Upcoming Events
Midwinter Hafla✨: Warmth, Movement, and Community
Shake off the winter blues and step into an evening of movement, music and connection. Our Midwinter Hafla is a joyful community gathering inviting belly dancers from across the region to share their latest choreographies, creative explorations and shining talents.
As the cold settles in, this gathering offers warmth through laughter, rhythm and shared celebration. The hafla creates a supportive, welcoming space where dancers feel encouraged to express themselves, be seen and enjoy the magic of performing in community — whether it’s a first-time performance or a seasoned piece.
This is an open, community-centered evening. Friends, family, dance lovers and curious newcomers are all welcome. Bring a favorite snack or drink to share, settle in and enjoy an evening filled with artistry, joy and connection.
✨ **Date:** Saturday, January 31
✨**Time:** doors open at 6:00 PM dancing begins at 6:30 PM
✨ **Admission:** $5 at the door
✨**Any dancer wishing to perform email jillian@jillianshac.com
✨ **Open to the community**
✨ **Potluck-style food and drinks welcome**
Let’s gather in the heart of winter to uplift the spirit, celebrate creativity and remind one another that joy grows brighter when shared. 🌸💃
Love at First Purr: Valentine Kitten Yin Yoga
Skip the roses and chocolates this year and fall head-over-heels for the softest Valentine of all. 💕🐾
**Love at First Purr: Valentine Kitten Yin Yoga** is a heart-melting Yin yoga experience filled with gentle poses, deep relaxation, and playful kittens wandering through the room offering purrs, cuddles and instant joy.
This special Valentine-themed class invites you to treat yourself to connection, comfort, and a little kitten therapy. Snuggle, stretch, breathe, and maybe even meet your furry soulmate. All kittens and cats are available for adoption and every registration supports the fostering and care of kittens through **Rad Cat Inc.**, a trap/neuter/release mission doing important work in our community.
The class is led by Michele Steves, certified Yin Yoga instructor and official kitten foster mom, and designed to help your nervous system soften while your heart expands.
✨ Details
• Friday, February 13
• 6:30 PM
• $33 per person
• Yin Yoga with kittens
• Proceeds support Rad Cat Inc.
Come solo, bring a friend or show up open-hearted and curious. This Valentine’s celebration features fur, purrs and the kind of love that curls up right on your mat. 💘
Spots are limited and go fast.
Level One Reiki: Reiki for Self-Care
How do you feel after a long day of client care?
A lot of times it is stressful seeing client after client…hearing their stories, helping their bodies to relax and treating injuries. The stress bogs down your mind and nervous system, keeping you from feeling your very best and offering your highest quality of service.
But, with Reiki, it is easy to turn your energy around and feel light and vibrant ready for the next busy day.
Reiki is a gentle energy work technique that brings in light, love and health. It turns a stressful, busy day that feels heavy and overcast within your mind’s eye to a day of lighthearted fun, love, gratitude and joy.
As a holistic healer, Reiki is my secret ingredient when offering massage, yoga, dance and holistic health consultations. It allows me to destress and untangle tension out of my nervous system, ground into the moment, and then, only when I am recharged, connect and be more present with my clients.
Reiki is a technique that all massage therapists, counselors, healers and/or career-driven individuals should have so they are better equipped to take care of themselves first. And then have the energy, stamina, and intuition to better serve their clients, family and friends.
I want you to be able to destress and feel balance in your mind, body and soul to feel joyful and energized as you work in your field. Being a blind business owner, mother and wife who uses Reiki to release tension and to help me through rollercoaster emotions, I have been where you are. I know that Reiki is perfect to regenerate you, like it does me, so you continue to make the world a better place.
That is why I am thrilled to offer a 2 day training for you to learn Level 1 Reiki (Reiki For Self Care)
April 25 and 26th
Level 1 Reiki training, focuses on self-care and self healing. It is difficult to help others when your own body and energy are depleted without a way to recharge. Reiki is a beautiful energy work technique that brings a balance to your own energy system, offering health, abundance, healing, so you show up each day feeling energized and rejuvenated. In this way, you truly have the ability to help others without feeling depleted or stressed.
During the training learn:
🌸Reiki grounding techniques to root you into the present moment of love and joy, untangling stress.
🌸Traditional Reiki hand placements giving you the ability to share this beautiful energy work technique with family, friends and clients.
🌸Self-healing meditations allowing you to release old memories of injuries and events that are keeping you from moving forward in life as the bright, blossoming flower you are.
🌸Reiki shielding allowing you to protect your energy from needy family members or clients, giving you more power and creating boundaries.
🌸Intuitive Reiki Scanning to enhance your wisdom and confidence in using and following Reiki’s guidance.
🌸The history of Reiki told through the Usui story, allowing you to understand that you are a part of a history of healers, who are helping the world to be a better place.
🌸Participate in 4 Reiki attunements that prepare your hands and heart for the giving and receiving of Reiki.
