Upcoming Events
First Friday Yin with Janie
Friday, October. 2nd at 5:30 p.m.
This slow, grounded, relaxing, gentle class is offered once a month on First Fridays at 5:30 p.m. with Tatiana. This class is designed to release deep holding patterns in the hips, low back and spine through grounded poses and somatic movement.
Gabriel Halpern, Master Yoga Instructor
Friday, Oct. 23rd, 6-9 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 24th, 11-2 p.m.
This weekend workshop with master teacher Gabriel Halpern will begin with a dharma discourse “We Were made For These Times.” “Bewildered about the state of affairs in the world now? Yoga invites you not to spend your spirit bewailing these difficult times. We’ve have been learning, practicing, and in-training just waiting for this moment of engagement. Yogic practice calms the tumult within, teaching how to catch the light from other souls who are fully lit and then be willing to embody that oneself. It's not given to us to know which acts, or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. Do not lose hope. We were made for these times.”
Friday, 6 -9 p.m. - The Biology Of Hope- Dharma Talk & Restorative Practice
The Biology Of Hope- Supporting The Lungs & Heart
The pace of modern life keeps the nervous system in a near-constant state of activation. Over time, this chronic stress impacts not only the heart, but also the breath, tightening the chest, shortening respiration, and limiting the body’s ability to fully oxygenate. Yoga offers a way to gently down-regulate this reactivity, supporting both cardiovascular and pulmonary health.
Today’s asana practice will be about coronary tuning and healthy lung functioning. Sequences are designed to rotate these organs in all directions using props, gravity and breath control with necessary modifications for individual adaptation. Asana and pranayama reduces systemic tension and respiratory strain. Through consistent practice, we cultivate not just longevity but a more easeful way of aging. Where body, breath, and awareness work in harmony, we maintain vitality through the years.
Saturday, 6 -9 p.m. Twists - Dharma Talk & Asana Practice
Twists: Yoga’s Spiral Energy
In addition to flexion and extension (forward and backward bending), the spine can also rotate around its own axis. This workshop will teach a variety of poses showing the versatility of twists. Whether done supine, prone, sitting, sitting, or inverted, yoga students claim to have found relief from headaches, neck aches, shoulder tightness, lower back pain, and stiffness in the hips and knees, As the trunk turns, the inner organs are activated, nourished, and flushed which improves digestion and removes sluggishness. As a result, the spine becomes suppler and all of the joints move more easily and smoothly, free from friction.
Walt Whitman- Massives of Enlightenment
A Performance of his sound healing
with Sven Hansen
Friday, Oct. 30th at 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Experience a session of restorative Sound Healing interspersed with the electric, transformative words of Walt Whitman, as he speaks his experience of living in a state of expanded awareness.
Sven Hansen is a certified sound healer and yoga teacher who incorporates a variety of instruments and poetry. He has performed this program of words and sound throughout the United States in Europe.
The Ropes with Cara
Saturday, Oct. 31st at 11:00 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 14 people.