Lessons From a Year of Hanging Out
“Did a cartwheel the other day thinking it was like riding a bike. It’s not.” Lani Lynn Vale This quote I saw the other day
“Did a cartwheel the other day thinking it was like riding a bike. It’s not.” Lani Lynn Vale This quote I saw the other day
Awareness without judgment can propel your journey.
Observation can offer a powerful lesson.
My journey with meditation and its profound impact on my well-being and daily life.
How a physical yoga practice can help still and calm the mind.
Resistance to the concept was probably a lesson in itself.
I found community, enjoyment, and self-acceptance once I challenged myself.
As yoga teachers and movement professionals, the words that we speak carry weight.
This immersion is a perfect opportunity for yoga teachers to develop proficiency in teaching adaptive and accessible yoga to senior and basic level students of all ages, physical abilities and types.
In this course students are presented with the foundations of the science of Ayurveda, the sister science of Yoga.
Celebrate the power, grace, and wisdom of the divine feminine in this yoga workshop inspired by the stories of Hindu goddesses.
Unstoppable is not just a word; it is a way of being. It is the quiet, steady commitment to growth—the choice to keep moving forward, no matter the obstacles.
Meditation and embodied-awareness practices are essential tools in cultivating presence of mind and body such that we can live more joyful, mindful lives and be of more meaningful benefit in the world.
Moving with the Seasons is offered at the beginning of each season to support your ability to thrive utilizing movement, breath and meditation.
This balancing Autumn digestive reset will ground your nervous system while supporting your immunity.
“Перфектните Десет” е древна Тибетска практика, която чрез специфичния си подход към дишането ни помогне да намерим вътрешна хармония и баланс.
My favorite thing about this sequence is that you can do it just about anywhere, and it always feels good.
We’ll look at how to use and develop our bodies for flight, play with all kinds of props to support our aspirations, discover what the ancients had to say about how to fly, study the “origami” of variety of “postures,” explore creative transitions, and create external and internal habits of movement that make our flight dreams possible.
In this creative and inspiring workshop, you’ll design a one-of-a-kind journal that reflects your personal journey, dreams, and goals.
The Five Animal Frolics (五禽戲, Wǔ Qín Xì) is an ancient system of Qigong created by the legendary Chinese physician Hua Tuo in the Eastern Han Dynasty (circa 2nd century AD).
This Immersion is designed for any student or teacher interested in exploring aerial as a beginner, or deepening their existing aerial practice.
Moving with the Seasons is offered at the beginning of each season to support your ability to thrive utilizing movement, breath and meditation.
This soothing workshop combines the healing power of sound with self-massage to balance and align your chakras.
This time of year we get into a kind of hustle and bustle due to the end of school year.
Been practicing yoga for a long time but still can’t do handstand?
Join Joanne for this 15-hour immersion and learn the theory and practice of how to utilize different eastern and western modalities while releasing stress and trauma.
The sound vibrations of gongs, singing bowls, native flutes, bells, and chimes surround you and bathe you in a fully immersive sound experience, as they guide us into a deep meditation.
This might be a starting point for some, or even a refresher course for others when it comes to strength training.
Join us for a deeply therapeutic workshop designed to improve circulation, release stress and elevate the health of the body through poses that focus on hips and lower back.
The chakra system gives us insight into the connections between the various levels being – physical, energetic, spiritual.
Wuji Qigong, literally, “primordial energy work,” is an ancient family lineage of healing that combines martial arts, medicine and movement.
Gentle yoga is a 30-hour course that explores the fundamentals of teaching beginning yoga students through accessible sequencing, language, and use of props.
This is an opportunity for yoga teachers to deepen their knowledge of yoga, and expand their teaching practice.
This is the first of 3 upcoming retreats that progressively go deeper, and is open to all levels of yogis and artists.
This game broadens our understanding of yoga and how it supports our practice in our daily lives. We’ll explore five paths of yoga: Yoga of
As a birth doula and prenatal yoga instructor, I’m excited to offer this workshop for yoga teachers, fitness instructors, and pregnant students who want to confidently adapt their practice for pregnancy.
In this workshop series, you will be developing a practice to engage your physiological, energetic and spiritual core.
