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Louisville Magazine nominated Infinite Bliss for 'Best Yoga Classes' for 2006.

Infinite Bliss was featured in Velocity. See below for an excerpt.

Excerpt from Velocity article, May 2006

Yoga Party

By Javacia N. Harris

With feet and hands firmly planted on their mats and their bottoms in the air, the students assume the position for "downward facing dog." Though this is a common yoga pose, when students practice other moves something seems different about this class; instead of pushing them to go deeper, instructor Allison Terracio tells them to back off and build their strength in a gentler pose.

And when the students at Infinite Bliss yoga studio in the Highlands practice handstands against the wall, they suddenly look like kids on a playground.
"Some people think yoga should be hard," Terracio said. But she thinks it should be fun.

The days of yoga being reserved for tree-hugging vegetarians are long gone. Yoga is found not only in studios that smell of incense and candles, but also in gyms that smell of sweat. Some churches and community centers even offer it now.

From the tortured soul looking for a connection to the divine to the pregnant woman who just wants one day without lower back pain, there seems to be a yoga style out there for everyone, many of which can be found in Louisville.
"There are so many studios, there are so many styles, there are so many teachers, that I would say even if your first yoga experience isn't that great, go around and try it again," Terracio said.

Teresa Phelps, who also instructs at Infinite Bliss, teaches a style called restorative yoga. "Restorative yoga is a very gentle approach to yoga," Phelps said. "You're supported by props like bolsters and blankets and straps and blocks. The body is supported in a pose without having to engage the muscles so that then the nervous system can relax and the body can start to slow down (and) start to heal itself."

Terracio specializes in Anusara, a wildly popular style that was created in America in 1997 by an Ohio man named John Friend. Anusara, which in Sanskrit means "flowing with grace," is based on a set of principles rooted in biomechanics and a desire to align with the divine. With more than 1,200 teachers and 100,000 students worldwide, Anusara is one of the fastest-growing yoga styles.
Terracio, who has been studying yoga for about four years and teaching for a year, believes Anusara is so popular because it just makes people feel good.
"It's sort of the yoga of optimists and it's just a lot of fun," she said.
Even the spiritual philosophy behind Anusara is one that can make your day. Anusara stresses celebrating the body — not trying to escape it — and sees everything and everyone as divine. "The idea of playfulness," Terracio said, "is just that the idea of that the divine presence has become you just for the fun of it all."