Bodywork for Collective Liberation w/ Paige and Friends
Monday, August 17th | 3-7 pm | 30 min sessions -sliding scale
A Slow Flow & Restorative Yoga Experience with Live Cello with Halen Bower and Allegra Montanari
Tuesday, August 18th | 7:30-8:30 pm | Sliding Scale: $20-$40
SOLD OUT: email us to join the waitlist, [email protected]
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Fifty percent of proceeds will be donated to local mutual aid efforts supporting our Minneapolis community.
Join us for a gentle slow flow and restorative yoga practice accompanied by the rich, grounding sound of live cello. Together we’ll breathe, soften, and reconnect—with ourselves, with our bodies, and with one another.
Our community has been holding a great deal. Whether you’re carrying stress, grief, burnout, or simply longing for a quiet place to land, you are welcome here. This evening is an opportunity to slow down, reconnect, and remember that healing happens not only within us, but between us.
Community Acupuncture w/ Ray and Nikki
Sunday, August 23rd | 2-4 pm | Sliding scale
Community Acupuncture for Collective Resistance is a monthly donation-based offering created by Ray of Ray Himmelman Acupuncture and Nikki of Perenial Acupuncture. This is a space to heal and rest, with the intention that our own healing can ripple out and support collective healing and liberation. Appointments are 45 minutes long and are scheduled in 15 minute intervals. Walk-ins welcome, or you can in Ray’s website. Suggested donation is $20-$50, but no one is turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds go to local mutual aid efforts!
Sound Bath w/ Michele
Sunday, August 23rd | 7-8 pm | $20
According to yogic philosophy, liberation comes when the mind can be directed and one’s inner light takes the lead. Paying attention to the activity of our senses is one way to direct the mind, and hearing is one of the 5 primary human senses. When we become fully aware of our hearing sense, with a heart of curiosity, we can decrease the tendency of the mind to act as master. Further, therapeutic sound has a unique ability to call forth the parasympathetic nervous response, as the ears are a seat for this part of our nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous response brings forth the feelings and sensations of relaxation, restoration and rejuvenation. In a world that largely activates only our sympathetic nervous responses, therapeutic sound is so incredibly needed right now. Therapeutic sound can entrain the mind’s vibration into one of steadiness and directability.
In these monthly workshops, we will start with restorative breathwork that fses on lengthening the exhale, which is another way that yogic philosophy says will mold the mind into a more redirectable form. Then we will move into relaxation within the vibrations of therapeutic sound. The instruments of gongs, crystal sound bowls, and drums will be used to create these therapeutic sounds.
No previous experience needed. Please wear comfortable clothing. If you are prone to headaches, please bring a head covering (beanie, hat, bandana, etc). Minimum age requirement is 11 years old.
Free Monthly Yin Classes for Summer w/ Byrd
Thursday, August 27th | 7:30-8:30 pm | Free
Summer moves fast. Come on in for an hour to slow down and connect with your breath and body. Notice where you’ve been. Notice where you are. Allow gravity. Allow release. Give time to the parts that want a bit of stillness and quiet so that you can continue to be present in this season of heat and movement.
This will be a series of four free Yin classes meeting once a month on the following Thursdays 7:30-8:30pm:
•August 27th
•September 24th
Feel free to come to any or all classes
Yin yoga draws from traditional Chinese medicine in its approach to movement and energy, and it involves longer holds of 1-10 minutes. We use props—blankets, bolsters, and blocks—so you can be supported as you release tension.
Songs for Tending Your Heart w/ C and Liz
Friday, August 28th | 7:30-9 pm | donation based
Our culture desperately needs spaces where it is safe to feel your sorrow and the weight of the weary world. Come sing through the small and large griefs in your life and give them space to breathe and heal.
Song leaders Conie Borchardt and Liz Digitale Anderson (aka GOOD TROUBLE) hold care-filled circles for you to find freedom in your voice, de-stress your nervous system, and move your body.
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Every voice is welcome! We teach all the songs call and response- just open your mouth and echo back. We’ll sing songs to ground you, heal you, and help you breathe in the days to come.
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Pre-register + pay what you can: $5-$20 sliding scale (No one turned away for lack of funds; we want you there!) You can also pay on the door.
**Notes: Because Covid is airborne and we’ll be singing indoors, we are asking folx to mask up for this workshop. Thank you!
Immersive Embodiment: A holistic sensory journey w/ Ray and Vani
Saturday, August 29th| 2-4 pm | $40 or $70 for two people
This workshop will bring together light, sound, yoga, acupuncture, and storytelling for a two-hour experience to leave guests feeling liberated and restored in body and spirit. Ray will guide a nourishing Yin Yoga practice while DJ Vani’s low-fi soundtrack will be complimented with music-responsive lighting, washing the studio in color. With guests in deep yoga holds, Vani will bring in a storytelling element, reading excerpts of Life Chant by Diane Di Pima. To conclude the experience, Vani will guide Yoga Nidra and participants will have the option to receive acupuncture from Ray.
Fall Equinox Sound Bath and Yoga Nidra w/ Elisabeth and Michele
Saturday, August 29th| 2-4 pm | $40 or $70 for two people
Join us on September 20 for a restorative Fall Equinox Sound Bath and Yoga Nidra designed to anchor you as day and night reach perfect, sacred balance. As the equinox marks a shift toward inward reflection and seasonal harvest, this immersive journey helps you recalibrate your energy and release what no longer serves you. With Black Moon Lilith initiating at 0° Capricorn, we step into a surge of raw personal authority, empowering you to dismantle rigid expectations and reclaim your authentic power. Simultaneously, Chiron at the critical 29th degree of Aries invites a deep, final integration of core identity wounds, transforming old self-doubt into courage and self-sovereignty. Through meditative sound vibration and conscious rest, you will integrate these potent cosmological shifts, leaving you deeply rooted, steadily on your healing path, and ready for the cycle ahead.
No previous experience needed, props and mats will be provided. Please wear comfortable clothing, bring a water bottle & journal/pen if you’d like. If you are prone to headaches, please bring a head covering (beanie, hat, bandana, etc).
We are so excited to welcome you to a Yess Yoga special offering or training. We have a 48 hr cancellation policy. Please email [email protected] if you no longer can make it to the workshop you signed up for. If you are unable to attend class or email after 48 hours to the start of the workshop, a credit(s) will be deducted from your account.
Thank you
Yess Yoga