Moving with the Seasons is offered at the beginning of each season to support your ability to thrive utilizing movement, breath and meditation.
In this twenty hour workshop, we will delve deeper into how to teach students with pelvic floor issues and applying Pelvic Floor Yoga™.
Please note this one day workshop, open to all, is also the first day of the twenty hour Pelvic Floor Yoga™ Teacher Training.
You’re invited to a special afternoon filled with laughter, mindful movement and play.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of yin yoga followed with the best śavāsana ever including an acupuncture treatment.
Step into the rich tapestry of Hindu mythology and explore the archetypes of the male deities through the
transformative lens of yoga.
Certified Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Harmony Slater comes to guide multiple days of Mysore practices, a led primary class, and several workshops.
Christy’s bringing a new flow sequence for the hammock! After a gentle warm-up, we’ll move through a slow and mindful aerial flow sequence
New to Kundalini yoga? Already love the practice? Open to experiencing this powerfully transformative ancient wisdom?
Stress and somatically held tension block the free expression of your higher self, your heart, and your soul.
This introductory course is designed to provide the participants a step-by-step guide to learn Mysore Style Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga.
During our winter practice, we bring attention inward and let ourselves rest.
Moving with the Seasons is offered at the beginning of each season to support your ability to thrive utilizing movement, breath and meditation. Learn how basic Ayurvedic principles apply to growing your practice.
If you are interested in learning more about Qigong, becoming certified to teach, or continuing your qigong education, join Gideon and Jim for this free session to learn more about our upcoming Qigong training program.
The chakra system gives us insight into the connections between the various levels being – physical, energetic, spiritual.
Every Seasonal Sisterhood experience will start with a meditation practice and end with a sound bath.
Join Kate for an afternoon of fun and mala making.
We will start with a brief introduction to malas, their history, and significance in various spiritual traditions.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of yin yoga followed with the best savasana ever including an acupuncture treatment.
Join this Grief Release Workshop, a safe and supportive space to explore your grief. Learn techniques for transforming grief and releasing pent-up emotions.
Ready for a fun and unique experience? After a gentle warm-up, Christy will lead you through a slow and mindful aerial flow sequence
If you are interested in learning more about Qigong, becoming certified to teach, or continuing your qigong education, join Gideon and Jim for this free session to learn more about our upcoming Qigong training program.
What are we doing? Intuition Painting – we’re using the Creative Process to dive deeply into self-discovery. It’s not an Art class because we are
Join Marcela Christjansen and Jesica Fernández, Assistant Professor, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Santa Clara University for a multi-session dive into Día de los Muertos
If you are interested in learning more about Qigong, becoming certified to teach, or continuing your qigong education, join Gideon and Jim for this free session to learn more about our upcoming Qigong training program.
Join us for an intimate and personalized small group Yoga Therapy workshop in conjunction with Cancer CAREPoint.
Whether you categorize yourself as a beginning, novice, or experienced meditator, I imagine that we’ve all found ourselves with those moments of clarity that occur in meditation where it seems like an idea or word dropped in from out of nowhere.
New to Kundalini yoga? Already love the practice? Open to experiencing this powerfully transformative ancient wisdom?
A celebration of the side body while staying low to the ground. This is a low and juicy mellow flow focusing on the side body. We’ll play with circles of breath moving up the front body and down the back body. Cool down with these calming, gravity-loving twists.
A celebration of a traditional flow while staying low to the ground. We’ll incorporate Iyengar inspired alignment tips to discover and deepen postures, with a focus on the variety of ways we can play with a bent leg against a straight leg. Seated twists and folds low to the ground will enable you to explore your inner baby. Explore figure 4 bridge lifts to side plank tree.
Go deep, stepping a toe into the unknown. We will explore dharma wisdom with respect to building honesty through yoga. As we build heat through asana, we’ll burn away what doesn’t serve us. Our exploration will take us through hand/wrist and feet/ankle positions as we travel to known postures, balancing poses while twisting. Discover the sattva in between effort and playing with Energy Looping, a visual breath practice.
