Upcoming Events
Christmas Eve Cookie Burn
🎄 Christmas Eve Cookie Burn! 🎄
Date: December 24, 10 AM
Cost: $17
Let’s face it—after all those holiday treats, it’s time to give back a little love to your smart body! 🍪✨
Join us for the Christmas Eve Cookie Burn, a fun, high-energy yoga class to shake off any extra holiday energy, boost your mood, and get you jazzed up for the festivities ahead!
Led by the lively and inspiring Chamar, this class is all about moving, grooving and letting go of anything that’s keeping you from fully enjoying the holiday season. This is yoga with a joyful twist—expect laughter, upbeat flows and just the right amount of challenge to get you feeling fantastic.
What to Expect:
🌟 High-Energy Yoga – keep moving and smiling as you burn off some holiday “cheer” and boost your mood for all the holiday fun ahead!
🌟 Props & Modifications – No worries if you’re new or easing into a yoga workout; there are plenty of props and modifications to keep it light and accessible for all levels.
🌟 Joyful Vibes – Think of this as your pre-party! Get energized, release any holiday stress and leave with a big grin, feeling ready for all the festivities.
Join our first ever offering of the Christmas Eve Cookie Burn
Held on December 24th at 10 AM.
Your investment into energizing your smart body is $17.
All are welcome. No previous experience necessary.
This class is for you who needs a little something different before being around a lot of family members. For you who want to eat a little extra pie and feel OK doing so. For you who would love to untangle holiday panic through moving your smart body.
So, grab your yoga mat and a sense of humor and join us for the Cookie Burn! Let’s shake it out, laugh it up and get in the holiday spirit—together!
Sign up now and start your Christmas Eve with fun, energy, and a little holiday “detox”! 🎅🎉
Reiki I (Reiki for Self Care) with Jillian Ricks
During the Level 1 Reiki Training Reiki for self-care learn the following:
Reiki grounding techniques to root you into the present moment of love and joy, untangling stress.
Traditional Reiki hand placements giving you the ability to share this beautiful energy work technique with family, friends, and clients.
Self healing meditations allowing you to release old memories of injuries and events that are keeping you from moving forward in life as the bright, blossoming flower you are.
Reiki shielding allowing you to protect your energy from needy family members or clients giving you more power and creating boundaries.
Intuitive Reiki Scanning to enhance your wisdom and confidence in using, and following Reiki’s guidance.
The history of Reiki told through the Usui story allowing you to understand that you are a part of a history of healers, who are helping the world to be a better place.
Participate in 4 Reiki attunements that prepare your hands and heart for the giving and receiving of Reiki.
This training is for you who find yourself needing extra to help you unwind and destress. For you who have been experiencing symptoms within your smart body that are keeping you from offering your best techniques and practices to clients. For you who are a massage therapist or counselor,who finds yourself depleted and wrapped up in your client’s stresses, unable to recharge your own mind, body, and soul.
Level 1 Reiki training, Reiki for self-care is relaxing but also jam-packed with information in which you feel like you have been on a weekend retreat. Students in the past have left the training feeling inspired, informed, encouraged, and confident in their skills as a Reiki Practitioner.
Level One Reiki training: Reiki for self-care 12 CE hours
Dec. 27 and 28 10 AM until 5 PM. Each day there is a 1 hour lunch break.
The investment to enhance your health, destress, and allow yourself to bloom into a bright soul is $360.
This course is approved by the NCBTMB for 12 CE hours.
Women's Wellness Circle: Jump-Start Your Health Six S-T-E-P-S in Six Weeks
Prioritize your health and connect with like-minded women.
6 weekly morning meetings to connect, motivate and learn about holistic health.
