Gentle Dragon Yoga Boutique

Gentle Dragon Yoga Boutique WELCOME! After burning out of corporate America, I was fortunate to take a year off to heal and rebuild my life in a way that felt authentic and meaningful.
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170 S Main above Cypress Grille in downtown Boerne. 🥰

💚slow-flow yoga studio 💚 BTX 💚 early morn ☕️, eve 🌙 & wknd classes 💚✨strength-focused, joint-supportive✨💚 small studio, big vibes 🌈 I trained for certifications in yoga and trauma recovery coaching so I could support others on the healing path. In addition to working with a great therapist and establishing a consistent movement and breathwork practice for myself, a major piece of my own healing was uncovering the neurodivergent traits, vulnerabilities and gifts I’d buried under years of trauma and feelings of rejection. I was diagnosed with ADHD in 2017 and finally Autism (ASD 1) in 2021. These realizations changed my life for the better. I now understand that my deep empathy and ability to understand human emotions are the hard-won gifts of my unique traumas and neurodivergence. Understanding this about myself taught me self-compassion and has allowed me to retrieve missing pieces of my soul. If you relate to this, it would be an honor to support you. For those who might be seeking an adult Autism diagnosis, I can connect you with those resources. I don’t only work with Autistic and ADHD folx, however. If you don’t already know this, complex trauma (CPTSD) is a neurodivergence that shares many interesting crossovers with some common Autistic and ADHD traits. I’ve practiced yoga for nearly thirty years. I love nature, music, reading, animals, humanity, deep conversations, witnessing and supporting others in their time of need, and celebrating their moments of joy. I also enjoy sensory-friendly home interior design. I live in the Austin area with my loving partner and our two dogs. If you’d like to connect to see if we’re a good fit, just reach out. I can support you virtually or in person. I AM NOT A THERAPIST

Working with a therapist can be a critical step towards healing, giving us an understanding of our trauma and opportunities for relational attunement. My clients have typically worked with a therapist or have done deep inner work on their own and already understand the origins of their trauma. A therapist focuses on the past and present, helping clients understand and heal emotional trauma. As your emotional resilience coach, we'll focus on how you can optimize your life today by uncovering and understanding the role your emotions want to play in your life, and you'll carry that wisdom into your future. As a coach, I’m not qualified to analyze you or tell you what your feelings might mean. You have those answers inside of you. How I can be valuable is by using my empathic gifts, knowledge, experience and training to give you a safe, supported place to conduct your own inner discovery and build your own emotional resilience. Trauma isn’t just in your mind. If it was, our bodies would feel amazing as soon as we understood the origins of our physical and emotional pain, anxiety or numbness. Cognitive processing alone will not relieve the discomfort you feel in your body. As your coach, we’ll focus on the present and future, and I’ll help you identify goals and take action. As a yoga teacher, I incorporate movement and breathwork into my work for clients who want that,, and I find that combining my emotional resilience coaching with movement helps my clients embody and integrate what they’re learning about themselves both inside and outside of our sessions.

HYPERMOBILITY 🫸If you're a yoga teacher or a practicing yogi who enjoys a lot of movement and challenge in your physical...
09/04/2026

HYPERMOBILITY 🫸

If you're a yoga teacher or a practicing yogi who enjoys a lot of movement and challenge in your physical yoga practice, its deeply important to educate yourself on how the Hypermobile Body (bless it 🙏🥰🥹) compensates for a lack of elasticity (yes, even in a person who is super flexible) in potentially many bodily systems.

About 60% of practicing yogis are hypermobile.

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You might actually prefer a more physical, challenging style of yoga BECAUSE you are living somewhere on the hypermobility spectrum. Our joints LOVE to feel pressurized.

Hypermobile bodies constantly crave the good-good tension and pressure that the fascia isn't giving us. We can't get comfortable sitting still. We would rather just keep moving. We put our legs in weird positions. We might even love a weighted blanket. We might have been the kid in class who couldn't stop shifting and wiggling around in our hard seat.