Discover JOY by following this slower paced, thoughtfully curated asana flow. This is my curated approach to moving into, staying in, and moving out of longer held poses to promote experiences of grace and peace. Incorporating slow movements that encourage your body to calm and open into receptivity. We’ll use props to assist the process of deepening the opening. I provide guidance through breath practices to enhance the overall Yin experience. Lastly, cues in each posture will serve to assist your breath in finding the calmest ports of call.
Joy is an expression of love. As we embrace the love of ourselves, we fall into the special sidecar of JOY. Practicing with a sense of Joy is the objective of this practice. Ignite the inner smile through mindful movements. Breaking down the 3 part breath, Kapālabhāti and Breath of Joy. Encouraging deep twists and lateral body play as well as balance poses.
This intensive is designed for any student or teacher interested in exploring aerial as a beginner, or deepening their existing aerial practice.
“Gather the Qi & Return to the Source” is a fundamental energetic harmonizing exercise, balancing the three energy centers, the Upper Dan Tian, Middle Dan Tian, and the Lower Dan Tian.
The focus and intention is to open and nourish the joints of the scapula & neck (cervical spine) so that Qi flows more efficiently throughout the body.
The focus and intention is to open and nourish the joints of the knees & ankles so that Qi flows more efficiently throughout the body.
The focus and intention is to open and nourish the joints of the waist & hips so that Qi flows more efficiently throughout the body.
The focus and intention is to open and nourish the joints of the elbows & shoulders so that Qi flows more efficiently throughout the body.
The focus and intention is to open and nourish the joints of the fingers, hands, & wrists so that Qi flows more efficiently throughout the body.
A short introduction to the Wuji Joint Series of Exercises, the purpose and intention as well as an introduction to basic energetic cleansing.
Every Seasonal Sisterhood experience will start with a meditation practice and end with a sound bath.
Prominent in the discourses of the Buddha is the Satipatthana Sutta, oftentimes referred to as
the “foundations of mindfulness”.
Learn and practice specific poses that can stretch and strengthen muscles to help relieve tightness, alleviate pain, and allow for better mobility on and off the bike.
This workshop invites you on an inward journey to reconnect with the roots of inspiration.
Enjoy a 2-hr practice in community with other parents.
To the outside world, yoga practitioners may look like flexible people who like to stretch because it helps them relieve stress.
A quick mindfulness meditation to develop awareness of the body and thoughts.
This introduction, plus step-by-step instructions to four very common breathing techniques used in yoga, is essential to any practice. Learn how to do Ujjayi, Kapalabhati, Bhastrika, and Nadi Shodhana breathing.
Embark on a transformative journey that seamlessly blends the grace of yoga with the soulful wisdom of Sufism.
This workshop is designed for anyone struggling to achieve mind-body balance and a sense of authenticity and connection to the present moment.
In this workshop we will learn more about Reiki and how to give ourselves the gift of self-care and healing.
“Yoga on the Flow” is a play on “Yoga-on-the-Go.” It’s a sequence for people with limited time and focuses on core strength and stress reduction, with some kickboxing integrated into it. This set of Asanas is meant to be fun, and is good for people with busy lives who want a high energy, short invigorating practice.
A Yin practice to take a break from the stress of the day and ease into the rest of the day/night.
Somatic exercise is excellent for anyone who has ever suffered from chronic pain, an injury, trauma in the body, or habitual movements. A great practice to help ease pain and reconnect mind and body.
Alternate-nostril breathing, or Nadi Shodhana, is a practice that balances the left and right hemispheres of the brain, stimulates the parasympathetic nervous response, and helps us to center and calm the mind. Use this practice to focus the mind and balance effort with surrender.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of sound healing and acupuncture treatment. This is an experiential treat for your whole being.
This workshop focuses on refreshing and resting your body. Dedicating these 2 hours will leave you with a calm mind and body.
Tapping, an EMT (Emotional Freedom Technique), is a powerful tool to use for many different reasons but particularly for when you are feeling stuck and want to move forward. Tapping meets you where you are without judgment, acknowledging how you are truly doing in the moment. Next, by hitting particular acupressure points, you can get the release you need and reset the mind and body to move forward. This tapping session is an example of how I use tapping to help my sons fall asleep and how we use it if they wake up during the night.
