Lowcountry Yoga Studio

11/25/2025

BLACK FRIDAY WEEKEND STARTS NOW!

SAVE $1000 THROUGH MONDAY
and be a Yoga Alliance Registered Teacher this summer!

Start your on-line now with live and in-person classes beginning March 6, 2026

✨Deepen your practice and understand your body and how it works
✨Learn breathing strategies for calming stress and managing energy
✨Build unshakeable confidence in your voice and intuition
✨Strengthen your mental health, resilience and emotional intelligence
✨Create safe, meaningful yoga experiences in classes and one-on-one
✨Explore ways to share the yoga lifestyle off of the mat – to lead and inspire!

REGISTER FAST - This rate is only good for the first 5 applicants!

10/31/2025

November is our month of gratitude — for the practice, for each other and for the space we share.

Treat yourself or someone you love: our Gratitude Guest Pack lets you share three classes with the people who make you feel most at home.

Available through Nov 20 only.
Credits expire 2 months from date of purchase.

10/30/2025

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
~ Thomas Campbell

The love held in community is why we're here. 💛

10/23/2025

10/22/2025

Harmony doesn't last forever.

We don't live in a sterile ecosystem.
Our relationships, environments and even personal growth are always changing.

Where we once lived in harmony, comes truth.

Truth by nature is a disruptor.
It exposes what wasn't working.
It shatters illusions and old forms of ourselves.

It reveals what must evolve. What is no longer working; what needs to change.

Truth comes fast and hard, but it brings with it clarity. It sheds light on once was dark and it removes masks that once seemed like comfort. It makes us face parts of ourselves that we would have otherwise avoided.

When truth enters, harmony is disrupted. It tips the scale and life must be recalibrated. We enter the unknown. A period of pause, reflection, correction and change. This resizing is necessary for our growth.

Living in lies, shadows or incongruency is a false sense of security. It keeps us stuck in places not meant for us.

Truth - no matter how hard - is not to be feared.
It is a gift of freedom and an invitation back to self. Truth sets you free and gives you the space to find what you need to be whole.

Be thankful for truth.

It’s not chaos. It’s evolution.

10/10/2025

Tonight, we talk about the pieces we hide.

The fears, the grief, the anger, the ache — the ones that whisper when the world goes quiet.

This World Mental Health Day, join me for a short, live session on facing and embracing your shadow.

We’ll explore what happens when we stop fighting our emotions and start listening to them.

💫 7PM EST — on Zoom
https://zoom.us/j/93644348673?pwd=1NQMHkVTSPTaOUtgSz8CBisC2AGrbD.1

Meeting ID
936 4434 8673

Passcode 101025

DM to let me know you'll be there - or if you have any troubles getting into the room.

See you soon!
~ Erica

10/09/2025

💬 Today I’m Dealing With…

Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for being vulnerable.

The simple fact is — we’re all dealing with something.
If we’re not now, we have been.
And if we haven’t yet, we will someday.

It’s part of being human.

Anxiety. Divorce. Embarrassment. Imposter syndrome.
Grief. Fatigue. Lost jobs. Lost babies. False beliefs.

Every one of us is walking through something unseen.

When we share what we’re really carrying, the weight begins to shift.
It comes out from the shadows and into the light.
We can see it for what it is — not for the fear of what it could be.
That’s when it loses its power.

However deep the pain, healing doesn’t begin with fixing —
it begins with naming.

We have to name what’s happening in order to know how to care for it.
How to tend to ourselves.
How to begin again.

When we speak our truth — even in anonymous ink on a wall —
we take back power from the pain.

And no matter how hard it is, remember:
• You are not your struggle — this is a passing moment, rich with lessons.
• The awareness you bring now creates the peace you’ll feel later.
• Healing begins the moment you look yourself in the eyes and say, “This is what I’m dealing with.”
• Strength comes from knowing who you are — and trusting that person completely.

❤️

10/07/2025

The Body Keeps the Score
~ Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

🔴 20% of Americans were sexually molested as a child.
🔴 25% were beaten by a parent to the point of leaving a mark.
🔴 33% of couples engage in physical violence.
🔴 25% grew up with alcoholic relatives.
🔴 12.5% witnessed their mother being beaten or hit.

