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New Year's Day Yoga


This class is taught by:

Kim Quinn

Kimberly Quinn, a busy mother of four and practicing attorney, knows what it's like to live in a hectic world. After finding yoga and honing her practice she realized the potential benefit of helping others through her own style and teaching.

She completed her Yoga Certification, a 200 hour Yoga teacher training course, culminating in January 2012. Always looking to grow, she has attended a number of yoga workshops including Foundations in Action in Miami, Florida with Baron Baptiste, Gravity and Grace with Peter Sterious and an immersion workshop with Sid McNairy and Pradeep.

Kimberly's philosophy centers on healing and strengthening the body, while reconciling the pressures and pace of everyday life with a meditative and spiritually uplifting practice.

Florey Cordon

Florey tried Yoga for the first time over 13 years ago with a class at the Kent Wellness Center. The instructor suggested Florey check out Kent Yoga which at that time was located in the Apples plaza. She started yoga classes weekly trying to figure out the breathing, the poses, the excitement but what she needed to figure out was BEING in the moment, the present moment. It took time, years, but when the “AH HA” moment hit her and it was a beautiful thing!

Florey learned to listen to her breathing, breathing in poses and the excitement of the breath that carries you through a flow. She learned to listen and sit quietly with her breath and be still (which was very hard for her). At the suggestion of some yoga friends, Florey decided to take her 200hr Yoga Teacher Training at the Yoga Place in Canton. She met wonderful teachers and received her certificate in 2012. She was trained in Hatha Yoga & Iyengar Yoga. When she was able to teach, she taught at RP Fitness and filled in at Kent Yoga which was now located at the Kent Silk Mill. She was offered to teach a class weekly at Kent Yoga, her yoga home, she felt both honored and blessed. Florey's teaching fundamentally centers around alignment with lots of stretching to warm up the body. Use of props for proper alignment helps students adjust to the pose with their own bodies. She believes in teaching students wherever they are in their yoga journey so her classes can be a mix of beginners to yoga gurus!

When Florey is not teaching yoga, she can be found selling fine wines and driving her son around for activities. She also does a wine and yoga class that has been a very social event! She continues on her yoga journey and still considers herself a student learning every day.

Anne Laing

Anne Laing started practicing yoga in 1999. She fell in love with the movement, breath and flow of a class. Through yoga, she found her way to pilates and began teaching at The Tom Smith Pilates Studio in 2003. Inspired by her yoga teaching clients, Anne earned her 200 hour Yoga Alliance certificate with T.R.Y. for Life. Specializing in alignment, form and flow, Anne uses her classical ballet background to bring yoga to beginners and seasoned practitioners throughout the Akron area.
Start the New Year off right with this all level vinyasa flow class.