Upcoming Events
Thursdays with Rich Logan
Every Thursday from 4 - 6 p.m.
Join this highly skilled, knowledgeable, entertaining teacher, and seasoned practitioner.
Rich is a long time practioner of yoga and creates a space for exploration and discovery, using humor and years of insight to help facilitate an intentional practice. The closer we come to the edge of consciousness, the closer we are to our core selves. And when we discover a technique that helps us transcend our seeming duality, that is the moment we arrive... the reason we practice.... to go beyond Ananda, the idea of bliss, into the actuality of unity.
Or we might just learn some cool stuff that eases our stressful lives. In either case you win, and the world wins when each of us is better at taking care of ourselves... to go beyond Ananda, the idea of bliss, into the actuality of unity. Or we might just learn some cool stuff that eases our stressful lives. In either case you win, and the world wins when e ach of us is better at taking care of ourselves.
Wall Flow with Cara
Saturday, January 18th at 11 a.m.
Join Cara for a warm, flowing yoga practice using the wall to explore alignment, support poses, build strength, and move you into more challenging poses, including inversions and backbends. Some wall rope work will be integrated, however, the ropes will not be the sole focus of the practice.
Yoga for Grief with Cara and Erin Denk
Friday, January 24th at 6:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.
Healing Somatic YOGA FOR GRIEF with Cara and Erin Denk, MA. Friday, January 24th. 6-8 p.m. Join Cara and mental health counselor Erin Denk for a night of acceptance and healing. Steep into mindful somatic movements to release physical and mental holding to facilitate the difficult work of moving through the struggle of loss in your life. Then Erin will guide you into a symbolic and meaningful ceremony of blessing and letting go. Whether you've lost a loved one, family member, or ended a relationship that has you feeling lost and confused, this workshop may be just what you need to help you move past the pain and paralysis of grief, clearing the way for forward movement, health, acceptance, clarity, and recovery. Class size is limited to 10. Pre-register. $40
Soothing Sound Bath with Kimberly Lempart
Friday, January 31st at 6:00 P.M. - 7:30 P.M.
Allow yourself to sink into this immersive, full-body mystical experience that uses sound to invite powerful therapeutic and restorative processes to nurture mind, body and soul. Simply sit or lie down with mats, blankets, and pillows and get comfy. After a few minutes of guided breathwork, the remainder of the session is filled with wonderous sounds and frequencies created by a variety of instruments including a Paiste Chiron gong, Chau gong, quartz crystal singing bowls, Himalayan singing bowls, drums, chimes and more! These healing instruments will promote deep relaxation, move energy, reduce stress, and rejuvenate you. $35
Kimberly Lempart is a Certified Sound Healer and Yoga Nidra Instructor from the Yandara Yoga Institute. She facilitates sound baths and yoga nidra for both groups and individuals. Sound has an inherent transformative power. Kimberly uses the sacred gongs, crystal singing bowls, Himalayan singing bowls, drums, rattles and chimes with pure intention to attune, invoke, and transform consciousness. Sounds are used to create and harmonize, as well as cleanse and release. Travel through the door of spiritual awareness and step into a creative, magical space within yourself with one of her mystical offerings.
Healing Restorative Yin Yoga
Friday, February 7th at 5:30 p.m.
Join Cara on the first Friday of 2025 for a grounded and replenishing class to end and unwind from the holiday hustle. We'll begin with grounded somatic sequences to open the fascial holding and warm the body, and gently move into restorative poses and a long savasana. Drop in and class card rates apply.
Hands On Adjustments with Rich Logan
Saturday, February 8th at 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Three Essential Support Poses with a Side of Childs Pose:
For teachers, teacher in training, and students interested in deepening their practice. Learn to sit with the student. See what it is like to slow down and attune to the breathing rhythm of your students and utilize their own bone energy to create differing breathing patterns, grounding and ascension. Then move to the mountain and see how we can expand on our skill set. We'll explore some essential Down Dog adjusts transposed with child's pose when our students need rest.
The Ropes
Saturday February 15th at 11 a.m.
STEADINESS & EASE: Sthira Sukham Asanam, with Cara. Find your balance between effort and ease in your practice and your life! Learn and practice poses using the support of wall and the ropes to experience its therapeutic and tractioning effects. Then move into more restorative poses, relaxing into the support and grounding properties of props and of course end with a long and peaceful savasana. Pre-registration required. Class size limited to 12 people.
Yoga for Osteoporosis & Scoliosis
Sunday, February 23rd at 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Join Linda Benton, specialist in Yoga for Back Care, Scoliosis and Osteoporosis, for a full day of training, to explore techniques and ways of practicing to target the conditions that tend to progress over time. Learn about the major curve patterns, anatomy of the spine, muscles affected by back pain, along with lung capacity and how yoga for back care and scoliosis will be key to releasing pain to address your affliction/curve pattern while stretching and releasing tension in tight muscles and strengthening the muscles that have become weak. Learn how to slow the progression by integrating these techniques into your practice and your teaching.
Appropriate for teachers and teachers in training, as well as those interested in deepening their understanding of working with these conditions in your own life. $175 Class size limited to 16 students.
Yoga & The Reflexive Nervous System
Sunday, April 6th at 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Seeing Structure: The Reflexive Nervous System as it Relates to Yoga with Rich Logan
Long before you feel the heat of flame burning your hand, your body takes note of sensations at a base level. The body reacts before the brain has even had time to think, “ouch”. We are hard wired to protect ourselves at a primal level. Ancient neural connections keep us safe through reflexive actions. Just maintaining balance as you walk down the street requires an acute set of reflexes that monitor the feedback from muscles and tendons long before the signals reach our brains.
The time it would take an electrical impulse from the big toe to reach the brain and back again would leave us at a crippling pace to meet the pavement without stumbling forward and backward. That’s why we learn over time, through a series of checks and balances in the neuromuscular system, how to ambulate(so the brain can think of more important things like, “where can I get a good mocha latte”).
What happens when our reflexive habits become too strong? Are my hamstrings tight, or are the impulses from my nervous system over compensating? Yoga helps us find the balance between too much of a good thing(hyperactivity) and a deadened nervous system. And the parallels between the physical manifestation and spiritual reality can be astounding. Not to say that a tight hip will bar your way to heaven, but it’s a bit easier to move toward your spiritual goals when the body is more willing to let go.
This class will be designed as lecture and experience of different ways the reflexive nervous system works and ways we can understand, if not override, how it can hold us back unnecessarily.
Appropriate for those looking to deepen their understanding of the practice, and teachers and teachers in training. $60