Yoga Center of Jackson

09/02/2026

Years of dedication, patience, and deep practice lead to this incredible milestone. So proud to celebrate our newest 500 RYT graduate! Drop a note of congratulations below. Congratulations Michelle!

09/02/2026

Please join us in congratulating Michelle Kornberger on her graduation from our advanced yoga training program. She now qualifies as a 500-hour RYT with Yoga Alliance and as a yoga therapist.

Achieving this status is no easy, and Michelle has done it well. Please enjoy Michelle's Yoga Journey in her own words:

Michelle’s Yoga Journey

Michelle’s yoga journey began around 2010 when she started attending classes as a way to manage the stress of teaching. Her practice became more consistent when she began training and racing in triathlons. As the demands of endurance training increased, yoga became an important complement to swimming, cycling, and running, and she credits her practice with helping keep her relatively injury-free.

Over time, yoga became much more than a way to support her physical health. In 2022, during a particularly challenging year, her mat became her safe space—a place where she could set aside the stressors of life. After experiencing a significant personal loss, yoga became a place where she could work through her grief. Just one week later, she inquired about yoga teacher training. She didn’t have a plan for what she would do with the certification; she simply knew it was something she needed to do.

Michelle completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training in April 2023 and soon began teaching yoga for the YMCA in the Memphis area. As she gained experience as a teacher, she wanted to deepen her knowledge and learn how to create practices that could meet the needs of people regardless of age, ability, experience, or stage of life.

Wanting an in-person 300-hour program, Michelle began searching for a program near Memphis and found the Yoga Teachers School of Excellence in Jackson, Tennessee. The pacing of the program worked well with her schedule, while the depth and variety of the training offered the opportunity she was looking for to continue growing as both a student and teacher of yoga.

Today, one principle guides much of Michelle’s teaching: yoga should be accessible. She strives to create a space where every student can participate and feel that the practice belongs to them—whether they walk to their mat or roll to it.

As her own practice and teaching continue to evolve, Michelle hopes to share her love of yoga not only with the students who come to her classes, but also with the people closest to her. Yoga has supported her through many different seasons of life, and she hopes to help others discover what the practice can offer them in their own lives.

Michelle’s current teaching schedule in Memphis:

Tuesday at 5pm at Church Health YMCA flow
Saturday at 11 am at Nuber YMCA gentle yoga

09/01/2026

Wonderful weekend! Spending time with like-minded friends renews body and soul!

08/31/2026

Thanks for being a top engager and making it on to my weekly engagement list! 🎉

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08/23/2026

Huge congratulations to our newest Yoga School of Excellence graduate! 🎉✨
​We are so proud to announce that Delaina Jang is officially a Registered 200-Hour Certified Yoga Teacher! 🧘‍♀️💫
​When asked to reflect on her journey, Delaina shared these words:
​"It's hard to decide on what to say when there are so many words and so much to say. I guess if I would have to say something it would be: It is very important that you do not give up."
​We celebrated Delaina today the best way we know how—with a toast of kombucha, delicious cupcakes, and so much love from her classmates. 🧁🥂. We are so proud of her commitment and dedication!
​The heart of yoga school goes so far beyond the mat. The in-person community, shared laughter, and deep friendships formed during training truly last a lifetime. 💖
​Please join us in sending Delaina all your love and congratulations in the comments below as she steps into this beautiful new chapter of teaching! 🧘‍♀️✨🙌
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08/22/2026

We make hundreds of decisions every day—what needs our attention, what can wait, what to say yes to, what to say no to, and sometimes simply what to have for dinner. As the day wears on, decision fatigue can begin to creep in.

Our mental resources become taxed, patience grows thinner, concentration becomes harder, and even small choices can begin to feel surprisingly large.

Our bodies experience something similar. We are wonderfully designed to respond to challenge, but we are not designed to remain in a constant state of readiness. Stress requires recovery. Effort requires rest.

This is where Restorative Yoga offers something quite different from simply “doing nothing.”

By supporting the body with bolsters, blankets and other props, we create conditions in which muscular effort can decrease and the nervous system can begin shifting toward its parasympathetic—or “rest and recover”—state. In the attached article, The Cleveland Clinic describes restorative yoga as a practice that can quiet mental chatter, relieve stress and help build resiliency.

And perhaps that is the important lesson: we don’t rest because we are weak. We rest so that we can return stronger.

Think about the pause between an inhale and an exhale, the recovery day between hard workouts, or even the fallow season that allows soil to replenish itself. Nature understands that restoration is part of growth.

A restorative practice gives us permission to stop spending our limited resources for a little while—to stop deciding, striving, fixing and accomplishing. Then, when we rise from the bolster, we may discover that we haven’t lost time at all.

We have restored some of what the day has taken from us.

As you read this Cleveland Clinic article, consider one question:

What might become stronger in your life if you gave yourself permission to recover?

We hope to see you next weekend, 8/29 and 8/30, at the Yoga Center of Jackson as we restore and renew.

Contact
Johnnie Lou Getz with questions or to sign up today.
c: 845-598-4519
e: [email protected]

If you’re dealing with a lot of physical or psychological stressors, restorative yoga can help put your mind and body at ease. A yoga therapist explains how it differs from other yoga practices.

08/18/2026

What is required to finally "open" that tight area in your body? Latest research shows that releasing a tight muscle does NOT have to be painful. See below:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19T1e3Pdgr/

No Pain. Still Gain!

A 2025 international expert consensus (see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095254625000468?via%3Dihub) confirms that regular static stretching can improve range of motion and reduce muscular stiffness. When practiced consistently, even a few intentional minutes daily can create meaningful change.

This supports a principle familiar to Yin practitioners: one carefully chosen pose each day, held gently and without force, can gradually invite greater space, ease, and freedom of movement. Small openings, repeated faithfully, can become lasting ones.

Please join us as we explore the science and art of stillness with us at Stretch, Surrender & Teach: A Yin + Restorative Yoga Immersion, August 29–30 at the Yoga Center of Jackson.

08/17/2026

There are still a few spaces open for this workshop/immersion at the end of the month. We would love you to join us.

Join Tiffany Cruikshank for this free Yin Yoga Seminar, going beyon...

08/16/2026

As we prepare for our Stretch, Surrender and Teach immersive workshop in Jackson at month end, enjoy this gift of a restorative practice from Jillian Pransky. How might we help our yoga students if we added a restorative pose to every practice?

For more information, visit events on the Yoga Center of Jackson page.

Restorative yoga uses long-held, supported poses to create the conditions for conscious relaxation and self-initiated healing.

08/12/2026

An important lesson about the importance of restoration. Do you agree that one of the most important aspects of a yoga practice is savasana at the end?

We do too, and will be exploring even deeper rest at our next workshop!

See our events for more information.

"We need to spend the time in Savasana so that we understand, A, what it means to relax, and B, what it means to misidentify from our thoughts."

How is your Savasana practice going? Let me know in the comments 👇

Jai!