To purchase a class pack, click “Book Now” on the schedule below. You will then be presented with the packs at check-out.
You may also purchase a pack for yourself or as a gift by visiting our "Store" page here.
In-Person Classes:
Single class rate $20
ALL CLASS PACKS CAN BE SHARED WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS
5 Class Pack - $18 per class ($90 total), 6 weeks expiration
10 Class Pack - $16 per class ($160 total), 3 months expiration
20 Class Pack - $14 per class ($280 total), 6 months expiration
20 Class Pack can be split into two payments
These Class Packs can be used for in-person and livestream
Livestream Classes:
Single class rate $18
ALL CLASS PACKS CAN BE SHARED WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS
5 Class Pack - $16 per class ($80 total), 6 weeks expiration
10 Class Pack - $14 per class ($140 total), 3 months expiration
20 Class Pack - $12 per class ($240 total), 6 months expiration
20 Class Pack can be split into two payments
These Class Packs are for livestream only
We also offer donation-based classes (pay what you can). See class schedule for more details. Class scholarships are available to youth in foster care, foster parents, and those in need. Contact us for an application.
Breathing is foundational to our existence: it is the only major system in the body that is both completely automatic and under our voluntarily control. During times of stress, our breathing is negatively affected. Studies demonstrate that by consciously re-calibrating our breath, we can unlock an increased sense of wellbeing, including reduction of stress, anxiety, and insomnia. Further, conscious breathing has long been integral to a variety of spiritual traditions around the world, as a source of contemplation, comfort, self-awareness, and creativity. This class will offer pranayama-based breathwork techniques in a gentle, accessible format, with a focus on increased awareness of diaphragmatic breathing, the gradual slowing and extension of the breath, and the elongation of the exhale. Such methods will provide tools that participants can carry with them throughout their week and employ during times of pressure or distress. Class sessions will variously combine these techniques with guided visualizations, use of selected mantras or affirmations, brief meditations, curated sounds to aid the relaxation response, or a short yoga nidra (yogic or psychic “sleep”) session.
Abhaya's class offers support and guidance for those who wish to explore, establish, or deepen the practices of mindfulness and meditation. We will primarily focus on utilizing body and breath awareness to cultivate calmness and clarity. Beginners welcome. This is a donation-based series, meaning pay what you can. We want mindfulness and meditation to be accessible and affordable to everyone. We also want to honor the teacher’s time, travel, and knowledge, as well as be respectful of the space we are practicing in (and for Mind Body Knox to be able to continue to offer this service). Whether your donation is $1 or $20, we appreciate your contribution.
Immersive meditation combines audiovisual and aromatherapy enhancing the senses to help maintain focus and present moment awareness. We realize that sitting still in a dark quiet room may not be the right fit for everyone and designed our immersive meditation classes to meet our students where they are. Our moon studio includes heated flooring, soft blankets and pillows for your comfort. Teachers will guide you through the meditation experience with instruction on maintaining focus and attention through the use of peaceful images and nature, surround sound and aromatherapy. This class is trauma sensitive and appropriate for beginners and seasoned meditators alike.
Beginners welcome. Lynn’s Thursday at noon class is a weekly meditation rotation- awareness breath and body, awareness of breath, open awareness, and self compassion loving kindness.
Dr. Rachel Golden (RYT 200) has been a dedicated student of yoga since 2019, including practicing in Ashtanga, Hatha, Power, Sivananda, and Vinyasa styles. In summer 2022, she completed her teaching certification at the Sivananda Yoga Ranch in the Catskill mountains. Rachel has also completed Breathwork Teacher Training Certification through Loka Yoga School, an accredited program with the Yoga Alliance. She values yoga’s unique ability to enrich physical, emotional, and intellectual aspects of life in interconnected ways, and found these benefits especially meaningful in navigating challenges brought by the pandemic. She is also an enthusiastic writer, educator, musician, reader, dog lover, and student of the Sanskrit language and classical yogic texts.
Abhaya Darpana (Rev. Dustin Davis) has worked over 25 years in the hospital critical care setting. He brings his intimacy with the illness, death, and dying processes to bear in Dharma sharing. He is also passionate about Dharma as a central support for dealing with addictions of all kinds.Abhaya's spiritual journey includes being raised Catholic and attending elementary parochial school with Nuns as teachers, then diving deeply into Full Gospel Protestant teachings, and later involvement with Unitarian Universalism. He committed to the path of Dharma in 2010 subsequently spending several months of cumulative time in silent meditation retreats and thousands of hours in personal practice and study. Abhaya is ordained as a Dharmacharya (Buddhist Lay Minister) in the Embracing Simplicity Contemplative Order under Venerable Pannavati and the late Venerable Pannadipa and he is an affiliated teacher at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center. His primary practices of Samadhi, Satipaṭṭhāna (4 Establishings of Mindfulness) in the style offered by Bhikkhu Anālayo, Ānāpānasati (Breath Based Mindfulness), and the Brahma Vihāras (Heavenly Abidings) spring from an affinity for the approaches offered in Early Buddhism. He also has an appreciation for the later traditions, having undertaken Vajrayāna and Zen retreats including formally receiving the 5 Mindfulness Trainings from Thích Nhất Hạnh in 2013. He has two lovely grown daughters, and an amazing canine companion named Bodhi who has served as a therapy dog in hospitals, nursing homes & addiction treatment facilities through the University of Tennessee's Human Animal Bond in Tennessee (HABIT) program. Abhaya is also an affiliated teacher with Lotus Light Contemplative Community Center in Knoxville, TN and serves on their Board of Directors.
Lynn Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and psychotherapist specializing in trauma therapy and trauma sensitive mindfulness. [She is the founder and director of The Center for Mindfulness, LLC at Mind Body Knox. ] Lynn holds a Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Tennessee. She is a faculty member of the EMDR Institute and a Level 1 Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher. Lynn received teacher training from the Mindfulness Center at Brown University where she is currently pursuing teacher certification in MBSR. Additionally, Lynn has received training in Mindful Performance Enhancement Awareness and Knowledge (mPEAK) coaching from the University of California San Diego’s School of Medicine and is a Certified Mindfulness Coach. She has participated in advanced mindfulness and breathwork training from organizations including the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Insight Meditation Society, Breath-Body-Mind, Ser Integral and the Copper Beech Institute. Lynn is particularly interested in the intersection between mindfulness practices and trauma therapy, utilizing a trauma sensitive approach to best meet the needs of her students and clients.