What People Say About VariYoga

 Mandy Warford, May 2013:  I am a Jazzercise instructor who has been feeling lately like I needed to add some more stretching to my life – and I found your weekly show on PBS – and I just wanted to say I am so enjoying working out with you.  I have never done Yoga and don’t know a lot about it, but I like what you do!  Your explanations make it so easy to understand and to follow.  And I love the soft relaxing music, provided by your daughter!  I was very disappointed to learn that you are in Fayetteville!  (I am in Little Rock).  I think I will get the DVD that is on your website.  Just wanted to say thanks for introducing me to the world of Yoga!

 Susan Porter, April 2013:  Over the past couple of days, I have been listening to a panel of some highly popular seasoned Yoga teachers discuss Yoga Injuries (fact or fiction), appropriate class descriptions for students, alignment issues, modifications with props Vs. traditional asanas, resposibilities of yoga teachers to provide safe enviroments for students…WoW!!!! These conversations with Q &A of seasoned yogis, just reinforce what I already know and it sets my Soul on Fire for Variyoga! We teach our students to trust and develop their bodies with a safe, accessible, and sustainable, yoga practice….When we change our thoughts, we have the possibility to open to freedom! This panel of yoga teachers should have just stream lined the process of hours of preparation and just called you & Bryan!  I am truly a blessed yogini.

Amanda Keen-Zebert, May 2012:  I look forward to visiting AYC every chance I can when I visit Fayetteville.  Last summer, I spent two months in Fayetteville and loved my escape to the welcoming space and instructors at AYC.  Because of the diversity offered at AYC, I learn something different and new from each instructor and each session. I especially enjoy the confidence I get from Andrea’s encouragement and step-by-step help to do poses I never thought I could do, the challenging pace in Nicole’s power flow, and the journeys through awareness in Jimmye’s Kundalini class. Thank you for providing a path and place for sanctuary.

Judy Miller, July 2011: I have been recording your show on Sunday for the last few weeks and look forward to receiving your DVDs. I am recovering from a back injury and have found VariYoga to be extremely beneficial. I have checked with my chiropractor who has encouraged me to add gentle yoga to my therapy. I can’t wait to get your DVDs. Especially the DVD for backs. I am also recovering from whiplash and have made a lot of progress with your instructions for neck and shoulder work. You have been a God-send! Finally I have hope that I can get back into shape and enjoy an active lifestyle again.

Arianna Gaesswitz, July 2011: Now that my back strain has gotten better, I have eased back into yoga, supta padangusthasana sequence is saving me yet again! Thanks to VariYoga for this sequence, accessible poses, and the philosophy of honoring our bodies (apparently I needed this reminder). I don’t think my back would be healing so quickly if it wasn’t for VariYoga!

Sandy Prince, Hope Cancer Resources, May 2011: Intro. to Yoga was so wonderful.  I feel better already!

Margaret Howlett writes, April 2011: I have MS, but MS does not have me. MS will not define how I live my life. I will. After integrating VariYoga into my daily routine, I began to notice significant differences in my strength and ability to move within just weeks, taking a class every day of the week.  The AYC and VariYoga has become a part of my lifestyle and I invite anyone that wants to help their body feel better and heal to join the Arkansas Yoga Center.

Pan Adams-McCaslin writes: “VariYoga with Andrea.” What a treat to be channel surfing and finding Andrea promoting health and wellness.

Maureen A. Gruich writes: You are a phenomenal blessing.  I have “dabbled” in Yoga over 30 years…I am so ready to be consistent and honor what I know to be true.  VariYoga is a beautiful recognition of our different gifts.  Thank you.  I hope, one day, to be able to come to the Arkansas Yoga Center (AYC) and join in a class there.  I am so grateful to you & the Jones’ network for giving us your gift throughout the day.

Matt Neumayer writes: Thank you for the yoga lesson tonight.  I’m still “buzzing” from the energy.  If I can get this kind of energy from an “Intro to Yoga” class, I really can’t wait to do more. I have a broken L4 in my back and a torn shoulder.  I didn’t feel stress on either.  In fact, it helped. The teacher was a pro. Even though we were not giving energy back because we were new, she walked us through the paces and I felt so at home.  I can’t wait to come back.  I’m so jazzed about this.

Sharon King writes: I came to the Midsummer Retreat to celebrate a new beginning in my life after a divorce and all the ensuing “endings”. I signed up hoping to create a vision of what I wanted in my life and some motivation to make that happen. I got much more than that. Through the activities we did, I really saw how far I had come in the past couple of years, and that gave me a lot of hope. I also created some goals that are already happening in the few weeks since the retreat. Plus, I fell in love with VariYoga and have started a daily practice again. It feels great to be grounded and hopeful. I can’t wait until the next one!

Cynthia Giss writes: Loved the workshop!  Wonderful stretching, meditating and fun.  My massage therapist said my neck and shoulders were better than she had ever felt them.   Facilities were great and food was good too.

Gigi Holder writes: I’ve always wanted to go on an official yoga retreat and attending the VariYoga Midsummer Motivation session was a great start! Andrea and Bryan are such wonderful people with amazing spirits that they made the experience very inspirational, relaxing and FUN. Gentle yoga was incorporated throughout the time which focused on re-centering and allowing the participants to tap into their own forms of energy through chanting and meditation. My favorite part was manifesting our goals and dreams through journaling and the creating of our individual dream books. I had a wonderful time amongst wonderful people and I’m so glad that I attended! Thank you, Andrea and Bryan!

Jill Buckle writes: Each individual has the ability to move their lives into the positive domain, shaping their dreams through intention setting, prayer, meditation… whatever one chooses to call it, it is an inborn vehicle contained within all of us… we just need to learn how to drive it!!  We did just that at last weekends “Midsummer Motivation Retreat”.  Through movement, stillness and creativity, Andrea and Bryan helped us all to find that inner guide to help make things happen.  We can’t let our positive dreams for the future sit in stagnant water… we’ve got to do something!  The blessings of change from this amazing experience are already evident.  Give thanks to everyone who was there for sharing your special light!

Kathleen Holloway  writes: (Agency Program Coordinator Hometown Health Improvement)   Andrea and Bryan, thanks so much for including me in your retreat this weekend.  You promised that it might be a life-changing event – and I think you’re right!  I’ve been dragging through the summer, feeling over-worked and suffering burnout.  This weekend was just what I needed to recharge my batteries.  Thanks for facilitating such a wonderfully refreshing weekend.

Patti and Ed Virgadamo writes: Thank you Andrea and Bryan. The retreat was wonderful.  Meeting new people with common sensibilities, relaxing, meditating, easy yoga, art projects, music, time to collect your thoughts without all the usual distractions of your every day life. . . Why wouldn’t everyone in the world want to attend?   I would encourage anyone to try it and I would add that my husband loved it more than myself.  What a great panacea for the overworked man!  We loved it.