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Om Grown's Story
Welcome to Om Grown Yoga and Wellness Collective! We are so thrilled you are here. Come on in. Take off your shoes, relax your shoulders and take an easy breath. Can we get you a cup of locally grown and blended herbal tea? We are Lora Rimmer and Sandy Chapman, Our vision is for OmGrown to feel like home...your home to recharge, renew and settle into yourself. Your space to explore, move, relax and connect with yourself and others. We are committed to honoring our roots of Bhakti yoga and keeping yoga accessible to all. There are no pre-requisites ...simply come as you are. Let the practices and our offerings greet you and support you as you are.
We started the collective in 2018 with the simple desire to make our community a better place with movement, mindfulness and breath. We choose the name “OmGrown” as a play on words to indicate that our teachers are “home grown” - from the Baldwin area and trained by local renowned Bhakti yogi, Gopi Sandal.
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The Om Grown studio was brought to life by Sandy Chapman and Lora Rimmer. Sandy and Lora are both certified yoga instructors and offer yoga classes weekly.
Sandy sought yoga as a way to counterbalance the stress of a corporate job and quickly discovered what felt like the missing pieces of life's puzzle. After many years of studying under Gopi Sandal, Sandy completed the Yoga with Heart 500 hour teacher training. She enjoys exploring the many different paths of yoga and has pursued studies in Ayurveda, the sister science of yoga, with Maya Tiwari, BalaRam Chandra Das, and Cate Stillman; is a certified EnergyMedicine Yoga Instructor with Lauren Walker; and a Reiki Level 2 Healer. The practices of Yoga and Ayurveda have provided a framework to mediate the polarities of modern day and be a collaborator with life.
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Lora is a registered teacher with Yoga Alliance who has been living and teaching health and wellness for over 30 years. She began practicing yoga regularly in 2011 as a way to find physical, mental and emotional balance in her life as a mother, wife and career soldier. She completed her first 200-hr yoga teacher training in 2015 and began teaching classes in Baldwin City, Kansas in 2016. Lora completed an additional 500 hours of teacher training in September 2018 with Gopi Sandal and her Yoga with Heart program (rooted in the Bhakti Yoga tradition) in Lawrence, Kansas. Lora's yoga education and training includes a wide variety of asana practices (Astanga, Hatha, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Yoga for Athletes and Yin) as well as practices in mindfulness techniques and breathing practices. Lora retired from the US Army in January 2016 and, through yoga, continues to serve others. “So many of us struggle to find balance in our lives. Between work, family and the never-ending stimulus of technology, we find it increasingly difficult to unplug and recharge ourselves. The process of yoga, which includes asana (poses), philosophy and pranayama (breath) gives us a way to find that balance we so desperately need.”