What brings us joy in our life? Do we bring it in on a daily basis? When we are not so happy, where does our power, thoughts, energy go? How do we bring it back? Is a mantra helpful? Let’s try one today on our mat as we do a Vinyasa Flow filled with balance postures, Half Moon Pose, seated twists, and more.
Need a workout that includes both high intensity movement and yoga? This is it. From 20 minutes of spiking your heart rate and challenging your strength to 20 minutes of yoga flowing and stretching. May this workout help you feel uplifted, energized, and strong both on and off the mat.
Life is a balancing act, especially as we are home during a pandemic. How do we find balance both on and off the mat during these times? On the mat, let’s play with balancing poses, such as figure fours and a funky side crow. Off the mat, let’s do our best to be open to all the unknowns and changes around us. Let’s remember to breathe and make time to come back to our mats, whether for a calming meditation or for some asana practice to move our bodies.
Today’s practice starts off with a story about a family and adjusting to a new normal. We can apply this story to our lives on and off the mat. What is working and, more so, what is not? Can we adjust, balance, and begin again?
In this short yoga practice, we warm up the body for Bird of Paradise (Svarga Dvijasana). This pose demands strength, flexibility, an open mind, a sense of playfulness (and perhaps humor). Go for it, have fun!
This practice focuses on trusting, listening, and taking time to vision. Off the mat, when and how do we practice these traits? What about on the mat? Is today the day you will go from Crow Pose and trust yourself to safely jump back into a plank either for the first time or for the 900th time, or is today the day that you listen and realize you are not in the right state to try? So often we push ourselves, play the negative talk record, and/or just go through the motions. Maybe today is the day you take it easy, be gentle, and know that it is there for you next time. You and I are worthy of loving ourselves and one another, let’s do that on and off the mat as much as possible (even on the hard days).
Join us for this carefully curated yoga workshop created to replenish your inner energy cup, re-balance your energy, and calm your body & mind.
A home practice…We often hear about the benefits of a home practice and are even encouraged to “cultivate” a home practice.
Join us for an enriching 3-hour Aerial Yoga Fundamentals Workshop designed to provide a detailed guide to the key elements essential for any aerial yoga practice.
Join Joanne for this 15-hour immersion and learn the theory and practice of how to utilize different modalities while working with stress and trauma.
Experience a luxurious, in-depth, full-body roll out. We will take a journey up the front line and down the back line of the body, helping us stand taller and dig into common cranky zones (like the low back, shoulders, neck and hips).
Every Seasonal Sisterhood experience will start with a meditation practice and end with a sound bath.
Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga means so much more than whether or not you can put your leg behind
your head or catch your heals in backbending, though those can be fun and tangible landmarks
within our asana practice.
Join Amy as she guides a small group through a soulful day of creatively expressing our prayers for our planet, the natural world, the animal world, our families, and ourselves by imprinting, and embellishing the flags with personal prayers, symbols, and Mantra.
Esta clase es un Flow clasico. Vamos a calentar y sentir ese calor interno, el cual nos va a llevar a una sensación de soltar, dejar ir para finalmente derretirnos en la suavidad de la calma y balance. ¡Disfruta!
This is a classical yoga flow where we will create a heat that we can notice from within, allowing us to connect to a surrendering sensation of letting go. Eventually, we’ll melt into the softness of calm and balance. Enjoy!
This traditional Vinyasa practice focuses on Surya Namaskaras (Sun Salutations) A, B, and C. For beginners, this practice welcomes you to take your time and get acquainted with Sun Salutations. For more practiced yogis, this class offers a short yet energetic practice to break a sweat, refocus, and connect to the movement of your body.
Esta es una clase suave para dejar que el cuerpo se abra, se mueva. Una clase que puedes tomar a cualquier hora del día ya sea por la mañana, tarde o noche.
This is a gentle yoga class that allows the body to open and move. This class is great at any time during your day whether it is morning, afternoon, or nighttime.
Welcome to today’s flow focused on strength. Strength in today’s class is both related to the physical body as much as mental and spiritual strength. You are invited to use this focus as an invitation to listen inwardly to the quiet inner strength that when consciously listened to is a gift.
