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Benefits of Yoga

Benefits of Yoga

The word yoga means “to join or yoke together” and combines the practice of movement, breath work, and meditation. High Places Yoga centers these three things around Christ and focuses on filling our minds with the truth of God’s word. As Christians, we recognize that God created our bodies, God Created breath, and God calls us to meditate on His Word day and night.







Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

Joshua 1:8

All three components of yoga are combining what God created to glorify and honor Him. In Luke 10:27, Jesus calls us to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind.” And Acts 17:28 says, “For in him we live and move and have our being.”

Benefits of Yoga

Have you ever felt held back from your full body potential? Many people today experience a disconnection within their body. Stress, anxiety, brain fog, muscle and joint pain, chronic disease, and poor metabolism are just a few symptoms that result from disconnection. The regular practice of yoga can help your body function better. As a result you will become healthier in body, mind and spirit.

Health Benefit Highlights:

  • Reduction in the catabolic process of cell deterioration which helps to slow down the aging process
  • Improved muscle tone, flexibility, strength, and stamina
  • Prevents cartilage and joint breakdown
  • Enhances balance and coordination and improves reaction time
  • Reduced tension and stress
  • Calmed mind
  • Higher self-esteem
  • Deeper sense of purpose
  • Improved concentration
  • Greater creativity
  • Improved blood circulation
  • Stimulated immune system
  • Improved asthma
  • Treatment and prevention of high blood pressure
  • Aiding in relaxation and pain management
  • Help in weight management and reduction in anxious eating
  • Improved mental clarity, calmness, and body awareness
  • Improved mood
  • Deepens sleep

The Outcome

High Places Yoga seeks to increase health of mind, body and spirit while consciously seeking a deeper relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Through a regular Christ-centered yoga practice, balance in body, mind and spirit is extended from the class into our everyday lives. And we bring a healthier Christ-focused balance into our homes, families, work and communities.  We become the hands and feet of Jesus.

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We teach classes in the Kennett  Square campus of Willowdale Chapel and the surrounding Chester County region. If you want to grow in your practice and connect personally, then we have many ways to connect with you. Each class offers a variety of postures, flows, and modifications that will have you leaving class feeling refreshed and transformed.   We would love to invite you to any of our in-person classes. Drop-in rate is a minimum $7-10 donation. For times and dates of in-person classes please email us at highplacesyoga@gmail.com Other Types of Classes Private Private sessions are a perfect way for the instructors to design a class around your needs and level. Come to us, or we will come to you for a private one hour session.  $75 Small Group Small group sessions are a fun way to gather your friends and experience yoga together. The small group session is for up to 8 students and lasts one hour. We include a 30 minute consultation (either by phone or in-person) t...
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Instructors

  Nancy Pledger: RDN, C-HYI, Pilates, Weights, Chair Certificates Nancy earned her bachelor’s degree in Nutrition and Dietetics in 2004 and became a Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist (RDN) in 2005. After having two children, she did not return to full-time work as a clinical dietitian but found much joy and purpose in volunteering as a leader in her church, helping friends with nutrition, and leading fitness and nutrition workshops. She was introduced to yoga during this time. In May 2019, Nancy finished her 200 hours of Holy Yoga Instructor Training (C -HYI 200) with Brooke Boon and the Holy Yoga professionals in Arizona. Nancy’s yoga journey began as a stay-at-home mom while serving as coordinator of her MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group at Willowdale Chapel. A friend challenged her to combine her passions for fitness and for praying scripture, which directed her to Holy Yoga. Over four years she practiced Holy Yoga as a way to challenge her body in flexibility, strength, ...
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Our Vision

Ascend with us to High Places as we abide in a Christ-centered yoga practice that empowers wholehearted worship with our breath, mind, and movements in our daily peaks, valleys and everything in-between. Our aim is to encourage and refresh others in their journey toward the High Places of transformation, victory, and union with Christ through the modality of yoga.
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