About Us
Quiet Mind was opened with the intention of offering people therapeutic, neuromuscular massage for pain and stress management in a professional, relaxing atmosphere.
The yoga studio is for people who are looking to transform their lives through increasing personal awareness in their bodies and minds, and reconnecting to spirit.
At Quiet Mind, you can discover how massage and yoga can have a powerful impact on your life and how they are an integral part of general well being.
Ginger Graf Dunaway is the owner of Quiet Mind Massage Therapy and Yoga Studio. She has been a Licensed and Nationally Certified Massage Therapist for the last 13 years. She received her certification in Professional Therapeutic Massage including Neuromuscular Therapy from the Mobile Institute of Soft Tissue Therapy in 1999 and has since been certified in Neurokinetic Therapy and Thai Yoga Bodywork.
Ginger has been practicing yoga privately since 2001 and became a certified Kripalu yoga instructor in 2006 after completing 200 hours of training at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She is a member of the Kripalu Yoga Teacher's Association.
Ginger shares her love for vinyasa "flow" yoga with a Kripalu-based approach to guide students toward a personal movement meditation practice. She adds yogic philosophy, modern-day psychoanalysis, and inspirational readings from a variety of spiritual practices to instill peace of mind and remind us of our spiritual connection to each other and the Divine.
Ginger also received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Alabama in 1998.
Heidi LeBlanc Pritchett has been a Licensed and Nationally Certified Massage Therapist for the last 11 years. Heidi received her certification in Therapeutic Massage in 2000 from Cumberland Institute of Holistic Therapies in Brentwood, Tennessee.
At Cumberland Heidi discovered that through Massage Therapy she could bring comfort and relief from stress and tension of daily life for those in need.
Heidi has also been certified in Thai Yoga Bodywork, Pre-Natal Massage, La Stone Therapy, and Neuromuscular Therapy. She has had the pleasure of working in settings such as a "Muscular and Wellness" Center, a Physical Therapy office, and with a Sports Team.
Ethan London Crowell has been a Licensed Massage Therapist for two years. He started his practice at Massage Envy Inc. in Baton Rouge where he was the lead Deep Tissue Therapist. He studied at Medical Training College in Neuromuscular, Reflexology, Sports, Swedish massage and Spa Treatments. His studies also included introductions to Shiatsu and Myofascial Release (Connective Tissue). Ethan believes that Therapeutic Massage is one of the keys to balancing your everyday life with energetic well-being.
Before becoming an LMT, Ethan worked for Volunteer Mobile Inc. as the AmeriCorps Emergency Response Teams Unit Leader and as a Peace Activist for Veterans for Peace. Ethan believes in the connection between all of us being one with everything and always giving back and receiving when in need!
Michelle Brown
is a Licensed Massage Therapist in Alabama and Louisiana. She has training in CranioSacral Therapy, Psychoneuroimmunology and Myofascial Release. Michelle is also a member of an international company that provides therapeutic massage to bands on tour.
Before massage therapy Michelle was an Art Instructor and still continues to work on commission. Michelle's goal is to provide the highest quality of therapeutic massage in keeping with professional standards and careful attention to individual client needs.
Tracey Winter Glover is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance USA. She has been practicing yoga since 2004 and obtained her 200 hour yoga and meditation teaching certification in Rishikesh, India during the summer of 2010. Tracey tries to incorporate the eight-limbs of yoga into her practice, including asanas, meditation, and ethics into her classes.
Tracey also earned a bachelor’s degree in history and political philosophy in 1998 from the University of Michigan, and went on to obtain her juris doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 2002.
Rita Durant is a Registered Yoga Teacher with 200 hours of training from Bhakti Healing of Sarasota and a Ph.D. in Organizational Studies from the University of Alabama. Rita has studied yoga for more than 50 years. She combines her love of teaching, fondness for graceful dance, and respect for natural healing to create an atmosphere of unconditional positive regard for where we find ourselves today. Be ready to smile!
Quiet Mind’s name came from several of Patanjali’s yoga sutras which are translated as:
"Yoga is the stilling of the thought waves of the mind." and
"Then consciousness takes on its true nature."
So when we quiet the mind, our true nature is revealed.
Patanjali studied and practiced yoga in great depth and wrote these sutras, or statements, on yoga anywhere from 600 B.C. to 300 C.E.
Yogis thousands of years ago studied the art of trying to quiet the mind. They did this first through seated meditation and later through movement meditation as well.
Through quieting the mind they experienced complete oneness.
Contact Us
Quiet Mind Massage Therapy & Yoga Studio, LLC
(251) 476-MIND (6463)
Call to schedule an appointment. If you call during normal business hours and get the answering machine, please leave a message and we will get back with you within the hour.
You can email us with any questions: yoga@quietmindmassagetherapy.com
Located in Midtown Mobile/Old Shell & Upham
2065 Old Shell Road, Suite B
Mobile, AL 36607
www.quietmindmassagetherapy.com
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