Week 1: Intro: healthy grocery store tour
Week 2: Select and stock your kitchen
Week 3: Take control of your movement
Week 4: Eat with intention
Week 5: Partner with your doctor, family and friends
Week 6: Sleep more and decrease stress
Based on steps from the book "Heart Smarter for Women Six Weeks to a Healthier Heart"
A copy of the book is included with this program
6 weeks plus book is $74
Each class is 1.5 hours and is led by Holistic Nurse Coach Therese Parks, RN, BSN, NC-BC
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Beginner’s Yoga Series: Awaken your Beautiful Body
Embrace the vibrant energy of a new beginning by joining us for a joyful 3-week yoga series, taught by Cyndi Allen, designed just for beginners! Starting January 19 at 4:30 PM, this uplifting journey is your chance to discover the smart body’s wisdom in a welcoming, body-positive space.
Plus……
🌼 Learn foundational yoga poses and breathing techniques.
🌸 Build flexibility and strength in a laid-back, supportive environment.
🌸Gain confidence in your yoga skills giving you the ability to join any yoga class.
🌼 Celebrate every step, no matter your starting point!
Whether you’re looking to de-stress, move with ease, or simply try something new, this series helps you feel motivated, informed and oh-so-flexi and happy.🤸
Join Beginner’s Yoga Series: Awaken your Beautiful Body.
Taught by Certified Curvy Yoga Teacher Cyndi Allen
🗓️ January 19, 26, & February 2
⏰ 4:30 PM
📍 In person at Jillian’s Healing Arts Center, where happiness blooms!
Your investment into a happy beautiful smart body is $99
Winter Solstice Celebration – A Moment to Ground, Reflect and Restore
Winter Solstice Celebration – A Moment to Ground, Reflect, and Restore
Date: December 21, 10 AM - 12 PM
Cost: $27
Join us for a peaceful celebration of the Winter Solstice, a time to unwind, restore, and reconnect with the season’s true essence. 🌌
This special event invites you to step back from the holiday rush and embrace our theme for the month: Less is Best This Holiday Season. Together, we’ll pause, breathe and honor this quiet, reflective time of year.
Here’s what you’ll experience during this two-hour journey:
🌿 Gentle Yoga Poses – Michele will guide you through relaxing movements to release tension, soften stress and untangle any anxiety that the season may have brought to your body and mind.
🌿 Healing Reiki – While you ground into yin yoga poses, Jillian, Reiki Teacher Master, offers hands-on Reiki to support deep relaxation, restoring balance and inviting in love, joy and light.
🌿 Guided Meditation & Essential Oils – Center yourself with calming aromatherapy and meditation, creating a healing space where you fully relax and receive.
🌿 A Time for Reflection – Embrace the peaceful energy of the solstice as we reflect on the past year, offering gratitude for its lessons and joys, while setting intentions for the adventures to come.
Join this year‘s Winter Solstice Celebration: an opportunity to ground, reflect and restore.
Held on Saturday, December 21 at 10 AM.
Investment into your holiday peace is $27
Let this celebration be a gift to yourself—a moment to ground, to pause and to reconnect with your mind, body and spirit. Step away from the holiday hustle and join us as we welcome in the quiet magic of winter and the possibilities of the new year. 🌙
This celebration is open to all within our community. No previous yoga experience necessary. We move slowly with lots of props, blankets and modifications. Think about an opportunity to stretch and take a nap while someone holds your feet or massages your scalp.
Reserve your spot today and give yourself the gift of peace this holiday season.
Holiday Hafla
Jillian‘s Healing Arts Center is excited to host a holiday Hafla❄️. Hafla means party in Arabic. At this year‘s holiday Hafla join the Jillian‘s Healing Arts Center’s Belly Dance classes plus other Belly Dance students, teachers and troops from all over the Chattanooga area as we come together to celebrate laughter, holiday cheer and dance.
It is a great time to experience all different forms of Belly Dance and to support your Belly Dance friends.
Celebrate with us on Dec. 14 doors open at 6:00 PM
This holiday Hafla is open to everyone within the Belly Dance community as well as their friends and family as well as all of you within Jillian‘s Healing Arts Center community.