Take a break, sit comfortably, and allow yourself to uncover the benefits of this breath practice. You will get to both slow down and re-energize, while consequently creating balance between these two states. We will practice the following breathing techniques: Kapalabhati, Box Breathing, and Nadi Shodhana. Enjoy!
Every morning, just like each new breath, is an opportunity to stay curious, be open to new growth and experiences, and an invitation to seek balance. Today’s class reminds you about all of it. Enjoy!
The chakra system gives us insight into the connections between the various levels being – physical, energetic, spiritual.
Benefits of backbends are endless. On a physical level backbends stimulate and restore the central nervous system, boost immune system, realign and increase mobility in the spinal column, open the hips, and strengthen and stretch the legs.
Learn self-care practices that can support your life. Join us for a food-based digestive reset and yogic lifestyle cleanse.
Been practicing yoga for a long time but still can’t do handstand or forearm stand?
Do you over grip your butt muscles with all of your might in yoga poses or is there a “lazy ass” you may not be aware of?
Support your practice with Surya Mudra to cultivate positive energy, increase heat, and reduce dullness. This is great to practice in the morning when you desire to create light within and start a happy day.
Breathe and cultivate the earth element. We incorporate Prithvi Mudra and offer a step-by-step practice for Mula Bandha. This is a great practice whenever you are in need of rootedness and centeredness, so you can connect to your inner strength.
We aim to improve the flexibility of hamstrings and shoulders, as well as the strength in the arms, thigh adductors, and the core. Variations are offered to develop the sense of balance on the arms. It is an exploration of your own expression in Firefly, whatever stage of life you’re in.
This sequence is like a moving meditation through Sun Salutations, helping you connect with your breath. Open your awareness to what is here in the moment. Mindfulness between movement and stillness supports your well being.
In this Vinyasa flow, we incorporate Shanka Mudra to cultivate peace and bring the keen sense of listening within. Shanka is the conch shell, one of the oldest musical instruments in many parts of the world. Our inner ear is coiling and spiraling like a conch shell. It governs the sense of balance and the awareness of space and time. What will happen when you relax your inner ear? Bring awareness to this subtle change. Invite your senses inward as we practice pratyahara, internalizing your senses.
Support your practice with Shankha Mudra to cultivate a peaceful mind and center yourself. Find the peace you already carry within. We can change ourselves to feel free of tensions and find peace within.
In this Vinyasa flow, we incorporate Pancha Mukha Mudra to improve concentration and create space in the chest. Bring awareness to the space between the palms. Notice the space between your inhalation and exhalation. Enjoy the space between the poses in the flow sequence. We open space within not only the chest but also the hips and whole body. This is also a Pratyahara practice.
As we strengthen our core with the practice of Uddiyana Bandha (flying lock) and Mula Bandha (root lock), we can establish the awareness of lifting our center of gravity with control. This awareness helps us balance in any inversion pose and in arm balance poses. In this practice, we gradually open our shoulders and arms to prepare for this arm balance: Pincha Mayurasana (Peacock Feather Pose).
In this energetic flow, we incorporate Vajra Mudra to cultivate will power and positive energy. This practice offers discernment when we face the challenge to balance in not only yoga asanas but also in our lives. By using this mudra, we gather our energy toward the center and align our vital energy flow upward. Directing energy flow improves our concentration. It supports engaging our core for balance and challenge in any asanas. Let’s discover this subtle change and the power of mudra.
Have you ever wondered if you’re doing a yoga pose correctly? Or wish you could transition
better from one pose to another?
太陽のエネルギーには、私達が明るい気持ちになり、元気にhappyになるポジティブなパワーがあります。太陽のエネルギーをあなたの内に招きましょう。
Yoga is to experience the joy of being alive with your body, mind, and heart. The mudra that supports this practice is Surya Mudra. Receive positive energy from the sun. Transform yourself from darkness to light.
