Inverted Elephant Yoga

Have you ever wanted to learn to belly dance but never knew where to start? Don't look any further! Join Bianca as we wxplore the art of belly dance through fitness.We will get down with the basic moves, isolations and body mechanics to help your general health, fitness level and self confidence. 

This class focuses on core movements, isolations, and basic movements to allow or more stretech and elasticity. It will also help muscle memory of the dance moves. The class is beginning level but all levels are welcome. 

Beatrice started practicing Hot Yoga in 2005  due to chronic lower back problems. She couldn’t even do half the postures and was in a lot of pain during practice. But she also found that she could sleep at night not being kept up by pain! She tried the yoga for 30 days to see what would happen, and never looked back.

At the time, Beatrice a certified Microsoft System Engineer (MCSE, MCT, MCSA, MCP+I), author and trainer, was traveling extensively worldwide and would seek out Hot Yoga (Bikram) studios in every city she visited from Europe to Asia, finding them to be a safe haven. Beatrice decided that one day when she’d grow up, she wanted to offer the same experience and healing yoga to others. Beatrice took the nine week rigorous Bikram Yoga Training in 2010 and was mentored in and taught Bikram Yoga in Frankfurt, Germany and Pune, India. In 2013 she studied the Bishnu Gosh Lineage Hatha Yoga under Tony Sanchez  in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

She is still looking forward to the day when she will touch her forehead to her toes. Beatrice teaches Hot classes, Yin Yoga and the Beyond Barre method. 

Lisa Timrick, Pediatric licensed occupational therapy assistant, specializes in pediatric massage and play base therapy. Discovered her passion for of yoga in 2009 which led her to Completing Yoga 4 classrooms professional development K-12 and 18-hour ChildLight yoga & mindfulness for children teacher training. Since 2016 she has been sharing massage and yoga with Children ages 3 - 12. In her spare time, she enjoys her family, cooking, reading, yoga here at the Inverted Elephant and training her dog Wrigley to come.

Does MELT really work?

I had spent all of my adolescent and adult active life haunted by debilitating pain in my lower leg when I increased my normal activity level. Every time I jumped more in ballet class, took more dance classes than normal, played basketball, choreographed tap dance numbers, and tried to start a running program, I would get awful cramps in my toes and calves, develop a shooting pain behind my shin bone that would linger, and I would suffer from heel pain just standing in line or walking more than a mile.

I had resigned to the fact that I wasn't meant to be active. No one could help me. 

I was frustrated and sad. Then I met Sue Hitzmann and experienced MELT in 2009.

I trained 6 months for a triathlon in 2010 right after being fully trained as an instructor in The MELT Method. I was so worried about the debilitating pain returning in my lower leg that I MELTed myself pre and post workout every single day! 

Even though I fell off my bike a bunch of times in the beginning, had to learn how to swim from scratch, and had never run more than 3 miles outside at one time before, I had no pain in my body while training for 6 months. I finished an olympic distance triathlon with absolutely no pain in my body!

I am now a MELT Master Trainer and even though I teach people how to MELT on their own and train instructors to teach MELT, I still use MELT for myself!

Isn’t it time for you to experience MELT?. 

Rev. Karen Hedley, MFA is a certified Yoga Alliance and Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra® instructor.  She has been studying movement, health, and spirituality for over 30 years.

Claudia, originally from Brazil,  went to Hot Yoga Teacher Training Spring 2010 - Las Vegas NV and has been teaching In Merritt Island, Orlando and Titusville. She practices at least 2-3 times a week. When Claudia first discovered Bikram Yoga she found that  "I am more flexible than ever and I lost all the fat in my body. I have muscles and I lost inches. I feel very strong. I returned to my teenager body.“

She loves teaching and shares this with her students ”When you do this yoga your body becomes a POWERHOUSE! Trust in the process, it really works!

A “Sound Bath Meditation” is all about energy, frequency and vibrations. It is a very therapeutic form of mediation because you're literally being “bathed” in sound waves. As these sound waves wash over your body, they can move the brain from a beta into an alpha & theta brainwave state. This means that the sound vibrations help shift your brain into a calmer state and allows you the opportunity to experience a deeper meditation which can lead to profound relaxation & healing. 

Sound meditations are wonderful for all types of meditators but are especially good for beginners. If you have ever attempted to meditate, you know the second you try not to think about stuff, is when your brain decides to think about everything!

In a Sound Meditation, the tones and frequencies give your brain something to hold onto. The sounds of the singing bowls and other instruments help cut through the mental chatter and help quiet the mind down quite a bit. 

According to some traditions, these specific tones are the frequencies where the 7 major energy centers (chakras) should be resonating at. Therefore, these vibrations can help the body get back into alignment and balance. 

Join us with Meditation Teacher Anthony Profetta who will use the sounds of Crystal Bowls, Hymalain Singing Bowls and other intstruments to create an environement which will help wash away your stress and fill you with inner peace and joy. Experience the opportunity to help bring healing to your mind, body & soul.

This experience is sure to leave you renewed and rejuvenated. This is one experience you do not want to miss. $20 advance/$25 at door.  Please be sure to reserve your spot as we only have limited availability. 

 “Tea Roman began his journey in sound, meditation and yoga at a young age, through the crystal sound healing practices of his grandmother - an advanced Kundalini Yogi.  From that point, his path took him around the world, studying the roots of these ancient sciences. His training includes studies in Rotterdam, Netherlands with the world renowned bamboo flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia. Tea then under went rigorous  Indian Classical Music training while living in Chinmaya Ashram - Kolvan, India. Now, his Suizen (blowing meditations) recordings are respected around the world by some of the most advance Zen Meditation practitioners.  Not limited to the practice of meditation and sound, Tea also has an advance knowledge of yogic practice, having completed his teacher training in the birthplace of yoga - Rishikesh, India. During a stay in the Himalayan area of Dharamshala, Tea was given some of the most powerful '9-Metal' singing bowls available. These bowls are one of the key elements of his workshops. Coming full circle with his in depth, practical, scientific and metaphysical knowledge of sound, meditation and yoga; Tea has developed a holistic practice that provides one of the purest experiences of enlightenment and consciousness​ available in the Western World.”