A mindful mission

Rosie and Killian Volcano
Photo of Rosie and Killian Volcano courtesy of the Little Volcano

Owned by couple Rosie and Killian Volcano, The Little Volcano: Yoga, Mischief & Magic’s mission is to heal and empower from the inside out.

“The ‘mischief’ [cited in our company name] comes in chiefly with the costumes and fantasy themes and also with our jokes and wild personalities,” Rosie explains. “The ‘magic’ is our love of all things witchy.”

“We like to make people feel comfortable and [not] intimidated,” Rosie continues, “but we also like to shake people up and get them out of their comfort zones. We like to make people roar, growl, become a super hero, wake up their sex lives and break out of habitual patterns that keep them from growth.”

The Little Volcano’s classes, Rosie says, can invoke joy, relaxation, anger, rage, fear, panic, anxiety, love and nostalgia. “We trap emotions in our muscle tissue, and through Forrest yoga, we start to release these things. This is an intense and unexpected feeling for most people, so we like to be as unpretentious as possible to make people feel comfortable enough to access this level of healing.”

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About Kat McReynolds
Kat studied entrepreneurship and music business at the University of Miami and earned her MBA at Appalachian State University. Follow me @katmAVL

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