This training is for you who find yourself needing extra to help you unwind and destress. For you who have been experiencing symptoms within your Smart Body which are keeping you from offering your best techniques and practices to clients. For you who are a massage therapist or counselor, who finds yourself depleted and wrapped up in your client’s stresses, unable to recharge your own mind, body and soul.
Level 1 Reiki Training: Reiki for Self-Care is relaxing but also jam-packed with information in which you feel like you have been on a weekend retreat. Students in the past have left the training feeling inspired, informed, encouraged and confident in their skills as a Reiki Practitioner.
Level One Reiki Training: Reiki for Self-Care offers 12 CE hours on
April 25 and 26th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Each day includes a lunch break.
The investment to enhance your health, destress and allow yourself to bloom into a bright soul is $360.
This course is approved by the NCBTMB for 12 CE hours.
And for any questions email jillian@jillianshac.com
🎄 Christmas Eve Cookie Burn! 🎄
Let’s face it—after all those holiday treats, it’s time to give back a little love to your Smart Body! 🍪✨
Join us for the Christmas Eve Cookie Burn, a fun, high-energy yoga class to shake off any extra holiday energy, boost your mood and get you jazzed up for the festivities ahead!
Led by the lively and inspiring Chamar, this class is all about moving, grooving and letting go of anything that’s keeping you from fully enjoying the holiday season. This is yoga with a joyful twist—expect laughter, upbeat flows and just the right amount of challenge to get you feeling fantastic.
What to Expect:
🌟 High-Energy Yoga – keep moving and smiling as you burn off some holiday “cheer” and boost your mood for all the holiday fun ahead!
🌟 Props & Modifications – No worries if you’re new or easing into a yoga workout; there are plenty of props and modifications to keep it light and accessible for all levels.
🌟 Joyful Vibes – Think of this as your pre-party! Get energized, release any holiday stress and leave with a big grin, feeling ready for all the festivities.
Join our festive offering of the Christmas Eve Cookie Burn
Held on December 24th at 10 AM.
Your investment into energizing your smart body is $17.
All are welcome. No previous experience necessary.
Go here to save your yoga mat.
This class is for you who needs a little something different before being around a lot of family members. For you who want to eat a little extra gingerbread and feel OK doing so. For you who would love to untangle holiday panic through moving your Smart Body.
Grab your yoga mat and a sense of humor and join us for the Cookie Burn! Let’s shake it out, laugh it up and get in the holiday spirit—together!
Sign up now and start your Christmas Eve with fun, energy, and a little holiday “detox”! 🎅🎉
🦃 **Turkey Burn: Post-Feast Flow Fun!**
After the turkey, pies, cranberry sauce, and one too many rounds of “just one more slice,” it’s time for a joyful reset. Turkey Burn brings a high-energy flow designed to wake everything back up after hours of lounging, laughing and maybe a little too much football.
Chamar guides this upbeat class with warmth, excitement and the kind of friendly encouragement that makes every stretch feel like a celebration. Expect quick movement, strength-building sequences, playful challenges and plenty of feel-good moments that help your Smart Body bounce back with a big, blooming smile.
Picture a room full of energy, community and people shaking off the holiday slump together. Laughter floats through the air, breath rises and falls like a happy rhythm and the whole space lifts into a brighter, lighter vibe.
A perfect morning to gather, move, sweat a little and spark joy from head to toe.
**Details:**
• **Date:** Friday, November 28
• **Time:** 10:00 AM
• **Teacher:** Chamar
• **Price:** $17
Get ready to flow, stretch, shake and celebrate feeling alive after the feast. Turkey Burn brings the fun!
Reiki 2 Therapists Hands On Training
Grow in confidence, skill, and energetic presence.
Feeling like you’re ready for more in your Reiki practice?
After offering Reiki to yourself and maybe even loved ones or clients, you might notice your hands tuning in more… your body sensing subtle shifts… your curiosity growing. You’re ready to go deeper—to expand your intuition, to offer even more healing support, and to feel empowered in your touch.
Level 2 Reiki is the next natural step. It strengthens your energetic awareness and gives you the tools to help release stuck emotions and support your clients in profound ways. With traditional Reiki symbols, chakra energy techniques, and hands-on practice, this training is a beautiful blend of intuition and structure, spirit and skill.
Together in this relaxing, retreat-like environment, explore:
• The chakra energy system and how to support each chakra with Reiki
• Reiki symbols and how they strengthen intention, flow, and focus
• How unresolved emotions show up in the body as fatigue, pain, or stress
• Techniques to release those energetic blocks through touch, intention, and energy
• Ways to integrate Reiki into massage therapy using Traditional Reiki hand placements and Intuitive Reiki Scanning.
• Three Reiki attunements to enhance intuition, clarity, and energetic connection
• Time to move your smart body, meditate, and truly receive
This training is 20% lecture and 80% hands-on practice, making it a deeply embodied experience that builds confidence while supporting your own energetic renewal.