It is customary for the community members to bring food and drink to share, a new choreography or dance to show off and excitement to once again be gathering to celebrate dance.
For all belly dancers in the community who would like to show off your amazing talents, send Jillian an Email at jillian@jillianshac.com to be placed in the line up.
We are really looking forward to seeing all of you at this year‘s holiday Hafla.💃❄️
Happy Chakras: Introduction to the chakra energy system for self-care
Join happy Chakras (An introduction to the chakra energy system for self-care) to learn.
Color therapy to keep you shining bright.
Specific essential oils for each chakra to bring balance to your mind, body, and soul.
Yoga postures to activate individual chakras to energize the physical body.
Meditations to bring your thoughts back into your smart body, noticing which chakra might be needing extra support giving you a blueprint for your days energy and focus.
Focus on your own happy chakras first to allow your energy and joy to spread from each person you meet throughout your daily life.
Self massage techniques and tapping to enhance energy flow leaving you feeling grounded and supported.
Happy Chakras (An introduction to the chakra energy system for self-care) is a 2 day exploration into your own thoughts, needs, emotions, and well-being. You receive Reiki, healing touch, yoga, essential oils, and much more. It is like being at a holistic health retreat.
Happy Chakras (An introduction to the chakra energy system for self-care) 9CE hours approved by the NCTMB
November 2 and 3 10 AM to 4 PM in Center.
Your investment into your happiest self is $270.
13th Birthday Extravaganza Open House
13 years ago, I opened the doors to this amazing healing space with dreams about growing a yoga community, dancing the night away with my belly dance friends, and offering massage. I had no idea that it would blossom into this most magnificent joyful peaceful garden with more than 1 massage therapist, 6 yoga teachers, 3 belly dance instructors, and 1 holistic nurse coach.
Come celebrate 13 years of health, growth, expansion, community, and blooming happiness.🌸🥳
At this 13th birthday extravaganza experience:
🎉Games to promote laughter and camaraderie.
🍷Clean crafted organic wines from Scout and Cellar
💆Complementary massage from our amazing massage therapist Joe Moyes
💃A belly dance demonstration at 6:00 and 7:00 PM
🎂Yummy healthy snacks
🤗Time to meet the amazing healers and teachers that create the fun-loving, joyful inspirations here at Jillian‘s Healing Arts Center.
🎁An opportunity to win a gift basket of essential oil sprays, a 90 minute massage with Jillian, a yoga or belly dance class card, and a discovery call with holistic nurse coach Therese.
This celebration is overflowing with everything that should happen at a birthday party. Cake, wine, dancing, fun!!👯
Level 2 Reiki Therapist Hands-On Training
Ready for the next step in your Reiki journey and practice?
Then this course is the natural stepping stone for you to enhance your Reiki practice and improve your intuition and sensitivity when working with clients.
Within an intimate and fun environment review the basic Reiki principles: history of the father of Reiki (Usui), ethics, traditional hand placement, and intuitive Reiki scanning that are taught within the level 1 Reiki training (Reiki for self-care).
Add to your already blossoming Reiki practice skills to allow you to become a level 2 Reiki therapist. Learn and experience the following:
☀️enhance your abilities by learning the chakra energy system and how to support each chakra with Reiki hand positions.
☀️Learn the traditional Reiki symbols to strengthen intuition and energy flow for the client and yourself.
☀️Discuss how stuck emotions within the physical body results in dysfunction, tension, stress, muscle aches, and pains, fatigue, decreased range of motion, numbness, and much more.
☀️Learn how to use the traditional Reiki symbols to aid in releasing stuck emotions offering relief to your clients.
☀️Blend the use of the chakra energy system into therapeutic massage by adding the Reiki symbols, as well as connecting body parts energetically to the chakra energy system aiding in reducing symptoms and treat the affected body part by offering energy and soft tissue manipulation.
Like all Jillian’s CE classes, it feels like a relaxing retreat with adequate hours of applied practice. Also you have the opportunity to meditate, move your smart body, and receive 3 Reiki attunements to help increase your energy and intuition.
