Welcome!
What Can Poetry Yoga Offer You?
- Build STRENGTH
- STRETCH for Flexibility
- STEADY your Balance
- Improve STAMINA
- SUPPORT better Breathing
- Nourish with SCRIPTURE
- Relax and deSTRESS
About Your Instructor
Poetry Yoga is taught by Dr. Anne Horan (EdD, JD, MS, R-HYI) who enjoys integrating her stress management background with her focus on fitness into planning her Poetry Yoga classes. In 1982, she chose yoga as a college P.E. credit as a good complement to body building at the time. This college class led to a life-long fitness practice--through pregnancies, a car accident, a law and municipal judge career, marriage and parenting, founding and administering
a private K-12 Christian school, and more.
She began teaching yoga in Rockwall and Rowlett health clubs in 1999
and has not stopped since. Anne holds three graduate degrees, including a Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling Psychology from the UTSW Biomedical Sciences Department and is a published researcher, including a Stress Management Workplace Intervention Study.
As a Christian, she recognizes the amazing benefits of yoga but does not subscribe to eastern philosophies. Poetry Yoga classes are a way to care for our bodies as a temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:19), she reminds her classes. Sessions adjourn with: Peace be with you (John 20:21).
She is a R-YT with Holy Yoga and is currently working on her 500 Hour Master Certification + Level One Yoga Therapy Certification from the international YogaFaith organization (Christian Yoga Teacher Training - YogaFaith). She is also trained in HY Touch Yoga and Pediatric Yoga. She integrates physical therapy modalities derived from yoga poses, athletics warm-ups, and Pilates techniques that are consistent with yoga poses and objectives. Her prior experience includes teaching yoga classes to teens for P.E. credits, club track teams, college track teams, senior citizens, pediatric and special needs groups, and mixed classes.
Her book, "Before Babies and Beyond: Stress Management and Yoga for Women of All Stages and Ages," is pending publication.
Schedule & Location
GET FIT CLASSES in person or online:
Mondays and Wednesdays at 5:30-6:30 p.m. CST
Text 972-210-1560 if you want the Zoom link.
RESTORATIVE CLASSES and FRIDAY FLOORWORK CLASSES in person: Offered on select Fridays 4-4:45 p.m. CST
beginning Sept. 2023.
OPTIONAL DONATION-BASED SERVICE
Come the 1st time just to try this gentler form of fitness.
No formal billing or charges - Donation-based classes.
Optional donations may be submitted to
PayPal 972-210-1560 or in person.
CLASS ADDRESS
18688 FM 986, Poetry, TX 75160
Campus of Poetry Community Christian School
Enter double-doors of Multi-Purpose Building at back of campus, turn right, enter door with Holy Yoga sign above it,
go up the stairs to Dance Studio.