Join Level 2 Reiki Therapist Hands-On Training
Dates: November 22 & 23
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM each day (with a one-hour lunch break)
Location: Jillian’s Healing Arts Center, Soddy-Daisy, TN
CE Hours: 10 NCBTMB-approved hours
Investment: $300
Prerequisite: Level 1 Reiki Training (Reiki for Self-Care)
This training is for you—the practitioner who’s ready to deepen your practice and continue helping the world become a more joyful, balanced place.
For you who are seeking a more intuitive massage therapy practice, one that supports your clients on every level—body, mind, and soul.
Past participants have shared how relaxed and rejuvenated they felt after this training—while also feeling mentally energized and confident in their skills. They leave with hands ready to practice, hearts full of clarity, and a deeper trust in their intuition as Reiki therapists.
What to bring:
• Snacks and plenty of water
• A lunch (or money to grab something nearby)
• A notebook or journal
• Your beautiful, curious mind
Let your practice bloom—go here to save your spot!
For questions, email Jillian at: jillian@jillianshac.com
Puppy Yoga: stretch, laugh, and let your heart bloom. 🌸🐾
Joy, laughter, and puppy love take center stage in this heartwarming yoga experience! Join us Friday, November 14 at 6:30 PM for an evening that melts stress and lifts spirits. Angie, known for her friendly, encouraging energy—guides a gentle, welcoming class designed for all body types and levels of mobility.
7 adorable pups from **Bond Girl Goldens** roam the room, bestowing tail-wagging happiness as you stretch, breathe, and smile your way through poses. Each puppy adds a touch of delight to your practice, reminding everyone that joy blossoms through play and connection.
One of these sweet puppies is donated to a veterans group, so every giggle and cuddle supports a beautiful cause.
Gather your friends, share some laughter, and let your heart bloom with pure puppy-powered bliss.
✨ **Friday, November 14 at 6:30 PM**
✨ **$33 per person**
Participants must be five years and older.
Spots are limited.
✨ **At Jillian’s Healing Arts Center — where happiness blooms**
For questions email jillian@jillianshac.com
We are looking forward to seeing you and meeting all the cute little fuzz buckets. 🌸🐾🩷🌸🐾🩷
Open House and Belly Dance Showcase
Even as the temperature starts to cool down, leaves change colors and pumpkin spice is everywhere, Jillian likes for it to stay bright, sunny and full of fresh spring energy here at Jillian‘s Healing Arts Center. We are the place you come when you need a pick me up, a rejuvenation of mind, body and spirit, and all the fun and laughter.
To celebrate the change of season in a fresh way, Jillian is hosting an Open House and Belly Dance Showcase for all of the community.
Join Jillian and her amazing team of healers, teachers, dancers, practitioners, on Saturday, September 27 from 11:00 am to 1:30 for the open house where you experience:
🌸Complementary massage from our fabulous licensed massage therapist Jo Moyes.
🌸Meet and greet with our new Acupuncturist Christanne Spell. Get all the tips on how acupuncture is great for anything and everything for your Smart Body.
🌸Participate in an organic clean-crafted wine tasting with Jillian.
🌸Talk with the fabulous Michele about Yin yoga and get signed up for classes.
🌸Meet other yoga instructors like Brooke and Chamar and ask all your questions about how yoga is for absolutely everybody and every body.
Then at 2:00 PM, the Belly Dance Showcase begins.
This showcase features, teachers and students from Jillian‘s Healing Arts Center plus other dancers and troupes from all over the Chattanooga area. It’s a great way to see talented artists showing off their amazing craft.
**Please note if you are a dancer and would like to have a spot in the showcase please email Jillian at jillian@jillianshac.com to get added to the set list. We are accepting all talents!!
As usual, our Open House and Belly Dance Showcase will not disappoint. Come have fun, laughter, dance, snacks, opportunities for you to win prizes and much more.
The cost to you for this happy event....NOTHING...well maybe your time. 💗
Go here to register and save your spot: https://jhac.as.me/openhouse
Kitten Yin Yoga
Kitten yoga’ is back! Michele Steves leads us through a gentle Yin class while fuzzy fur babies jump, play, and nibble on your toes. Get to play with the little kittens while restoring your Smart Body. Each kitten needs a new home, so gather your friends and family to come support the little fur balls.
Cost to you is $33 to meet some sweet kittens, laugh and get rid of the stress of the week on a Friday night.
Proceeds go to Rad Cat TNR in the fostering of many kittens.
Go here to save your spot for kitten fun: https://jhac.as.me/kittenyoga
Oily Friends Gathering
Join us for the first ever Oily Fiends Gathering on July 19. This meeting’s focus is on essential oils for muscular and skeletal health and well-being. Bring all your questions about essential oils.During this class, create your own personalized rolly ball of essential oils to help your muscles and joints feel amazing for the rest of the summer months.
Investment to you:
$17
one hour
Join us to enjoy an informative and fun session of essential oil learning with lots of camaraderie! Space is limited, so sign up soon!