Cassandra (Cassie) Aitken, Director
Yoga Lifestyle Coach & Private Lesson Coordinator
ERYT 500

“Function before form.
Form before depth.
Breath before everything
and Everything to your own degree.”

With 2 decades experience, I can really relate to and support the needs and abilities of a broad age range of students and I deeply enjoy helping people to meet themselves on the mat, at whatever stage they find themselves in life’s journey.

My classes are simple, focused on listening to your body & honoring yourself, combined with an awareness of breath and a strong physical element-- all things to your own degree! My goal is to get you out of your head and into a place of feeling. My classes are about working hard -sensitively, safely- about feeling good and finding the stuff that matters, and about taking care. The focus includes strength, balance, flexibility but most of all the practice is about cultivating a calm and peaceful mind. The focus is health.

I hope my students connect to something deep but I also want them to have the time of their lives on that mat. I want people to dissolve boundaries, exceed expectations and become happier, healthier human beings, lead by the way they feel instead of the way they think.

I am forever grateful for the opportunity to serve the community by sharing in the healing practice of yoga and the sheer magic of the hot yoga series. As a teacher, I know I will forever remain a student. I plan to teach and practice yoga for the rest of my life and I thank all of the students, past, present and future, for inspiring me daily.

“Cassie is one of those rare people you meet with whom you feel an almost instant heart connection. There is a glint in her eyes that tells of an inner-wellspring of joy and a hint of girlish cheekiness. Her presence is one of yogic lightness developed through over twenty years of regular yoga practice.”

Cassie is the founder of of Global Yoga and Yoga Brain, and founded and directed Hot Yoga Nashville for 8 years prior to relocating to Jupiter.

By drawing on her own diverse Yoga and Ayurveda education, ranging from Vinyasa to Hot/ Power to Anusura to Ashtanga, Cassie creates classes that are informative, engaging, friendly and alive with enthusiasm. Cassie has participated in a multitude of global intensives and advanced trainings with dozens of modern masters including: Erich Schiffmann, Baron Baptiste, Bikram Choudhury, Annie Carpenter, Sean Corn, David Life, Sharon Gannon, Max Strom, and Rolf Gates. Still, Cassie believes the Hot 26 series is the ultimate lifetime yoga practice and she plans to teach and practice yoga for the rest of her life.

Seeking to regain my overall health, I discovered Hot Yoga in 2008. Being seventy - five pounds overweight, my first class was most challenging. After class, I had the most euphoric feeling. It was better than running….. It was better than going to the gym. It even felt better than my passion for dancing and cheerleading. In 2010, I began teacher training with my mentor/teacher/guru, Cassie Aitken and became a Yoga Alliance RYT-200. I love teaching because I believe whole-heartedly in the power of this series to heal the body, mind, and soul from the inside out. That has been my truth and personal experience.

During class, students are encouraged to start where they are, today. Students are provided a safe space to practice with exploration, instead of expectation or judgement. They are challenged to take the postures seriously and practice safely, but take themselves lightly. It is my intent to  create the same experience for the Jupiter Yoga community. When you become a student at Hot Yoga Jupiter, expect to practice in a safe space and just BE. I am most thankful for the opportunity to teach and spread the gift of yoga in a new place and possibly, my second home.

Juawana, a Yoga Alliance E-RYT 200, is the Director of Teacher Development and Senior Teacher at Fahrenheit Yoga Studio in Brentwood, TN. She teaches the Hot 26 Series, Power Yoga, Yin Yoga and Resorative Workshops.

Juawana Patton aka J. Nichol
HYJNichol@gmail.com

Teaching and practicing the Hot 26 Series has ignited a bright and eternal flame inside of me.  Because of my personal experience, I believe whole-heartedly in the power of this series to heal the body, mind, and spirit from the inside out.  

Yoga Alliance Certified Hot Yoga Instructor

Hot 26 Instruction Specialty
New Student Advisor
RYT 200, Apprentice RYT 500