水をテーマに、身体も心も水のように動き流れていきます。自然五大元素の一つ、水。大地から湧き出る水。雨、川、海に流れる水。体内にある水。新鮮な美味しい水、自然からの恵、水。あなたにとって水とはなんでしょう？ 水への感謝の気持ちと共にヨガをしてみましょう。水に流すという言葉のように、身体も心も清め、リフレッシュしましょう。
This practice includes Sun Salutations with the theme of water, one of the five elements in nature. Move your body and mind like the flow of water. Nature provides us with fresh water to drink, touch, see, and hear. Water heals us and connects us with nature. Nature is within us.
Forming new habits or having a different mindset can be a challenge, so how long does it take to form a new, healthy habit?
Spend an afternoon enjoying a synthesis of healing modalities – restorative and gentle yoga, breathwork, guided meditation and hands-on healing.
Lawrence Muñoz brings a more vigorous chair yoga practice by injecting some of your favorite Vinyasa Asanas to this energetic session.
Take your chair yoga practice a bit further as Lawrence Muñoz shares a gentle flow of movement along with breath.
We will experiment with ways to practice shoulder stand. This video will give you options on how to make the pose work for your body. We’ll include props, which are really useful in inversions like this one, to both enhance and align the pose.
This is the perfect practice to give a taste of Yin Yoga’s relaxing nature. The lower body and the spine will feel the love during and after this practice.
This practice will get your chi or prana (life force) flowing. It’s excellent for when you’re feeling a little stuck or tired and want a quick, under-30-minute yoga practice!
This workshop is designed for those who harbor a natural curiosity in ancient cultures and enjoy both the art of listening and narrating stories with emotion.
Take time out of your busy schedule to give yourself the gift of relaxation and healing.
In this workshop we will take a methodical approach to instruct the students through the various aspects of the postures included in the Intermediate Series of the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga.
Today’s class is all about the exploration of how creating space and range of movement in your hips feels in your body.
We will open, lengthen, and strengthen our bodies with kneeling lunges, warriors, standing and balancing poses, and leg extensions.
Do you want to live a long healthy life well into your 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and Beyond?
As one of the hottest growing partners to a seasoned yoga practice, functional movement and self-massage are now being incorporated across drop-in yoga classes, crossfit boxes, and physical therapy sessions.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of yin yoga followed with the best śavāsana ever including an acupuncture treatment.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide the students a step-by-step guide to learn Ashtanga Vinyasa Primary Series.
The sound vibrations of gongs, singing bowls, native flutes, bells, and chimes surround you and bathe you in a fully immersive sound experience, as they guide us into a deep meditation.
If you’re experiencing PMS, irregular periods, perimenopause, menopause, and other hormonal symptoms, you are definitely not alone.
Certified Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Harmony Slater comes to guide four days of Mysore practices and several workshops. This is an opportunity to work on your individual practice and learn some helpful tools.
This Vinyasa flow of rooting and grounding incorporates mudra, dristi, and bandha to activate and balance the earth element.
This is a four-part pranayama breathing practice.
Meet the left and right palms together to cultivate feelings of respect, devotion, surrender, and humility.
As we move through this flow, incorporating backbends all the while, let’s focus on having a strong back and soft front.
Let’s release some of the stress that may have accumulated in the body. Bringing awareness to the stress body can indeed help us begin to release any holding patterns that could be occurring within.
Grab a block if you’ve got one and return to your mat to enjoy this flow practice.
“Rest and be thankful.” ― William Wordsworth. We put these words to practice with this gratitude meditation.
Practicing trāṭaka meditation. Using our sense of sight to quiet our minds through gazing at a candle flame.
After learning to witness the breath, we can play with lengthening the exhalation and pausing between the inhalation and exhalation, to support relaxing the nervous system.
For those who have learned to utilize their core, and know how to do crow pose.
A flow-based practice that explores variations of Tree Pose.
A flow-based practice designed to open the hips and prepare the body for a variety of pigeon variations.
A step-by-step approach to entering the headstand safely. Please consult with your doctor first if you have a back or neck injury, low blood pressure, glaucoma, or a heart condition.
A chanting of the Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta, or Buddha’s discourse on loving-kindness in English.
This practice is designed to create a regular practice of watching the breath, any time, anywhere.
Lawrence Muñoz shows how to bring breath, awareness, and the mobility of Hatha Yoga with the use of a chair when standing postures are not accessible.
