Community wellness Classes
Meditation and Movement
Instructor: Christine Bergeron
This 45-minute class combines mindful practice with movement, community, and rest. This class begin with 5-10 minutes of meditation to center your mind and body and then moves into gentle movement that increases mobility and strength while building connection to others. The class concludes with 5 minute of meditation centering yourself before moving back into your busy schedule.
Supplies Needed: Blanket and/or Mat
Class Time:
Tuesdays 8:30-9:15am
October 20th - December 15th
Location: The Kimbell, 607 N. Main Street, Downtown Bryan
Yoga
Instructor: Allison Sullivan
This integrative, all-levels yoga class brings together movement, strength, stretching, breath, and stillness in one balanced practice. Classes may move from an energizing flow into strength-building poses, slow down for deeper restorative stretching, and make space for breathwork, meditation, and rest.
Rather than focusing on one particular style of yoga, each class draws from several approaches, offering a little bit of everything: enough movement to feel strong, enough stillness to settle, and plenty of room to listen to what your body needs that day.
No particular level of flexibility, fitness, or yoga experience is required. Come as you are.
Supplies Needed: Mat
Class Times:
Mondays and Wednesdays
8-8:45am
9-9:45am
October 19th - December 16th
Location: The Kimbell, 607 N. Main Street, Downtown Bryan
Fall Prevention for Seniors
Instructor: Christine Bergeron
Fall prevention for seniors is conducted in chairs and in standing using small props such as ball, resistance bands, and hand weights. The goal of the class is to help seniors gain strength, mobility, coordination, and balance to reduce fall risk. Modifications are provided for seniors with limited mobility. All supplies needed for the class are provided.
Supplies Needed: None, supplies will be provided
Class Times:
Tuesday and Thursdays 9:30-10:15am
October 20th - December 17th
Location: The Kimbell, 607 N. Main Street, Downtown Bryan
Tai Chi
Instructor: Shari Heftel
Tai Chi
CLASS INFORMATION COMING SOON
Supplies Needed: None
Class Time:
Thursdays 7:30-8:15am
October 22nd - December 17th
Location: The Kimbell, 607 N. Main Street, Downtown Bryan
Meet your Instructors
Christine Bergeron
Christine Bergeron
Christine Bergeron
Christine (Chris) Bergeron Ballew is the owner of Brazos Emerge and has been teaching movement, Pilates, and meditation for over 35 years. She believes that movement classes should be accessible to all and that as Joseph H. Pilates stated, "Change happens through movement and movement heals."
Chris injured her back in 1992 and was told by
Christine (Chris) Bergeron Ballew is the owner of Brazos Emerge and has been teaching movement, Pilates, and meditation for over 35 years. She believes that movement classes should be accessible to all and that as Joseph H. Pilates stated, "Change happens through movement and movement heals."
Chris injured her back in 1992 and was told by doctors and physical therapists that if she kept dancing she would become immobile and end up in a wheel chair. Through dance science alignment principles and Pilates, Chris healed and went onto to have a dance career until she retired from dancing professionally in 2010. Chris believes that movement does not lie and that it is telling us something if we are just quiet enough to listen.
Her teaching style is welcoming, accessible, and intuitive based on years of Pilates and dance science training. Chris teaching individual and small group Pilates classes and also is invited to teach master classes in dance science at schools and conferences. Come join Chris for Meditation and Movement and Fall Prevention for Seniors.
Allison Sullivan
Christine Bergeron
Christine Bergeron
Allison Sullivan has been teaching yoga since earning her certification in 2012. A trauma-informed instructor, she approaches yoga less as a pursuit of perfect poses and more as an opportunity to slow down, reconnect with the body, and practice being present in it.
While she loves the strength, movement, and energy of a good fitness-based
Allison Sullivan has been teaching yoga since earning her certification in 2012. A trauma-informed instructor, she approaches yoga less as a pursuit of perfect poses and more as an opportunity to slow down, reconnect with the body, and practice being present in it.
While she loves the strength, movement, and energy of a good fitness-based class, Allison is especially drawn to the therapeutic side of yoga—the ways breath, intentional movement, stillness, and nervous-system regulation can help people feel more grounded and at home in their own bodies.
Her teaching style is warm, accessible, and decidedly human and grounded. She believes yoga can be meaningful without being intimidating and restorative without taking itself too seriously. Allison teaches group and individual sessions and is frequently invited to lead yoga, meditation, and restorative practices at retreats, conferences, and special events.
Shari Heftel
Christine Bergeron
Shari Heftel
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