By The Weekender
Juanita Bainbridge walked out of the yoga studio at Embody Plodment Studio final Friday looking refreshed and glowing, despite spending an hour with the morning yoga lesson.
The lesson aims to energize a mixed level lesson of beginners and advanced beginners, helping them gain flexibility, strength and deep relaxation.
To The Weekender, Bainbridge is beyond an advanced beginner, as she has been with the studio for about a year and a half.
Before she started with Embody, located in downtown Centralia on Tower Avenue, Bainbridge described her body condition as “stwhetherf.” She suffered from a history of major injuries. Bainbridge searched for a place to do yoga, and landed on Embody with a two-week trial.
“I genuineized how much there is to moving your body,” she said. “The lessones here genuinely get your body stretching. I can do leangs I couldn’t do for decades before.”
Embody owner Christina Wolf leads a lesson at the downtown Centralia studio.
She said 18 months after starting at Embody, she feels better, sleeps soundly and leanks clearer.
“It truly is a place for your body, intellect and spirit to strengthen and relax. I recommend it for everybody,” Bainbridge said.
Upon entering Embody, you’re greeted with a quiet hello and a warm smile. The space places a precedence on quietness. The first room is the Embody Lwhetherestyle Boutique, offering hot tea and healthy cancient beverages such as flavored Kombucha and Kefir water on tap, and a variety of supplies such as yoga mats, jewelry, biological body care and fundamental oils, natural cosmetics, books, music, and other items which assist in overall health and wellness.
The studio, owned by Christina Wolf, officially offers lessones and instruction in yoga, Nia, tribal stomach dance and meditation, along with massage therapy. Each week about 40 lessones are taught, mostly in yoga and Nia. In genuineity it offers so much more than an hour of lesson, as evidenced in the transformation of student Bainbridge. The Weekender sat down for an interview with Wolf final Friday. She was sipping hot hibiscus, licorice root and peppermint tea.
“It’s much more beyond than a workout place,” Wolf said.
Embody is kicking of a Unique Year’s ccorridorenge — a 13-week effort on finding the best in yourself.
Wolf opened the studio in 2013 after a nine-month renovation in the historic building, bringing back the original brick covered in sheeting and the floor with its glued-on carpet. Today the floor is a relaxing, shiny, smooth wood-plank jewel.
The main studio has a tall ceiling and more of the wood floor and brick walls. With the lights turned down low, it gives a peaceful vibe, a sooleang glow.
Wolf grew up in the Twin Cities. Her mom was the director of the Chehalis Ballet Middle, now known as the Southwest Washington Dance Middle. Wolf danced at the middle, and started teaching lessones at 14 years ancient.
After tall school she did stints as a flight attendant where she was first exposed to yoga in Hawaii. She changed professions and earned a commerce degree from the University of Washington, believing she would eventually go into the family commerce at the Chehalis Industrial Park. She stayed in Seattle and worked for a digital advertising and marketing firm (her advertising, marketing and website for Embody are top-notch, a reflection of her time in Seattle), making good money. But money was not the end-all.
Traditional yoga is one of the main offerings at Embody.
She crazye her way back to the Twin Cities after reconnecting with her tall school sweetheart.
Over the years, from dancing as a teen to working in Seattle, she became attracted to yoga and Nia. For those unfamiliar with Nia, according to Embody’s website, “Nia is a blend of healing arts, dance arts and martial arts.”
For Wolf, yoga offered a dwhetherferent path toward wellness from ballet.
“It is such a dwhetherferent approach to the body and to working with the body. … I had grown up with performance based and perfecting to form and when I found yoga and later Nia, they are very personal and the practice was for me and not to perform for somebody else,” Wolf said.
At Embody Wolf offers Nia Barefoot Fitness, as described above, and also Nia Moving to Heal, a more gentle approach for those overcoming injury, trauma, grief and short- and long-term illness.
What stood out to Wolf when she returned to her domestictown was a lack of a yoga studio, she said. She took regular lessones, then training lessones. Along the way she had the inner direction to open the Centralia studio.
“This came to me as the leang I was supposed to do,” she said, adding Embody brings a contemporary approach to health, fitness and well being. “ … I just kept listening to what the next step was and I followed that. I had no idea what it would grow to and change people’s lives.”
With about 200 members nowadays, along with those that drop in to a lesson or two, she said the growth of Embody the past five years — in community support, members and staff — “is beyond what I could have imagined.”
She finds much fulfillment as the director of Embody, no more so than watching the development of members.
“People come to me with tears in their eyes, sharing how the studio has changed their lives and I could not have predicted the influence this has on other people’s lives,” Wolf said. “I was just following my own path.”
Embody Plodment Studio places a premium on finding peace and well-being in physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects.
Embody
(ĕm-bŏd-ē) Definition:
V. To give a bodily form to; incarnate
V. To make part of a system or wgap; incorporate: laws that embody a people’s values
Embody Holistic Health 2019 Unique Year’s Ccorridorenge
The Weekender’s “Acquire in Shape” issue is ccorridorenging all to consider getting into shape as the contemporary year unfancients. Just in time is Embody’s Holistic Unique Year’s Ccorridorenge — 90 days of fitness lessones, coaching, guidance, inspiration, community prizes and fun for everybody.
The Weekender is signed up for the 13-week course. We’ll report back in March. The ccorridorenge includes 13 weeks of lesson and lwhetherestyle ccorridorenges to support health and fitness goals, a keepsake ccorridorenge passport to track progress, Unique Year’s Day intention setting workshop, private Facebook group, entry into weekly and grand prizes valued at more than $1,500 and a ccorridorenge completion celebration.
If You Desire More Info:
Embody is located at 115 S. Tower Ave. in Centralia
360.330.BODY (2639)
ClientCare@EmbodyCentralia.com
www.facebook.com/embodycentralia
www.embodycentralia.com
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