Oh, and there's the pain and stiffness we've been told is in our heads. 🖕

Relate? 😮

Good places to start to educate yourself are:

1) Research how hypermobility can impact the cardiovascular and respiratory systems

2) take a deep dive into whats happening with the fascia, joints & ligaments (related but distinct from fascia) with hypermobilty, and how our muscles brilliantly compensate

3) learn what kinds of movements, rest & recovery support tools, modifications and props we should offer or use to support our own and/or our student's hypermobile bodies.

No, yoga teachers aren't doctors. No need to preach or diagnose your students. But we should teach through both the knowledge of our collective student body along with research and training if we are taking bodies through a sequence of complex movements.

Ask your students questions. Pay attention. Educate yourself. Do you see and hear signs of hypermobiltiy in them? Yes, hear. What kind of pain do they tell you about consistently? Listen. Watch. We aren't offering medical advice, but doing no harm is part of the practice as yoga teachers. We do have a responsiblity to teach our students in a way that offers safety. Its their choice whether they take the offer or not.

If you suspect you're hypermobile, you're probably right. You don't need a diagnosis to start learning.how to take care of your body's specific needs today.

We've shared a link to the great online program we just completed (and loved) in the comments that hits on those 3 areas above. Its not too expensive, and just a few hours of your time.

The yoga we teach at Gentle Dragon Yoga Boutique sits on a foundation of these principals because our founder and teacher is hypermobile. But beyond the embodied experience of practicing and teaching in a hypermobile body for many years - education and training are paramount. Not all bodies are the same.

However, EVERYONE BENEFITS from a yoga class that moves slowly, and focuses on joint support and muscle strength over dumping bodies into deep flexibility for extended periods (great for some folx, not great for hypermobile bods).

Aging bodies, bodies recovering from injury and those who have general body pain that remains a mystery (fibromyalgia, for ex) all benefit from a class intentionally crafted to strengthen and fortify the areas of our bodies that need it the most.

Follow Jules Mitchell Yoga, and browse live and online teacher trainings and educational content on her website. Its good stuff.

We linked her site in the comments ,along with the specific link to the course pictured here.

Stay strong. Do yoga.



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08/12/2026

Are you controlling your life, or creating it?

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BE STILL. CLOSE YOUR EYES. BREATHE.

With each breath in, pull your awareness deeper into your center, and away from the carousel of survival-based thoughts and impulses that swirl around your mind.

Breath by breath, liberate yourself from the belief that you and your thoughts are one.

Feel yourself sink into the medicinal void of pure awareness.

Burn away what isn't truly you, and allow pure energy...not anxiety, not fear, not adrenaline...to fuel your choices.

You're no longer forcing.

You're flowing. ✨

Stay open, and observe without judgement from the inside out.

Hold power and tension only where needed, and softness in your heart and mind.

Be still.

Close your eyes.

Breathe.

Do yoga.

Specifically, at Gentle Dragon Yoga Boutique in downtown Boerne. 😂

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Reserve a yoga mat now by visiting www.gentledragonyoga.com. Single classes are just $25 bucks.

Memberships never come with a contract and start at just $89.

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Semi-private yoga classes by candlelight.

All classes are 1 hour.

Mats are always provided.

Just bring water! 💦


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Monday & Tuesday:
7 am - Rise & Flow // 1 hr
9:15 am - Rise & Flow 2 // 1 hr
6:30 pm - Sunset Sequence // 1 hr

Wednesday:
7 am - Rise & Flow // 1 hr
4:00 pm - Afternoon Delight // 1 hr
7 pm - The Late Shift // 1 hr

Saturday:
12:15 pm - Power Brunch // 1 hr
2:15 pm - Weekend Warrior // 1 hr

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170 South Main Street, Suite #209
Boerne, TX
78006

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