About Eagle River Yoga
Eagle River Yoga offers classes and workshops designed to help you live your most inspired life. Whether you are looking for enhanced physical fitness, creativity, or an overall sense of well being, you can benefit from experiencing all that we have to offer.
Go green: Experience the clear air in the forests of northern Wisconsin. Eat clean, local, seasonal food. Walk, bike, paddle, and practice yoga. Feel revitalized.
​​Go calm: Relax, breathe deeply, meditate, and reflect. Shed what no longer serves you in your life. Allow peace to happen. Feel renewed.
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Go north: Let yourself begin a journey. Enter into the beauty and and serenity of the northern landscape. Observe the shift in perspective. Feel inspired.
About Cindy Kelly Conlon
I believe that my path to yoga is quite typical. I was a dancer and
athlete, and felt that yoga might be a good addition to my fitness
program. I knew nothing about yoga, but was encouraged by a friend to give it a try.
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I can still remember walking into my first yoga class: the room was decorated with pictures that had no meaning and the teacher began by chanting words that I did not understand. I spent most of the time watching the clock and making my grocery list. I did not experience any great benefits and my wrists were actually sore after the class. I did not come back to yoga for twenty years.
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That second class was quite different, however: the teacher was warm and welcoming, and taught me how to use my breath to relax into the poses. I was not even aware of time passing, and, after class, felt a general sense of well-being and joy. As the Zen saying goes, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” Now, after completing my education as a lawyer, earning a Ph.D. in education, teaching college students, and raising three children, I found myself with the time and interest to explore yoga.
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It has been an amazing journey, and one that I hope to share with others. My deepest wish is that no one has to wait as long as I did to gain all that yoga has to offer. I invite you to start wherever you are, and to step onto the path that can enhance your life in many ways, the path of yoga.
Education/Experience
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I completed level 2 (300-hour) teacher training at Yogaview in Chicago, Illinois, and studied yoga and meditation in Pune, India. I am also certified through the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, California (200-hour RYT). I am certified to teach Breathwork through the Breathe Teacher Training Program (Dr. Belisa Vranich) and as an Oxygen Advantage Functional Breathing Instructor (by Patrick McKeown). I am also a certified forest therapy guide (through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy).
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I have over twenty years of experience teaching adults in both university and community settings. I have a Ph.D. in education from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
