{"id":200,"date":"2022-08-01T13:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thespiralyogastudio.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:24:31","slug":"anna-bigelow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespiralyogastudio.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/01\/anna-bigelow\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Bigelow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anna did not understand the value of yoga till later on in life.&nbsp; As a young girl she was always competing, whether in track, dance, or cheerleading.&nbsp; She loved pushing her body to its limits but never took the time to nurture it.&nbsp; She would participate in yoga classes but only as a way to help increase her flexibility.&nbsp; Life slowly began to draw her more and more to her mat and in a world full of noise and busyness she found peace and surrender, a place to be vulnerable and humble.&nbsp; \u201cI love how every experience on my mat is different, sometimes I feel powerful and strong, other moments I&#8217;m falling apart and crying.\u201d&nbsp; Yoga slowly became a way of life, a way to deal with anxiety and loss, a refuge.&nbsp; Anna has a bachelors in Psychology from Appalachian State University and PTA program graduate from GTCC.&nbsp; She is a 200 hour RYT yoga instructor and a licensed physical therapist assistant who currently works at Murphy Wainer Orthopedics.&nbsp; Anna uses her knowledge with anatomy, bodily ailments and physical impairments to help create yoga classes that challenge and benefit the body.&nbsp; When she is not working or teaching yoga you can find her running outside, at sporting events with kids or spending time in the great outdoors.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anna is also available for one on one sessions, check out the one on one sessions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong>Life<\/strong> is no <strong>brief candle<\/strong> to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I <strong>have got a hold<\/strong> of for the moment, <strong>and<\/strong> I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.\u201d-George Bernard Shaw.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna did not understand the value of yoga till later on in life.&nbsp; As a young girl she was always competing, whether in track, dance, or cheerleading.&nbsp; She loved pushing her body to its limits but never took the time to nurture it.&nbsp; She would participate in yoga classes but only as a way to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespiralyogastudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespiralyogastudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespiralyogastudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespiralyogastudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespiralyogastudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thespiralyogastudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/thespiralyogastudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespiralyogastudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespiralyogastudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespiralyogastudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespiralyogastudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}