Class Descriptions

Tune In

Mondays at 6:30p with Brit Connors

This class will aim to get you in touch with your breath, your senses, your spirit, and your connectivity while working its way towards a slower paced flow style class. Class will typically resolve in 15 minutes of yoga nidra (known as “yogi’s sleep”), a deeply restorative guided state of relaxation. This class is suitable for all levels. Please bring your own mat!

Slow Down

Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. led by Jay Jay Jones-Zaia

A beautiful combination of restorative/yin poses and movement.  This will be a slower paced, fully guided, all levels class that will also incorporate balancing postures and breath work. Props and blankets will be provided. Please bring your own mat!

Be Gentle

Sundays at 3pm. led by Sarah Miller April 27, May 25, July 20, August 17, and Oct. 19

Slow vinyasa 

Slow vinyasa is a yoga practice that intentionally links breath to movement. You can expect to move slower, providing time and space for each yogi to master foundational postures. Slow vinyasa combines stretching and muscle activation, with the cultivation of mindfulness as you move intentionally through poses. Slow vinyasa also incorporates seated postures, and warm up and cool down movements to help energize the body and strengthen the mind-body connection. Slow vinyasa provides clarity, releases tension, strengthens mind-body awareness, improves flexibility, and helps us find balance in everyday life. Please bring your own mat!

Gentle yoga 

Gentle yoga is an easy going, slower paced yoga class that ties together gentle stretching, breathing, and opening the mind/body connection. You can expect to be guided through gentle postures accessible for all yogi levels. Gentle yoga is suitable for all ages, and is wonderful for promoting flexibility, relaxation, stress relief, and better sleep. Please bring your own mat!

Brit Connors

Brit is a classically trained actor and director that found her way to the yoga mat officially in 2009 in New York City, seeking more space, more movement, more wild, and missing the various theatre classes and techniques she was trained in. She was awestruck by how so many things she was seeking and missing seemed to culminate in one practice on one mat; something as organic and fluid as the ocean, expressive as storytelling, relieving as a good friend, cosmic as the stars, grounding as the earth, and both deep and light as anything. She received her 200 hour YTT in NYC in 2016 and hopes to share these experiences with you in class; where you can discover your own poetry, your own buoyant ups and downs, and your own dance. She believes in building radical resilience, compassion, honesty, and joy on the mat that trickles off of it and with practice, and awareness, into every other avenue of your life. She is truly thrilled to get to share this small patch of heaven and healing with you that is Gateway Farm!

Jay Jay Jones-Zaia

My yoga journey began in 2001. My first yoga class was extremely challenging, both mentally and physically, but the Shavasana changed my life. I continued to practice yoga for the next 12 years and over the course of that time, noticed the difference yoga was making in my life. I also acquired a burning desire to take a teacher training so I could share this beautiful gift with others. My life did not allow for Teacher Training until 2013. During my training, I realized that I had just scratched the surface of what yoga is and how healing its benefits are.  The floodgates opened for me and my thirst to learn as much about this practice, in an effort to heal myself and help others, has been constant. It’s so much more than a physical work out for me. My yoga practice has saved my life and has taught me a lot about myself...the good, the bad and the ugly. It has given me the strength and courage to meet the many challenges of life and it has given me a true feeling of happiness that I never knew was possible. I know I can resolve anything if I keep coming to my mat because all of the answers lie within each of us.  My hope as a teacher is to share this gift with you and help to guide you to a deeper, more rewarding yoga journey of your own. One that will last a lifetime. Happiness, health and well being is available to each one of us. Trust the process. Keep coming to your mat. Yoga works!!!!

Katie Hipple

Hi , I’m Katie! My yoga journey started when I was 20 years old and working in health care. As an empath it always brought me joy to make people feel better but it wasn’t the path that felt authentic. I did my first teacher training in 2010 at Yoga 4 Peace. Seeing how happy people were after taking a yoga class was the reward that made me passionate about sharing yoga. I switched from health care to the health and wellness industry. During my first pregnancy I took a second 200 hour yoga teacher training . I sparked a deep connection to pre/ post natal yoga and took a Prenatal Training at Honey Studio. During my second pregnancy I was so sick that the physical practice wasn’t in my daily life but it was replaced with meditation and mindfulness . It made me slow down and appreciate all the other magical parts of yoga . My kids AJ and Madison are always inspiring my teaching style . In 2020 I started exploring sound healing. I love sharing sound baths and seeing the blissful experience it gives. 

In 2021 I completed Reiki 1 and 2 training.

Outside of yoga my family and I started a little business, B.Bliss Wellness. We make goat milk soap, body sprays, essential oil blends and fun tye dye.

Nice to meet you! I enjoy holding space for you to explore your own journey.

Sarah Miller

Sarah began their yoga journey in 2017 after ten years of dancing. After trying vinyasa, Hatha, and yin-style classes in college, she got hooked on the power of the practice. Sarah enjoys movement as a form of self-expression, and a way to connect to and find the strength of the mind, body, and spirit.  Sarah completed their 200-hour YTT at Invoke Yoga and Pilates in Indianapolis in June 2023. She also completed a 10-hour Yin + Restorative movement training with Zion Well in July 2024. 

In Sarah’s classes, you can expect a grounding and playful space for cultivating intentional exploration of breath and movement, good tunes and fun playlists, and themes that connect the practice to the more than human world. For Sarah, yoga is a time for practice, curiosity, self-study, and finding moments of zen amidst the beautiful chaos of everyday life. Sarah encourages her students to test their boundaries, find their strength and power, and invoke curiosity by trying something new. Ultimately, Sarah loves sharing tools and knowledge with her students that they can integrate into their daily lives so they can ultimately feel better and stronger.