LOLA KENNEDY
Lola Kennedy is a belly dance instructor, certified yoga instructor, and healing arts practitioner, CRMP. Her intention is to marry all of these forms of expression: body awareness, body love, and reiki with her style of belly dance, yoga, and energy balancing.
Lola’s background is in musical theatre and she holds a degree in communication from LSSU. She dove into alternative movement practices with belly dance in 2007, later performing with the Zaghereets in Sault, Ontario. Lola trained under her instructor Katie Campbell to teach belly dance before attending American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City in the fall of 2011. She studied musical theatre and was able to hone her many skills. While there, she trained in tap, ballet, jazz, and theatre dance along with music theory, vocal performance, and acting. Lola returned to Michigan with more skills to add to her unique style of teaching.
In 2014, Lola began teaching at Northern Life Yoga and Jade Yoga in Sault, Ontario. These expanded to include many more studios throughout Northern Michigan and Sault, Ontario in 2017, including as a guest teacher for numerous retreats.
In 2016, Lola found reiki, an energy healing modality that targets bringing peace and balance on an emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual level through our chakras. A year after she became attuned in reiki, she began collaborating with practitioners in yoga and other modalities, taking private clients and offering sessions at retreats as well. Lola is currently pursuing her reiki teacher certification to facilitate classes and programs under the tutelage of Anne-Marie Caicco.
While teaching belly dance and diving deeply into reiki, Lola became a certified 200-hour yoga instructor through Be the Love Yoga YTT taught by Tiffany Lenau in Petoskey, MI. Lola started teaching yoga at Northern Life Yoga where she fell in love with leading gentle yoga classes and expanding into other forms of yogic practice.
Lola returns after taking a sabbatical after the sudden and painful loss of her mother, Sharon Kennedy. Sharon was a permanent fixture at Northern Life Yoga and attended as many of Lola’s offerings as possible. Lola would not be teaching any of these modalities if it had not been for her loving mother’s support and suggestion.
No matter what class you attend of Lola’s, her joyful, kind, intuitive, and approachable demeanor will help you feel comfortable, connected, and most of all relaxed. You’ll have a hard time not smiling through her classes and leaving lighter than when you entered.