Beginning by circling the joints and warming, this video is an accessible way to begin a practice.
In this practice, we will work on back support by releasing tension and strengthening the muscles around the spine.
This is a great go-to, full-body practice for intermediate and advanced students.
A brief meditation you can do anywhere to bring grounding to your life.
Compilation of all of the Wuji Joint exercises combined into a single flow.
Get your yoga on during a busy day with this fluid, full-body practice. We will flow and challenge ourselves.
This class is created intentionally to guide you through the most commonly seen postures in yoga.
A flow-based practice that supports making Dolphin Pose accessible.
This practice offers great benefit to your eye strain after many hours of distance learning and working at home on the computer.
Move through a series of exercises that help to facilitate movement of the spine and all of the vertebrae.
Here’s a whole-body flow, inviting you to come to the mat with all of who you are.
An exploration of a traditional flow with interesting transitions.
A short break in your day to feel refreshed, renewed, and relaxed through restorative yoga poses.
In this practice, we will move slowly, flowing in and out of gentle postures to create somatic awareness.
In this practice, you’ll experiment with different postures that can be used for meditation.
In this practice, we are cultivating ease and good space, known as suckha in Sanskrit.
The practice is a great way to unwind from a busy day and release tension patterns specific to the kidneys.
This flow is packed with various practices and expressions from vinyasa yoga.
This grounding and nourishing practice creates a calm, steady, and clear mind, while increasing the body’s earth energy.
A great practice for after an active day perhaps on the slopes, biking, or hiking.
This quick practice will strengthen the core, which includes all the muscles attached to the spine.
If the whole world took their legs up a wall after work, the world would be a kinder, gentler place.
This exploration of the shoulder joint is a great practice for post surfers and swimmers.
A sequence focused on mindfully moving through the sun salutes and warrior poses, with some somatic exercises towards the end.
This nourishing practice will wake up the spine, helping to bring space and ease between the joints, manage back pain, and decrease stress in the tissues.
I guide you through a complete restorative practice using minimal props and focusing on moving the spine in all directions.
Make the most of your meditation practice by establishing a steady seat that supports your body.
Using the sounds within us and around us as the focus of our meditation.
Twists are so good for the spine. Let’s look at how to make the most out of twisting.
Using the sensations inside the body as our object of meditation.
The term “beginning again” often relates to meditation, but it is so useful within the context of yoga-asana.
A simple restorative practice for the end of the day that can be done with just a few props.
Practicing present moment awareness through tending to the breath.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of yin yoga followed by the best savasana ever, including an acupuncture treatment.
Join Leslie Howard, an Oakland-based yoga teacher, for a weekend focused on all things pelvic. This three part workshop will empower you with the tools you need to address incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, pelvic pain and more.
During this 15-hour intensive, you will learn the benefits and basic information for teaching restorative yoga, including sequencing and modifications, breath work, hands on adjustments, language and instruction, the history of restorative yoga, and using props effectively.
This soft and mellow yoga practice is for you to explore what feels good and help you come back into balance.
骨盤底筋を鍛えMula Bandhaを使う呼吸。不安、心配、ストレスを感じる時こそ大切なのは、あなたの軸、基礎を築くこと大地に根を張ることです。
Guided body scans are one of the oldest practices in both the Chinese and Indian systems.
This hip opening practice is a short flow for happy hips, meant to release tension and to also create ease in the lower back.
Take a bit of time off of your busy day and give your spine some love and nourishment.
In a relaxed and attentive wave-like motion, explore the potential of your breath.
Many yoga students have the notion that Iyengar Yoga is static and lacking in dynamic flow.
Join Maria, Nancy, and Erica for one or two interactive workshops filled with yoga, chatting, laughing, learning, moving, building community, and meeting new and old friends.
Come spend an afternoon pampering yourself with a guided gua sha facial treatment and yoga nidra (non-sleep deep rest) practice.
The “My Morning Meditation” series is an introduction to some methods of meditation. The meditations range from 10 to 20 minutes.
