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Kellen Brugman teaches yoga and offers Ayurveda consultations. Kellen began yoga in 1996 to reduce stress associated with a corporate marketing job. A year later she founded Fair Havens Yoga in North Carolina, teaching yoga part-time. In 2000 she made a life change by leaving the corporate world and moving to Nashville to pursue teaching yoga full-time. For the past 14 years she has led yoga classes for corporate clients, seniors, athletes, college students and others who are interested in the life transforming practice of yoga.
Certified by the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, she has recently returned to Santa Barbara to live. She has studied Ayurveda since 2003, graduating from The Ayurvedic Institute, as well as completing workshops and training intensives in New Mexico and New York. Her Ayurvedic teachers include Dr. Vasant Lad and Dr. Claudia Welch. Teachers of yoga have been Tracey Rich, Ganga White, Whit East, Max Strom, a few toads in the Adirondacks and her beloved dog Harley.
Kellen's teaching style embraces the ancient philosophies of Ashtanga Yoga and the graceful movement of Vinyasa Yoga. Her classes integrate the asanas with pranayama, relaxation techniques, meditation, chanting and mindfulness to the Chakras. She encourages her students to stay connected with their breath and not be concerned with being perfect in the pose, but rather, to be in the moment...aware of how the body feels.
Offering students a balance of qualified instruction and giving them space to experience yoga on a personal level, Kellen helps her students turn inward and uncover their true selves through the poses, the breath and mindfulness. One of Kellen's yoga philosophies is: "If the face and heart are not smiling, chances are you are not doing yoga." Yoga can connect us with our true nature, that which is stable, graceful, kind and compassionate.
In the Ayurvedic consultations, Kellen determines a client's constitution and current doshic imbalance. She then creates a unique "Dinacharya" (daily routine) to help cleanse, restore and rejuvenate the client's health. The course of healing focuses on making simple and slow changes and draws on the healing benefits of yoga poses, breathwork, diet, essential oils, and meditation.
Kellen has worked with clients seeking help with headaches, digestive issues, sleep disorders, allergies, pregnancy, thyroid dysfunction, depression, weight loss and arthritis. Having lived in Nashville for 9 years, she has extensive experience working with artists and musicians and their special needs of alleviating pain in the neck and shoulder area and staying balanced on the road. Kellen strives to offer yoga and Ayurveda as tools to improve people's lives and discover the peace already inside them.
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