EW Studios

01/14/2026

Weather update: tonight’s yoga class is canceled. Curl up, stay warm, and we hope you’re still able to find some calm and inner Zen this evening. 💙

01/13/2026

✨ Let’s Talk Fascia ✨

The word fascia comes from Latin, meaning band, ribbon, or bundle. And that’s exactly what it is — a continuous web of connective tissue that weaves the entire body into one intelligent, interconnected network.

Fascia is the body’s infrastructure.
It supports and connects:
• muscles
• tendons & ligaments
• organs & tissues
• nerves, joints & bones

When fascia is healthy and hydrated, it’s flexible, elastic, and supportive — allowing ease of movement and freedom in the body.
When fascia becomes tight, dehydrated, or restricted, it can limit movement, contribute to pain, and be linked to various health conditions.

✨ Fascinatingly, fascia is also rich in sensory nerves — often referred to as a timekeeper of our emotional and physical history, holding patterns from stress, injury, and daily life.

Practices like yin yoga, slow mindful movement, and myofascial release help rehydrate, soften, and restore this connective tissue — creating space not just in the body, but in the nervous system too.

🌿 Wednesday Evening
6:30pm Yin & Fascial Release
@ Ewstudios.com to sign up

A 75-minute blend of long, passive yin postures and myofascial release techniques using props. Designed to target deep connective tissue, joints, and ligaments—helping melt away restrictions and promote deep relaxation and well-being.

Come explore movement that supports your fascia and your whole being.
🧘‍♀️ Your body is one system — let’s treat it that way.

01/06/2026

🌿 Wednesday Evening Yoga

6:30pm Yin & Fascial Release
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01/05/2026

🌊 Welcome New Year, New Buffalo! 🌊
We’re excited to introduce (or reintroduce!) Essential Wave Studios — your local space for movement, recovery, and whole-body care.

Located right here in the New Buffalo, MI community, Essential Wave Studios offers integrative services designed to support your health at every stage:

✨ Our Services Include:
• Manual & Physical Therapy
• Personal Training
• One-on-One Pilates & Reformer Lessons
• Yoga (all levels)
• Therapeutic Massage

🧊🔥 Recovery Room Amenities:
• Infrared Sauna
• Compression Boots
Perfect for muscle recovery, stress relief, and nervous system reset.

🛍️ In-Studio Wellness Products:
• CBD Pain Cream
• LMNT Electrolytes

Whether you’re recovering from an injury, training hard, managing daily stress, or simply wanting to move and feel better — we’re here to support you with personalized, intentional care.

🤍 Come experience a studio where movement meets recovery and wellness feels approachable.

Learn more or book your session at ewstudios.com
We can’t wait to welcome you in!

12/22/2025

Need a last minute gift? Gift cards available! Also for the holidays, Free 20min infrared sauna session with 60 or 90min massage purchase. Ewstudios.com

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving!!! 🍽 🍁🦃🧡 to all of our amazing clients! We are so grateful for you all! We hope you have a wonderful day full of love & laughter!

Today happens to also be the 70th birthday of a very special member of our studio, and we are so proud of the progress he’s made! Here he is rockin’ an Essential Wave tee-shirt at Mt. Everest Base Camp this past summer!! Happy Birthday Bob, it gives us such gratitude to witness you live your best life by putting your health first!

11/20/2025

Just a friendly reminder to keep your head up. If you need some help getting it back up, we can help. Ewstudios.com

11/19/2025

One of the best parts of owning a small business is highlighting your partner (and team of course). Happy anniversary to my amazing partner and teammate. 7 years since married on a gondola 🚠 ride in Telluride.

11/18/2025

Thanks Harbor Country News and Joan Matks for this great article!

NEW BUFFALO — Essential Wave Studios has become a cornerstone of holistic wellness in Harbor Country, offering an integrated approach to health that lives up to its motto: “For Being

11/03/2025

The beauty of daylight savings time is you get a chance to wake up that hour earlier and start your day the way you always envision you wish you could start it! Who’s with us? We’re kickstarting ourselves into this season with morning rituals that feed the mind body and soul! 🌅🧘🏼‍♀️💪

Here’s our offerings to you:

M-F 8:30-6pm (by appointment)
Manual Physical Therapy with Dr. Renee Bowen (pictured)
Personal Training with owner Aron Bowen (pictured)
Private Pilates one-on-one Reformer with a PT
HIIT training

Wednesday’s at 6:30pm:
Restorative Yoga

Saturday Mornings at 10am:
Vinyasa Flow yoga

M & Th 4:30-8pm:
Deep Tissue Massage with Kristen

Infrared Sauna, Chromotherapy & Compression Therapy by appointment

Reiki & Sound Therapy with Elisa by appointment

Visit ewstudios.com or DM to book!! We want to meet you!

08/01/2025

LAST CHANCE TO FLOW WITH ELISA ON A REGULARLY SCHEDULED SATURDAY!!! Keep reading for more information 🥹🥰🥳

Hi, it’s Renee & Aron, owners of Essential Wave Studios, and we would like to take a minute to give a SHOUT OUT to a truly incredible person, Elisa Walsh. Elisa is an intuitive & naturally gifted Reiki Master & Sound Vibration Therapist; a truly talented yoga & Pilates instructor, and has been our studio manager for the last 2 and a 1/2 yrs. We are both proud and happy for Elisa as well as saddened to announce that she is teaching her last regularly scheduled classes tomorrow Saturday August 2nd at 9:15 & 10:30 as she will be very busy this Fall returning to her career of teaching at an Elementary school in Indiana. Thankfully, we will still get to see Elisa around the studio for pop-up classes and Sound Healing events as well as private Yoga, Pilates, Sound Therapy & Reiki sessions that can be made by appointment, but it certainly won’t be the same! We will miss her so much! We appreciate you so much, Elisa, and are honored to call you our friend and an essential part of the family at Essential Wave Studios! Good luck on your new adventure!! We wish you all the best!

07/28/2025

It’s official! We did it! We’ve moved to 424 E Buffalo St New Buffalo, MI 49117!!!! Our new place feels and looks great, we know you’re going to love it!

After some blood, lots and lots of sweat, a good amount of dirt, some of Koa’s tears, a torn meniscus (previous unrelated injury, but still no fun to move on) and some loooooooonnnnngggg days… we poured our hearts into creating this space to be your oasis for wellness! Can’t wait to see you there 🥰