02/10/2026
I am SO PROUD of my YTT Trainees! Hosting Donation Classes to raise money for their favorite charities.
A big THANK YOU to our Trainee Rhonda Polley Clemons for raising money for the Ottawa County Pregnancy Center!
Coming up this weekend, join Trainee - Tina Petrello Ingraham (my dear friend and fellow cancer survivor) on Sunday, 2/15, for her Donation Class….
FROM TINA:
Me and my 7th grade self, rocking the chemo hair cut and Duran Duran style shirt, are inviting you all to join me in my Practice Yoga Class at Soul Stretch Yoga in Lakeside-Marblehead this Sunday, February 15th, 1pm-2pm.
This is a FREE donation based class.
I’ve selected the Bay Village High School team It Takes A Village, who are raising money for Blood Cancer United (FKA Leukemia and Lymphoma Society) to be the recipients of the donations.
Why? Students in Bay Village have been doing something very special for the last 10 years – raising money for people with cancer.
No, I didn’t have a blood cancer, but that doesn’t matter to me. It’s cancer all the same.
For me, it was life-altering surgeries, 4 years of chemotherapy, countless tears and even more prayers. And all in all, it was the most precious gift I was given. I began to see life in a very different perspective: that maybe we’re here to enjoy the wonders around us, all while taking care of each other.
Not every person with cancer gets to choose how they live after cancer. I do. And that is something I will never take for granted.
My cancer journey is the reason why I decided to take this yoga teacher training - to help people find calm and strength in their own lives. Plus, it aligns with my Rotary motto of “service above self” when and where I can. Every day.
I work with a LOT of non-profits and amazing causes, but helping these kids, in my backyard (some of whom I've known since kindergarten), help other kids, adults and families with cancer… One of them herself a cancer survivor stepping into the window… well, how can I not choose them? Especially because reaching their goal this year will mean the high school kids in Bay will have donated $1 million to people with cancer. And that is something I absolutely have to be a part of.
I hope you can join me on Sunday at 1:00pm at Soul Stretch Cycle Spin & Fitness Studio, at 5826 E. Harbor Road, in Marblehead, Ohio.
If you know me, you know why I’m here. And you know I'll probably be very choppy with my moves and cues, but then again, passion trumps perfection.