As college students lie in a corpse pose on a yoga mat, calming music is performed at a low quantity whereas lights are dim in a repurposed storage.
Mari Gonzalez, a yoga teacher, tells yogis to take deep breaths and let their our bodies “soften” into the ground at a category aimed to assist again and hip ache. Usually, yoga periods are sizzling, with heaters warming the room to about 95 levels.
“Discover your breath,” Gonzalez mentioned in a soothing voice. “For the subsequent hour, you’re free out of your troubles. Free out of your worries. For the subsequent hour, deal with you and therapeutic your soul.”
Gonzalez and her fiancé, Ryan “Ry” Adames, opened SOMOS Yoga in March 2021 on Ayers Road behind Hester’s Café. She mentioned the purpose for his or her studio is to deliver consciousness to yoga and the therapeutic properties it brings individuals.
“Lots of people come right here to get into their bodily observe to drop pounds or get the place they wish to be,” Gonzalez mentioned. “After they arrive, so lots of them discover a lot extra.”
“Except for the bodily observe, the whole lot you acquire internally is useful,” Adames mentioned. “From anxiousness to again ache, pure therapeutic helps. It is rewarding to see somebody are available in and discover aid they could not discover elsewhere.”
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SOMOS is the one sizzling yoga studio in Corpus Christi. Sizzling yoga is a type of the observe carried out beneath sizzling and humid situations, leading to appreciable sweating. Gonzalez mentioned 95% of the lessons at her studio are sizzling yoga.
“Sizzling yoga could be very therapeutic for the physique,” Gonzalez mentioned. “Sizzling yoga permits the muscle tissues to elongate. There’s one thing about having the lights dim, the warmth on you and sweating. It permits you to launch that trauma.”
Claire Vinot, a yoga teacher at Texas A&M College-Corpus Christi, mentioned there’s a connection between individuals’s feelings and their thoughts. At 74, she has been practising yoga for 50 years.
“Yoga helps clear the thoughts from feelings and permits individuals to get in contact with their bodily physique,” Vinot mentioned. “The thoughts creates feelings and feelings create ideas. When the thoughts is obvious, feelings are nonexistent and your physique and thoughts change into one.”
Danielle Wendel, a trainer on the studio, mentioned she first acquired into yoga after affected by post-partum melancholy seven years in the past.
Wendel mentioned her husband heard yoga helped with psychological well being and steered she go to a studio. Whereas residing in Canada, she mentioned they went to a category and she or he instantly felt aid.
“Once I was completed, it was a sense I hadn’t felt earlier than and it was step one to therapeutic a melancholy I had been in for years,” Wendel mentioned.
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Together with Gonzalez, Adames and Wendel, SOMOS Yoga has 9 different instructors. Gonzalez mentioned they arrive from numerous components of the world together with Corpus Christi, Russia, Mexico and Hawaii.
Kaeli Hernandez, an teacher born in Honolulu, mentioned she turned to yoga after having power decrease again ache. She began to do poses from a YouTube video, and her ache went away after every week. However the religious facet of yoga made her stick with the observe.
“It helps you create area in your physique by postures and breath work and helps you get well from bodily and emotional trauma,” she mentioned. “It strengthens you as an individual.”
Vinot mentioned it’s common for individuals to show to yoga after going through traumatic occasions of their life and management their feelings.

What introduced Gonzalez to yoga was the ending of a 15-year marriage. After her divorce, Gonzalez mentioned she threw herself into Brazilian jiujitsu and boxing. From there, her physique wanted therapeutic, and that is the place yoga got here into her life.
“Inside the first three months of taking lessons, I knew I wanted and wished extra,” Gonzalez mentioned.
Pupil Melanie Barrera mentioned she has been going to SOMOS Yoga because it opened.
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Barrera mentioned prior coming to SOMOS, she had by no means practiced yoga. She mentioned she noticed banners of the studio and ladies stretching that caught her curiosity.
“I used to be about 100 kilos heavier and figured I might stretch,” Barrera mentioned. “I discovered it is not straightforward stretching; it kicks your ass. However even when you’ve got no athletic skill, it is accessible to everybody and difficult for everybody.”
Gonzalez and Adames mentioned they plan on opening a second studio on Corpus Christi’s Southside quickly. They plan on incorporating different practices of yoga together with acrobatic yoga, gentle remedy yoga and PEMF.
Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Discipline remedy makes use of expertise to stimulate and train cells to assist resolve mobile dysfunction and to assist general wellness. Gonzalez mentioned the closest studio that provides that program is in Dripping Springs.

Gonzalez mentioned if individuals haven’t got flexibility, they need to strive a yoga class.
On the finish of each class, Gonzalez mentioned she leaves her college students with hope.
“I inform them at any given second of any hour of any day, you can begin over,” Gonzalez mentioned. “You’ll be able to let one thing go and create your new life. We’re not outlined by our previous. Yoga helps us in methods you could not consider.”
SOMOS Yoga
ADDRESS: 1001 Ayers St.
COST: $18-$128
WEBSITE: somos.yoga
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