
FREMONT − Giving start twice within the area of 1 12 months remodeled Samantha Pollick from an energetic younger lady to a struggling mother with plenty of ache and discomfort.
“I had ladies in back-to-back years. They’re one 12 months and two days aside, and it killed my physique,” Pollick stated. “I used to be a complete wreck.”
Pollick turned to a wide range of train packages in an effort to realign her well being, however nothing helped. Then she found yoga.
“I attempted different issues and wasn’t getting what I wished from them,” she stated. “A buddy instructed I attempt yoga, and I simply acquired hooked the primary day. I consider it was all in regards to the expertise − the academics, the music she was taking part in, simply the general expertise.”
Yoga gave Pollick extra than simply bodily advantages
Though Pollick started training yoga for the bodily advantages, she found many extra.
“The observe, over time, grew to become a lot greater than that. It grew to become an emotional launch, connectivity, group and physique consciousness, and it cleared a path for a wholesome psychological state,” she stated.
Pollick skilled as a yoga teacher and taught yoga within the Mansfield and Dayton areas for 5 years. All that point, she dreamed of beginning her personal yoga studio. She fulfilled that dream when she opened The Yoga Haven on Jan. 3.
“Once I moved again to Fremont, I observed there weren’t any yoga studios within the space. I instructed my husband, ‘Now’s the time,’” she stated.
Pollick’s fundamental focus as she developed her enterprise was making a studio the place folks may really feel snug no matter physique form, mobility and yoga expertise.
Yoga Havens is a judgment-free area
“I wished to have a judgment-free area the place folks will be themselves,” she stated. “What I’m bringing to the group is an area the place I don’t care if you happen to can transfer your physique, you’ll be able to contact your toes or you’ll be able to put on a crop high. Yoga isn’t Instagram. I wish to fight that message.”

Earlier than instructing yoga, Pollick labored as a licensed social employee and an authorized trauma specialist.
When somebody walks in her door feeling intimated by yoga or their lack of ability to maneuver their physique simply, Pollick greets them with a particular stage of compassion and expertise and exhibits them how yoga can profit their particular person circumstances.
“Yoga is actually accessible to everybody. There’s a modification for each single piece of yoga,” she stated.
The Yoga Haven affords lessons for all ranges which are taught by Pollick and her different instructors, Corrine Turner and Pamella Weller.
“We’ve got lessons from ‘I’ve by no means carried out yoga earlier than,’ to ‘I’ve a each day observe,’” Pollick stated.
The studio hosts particular occasions, together with a Galentine’s Day Yoga on Feb. 10 at 6:30 p.m.
“You’ll be able to convey a buddy, and we’ll have drinks and treats, and you’ll join with different ladies,” Pollick stated.
Within the spring, Pollick will host a Mom’s Day occasion, and this summer season, she hopes to collaborate with a neighborhood group to supply out of doors yoga.
“I’ve one million concepts,” she stated. “It’s simply been one step at a time.”
The Yoga Haven is at 1442 E. State St. For extra data, name 419-680-8347 or go to www.theyogahavenfremont.com.
Contact correspondent Sheri Trusty at sheritrusty4@gmail.com.