MEEKER | You may know Lindsey Short from the time you visited the Orthopedic Clinic at Pioneers, or perhaps you have seen her on the sidelines of peewee, middle, or high school sports. In both arenas Lindsey works as a Certified Athletic Trainer, but wait! She is also a yoga instructor and does still more at her Namaste Beaches Studio, now located at 640 Main St., Meeker.
(Above) Namaste Beaches owner Lindsey Short, son Cash and Madison Kindler (right) practicing yoga. The new studio is located at 640 Main Street in Meeker. | ADRIENNE WIX PHOTO
Short has been an athletic trainer for nine years, she has practiced yoga for eight, and she has instructed yoga for three. Her journey into yoga started with an injury to her lower back. When she began practicing, she found asana yoga practices (the physical yoga practice) had significant evidence-based orthopedic roots. Already an athletic trainer focusing on musculoskeletal conditions, it was natural that yoga began to infiltrate her daily work and personal fitness regime.
With Short on the sidelines of our Meeker sports, many of our young people are beginning to also practice yoga through her instruction. This is wonderful, as balancing strength and flexibility is the best way to prevent injury, and learning how to do that early is a wonderful tool for anyone’s toolbox. While Short often puts rehabilitation flows together for patients and athletes, her style of yoga is preferably high intensity interval training, or HIIT, yoga. This means it is a very active practice that gets the blood flowing, muscles burning, and heart pumping. While many have the idea that yoga is strictly a spiritual, meditation, maybe even religious experience, Short is offering Meeker a yoga practice that doesn’t promote anything but physical wellness. That is not to say that anyone with a more spiritual approach or interest is not welcome at Namaste Beaches. Put simply, Lindsey wants everyone, no matter their inclinations, to feel comfortable and able to enjoy what an asana practice has to offer.
Short’s first class was held at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, April 8 with a great turn out of six people. The space at 640 Main St. is somewhat small, but would comfortably hold eight or maybe even 10 people. The remodels Short and her husband have done to the space have cleaned it up beautifully, creating an airy but cozy and accessible space. Besides classes, both Short and this writer offer private yoga sessions in this space. If you are interested in joining the community Short is building through Namaste Beaches, please find class and private session information by visiting thenamastebeaches.com.
By ADRIENNE WIX – Special to the Herald Times
