Still Moving Yoga

Specialties

Still Moving Yoga offers yoga and dance classes and workshops in sunlit studio surrounded by gardens. With small class sizes, heartfelt instruction and years of Anusara, Iyengar and Sivananda Yoga training founders Jim & Lynea Gillen support your individual needs. Jim also provides therapeutic yoga workshops and private instruction to help recover and to prevent injuries. Lynea’s experience in teaching yoga as a school teacher and counselor has spawned their exciting new program, Yoga Calm for Children. Check www​.yoga​calm​.org for upcoming school teacher & counselor trainings.

History

Established in 1998.

Still Moving Yoga’s Director, Jim Gillen has been practicing yoga for nearly 40 years. He started in his teens when he first started using yoga as part of his martial arts training, later in his 20’s he discovered the many therapeutic benefits of yoga while recovering from both workplace (repetitive movement) and sports-​related injuries. In 1997, together with his wife, Lynea, they started teaching and built their neighborhood studio, Still Moving Yoga.

Having taught over 5,000 yoga classes to diverse ages and abilities «YogaJim» has a very practical and safe approach to teaching yoga. Lynea also brings nearly 40 years of yoga experience, as well as dance and music training to her teaching. And while Jim and Lynea have studied the more esoteric aspects of yoga, they bring a clear, down-​to-​earth and fun teaching approach to their classes.

Meet the Manager

Jim G.

Manager

Jim brings a keen sense of humor, a warm supportive voice and 40 years of yoga, sports and teaching experience to his yoga classes. He is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-​500), a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, and an ACE Group Fitness Instructor. His training is from the internationally-​recognized Iyengar, Sivananda and Anusara yoga schools. He founded Still Moving Yoga in Southwest Portland (www​.still​mov​ingyoga​.com) in 1997, produced Yoga Renewal and Heart of the Teacher an instructional CD/​DVDs and co-​authored the award-​winning book, Yoga Calm for Children.