chelsea aldrich
Meet our founder, Chelsea!
Chelsea Aldrich is a 500-hour experienced yoga teacher, registered prenatal yoga teacher, Buti Yoga Master Trainee, Ayurvedic Counselor, and studio owner. She tried yoga for the first time in 2009 and became committed to her practice in 2013 to heal herself from past traumas. She received her first 200-hour yoga teacher training certification with an emphasis in alignment-based and restorative yoga in 2016 and has since gone on to certify in aerial yoga (Born to Fly Aerial, 2016), Buti Yoga (Bizzie Gold, 2017), MFR Yoga (2019), Yin yoga (2018), and Ayurvedic counseling (Sevanti Institute, 2018). While gaining the knowledge to lead these formats, Chelsea was able to learn from the founders of Sanctuary for Yoga in Nashville where she completed an 85-hour prenatal yoga teacher training and a 300-hour advanced teaching certification. She feels that the journey of the teacher is nothing without remaining committed to the journey of the student, so you can count on watching her practice grow in many different directions for years to come.
Chelsea founded Shakti and Free Movement Medicine and Holistic Wellness in 2017. While building this business she led her classes out of her living room. She was fortunate enough to move Shakti to its own home in June 2018. She feels honored to hold such a special sacred space in beautiful Historic Downtown Cape Girardeau.
When Chelsea is not sharing her movement with others, she can be found spending quality time with her husband, Mark, and her daughter, Iley as well as their five furry family members. She enjoys spending her alone time in nature, creating, and/or reading.