Cassandra Cureton
Cassandra is a passionate yoga guide trained in Hatha yoga and yoga philosophy. She has received certifications and training in several yoga modalities including Chair Yoga, Yin Yoga, Aqua Yoga, and Yoga Nidra. She loves creating community in nontraditional spaces, in virtual classes, and in-person classes. Her class format demonstrates yoga is for everyone and everyBOdy. Cassandra has a passion for Chair Yoga and the ability to make her classes accessible to everyone. Each class includes mindful movement and descriptive cueing, breathwork, and meditation. Participants gain increased strength, flexibility and release, and can expect to calm the mind, calm the body, and calm the breath.
Cassandra found yoga in 2017 after her friend Candace Jennings invited her to try it to help relieve sciatic pain she was experiencing from scoliosis. “I was attempting to walk with a torso curved like an “S,” and I felt some relief even after the first class,” Cassandra exclaimed. She attributes yoga as the single factor in improving her alignment, back pain, strength, flexibility, and most of all mobility. After learning there were two classes offered at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church per week -the other taught by Kiesha Battles -she began attending both classes and never looked back! In 2020 Cassandra began her yoga studies in earnest by signing up for YTT200 with I AM Yoga. After graduating in 2021 she began teaching and sharing her personal yoga practices with others. Cassandra continues to study, practice, and share everything she learns about yoga. She returned to I AM Yoga to complete her YTT300 and is now designated as an RYT500.
When asked why Yoga, Cassandra is quick to say: Yoga has changed my life! And it’s still changing it, with every single personal practice, class I teach, class I take, certification I gain, book I read, and every philosophy I embrace. Yoga changes me. I want to share the same life changing benefits I am so grateful for. I teach because I now believe it is my purpose. I desire to remove superficial barriers to yoga – age, size, color, physical ability, sex, religion, any-isms, to share the accessible, inclusive, and joyful practice it is. I teach yoga because I have the lived experience of its benefits, and I want to help others improve their lives through yoga as I have.”
Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, Cassandra teaches yoga full-time in-person and virtually at several medical health centers, YMCAs, and studios. She serves as Retreat Assistant for the Yoga Retreat for Women of Color (TM) with Maya Breuer. Additionally, she serves as Board Secretary for two organizations - You Call This Yoga in Raleigh, NC and At the Cross Ministries in Salisbury, NC.
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