Lean In: A 4-Week Series
Sep
29
to Oct 20

Lean In: A 4-Week Series

When you lean in, what leans back?

As the seasons shift from summer to fall, there are moments where you may feel like you’ve been pushed off-balance. What happens when you lean into these changes? What postures help you feel more settled and give you the foundation you need now?

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The Pulses: a SATYA practice
Aug
18
5:45 PM17:45

The Pulses: a SATYA practice

Life is full of large and small pulses; so is a movement practice.

In this month’s SATYA practice you will have an opportunity to tune into the pulses of your body and your breath. These movements are done lying on the ground so that you can reduce a tendency toward over-effort and invite softness and ease.

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Soothing Summer Series
Jul
14
to Aug 4

Soothing Summer Series

This series of classes in July will invite you to explore ways that you can cultivate a soothing yoga practice to balance summer’s sun. Inspired by yoga philosophy and Ayurvedic teachings of the five elements (space, air, fire, water, earth) we will explore how paying attention to the elements in your yoga practice can help balance the natural rhythms of the season.

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Gather & Expand: A journey into backbending
May
26
to Jun 16

Gather & Expand: A journey into backbending

This online series is designed to explore spinal extension - the infamous backbends of yoga. You will explore backbends as small, simple movements and large, expressive possibilities.

You can expect to explore shape and breath with curiosity - How does it feel to move from your limbs? How does it feel to move from your center? What is in contact with the ground? What lifts away from the earth?

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What is Enough?
Apr
18
to May 9

What is Enough?

As you practice postures in a gesture toward presence, how do you know what is enough?

In a culture that encourages a relentless drive toward abundance, can you take time to nourish and rejuvenate? What does that look like for you?

This four-week series is an inquiry into feeling what is enough in your movement practice and allowing that to guide you to feel what is enough in your life.

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Gestures Toward Practice
Mar
10
to Mar 31

Gestures Toward Practice

What gestures move you closer to practice? How does a practice move you closer to presence?

One possible answer for these questions is that yoga postures are gestures we make toward practice, and practice is a move toward presence. I invite you to join us for a four-week series that explores yoga postures as gestures toward presence.

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Winter Rhythms
Feb
5
to Feb 26

Winter Rhythms

Are you finding it challenging to keep the rhythms that nourish and inspire you flowing? You aren't alone in feeling this way. Mid-winter challenges us in many ways, and it seems that this year is harder than past years. This month's series of yoga classes are designed to honor the rhythms of winter, and of this unique winter.

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Online Series: Qualities of Support
Jan
6
to Jan 27

Online Series: Qualities of Support

This 4-week series explores different qualities of support that are part of your yoga practice. Each week will introduce different yoga techniques used to develop support. Some of these techniques ask you to engage with your environment, like using a wall or yoga prop. Other techniques will ask you to find inner support when it’s not readily found around you.

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The Gifts of Movement
Dec
11
12:00 PM12:00

The Gifts of Movement

What gifts have you received by moving your body? What gifts have you offered by moving your body?

Explore the gifts of movement by moving your body in mindful, curious, and creative ways. In this workshop, you will integrate many ways to move for a practice that is soft and strong. This practice will begin with a series of sliding and gliding movements that build to strong and dynamic postures.

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Many Ways to Move
Oct
21
to Nov 11

Many Ways to Move

This 4-week series explores different ways to move as part of a yoga/movement practice. When do you turn to familiar and comforting movements? When do you venture into uncomfortable or new movements? This workshop explores different ways of moving in practice as a way to explore embodied answers to these questions.

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4-Week Zoom Series: To Your Side
Sep
9
to Sep 30

4-Week Zoom Series: To Your Side

This four-week movement series will explore your side body - the ways you engage it for balancing and the ways you soften it for ease in movement. You will explore movement and postures that help you feel your side body connect your limbs to your trunk (including your neck) and integrate your front and back (think of your core as a responsive cylinder).

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4-Week Zoom SATYA Series: Facing the Current
Jun
9
to Jun 30

4-Week Zoom SATYA Series: Facing the Current

Pulses, waves, and spirals abound in this practice, just as in nature and the current of life. Expect an experience that is subtle, yet deep. June's theme is applied to both the SATYA and Asana Series in different ways. Each series stands alone, or take both to find the complementary experiences of SATYA and Asana with this inquiry.

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Outdoor Workshop: Autumn Paradox
Oct
3
1:00 PM13:00

Outdoor Workshop: Autumn Paradox

  • Santa Cruz, CA, 95062 United States (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Embrace the changing season with a short discussion of tips to nourish physically and mentally in autumn. You will explore movements that help cultivate grounding and steadiness as an antidote to the winds (figurative & real) that sweep through life. As your movement exploration comes to a natural completion, there is time to pause and rest.

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Intro to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali with Amey Mathews
Jan
11
to Jan 12

Intro to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali with Amey Mathews

Have you wondered about the philosophical roots of yoga? Are you wanting to weave the ancient teachings of yoga into your life and practice?

In this weekend workshop, we will begin to peel back the layers of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali; we’ll look at key concepts and qualities that are emphasized in the text and select certain passages to explore in detail.

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New Year's Eve Candlelight Yoga
Dec
31
6:00 PM18:00

New Year's Eve Candlelight Yoga

Honor this sacred transition into the New Year by joining Dawn in a special Candlelight Yoga Class. We will begin by setting a sankalpa (intention). You will then be lead through a series of supported somatic movements that gradually build into a slow, dynamic yoga practice for all levels.

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