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Welcome To Our Studio

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The Story Behind 
The Mind-Body Connection

I came to yoga after my life completely fell apart.
A traumatic divorce, a lifetime of emotional and physical abuse, and the quiet collapse that happens when you’ve tried everything and nothing works.

It wasn’t strength that brought me to yoga — it was desperation. Surrender.


I walked into these very doors — back then, it was Studio3 Yoga —  not knowing what to expect… or that I would never truly leave.

This space and it's community held me when I couldn’t hold myself.


Here, I learned to breathe again. To move without fear. To sit still long enough to hear the whisper beneath the pain.  To open my heart to something unknown. 

I took my first teacher training right here, not because I ever thought I’d teach, but because something in me knew yoga was more than it appeared to be. That training became the beginning of everything — a deeper spiritual journey within my self that I never expected.

After Studio3 closed during COVID in 2020, I moved on to other teachers, but I carried that seed with me. And in 2023, I reopened this same space — reborn as The Mind-Body Connection.

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Our logo tells the story best: a phoenix rising from a lotus.

Out of the mud and ashes, we rise.

From trauma, we grow.
From endings, we awaken.

This studio was built for that exact journey — yours and mine. Because yoga isn’t just movement. It’s remembering who you are beneath the stories and scars. It’s the path of returning home to your body, your breath, and something greater — what I can only call Grace.

Here, we practice yoga as healing, as thriving, and as a return to authenticity.


We focus on function, not form — how you feel and what your internal experience is, not how you look.


We create a community where you can be real, where you can rebuild, where your nervous system learns that it’s safe to relax again.

This is more than a yoga studio.
It’s a sanctuary for the parts of you that are still learning how to rise.

Welcome home. You Belong Here.

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What We Believe

We believe transformation isn’t about changing who you are — it’s about remembering who you’ve always been.

Through practice, awareness, and community, we help you rise above what’s held you back and live with more freedom, presence, and peace.

The lotus blooms through the mud. The phoenix rises from the ashes.
Both remind us that what breaks us also becomes the fire that awakens us.

Here, we practice yoga as healing, as thriving, and as a return to authenticity.

Welcome.

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