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New Downtown Business Offers Both Inner and Outer Balance

By BRYNNE MCMURRAY

Moapa Valley Progress

Yoga instructor Christina Geiss demonstrates a yoga position in her new studio at You Do Yoga in downtown Overton. PHOTO BY BRYNNE MCMURRAY/Moapa Valley Progress.
Yoga instructor Christina Geiss demonstrates a yoga position in her new studio at You Do Yoga in downtown Overton. PHOTO BY BRYNNE MCMURRAY/Moapa Valley Progress.

A new business is open and ready to stretch, meditate, and relax. You Do Yoga is a business that had been going for quite some time at the Logandale UNR Cooperative Extension office. However, the business has recently relocated to its own space.

The shop in downtown Overton has been open for a month now, but the building has been under renovation since March. The business is co-owned by Christina Geiss and local massage therapist, Kelly Bledsoe.
“[The business] grew enough that we were able to lease a new building together,” Geiss said. “Now, we get to set our own hours and have our own space.”
The business is now located at 263 S. Moapa Valley Blvd. “Behind the Flower Shop,” as their website says.

Geiss explained her experience with yoga,
Before moving to Moapa Valley, Geiss lived in Reno and practiced yoga there. She was also studying to become a licensed nurse. Her children were very young at the time and she realized that her degree was taking too much time away from her kids and was costing too much.
“I still wanted to help people, though,” she said. “So, I decided on teaching Yoga. It helps people both with their physical and mental health. I went back to school for eight months to get my 200 hour certification. Now, I am able to bring my skills and share it with the valley.”

The new shop has several yoga classes available for people of all skill levels. Geiss offers a $50 yoga basics class that lasts for six weeks and meets for one day a week. She also has a mixed level class that is open to anyone of any level. It costs $12 for a drop in session, $44 for a block of four classes, $60 for six classes, and $72 for eight classes.

The studio boasts it’s “gentle yoga”, taught by Bledsoe, for those who are looking for a simple, comfortable yoga experience. The gentle yoga classes cost $10 for drop-ins and $42 for six classes. All classes provide mats and helping blocks for a comfortable experience.
“All they need to bring is comfortable clothes to do yoga in,” said Geiss.
Also featured is a less active and more meditative yoga experience called “Yin Yoga” that focuses on breathing.

“The Yin Yoga class is about holding a position for a long time more than moving from position to position,” Geiss said. “It requires you to hold a seated posture for five to ten minutes. It enables to relax and stretch the connective tissue in your tendons and ligaments. It also stresses the joints, which is good. Yoga increases stretching and flexibility, increases circulation, and even strengthens bones!”

There are also occasional workshops, or specialty classes, for yoga fans. The specialty classes are usually on Saturdays. The workshops focus on in-depth discussions of specific points of yoga. One recent class was focused on meditation, and Geiss led a discussion on the origin of meditation and how and why meditation is done.

One upcoming workshop will be for kids from 10:00 to 11:30 on July 23. That workshop will be taught by a new incoming yoga instructor from Mesquite in order to kick start the new kids yoga program for kids from ages three to eleven.

Several other new programs are coming in the fall.
“We’re growing,” Geiss said. “Classes are getting bigger. It is very exciting!”
Right now, the largest class size has fifteen people in it.
Several discounts are available to start the program. High school and middle school students receive a 10% yoga discount pass.
“We get a few high school age people in our classes,” Geiss said. “However, their visits aren’t consistent. I would love to have more middle and high school students. I realize that they are often busy with sports, but this would actually help their performance.”

Other discounts include a July “Unlimited Monthly Yoga” pass that allows a person to attend any yoga class at any time any amount that they want during that month. The pass usually costs $59 but this month it is only $39.
Besides being a yoga instructor, Kelly Bledsoe also runs a massage therapy business in building. The massage studio is called Sacred Space Massage.

Bledsoe started out as a massage therapist working in Dr. Brett Staley’s chiropractic office. She worked there for 10 years and built up a great business with a steady clientele, she said.
“It has always been my plan to get my own space,” she said. “With the new building I now have a larger room. I have my own massage table. I also do a lot of floor work, so I have a floor mat.”
Bledsoe pointed out many of the benefits of massage therapy. “We live in such a stressful world,” she said. “We have so much negativity thrown at us all the time. Massage therapy gives time to ourselves. That isn’t to mention all of the physical benefits.”

Sessions with Bledsoe have to be made by appointment. The prices are based in time increments. For half an hour, it is $40. An hour costs $65 and an hour and a half is $95.
Bledsoe is also looking for other therapists to work in her studio.
“I’m super excited about our new facility,” she said. “As both a massage therapist and yoga instructor, I’m excited that I can do both in the same building. I’m so happy about our new and beautiful space!”

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