Trauma is far more common than we think — and though we are resilient, these experiences leave traces.

They live in the body, in the nervous system and in the ways we relate to ourselves and others.

Trauma literally changes the brain: it alters how we process information, respond to stress and feel alive in the present moment. It can make relationships, trust and self-regulation profoundly difficult — but healing is possible.

Dr. Van Der Kolk outlines three main pathways toward healing:
1️⃣ Cognitive: talking, understanding, connecting and processing.
2️⃣ Clinical: medication and neurological interventions.
3️⃣ Physical: engaging the body directly to restore safety and agency.

🧘‍♀️ Yoga lives in that third path.
It invites us to breathe where we once held our breath, to move where we once froze, to feel where we once went numb.

Each time we step onto the mat, we tell our body: "you are safe now".

We teach the nervous system to trust again, moment by moment, breath by breath.

If you’ve lived through trauma — you are not broken.

Your body has been protecting you.
And with compassion, connection, and practice, your body can also be your path home.

10/06/2025

Generational trauma is what happens when our ancestors experienced trauma—war, abuse, addiction, loss, poverty, racism, displacement, betrayal—and didn’t have the tools, safety, or language to heal it.

Instead of processing those emotions, the body and psyche adapted to survive—and those adaptations got encoded into family systems, behaviors, beliefs and even gene expression.

💔 Generational trauma shows up as:
• Emotional inheritance: Anxiety, hypervigilance or fear of abandonment that doesn’t match your personal history.
• Behavioral patterns: People-pleasing, perfectionism, addiction or over-responsibility that once served to keep peace or safety.
• Relational dynamics: Repeating toxic relationship cycles, avoiding intimacy or confusing love with chaos.
• Physical symptoms: Chronic stress responses, autoimmune disorders or nervous system dysregulation linked to unhealed stress chemistry in family lines.

🧬 Science tells us:

That trauma can alter how genes are expressed, influencing stress hormone regulation and emotional reactivity in children and grandchildren—even when they never directly experienced the original trauma. (Epigenetic research)

But—and this is the hopeful part—healing also changes gene expression.

🧘 Meditation, therapy, yoga and safe relationships can literally rewire our stress responses and stop the transmission.

🌱 How to Heal

Healing doesn’t mean fixing your family—it means interrupting the pattern.

You heal generational trauma when you:
• Feel what your parents couldn’t.
• Speak what was forbidden.
• Set boundaries where chaos once ruled.
• Choose consciousness over repetition.

Every time you regulate your nervous system, tell the truth or choose love over fear, you’re not just healing yourself—you’re reprogramming your lineage.

It's real. It's scary.

You're brave. You can do this. ❤️

10/04/2025

You’re not alone.

Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental-health conditions in the U.S., with nearly 1 in 5 adults experiencing one in the past year (NIH).

If you’ve ever felt anxious, you already know—yoga can be a powerful ally for the nervous system.

Through pranayama (breathwork), we activate the vagus nerve and support the parasympathetic system—the body’s “rest-and-restore” mode. Regular practice helps us step out of constant fight-or-flight, and over time, consistent movement and mindfulness literally change our brain chemistry—improving emotion regulation, attention, body awareness, and stress response.

Yoga doesn’t “turn off” worry—it retrains the body’s stress response. With practice, we learn how to move from reactivity into calm.

It’s more than movement or postures (asanas).
It’s a lifestyle—a way to feel whole, centered, and healthy from the inside out.

Want to slow down? Join us for any one of our Rest + Reset or Breathe: Pranayama classes for an opportunity to slow down both your body and mind.

Let the thoughts come and go - let the silence soothe you.

09/30/2025

To me yoga is alignment with the Source of all that is, oneness with deepest truth.

On the mat I practice being present and merging with that oneness.

Off the mat, my practice helps guide me towards presence when life is challenging.

My practice allows me to slow down, to go inward, and to restore.

The mantras show up instead of the racing thoughts.

Trusting that I am supported and guided by Source.

Cultivating gratitude for so many blessings in my life.

As we celebrate National Yoga Month - tell us what Yoga means to YOU! ✨