A new studio with an old soul: ONE's ancestry
By Josefina Blanc
ONE Yoga Sanctuary (founded in 2013) was created as a rebirth of Yoga Chandra Center for the Healing Arts. Kim Nichols Cech, a great mentor of Beaufort's contemporary dance and yoga, inspired a rich legacy. She brought a deep understanding to the artistry, mechanics, and emotional language of the body. Her mastery of form, compassion and the subtlety of her practice became a distinct approach to yoga for the hundreds of students that she touched over the years.
Her passing in the New Year of 2013 left a community of friends, co-instructors and practitioners, in a mixed state of grief, meditation, and a profound desire to celebrate and carry on her unique legacy, through our common yoga practice. What followed was a patient process, which led to the creation of ONE Yoga Sanctuary. Through extended collaboration with Kim's family and friends, ONE became a seed, an opportunity to let our creative energy move us forward in this precious circle of life. Teachers of Yoga Chandra Center for the Healing Arts become ONE.
Dragana, joined by her beloved teacher friends , founded One Yoga Sanctuary and the True Sense of community was born as One. Last in person class was taught in March of 2020 and after that continued on line. This Gallery is dedicated to Kim Nichols Cech and all the teachers and students of Yoga Chandra Centre and One Yoga Sanctuary. One Love Y’All!
““Think always of the universe as one living creature, comprising one substance and one soul: how all is absorbed into this one consciousness; how a single impulse governs all its actions; how all things collaborate in all that happens; the very web and mesh of it all.”
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