Yoga & Beer W/ Ivy

Marz Community Brewing Company

3630 South Iron Street, 60609, Chicago, IL, United States

Ivy Colon

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Hello! My name is Ivy. It’s pronounced EE-Vee and my pronouns are she/her. I am 41 years old. While my parents were from Puerto Rico, my siblings and I were born and raised in Chicago.I began practicing yoga 7 years ago and immediately realized that if I had found this when I was younger I’d be a completely different person than I am today! I began to think of ways to become a member of this community and to incorporate more yoga into my life. As a person who has lived through trauma, as have so many others, I was able to see how yoga has the capacity to bring me back to my sense of myself and back into my own body. I realized I’d been going through life in a constant state of flight, fight, or freeze and I didn’t want to continue living like that.My plan is to bring yoga to children in the very neighborhoods where it is most needed. Clearly, we can all benefit from having yoga in our lives but, there are communities right here in our city where yoga is by no means even an option. My mission is to be able to offer this simple and ancient way of being as a tool for self-awareness to children who, through their everyday lives, have lost their senses of self and of being within their bodies. I had lived that way for many years, unaware of the harm that I was causing to myself and I want to help children regain and repair their wholeness.Professionally, I started at ground level, working at a yoga studio, getting deeper and deeper into my practice and moving into teacher training. In December, 2022, I received my RYS 200 HR yoga instructor certification. By January, 2024, I was teaching Vinyasa Flow Yoga.Teaching yoga has been a huge pleasure for me in that it enables me to help others. Yoga has empowered me, as an individual, to continue to follow my heart, to be more present in my everyday life. Along with therapy and meditation, yoga has allowed me to find that person I was told to suppress when I was a child and to correct what I was being told to believe about who I was and what was possible for me in my life. It was necessary that I hide my happiness, my sadness, my strengths, my fears, my creativity. I Hid Me.As yoga is a life-long practice, I am still a work in progress. But, I am now able to see who I am and have always been--kind, happy, loving, giving, loyal, and nurturing. A healer. I am a student, a teacher, aware of what brings me joy and allows my light to shine brightly. And this is what I want for you, for children, for all of us…to be able to make the world a little brighter each day through the practice of Yoga.