ORA Center
Presence ~ Care ~ Growth
Presence
Movement, breath, and somatic practice that help you return to yourself. Yoga classes support grounding, resilience, and a deeper sense of inner steadiness.
Care
Integrative Massage Therapy meets your system with clarity and attunement. Release tension, unwind long‑held patterns, and support your nervous system with hands‑on care.
Growth
Somatic Coaching and embodied education help you shift patterns, build capacity, and step into what’s next. This is where deeper transformation unfolds.
Your path is personal
Whether through group classes, somatic coaching, event series, or integrative massage therapy, your journey unfolds in the timing your body chooses.
The ORA approach
We blend somatic practice, integrative care, and embodied education to support your whole being. Schedule a free consultation & somatic session below to explore what’s possible.
Welcome to ORA Center
For more than 25 years, my work has centered on movement, healing, and community. For the past six years, this historic, light‑filled building — with its stained‑glass windows and quiet presence — has held that work. ORA carries this forward, shaped by the meanings of its name: now, light, threshold, aliveness.
Just keep showing up. We’ll walk this evolution together.
ORA Embodied Yoga Training
(200hr Yoga Teacher Certification)
🍂 Fall 2026
Training begins:
Saturday, September 14, 2026
Step into a training that brings you into deeper relationship with your body, your practice, and the way you move through the world. ORA’s 200‑hour Embodied Yoga Training weaves somatic awareness, reflective practice, and the foundations of yoga into a transformative experience that supports both personal evolution and the art of teaching.
Rooted in ORA’s values of presence, connection, and embodied wisdom, this training invites you to explore embodied anatomy and functional movement, somatic and nervous‑system‑informed practice, reflective and relational teaching, yoga philosophy through a modern, lived lens, and the essentials of sequencing, cueing, and class design. Throughout our time together, you’ll be supported in your own growth while learning to guide others with clarity and care.
Whether you feel called to teach, want to deepen your practice, or are seeking a meaningful container for personal transformation, this training offers a grounded, intimate space for the curious and wholehearted.
Our cohorts are intentionally small, creating room for spacious support, genuine connection, and a learning environment where you can be fully seen, met, and guided.
About Madia
Madia Swicord, B.S., E-RYT 500, LMT
MADIA'S HEALING ARTS, OWNER
CHATTANOOGA YOGA SCHOOL, CO-FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
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Certified Presence-based Coach
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Hakomi Graduate
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Certified Hatha Yoga Teacher
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Certified Vinyasa Yoga Teacher
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Yoga Teacher Trainer
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Licensed Massage Therapist
Madia loves exploring and encouraging the adventure of "the edge" of what awakens you. Guiding you inward towards an intuitive, deep yoga practice that challenges your physical and mental stamina balanced with nurturing spacious openings of your body/mind is the essence of what can be felt in all her classes and her private body/mind sessions.
Madia Swicord is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga Teacher and Yoga Teacher Trainer. She has an extensive background in supporting people with physical and emotional pain relief. Her passion is to assist someone on their journey to self-discovery and awakening to more energy and joy via a variety of ancient and modern mind/body techniques. She has advanced training in Yoga Psychology and is a Graduate of the Professional Hakomi Mindfulness Training of “assisted self-study” that is threaded into her yoga classes and her private sessions. She is also a Certified Presence-Based Coach and is utilizing these techniques in all that she offers. She is dedicated to sharing timeless wisdom techniques for mind-body health, deeper life fulfillment and emotional healing.
*Working alongside physicians in the fields of psychiatry and psychology for a decade to support and assist with patients on their path to healing trauma has been an incredible honor.
Madia has over 20+ years of professional experience in this holistic field of mind-body healing.
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."
~ Joseph Campbell
Somatic Yoga
SOUL
Cari P., YTT Grad
"200 hour YTT with Madia was transformational. She created an intimate environment that felt safe and nurturing allowing me to truly look inward and unite my mind, body, and spirit, the true meaning of yoga. I graduated from training with a healthier self-image, a deeper spiritual connection, and a solid foundation for continued growth."
BODY
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MIND
Anonymous, Client
Madia holds space for me that is safe and comfortable, and she gently challenges me to seek and look at my true self with love and compassion. Our Coaching sessions help me deeply connect to my body and to my truest self. Connecting to myself with love and tenderness and compassion has lead me to the deep knowing of what is best for me as I navigate decisions in my life."