yoga, I had found something that I could do the rest of my life, no matter what physical challenges I was facing.  The relief from chronic pain due to fibromyalgia and arthritis was life changing, as were the spiritual and emotional benefits.

I received my 200 hour teaching certificate at Asheville Yoga Center in August of 2019 and became Registered through the Yoga Alliance in November of 2019.  A long time student at Toes Yoga, I look forward to following in the footsteps of the other amazing instructors here to share my practice with you.

For me, yoga is celebrating coming to the mat just as I am every time I practice, accepting the good days and the days that are a little more difficult to get through.  In my classes, we will explore breathing as we move, modifications to fit poses to your body, and the joy in finding just the right practice for you.

Tara is a long time resident of Chattanooga.  She's social worker who has worked with children, families and adults in a variety of social service settings. Tara is also a 500hr Registered Yoga Teacher and has been teaching yoga since 2013. Training with Yoga Landing in Chattanooga, Etowah Valley Yoga in Cartersville, GA and Yoga for Trauma in Asheville, NC. She uses her therapeutic knowledge /experience and couples this with her knowledge of yogic breathwork and asana to offer a healing yoga practice that treats body, mind and spirit. 

Kim has been practicing yoga since 1997 and is a Registered Yoga teacher at the 500+ hour level. She began as a student with a vinyasa flow type of practice, but through training and education has evolved into a teacher and practitioner of a slow, deliberate style of practice that allows for time to expierence the poses and breath as well as to reflect on the effect after the pose or meditation.  This type of practice facilitates a confidence and trust that goes  beyond physical fitness and into a truly deeper connection with self. She opened Toes Yoga studio in 2013 in hopes of introducing this style of yoga practice to a broader audience.