RISE Yoga Gettysburg

04/26/2026

Meet our April Rise Yogi Spotlight, Melissa! 🧘
Check out our full interview below…

✨What brought you to yoga?
“I have known about yoga for as long as I can remember. I always associated it with hippies! Like all you need is love and YOGA!! Really it wasn't on my radar significantly until I was having issues with sciatica and lower back pain due to working in the hospital transferring people on a daily basis, admittedly not always using proper body mechanics. This was about 15 years ago. I totally healed my sciatica doing yoga at home watching videos on my TV and I was hooked. I wanted to learn more, so I began to study at a local studio.
I love the feeling that Yoga offers, of being connected to my body, the empowerment of choice in how to move my body, the dedication to deepening my practice, and the peace of letting go of stress and blocked emotions.”

✨What is your favorite pose, breath, or mindfulness practice? Why?
“This is definitely fluid as my desires and needs change. Right now I would say head stand. I just love that it feels like a reset button for my body. I love the focus involved and the core strength. I am in my head a lot so I feel like the extra blood to my brain doesn't hurt anything as well.”

✨In what ways does your Yoga practice support you "off the mat"?
“Yoga is maybe more meaningful off the mat than on the mat to me. Yoga has really helped me to define who I am as a person. It taught me that the inner journey is just as important, if not more than, the outer journey. It has helped me to learn to enjoy loving my body by doing something nice for it!
That love carries over into all areas of my life and frees me up to love others as well.”

✨What is your favorite thing about practicing at Rise?
“The first thing that comes to mind is that I brought my 16 year old daughter to Rise and she loved it. It means the world to me that she enjoyed the classes, felt comfortable and said she felt so peaceful. The community is welcoming and upbeat, and feels like a safe place to be. Alli has created a space full of intention, thoughtfulness, and care and it shows through the smiles and laughter I see in every class. Every teacher brings their own style and presence to the studio for a very full experience of yoga practice.”

✨What would you tell someone who is considering trying yoga for the first time?
“Do it! What are you waiting for? Are you afraid of falling in love with Yoga?? It is a practice that can change you and your experience of life for the better, if you allow it to, whether you're doing it for physical fitness, for mindfulness, or for deeper connection as well!

Thank you Melissa, for being part of our community at Rise! 💗 You can meet Melissa as she joins our instructional team as a sub in May! 🙏

Ready to join us? 😊
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04/25/2026

We’re excited to be moving outside over these next few weeks for community-based Yoga practices throughout Adams County, in the park, in the orchard and more! 🌱🧘💗 You can also find us here at the studio with our full week of offerings 😊

Starting next weekend, join us at every Saturday at 9:30 am at the Rec Park! We’ll be down in the shady, grassy area behind the amphitheater- with an easy access parking lot on S. Howard Ave! Bring your own mat or blanket, or feel the grass beneath your feet. Check out the Adams County farmers market before or after! We can’t wait to share these weekly practices to connect with self, community, and with Mother Nature. 🌸

Speaking of…it’s almost Mother’s Day! Join us for 2 special practices to honor the day your way, including a cozy Restorative Yoga class with Reiki on Saturday and a beginner-friendly flow class with beautiful orchard views and a complementary pour of local cider up at Big Hill Ciderworks on Sunday 💝

Learn more:
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04/21/2026

Are you ready for some release? Two great opportunities to work through tension, welcome softness and build in some intentional care of fascia health this week at Rise!

✨Flow and Roll is 45 min of your regular Friday morning favorite flow class with a bonus 30 min of self massage using Myofascial tools.
🧘8:30 am with Alli

✨Yin Yoga + Myofascial release blends the long held postures of Yin with the therapeutic qualities of MFR to invite deepening, opening and nervous system regulation.
🙏10 am with Alli

Rise, Restore, Revitalize 🌱
Join us this week at Rise!

