Our community-centered yoga studio

Sue Plumley

Sue Plumley’s teaching weaves a blend of breath work, Zen philosophy, compassionate guidance, boundless healing, cranial sacral work, and chakra studies, within a variety of asanas. She teaches Hatha yoga in the Kundalini style with a bit of Yin thrown in to restore the natural rhythmic movement between your mind and body, you and the universe.

 

Sue has a 230-hour certification from the Asheville Yoga Center. She is also certified in Yin Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, and Children’s Yoga. Sue believes that yoga is the path to healing your body from the inside out. Kundalini yoga focuses on the natural energy your body inhales from the universe and the earth—the prana, chi, life force—that charges your life.

 

Yoga also massages your glands, organs, tissues and muscles to encourage your body to renew healthfully and promote a long and happy life.

 

Sue also teaches meditation as a way to keep your mind, body and spirit balanced and healthy. Daily meditation is necessary to manage stress and anxiety in our busy world. In addition, every body needs meditation for benefitting mental, physical, behavioral and environmental health.

For the mind:

· Greater learning ability

· Improved problem-solving ability

· More orderly thinking

· Increased creativity

· Increased intelligence growth rate

For the body:

· Lowering high blood pressure

· Relieving insomnia

· Reducing smoking

· Resistance to disease

For behavior:

· Sharp reduction of anxiety

· Increased self-actualization

· Improved relationships

For the environment:

· Dramatic reduction in crime and violent behavior in the city as a whole when as little as 1% of the population of a city meditate.

 

Sue’s has owned her own business, Humble Opinions, since 1988. Sue speaks for groups about yoga, meditation, relaxation. For more info, email splumley@suddenlink.net  or call  304-673-4610.

Meditation: Sue teaches different types of meditation, depending on the discussion and the intent of the class. Sometimes the class meditates on a single flame, certain colors or objects, as a way of increasing concentration

 

Meditation on a state of being, such as peace or joy, compassion or love can also be a topic; even meditation about God is a valid theme.

 

Sometimes, Sue takes the class in the direction of transcendental meditation, to delve deep into the quiet and wonder of the mind, like a honeybee searching for its next flower—the mind wandering for its most charming and delightful insights. Come, join us . . .