yin yoga + healing Gong sound bath

MyLinda Morales Hutchings E-RYT® 500, YACEP® 

MyLinda's classes are a favorite among Central Florida and North Carolina yogis. MyLinda's reputation for strong, therapeutic, alignment-based yoga classes and trainings combined with deep spirituality and compassion make MyLinda's yoga classes and yoga teacher training programs highly sought after by local, national, and international students.

MyLinda has been passionately interested and involved in prayer, meditation, fitness, and health  for over 43 years. MyLinda began formal prayer and meditation instruction at the age of 14 with the Capuchin Nuns of Amarillo, Texas. MyLinda began practicing yoga in 1994 (29 years go!) and has been devoted to the service of yoga ever since! MyLinda is registered with Yoga Alliance® as an E-RYT 500®, Experienced Registered  Yoga Teacher, which is the highest level currently available. MyLinda  has over 7,000 hours of yoga training, over 12,000 hours of yoga teaching experience, and 1,000s more hours in personal practice. In addition, MyLinda has been teaching yoga since 1996 and training teachers since 2002. MyLinda has a fondness for yin yoga and has been studying it since 2014 (9 years). 

MyLinda's Full Bio

Renee is a compassionate and talented sound healer who has dedicated her  life to helping others find inner peace and balance. She has spent  years studying the power of sound and how it can be used to promote  physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. With a deep understanding  of the human energy system and a wide range of instruments and  techniques at her disposal, Renee is able to create a soothing and  calming environment for her clients. Whether she is working with  individuals or groups, Renee's calming presence and intuitive nature  make her a valuable resource for anyone seeking to improve their overall  health and well-being.

Renee is also a certified yoga teacher through Yoga University of Florida. 

About Yin Yoga - Yin Yoga is a very simple practice. We  settle into an asana for 3-7 minutes and slowly relax our muscles to  allow the deeper drier tissues–the connective tissues that wrap our  muscles and make up our joint capsules–to be safely and therapeutically  stretched, stimulated, and strengthened.
The alignment rules of the  postures are also simple, but more importantly, they are functional and  organic: We listen to our bodies and lead ourselves into the shape that  follows the natural contours of our spine, pelvis, and hips.

Gong baths are a type of inactive meditation, where you “bathe” in the healing vibrations of sound.

Using  sound as a form of healing dates back to ancient cultures. Records of  using gongs have surfaced from as early as ancient Egyptian, Greek, and  Roman times. 

“Gongs have been used as shamanic healing tools,  celebratory instruments, and a method of communication for thousands of  years. Evidence suggests that gong making was known as early as 4,000  B.C. and ancient alchemy sources put the gong as far back as 16,000  B.C.,” says sound healing practitioner Britta Hochkeppel. 

Additional physiological benefits heart rate and respiration rate slow down and come into balance during a sound bath as the parasympathetic nervous system is activated. Some studies have even shown that nitric oxide (which regulates physiological processes related to good health) in the blood increases.