At Yess Yoga, we explore yoga, meditation and health on a rich and
personal level. It is our privilege to offer trainings, workshops and
community events. Please join us for these opportunities which
will expand and enrich your yoga practice.
WORKSHOPS
Kids Yoga with Jenn
Three Wednesday’s in July | dates and times below | $15/ class or $30 for all three
Kids Yoga is coming to Yess! Bring the little one in your life to a class crafted just for them. In these playful classes, students will use their imaginations to learn movements and yoga poses. We’ll blend yoga games, music, stories, and short movement sequences into an age-appropriate class. Each child will learn how to be calm and strong with breathing and relaxation techniques. Caregivers are welcome to participate!
Instructor Jenn Pray, E-RYT, has been teaching movement to children since 2011. She is inspired by the energy and playfulness of children, and loves guiding lighthearted classes to empower kids. She is in the final steps of a 100-hr Yoga Calm training to become a Certified Youth Yoga Instructor.
*parents welcome to stay or leave
- Ages 4-6 from 10:00-10:30 am
- Ages 7+ from 10:45-11:30 am
Three Wednesdays in July:
- July 10
- July 17
- July 24
Developing a Daily Practice with Mary Bue
Saturday, July 27th | 3-5 pm | $35
A favorite teacher often would say during her teachings to tune into the “body of the day.” Depending on all the days before, the person we wake up to face is often times different from one morning to the next. Perhaps our muscles are recovering from a rockin’ asana practice from the day before or experiencing / healing from injury. Perhaps we stayed up too late, or ate too much birthday cake, or are feeling the blows of a break up, job transition, loss of some sort. Or maybe we wake up feeling energized, vibrant, ready to go. With so much change from day to day, how can we cultivate a daily yoga practice to tend to our needs in the moment?
Yoga Sutra 1:14 says, “Perfection in practice comes when one continues to practice with sincerity and respect for a long period of time without any interruption.” While striving for perfection isn’t entirely what yoga sage Patanjali means here, one could take this teaching to mean that we can perfect our practice routines … and by practicing with these three key things in mind, our growth evolution on this earth moves towards our ideal self and higher selves. Can we choose and allow time for daily practice, over a long period of our time, without interruption? This is ultimate self care.
In this workshop we will explore different ways to tune into our “body of the day’s” needs using asana (postures), pranayam (conscious breathwork), meditation, mantra, self reflection via journaling, and ritual. These tools can help craft a sustainable practice as well as bring inspiration to a daily practice that might need a little tweaking. Leave with an action plan for your daily routine and deep support to continue your journey.
Restorative Sound Bath w/ Gong and Cello lead by Marnie Bounds & Rosa Thompson-Vieira
Sunday, July 28th | 4-5:30 pm | $35
Full- Please email lucia@yessyogastudio.com to join the waitlist. Thanks!
Join Marnie Bounds and Rosa Thompson-Vieira for this very special event. Come relax in some gentle restorative poses while the healing vibrations of live gong and cello wash over you. The Parasympathetic Nervous System is ruled by sound. In this 90 minute class we will be using the vibrational healing sounds of the gong and cello to clear the energetic clutter that gets stored in the nervous system and the subconscious mind. Registration is required. Space is limited.
Woodstock 50th Anniversary Yoga Class with LIVE Music from Mary Bue and Meghan Foley
Friday, August 16th | 7-8:30 pm | $35
Come celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock with a night of peace and music! We’ll provide an all-levels groovy flow yoga class led by Meghan Foley, flowers for your hair, live music with Mary Bue and as many lava lamps as we can find! Wear your best tie-dye, tinted glasses and beads and get ready to soak up the peace and love of the community around you. Rock on yogis!
Yoga for Runners with Mary Bue
Saturday, August 17th | 3-4:30 pm | $25
Invigorate your spring running routine with a practice designed to compliment, stretch out, and restore for all the long miles in store! This workshop will aim to stretch hamstrings, quads, and calves, open and balance hips, strengthen and stretch the low back, and build core stability. Expect a small amount of lecture, warm ups, slow vinyasa / mindful movement, longer stretches, and deep relaxation to close. Tools for injury prevention and a few simple self massage methods will also be presented. Run on!
Womxn’s Moon Medicine: Moon in Aries, Element of Fire
Saturday, September 14th | 7-9 pm | $40
As the first sign of the zodiac, Aries represents the raw, primal fire of life force energy – Eros.
The heat of our desire, the wanting within us – to feel all aspects of our life experience deeply, to unabashedly assert ourselves, to be irrepressibly and victoriously ALIVE. To live empowered in the center of our desire is to live an erotic life, a life of passionate engagement and fervor.
Feminist, Audre Lorde, writes in her essay, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power:
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. For the demands of our released expectations lead us inevitably into actions which will help bring our lives into accordance with our needs, our knowledge, our desires. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, and leads us to settle for or accept many facets of our oppression as women… But when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to inform and illuminate our actions upon the world around us, then we begin to be responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense. For as we begin to recognize our deepest feelings, we begin to give up, of necessity, being satisfied with suffering and self-negation, and with the numbness which so often seems like their only alternative in our society.”
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The warrior goddess path of Aries demands we come to understand the erotic as our birthright – primal, instinctual, powerful and foundational to a sense of aliveness. By confronting our fears and burning through the patriarchal distortions which relegate the erotic natures of all humanity; we embody high, fierce Aries energy and feel the heat of courageous strength surging through our bones.
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We will explore this Aries Moon energy through freestyle dance and the sounding of our voices to further awaken and experience our own instinctual, erotic, full-feeling/expressing natures. Please wear comfortable clothing in which you can move easily. After the embodiment, we will circle for a time of ritual and sharing. Womxn’s Moon Medicine is guided by Evolutionary Astrologer, Jessa Walters.
TRAININGS
Yess Yoga’s RYT Certified Teacher Training
Starts Fall 2019 | email: lucia@yessyogastudio.com | payment plans
Here’s the deal. We want you to know your personal practice, your intuitive side, how to teach with authenticity, and learn different styles of yoga. By the end of our teacher training you will be able to teach vinyasa, restorative, and yin. We value diversity, inclusive communities, and intelligence. If those qualities are important to you, this is your teacher training.
This is a certified RYT training with a variety of teaching styles (restorative, yin, and vinyasa) and teacher support (Lucia, Marnie, Victoria, Elisabeth, and Sara).
Email lucia@yessyogastudio for more information about the unique five sections. If you are currently a teacher and want to go through any of these trainings you are welcome to join! Open to all people.
Please note: There is a 48 hour cancellation policy due to the limited amount of space in our workshops and often having a waiting list.
