Yoga + Writing Classes

Autumn Yoga & Writing Series

Wednesdays 7-9pm

 

We’ll meet from the Autumnal Equinox to the Winter Solstice and move through the autumn season together. We’ll explore the changes in nature around us and expand awareness in our bodies and minds. We’ll let our attention drift and come back. We’ll celebrate our daily joys and ground in present realities. We’ll gather together to move, meditate, write, and share space as days get shorter and seasons shift amidst our own rhythms of ordinary existence alongside local and global tensions and distress. 

 

Each meeting will be themed and full of yoga and writing practices centered around shifting attention back to the body and the curiosity of being in one. Themes may range (but are not limited to) the senses, space, place, time, imagination, voice, dreaming, nature, change, perspective, and more. 

 

While I have a general outline of themes for the series, I’m interested in a malleable format for the series that shapes itself with what the group gravitates towards. This usually happens naturally in all series I’ve offered, but opening to an even more collaborative endeavor and experience excites me. I hope it excites you too and you’ll join! 

 

Meeting Dates:

Sept 24

Oct 1

Oct 8

Oct 22

Oct 29

Nov 5

Nov 19

Dec 3

Dec 10

Dec 17 

 

Each class will follow a structure something like this:

 

5-10 minute opening meditation (we’ll explore various meditation/grounding/centering practices)

 

10-15 minute discussion/sharing (brief check in to see how we’re all arriving and sometimes I’ll offer a prompt related to the class theme to get all our ideas and voices circling in the space)

 

60 minute gentle yoga practice (combination of pranayama and asana with enough time in shapes to explore sensation, feeling, and subtlety and plenty of opportunity to personalize and adapt your practice from moment to moment)

 

20-30 minute guided writing (prompts will be offered but you’ll have the freedom to go in any direction with your writing - journal, doodle, storytell, reminisce, speculate, wonder, dream, envision, create, or follow wherever your practice takes you)
 

10 minute sharing (optional to share something you wrote, summarize or more generally share about your experience in the practices)

 

5 minute gratitude practice (we’ll end with gratitude as a way to extend our awareness and attention to the world around us and overall gratitude helps with feeling more connected and maybe even happier, making the weight feel more manageable)

 

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This class is not to produce anything. Not to prove anything. Not to get better at a yoga pose. Not to write a novel. Not to make a masterpiece. Not to heal all your trauma. Maybe some of these will start to happen but this is a class for exploration, curiosity, joy, honesty and maybe…hope. 

 

Sliding Scale $210 - 360 for all 10 classes

Pay what you can