Offered only in our studio, Jennifer’s seasonal retreats will continue for another year, beginning this Autumn. Each seasonal retreat has a specific focus. This Autumn retreat will build upon last Autumn’s retreat.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of yin yoga followed with the best savasana ever including an acupuncture treatment.
Join us to practice Surya Namaskaram (Sun Salutations). Create space between your daily activities in the morning or any time of the day to practice yoga for 15 minutes.
This fluid standing practice, influenced by medical Qigong, will open the joints to create more flow and release stagnation.
Join Joanne for this 15-hour immersion and learn the theory and practice of neurogenic tremoring.
Experience a journey through the ethereal frequencies of planetary gongs and 432 Hz crystal bowls, alongside deeply transformative practices.
“The first rule of Handstand Club is: you do not talk about Handstand Club. The second rule of Handstand Club is: you DO NOT talk about Handstand Club!”
Oh, avoidance. It’s often soaked with judgement and disguised as a different and “better” plan.
Half-day retreats with Jennifer are designed to inspire your practice for the entire season ahead.
Come spend an afternoon in nurturing, and supportive practices to nourish your heart – the main Yin organ of the summer.
Join Amy as she guides a small group through a soulful day of creatively expressing our prayers for our planet, the natural world, the animal world, our families, and ourselves by imprinting, and embellishing the flags with personal prayers, symbols, and Mantra.
Kirtan is a yearning of the soul and an emotional expression of the heart.
Join Cindy and Christy Li for a beautiful Spring Day in Cindy’s backyard garden in Los Gatos.
In yoga and Ayurveda, marma points are vital acupressure points located on the surface of the body that connect to the energetic circuitry of nerve and blood.
Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience of yin yoga followed with the best śavāsana ever including an acupuncture treatment.
Have you ever wished that you could help yourself or your loved person’s health issue, especially in these past few years?
Find out why bhakta devotees were the original activists.
Do you want to live a long healthy life well into your 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and beyond?
It’s baaaaaack! One of our most popular self-massage workshops, Full Body Roll Out, is coming back to BTY this March.
Join seasoned yoga instructor Alyssa Prettyman for a night of music, movement and JOY!
This weekend is an introduction to Ashtanga Yoga open to all levels of experience or lack there of.
In this workshop you & your partner will learn the art & science of Traditional Thai Yoga Therapy.
Welcome 2023 – take an afternoon with Cindy to reboot your movement practice and reinvest in healthy lifestyle and mindset habits.
Make yoga and meditation part of your company culture for optimal workforce.
Bring awareness to the perspective of not only your physical eye but also the eyes of your heart and mind.
Kick off your day with this replenishing practice that will leave you feeling energized and ready for whatever lies ahead.
2 questions + 1 principle = 3 yogic guides
The greatest teacher and the biggest pain in the butt.
Come gather for a 3 hour nurturing and informational workshop navigating the concept of rest.
Overlooking low-back pain in even a single class leaves out the majority of students.
The conclusion to this five-part world history lesson.
A five-part world history lesson – part four.
A five-part world history lesson – part three.
Tips and tricks to turn a shared space into your sanctuary.
A five-part world history lesson – part two.
How my first experience with Kundalini Yoga changed the course of my life.
A five-part world history lesson.
“Yoga on Fifth Avenue is a spiritual fake.”
Join Julianne and a community of friends to take a deep, luxurious dive into the heart of yoga and meditation.
Let’s chill out with a Gentle Yoga and Therapy Ball workshop.
A guide to becoming a yogi later in life.
Understanding the Sanskrit work ‘maitri,’ with the help of Pema Chodron.
In both Buddhism and Hinduism, ‘kleshas’ are known as the seeds of suffering.
Tame the summer fire through compassion and mindfulness.
We are, in many ways, walking the talk of yoga when we do this work.
Finding courage in the face of life’s uncertainties.
In this third heart to heart, the JOY founder and teacher shares her most-loved books as a yoga student and teacher.
Have you wanted to try aerial yoga but have felt intimidated or felt like you are not strong or flexible enough?
Circle May 25, 8113 on your calendar.
For this month’s therapeutic tip, try “squatting” laying down and with the support of a wall.
Our face reflects how we feel, and sometimes, it even reflects something very different than how we actually feel.
