GoodWolf Yoga owner Maggie Bailey brings her mobile yoga studio to clients’ homes and businesses, and also offers private sessions in her new space in Eastgate Town Center.
GoodWolf Yoga owner Maggie Bailey brings her mobile yoga studio to clients’ homes and businesses, and also offers private sessions in her new space in Eastgate Town Center.Realizing that not everyone can make it to the yoga studio, Ooltewah resident Maggie Bailey is taking her yogi skills on the go with her new mobile studio, GoodWolf Yoga.
In addition to individual sessions in clients’ homes, she also offers her services to businesses that want to offer yoga for employees or for customer appreciation events on-site.
Bailey said the idea for GoodWolf was born while she was working a fast-paced, stressful job at a real estate law firm.
“I noticed that taking 10 minutes of breathing really calmed me down,” she said.
Recognizing that office meditation rooms and on-site yoga were becoming more popular, she saw an opportunity and underwent yoga training. She purchased mats, blocks and straps from her yoga mentor, who had recently shut down her own studio.
“I started out mainly focusing on corporate events, baby showers and girls night-outs,” said Bailey, who’s also taught at several area yoga studios.
Bailey said she can go anywhere in the Chattanooga area and beyond, as she did for the yoga sessions she led at a recent Edward Jones retreat at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Ga., over three hours away. She said she also serves as the on-call fitness instructor for Cigna health care in Chattanooga.
For people who would prefer not to hold sessions in their homes or businesses, GoodWolf recently acquired a studio space at Eastgate Town Center that Bailey will use for individual and small-group lessons.
“I thoroughly enjoy teaching yoga in small groups,” she said, explaining that when she started practicing yoga, she had recently undergone a hysterectomy and greatly benefited from individual sessions with her mentor. “You can focus more on what your body needs.”
People who have one hip that sits higher than the other, for example, or who have knee problems can have their routines altered specifically for their condition, or even for how a particular body part feels that day, she said.
“You get what you need and not what the whole group needs,” said Bailey, who offers yoga for all ages, including children, new mothers and infants.
She believes yoga is a good investment for employers because it has been shown to increase work productivity and lower blood pressure, and also because it can be advertised to potential employees as a benefit.
“Just breathing and taking time to slow down helps to detox the body and allows you to reset in the middle of the day,” said Bailey.
She said she approaches yoga from a therapeutic background and meets with area health professionals, such as a chiropractor and an OB-GYN, to focus her yoga sequences on improving clients’ specific issues.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony is being held for GoodWolf’s new space at Eastgate, located at 5600 Brainerd Road, Suite WS-5, Wednesday, July 6 at 9:30 a.m.
For more information or to schedule a session, call 298-8670, email goodwolfyogi@gmail.com or visit goodwolfyoga.squarespace.com.
Email Emily Crisman at ecrisman@timesfreepress.com.