MUSIC AS MEDICINE: SOUND HEALING JOURNEY
with WalkingStar
In Studio Only
Sunday, April 5 | 6:00 - 7:15pm
Join WalkingStar for a 75 minute meditative Sound Journey as he opens a portal through sound frequencies to support what you desire for your own healing and relaxation. Release what no longer serves you and usher in more inner peace and love.
iREST YOGA NIDRA: 10 STEPS TO DEEP EASE, REST, + CONNECTION
with Lisa Feder
In Studio Only
Sunday, April 19 | 2:00 - 4:00pm
Join Lisa Feder, Certified iRest teacher for an afternoon of contemplation and deep rest.
iRest is a meditation practice based on the ancient tradition of Yoga Nidra and adapted to suit the conditions of modern life. When practiced regularly - little and often - iRest enables you to meet each moment of your life with unshakable peace and wellbeing, no matter how challenging or difficult your situation.
Yoga Nidra is a process of meditative self-inquiry informed by the teachings of nonduality. It reminds us that our sense of being a separate entity from everyone and everything - the sense of ‘I’ - is a misperception created by the mind. The term nonduality also refers to the direct, first-hand realization and experience of yourself as undivided nature, or Essential Nature. This merges the human with the sacred, and is practiced in the world, by embracing everything, just as it is, and rejecting nothing.
iRest is a contemporary form of meditative self-inquiry that has been adapted from the ancient practice of Yoga Nidra into a 10 step framework which is simple to learn and easy to practice. In this workshop you will learn the steps and then experience an extended practice, which will leave you feeling deeply restored.
THERAPEUTIC BREATHWORK WORKSHOP
with Lauren Morlock
In Studio Only
Sunday, April 19 | 5:30 - 7:00pm
Therapeutic Breathwork, or Conscious Connected Breathing is a practice developed to bring about deep change. By facilitating movement through the different kinds of repression that limit our ability to fully experience life; breathwork works to identify and integrate both the physical and psychic parts of ourselves. Modern trauma research confirms that repression lives in the body, on a deep level, sometimes hard to find; even in the most dedicated efforts to diagnose and treat.
This style of Breathwork is akin to holotropic breathing; holotropic meaning “moving towards wholeness”. It is an active meditation, with the breath, that brings us into an expanded state of consciousness. In a cyclic, slightly-faster-than-normal-paced breathing pattern, we breathe to a set of curated musical accompaniment that supports and augments the experience.Therapeutic Breathwork is an effective and powerful tool for exploring ourselves; traversing the emotional, physical, and energetic bodies. This conscious practice allows what may be buried in the psyche, or embedded within the structure of the body, to arise and be processed in a safe and supportive container. It allows us to be in our bodies; held in a space of radical presence and Self-nurturing.
Oftentimes we are left feeling lighter, spacious, grounded and aligned after the session. Breathwork is a powerful and accessible tool for those of us who struggle with anxiety, stress, depression, substance use, pain, grief, trauma, insomnia, and more. It is also a great tool for encountering the Self, ever-more intimately, while building self-love, agency, and empowerment. I’ve experienced Breathwork transform many lives, as it has my own.
WRITING WORKSHOP: THE HUMAN SENTENCE
with Kyle Beachy
In Studio Only
Sunday, April 26 | 2:00 - 4:00pm
In a world that increasingly delegates language to machines, how do we maintain, and even reclaim, the sentence as our most sacred technology of human thought and communication? By centering form, we'll explore syntax as both a generative and recursive practice of thought, as much canvas as tool, and stage as mirror.
A class for poets and prose writers at any stage of your practice, we'll balance communal close readings with discussion and brief, in-class writing prompts.
REGENERATIVE + RESTORATIVE AFTERNOON RETREAT
with Melissa Smith
In Studio Only
*next date TBA
Join Melissa Smith, 500 E-RYT and LMHC for an afternoon retreat. Set in our sacred community space at Yoga Source, you’ll experience connection with self and others through an integrated practice that will intertwine mantra, pranayama, and strength building postures with slow transitions adaptive your body’s ability. We will finish with a restorative segment of postures, yoga nidra and collective reflections. The retreat is ideal for all levels of experience.
RASIKA KIRTAN
with Annie Moon + guest musicians
In Studio Only
*next date TBA
To be a Rasika is to be one whom can taste Rasa. Rasa is the mystical nectar of life's beauty that is perceived through observing the arts. In other words, we can enter into a state of divinity through the presence of artistic offerings and by an increased sensitivity to our own personal receptivity.
Please join Annie Moon and special guest musicians on the first Sunday of the month (December 7) for a night of Kirtan at Yoga Source! Kirtan is the practice of Bhakti Yoga, an Indian temple tradition of call and response chanting. This is where we come together to sing the ancient Sanskrit mantras with repetition with group participation. Together we can dissolve into the infinite body of sound by letting our voices ring out in exploration of presence & consciousness. All are welcome! No prior experience is needed.