Level 2 Reiki Therapist Hands on Training
10 CE hours
October 5th and 6th 10 AM to 4 PM each day, this includes a 1 hour lunch break
Your Reiki Investment is $300
Level 1 Reiki Training (Reiki for Self-care) is a prerequisite for this course.
Like many students who have participated, by the end of the course feel confident in applying traditional hand placements, intuitive Reiki scanning, along with the traditional Reiki symbols, and the chakra energy system, to your already established therapeutic massage routines.
Kitten Yoga
Ready to experience the cutest most relaxing yoga class on the planet?
You know that yoga is great to stretch out tight muscles and to offer more mobility within your joints. You know it’s relaxing and allows you to let go of the stresses of the day. Now… Let’s add something cute and furry for your entertainment during a relaxing Yin yoga class.
Let’s add kittens!!!
We are thrilled to offer you kitten yoga! Partnered with the Humane Educational Society.
During this one of a kind kitten yoga experience:
🐱A relaxing Yin yoga class led by our own Michele Steves.
🐱Guided breath work to relax the nervous system.
🐱Purring kittens tickling your toes as you reach down in a forward fold
🐱A kitten toy thrown past you while a cute fuzzy friend jumps over your leg to tackle the toy.
🐱Lots of laughter, ah inspiring moments, and cute cuddly fuzz balls walking around and on you.
Kitten yoga is a great way to try something new, relax the nervous system, promote joy through laughter and cuteness, and to support the Humane Educational Society in finding these kittens loving homes.
Join Kitten Yoga Friday, October 4 at 6 PM Eastern in the Center.
Your donation to the kittens well-being as well as your own joy and laughter is $33.
The proceeds help to fund this event as well as taking care of our furry friends.
you must pre-register for this event due to spots being limited.
This specialty event is open to all bodies. No yoga experience necessary. It is for you, wishing to have a little escapism from a busy day to just stretch your smart body, and play with some kittens.
Sunrise Yoga 4 week series
During this 4 week series Sunrise Yoga experience, you will
☀️Have an easy, relaxed, all levels yoga class led by our own Angie Stead.
☀️Flow in movement coordinated with your breath to relax the nervous system.
☀️Awaken your Smart Body to be ready for anything in your day
☀️Focus your mind to get all the things done to the best of your fabulous mind’s ability
Women's Curvy Yoga Beginner's Series
At Jillian‘s Healing Arts Center, we believe that yoga is for everybody! Everyone! No matter your body structure, flexibility, experience or even what you wear. Yoga is an ancient bodywork technique that allows you to come back into your beautiful curvy body and learn that you are magnificent and powerful.
Cyndi Allen, a certified curvy yoga instructor, is bringing her skills to you, teaching you how to modify, use props, blankets, And your own smart body’s curves to make yoga, accessible, comfortable, and perfect for your curves.
This 3 week series is for all women who are looking to try yoga, who have whispered the phrase, “I need to lose weight before I can try yoga”and “I’m not flexible enough.”😮 Because the truth is, you are flexible and your body shape has nothing to do with your abilities. During the training experience ways to touch your toes, twist, and create elegant shapes with Cyndi Allen’s guidance.
Cost is $99. Beginner’s 3 Week Curvy Yoga Series September 15, 22, and 29 at 2 PM.
Five Elements Qigong Series
Qigong is an ancient practice using breath, movement, and intention to facilitate the flow of energy through your body. In this Qigong series, learn how to harness the powers of the five elements to bring health and vitality to your body. The five elements of metal, water, wood, fire, and earth correlate to different organs and channels in the body. With specific exercises you clear stagnation, increase energy flow, and create optimal balance in mind, heart, and body. Five element qigong is a wonderful way to engage with the energies of nature and create health and harmony within yourself. No prior experience necessary.
The series will be on Sept. 5, 12, 19, 26 at 11:15am.
$74 for your investment into greater harmony and energy