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04/18/2026

“True peace is always possible. Yet it requires strength and practice, particularly in times of great difficulty...practicing peace, to make peace alive in us, is to actively cultivate understanding, love, compassion...”
~Thich Nhat Hanh
from Creating True Peace

Cultivate strength, Cultivate peace. ✨🧘🌱
Join us this week at Rise. 💗

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04/16/2026

This beautiful Spring weather has us thinking Yoga in the Park!! 🌱🧘‍♂️ Join us in just 2 weeks for a weekly community practice at 9:30 am in the shady grassy area behind the Rec Park amphitheater!

Sign up here:
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Yoga in the Park season is back in just a little over a month! Our 9:30 am Morning Rise class will move to the Rec Park for a beginner-friendly community practice with Heather every Saturday from May-August during the Adams County Farmers Market.

Bring your own mat or feel the grass beneath your feet! We meet down in the grassy shaded area by the amphitheater, with ample parking away from the busy-ness of the farmer's market, along S. Howard Ave. This class is $15 drop in just like any of our regular studio classes, OR you can use any of our Rise class plans.

We can't wait to practice with you- with the spaciousness of fresh air and blue sky above, the soundscape of bird song or a gentle breeze and the steady connection of the earth beneath your feet.

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04/11/2026

“When you inhale and when you exhale breathe the possibility of another world into the 37.2 trillion cells of your body until it shines with hope.”
~Aurora Levins Morales,
from the poem V’ahavta

Breathe in all the possibility of this season of renewal. Join us this week at Rise! ✨🧘🌱

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04/02/2026

Join us TOMORROW for Free First Friday, a monthly beginner-friendly class open to the community! 🧘This month, we are excited to introduce the newest member of our Rise instructional team, a long-time member of the Rise community, Andrea Rutledge! Andrea teaches a flow style practice centered in breath awareness, safe alignment and mindful opening, with opportunities to both expand and ground throughout your practice. She will be teaching this free First Friday class in April and will be stepping into a role here at Rise as a substitute instructor later this summer. Sign up for free at:

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04/01/2026

We need your input!! Would you be interested in a Warm Yoga class offering at Rise? Learn more below and tell us what you think- your feedback is our best resource for informing future class schedules! 😁

You may have heard of Hot Yoga- a vigorous "power yoga" practice, typically offered in a room heated to 90-100 degrees. Warm Yoga is its less intense (but in our opinion just as powerful for yogis who enjoy a heated environment) sister practice, offering increased accessibility, with a safer environment for a wider range of bodies and lived experiences. Warm Yoga is an energetic Vinyasa-style practice offered in a heated room at about 80-85 degrees with all the props and individualized instructional support you receive in all of our other group classes at Rise.

Tell us what you think in the comments or click here to take our survey!
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03/31/2026

We now have bike parking!! Who wants to join me after class for a bike ride on the Spanglers Spring loop? 🤩

03/29/2026

Meet our March Yogi Spotlight, Dorothy! ✨🧘 Scroll down to read our full interview!

What brought you to yoga/why do you practice yoga?

“I practice yoga because it helps me stay present to what is going on right in front of me, both on and off the mat. And because it feels good!”

What is your favorite yoga pose, breath, or mindfulness practice? Why?

“I love extended side angle and triangle pose, which always makes me laugh because those two used to be my least favorite! More than anything, I love the way my asana practice gives me an opportunity to make friends with poses, experiences, and sensations that might initially feel intimidating or overwhelming.”

In what ways does your practice support you “off the mat”?

“My practice helps me to be stronger and more flexible spiritually as well as physically - having a safe place to practice noticing without passing judgment helps me to be less anxious, more hopeful, and more aware of the needs in my community.”

What is your favorite thing about practicing at Rise?

“The diverse array of teaching styles and class offerings! It’s encouraging to see both teachers and students show up as their full selves.”

What would you tell someone who is considering trying yoga for the first time?

“Let it be fun - fall over, laugh with yourself, and don’t take yourself too seriously, but commit to showing up with what you have. You have nothing to fix.”

Thank you for being part of our community at Rise, Dorothy! 🙏

We look forward to welcoming Dorothy onto our instructional team later this summer! 💗

Ready to learn more?⬇️
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03/28/2026

Root. Rise. Renew. 🌱🧘💗
Welcome the season within you.

Dust off your mat, and join us this week at Rise! ☀️

Sign up for class here⬇️
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