SoulFlow Oakland

Hi Everyone! How are you? October brings Stillness & Bliss: Illuminate the mind, ignite the soul, and connect to Beloved Community on the pristine coast of Northern California in Gualala. Located on 40 acres of an organic fruit and flower farm above the ocean, Rosewood Creek Ranch provides a secluded, grounding experience in both raw and cultivated beauty.... Explore the interplay of bliss and stillness as both our true nature and the Divine Play of the world around us. Dive deep into the Yoga tradition with Asana (physical Yoga postures), meditation, pranayama, mantra, and stories for connection and deep soul growth. There will be Yoga asanas offered for all levels of experience: Hatha flow and Restorative Yoga and periods of Noble Silence. Some afternoons will include excursions to hiking and beaches. The 5 day option will include 2-3 days of Noble Silence and periods of rounding where we move mindfully between Yoga asana practice, seated meditation, and walking meditation. Nourish yourself with exquisite farm-to-table meals. Space is limited to 9-12 people and an application is required. Two Options: October 15-17 weekend (2 nights, 3 days) for self-identifying BIPOC only October 17th - 22nd (5 nights, 6 days) for all beings who identify as anti-racist Bit.ly/3yBAaqH

Magic. Healing. Gratitude. #Juneteenth #bipocyoga #yogaretreats #blackgirlyoga #decolonizingyoga #blackyogateacher #yogaandpsychology #blackjoy #blackgirlstravel

Please DM Sabrina @sabibi.davidson, a $50 refundable deposit is required. I do apologize but this person will need to be vaccinated so as to not wait for testing results which can tend to take 72 hours. The retreat starts on Friday afternoon at Lake Tahoe. Share with your community. - Sabrina

June 12th is tomorrow! We welcome you to Albany Bulb for a special grounding slow flow yoga class featuring the beautiful love music of Amber Field. Amber Sue Field is a performer, teacher, and sound healer featured in San Francisco magazine's Best of the Bay for yoga music. They specialize in world fusion having studiedIndian and Western classical music playing didgeridoo, djembe, Arabic tambourine, Native flute, esraj, Native flute, and harmonium among others. We look f...orward to seeing you there. Sign up https://soulflowoakland.punchpass.com/classes/8446319 Location: It's about a 5 minute walk from the parking lot to a smaller, more secluded beach to the left (South) of the main beach. Walk along the bike/pedestrian path and you'll see it. Looking forward to seeing you there.

It's almost Saturday and I'm welcoming you to meet us at Albany Bulb for Soul Flow Yoga with Live Music by Amber Field. It's about a 5 minute walk from the parking lot to a smaller, more secluded beach to the left (South) of the main beach. Walk along the bike/pedestrian path and you'll see it. Looking forward to seeing you there! https://soulflowoakland.punchpass.com/classes/8446319

It's nearly June 12th and we welcome you to come to Albany Bulb for a grounding slow flow yoga class featuring the beautiful love music of Amber Field. https://soulflowoakland.punchpass.com/classes/8446319 It's about a 5 minute walk from the parking lot to a smaller, more secluded beach to the left (South) of the main beach. Walk along the bike/pedestrian path and you'll see it. Looking forward to seeing you there. ... --- On June 8th registration for The Black Womxn's retreat will close. We have 3 more spots available. If you have any questions do reach out. See the link address above on the second slide.

Friends and fun and sun and black joy ablazin @wortharead1111 @zimarissa365 @brownsugahealing

Really honored to have live music by Astu @astumusic for class this Saturday 9 am. Outdoors and livestream. Don’t be jealous if you’re coming to the 11 am class. She’ll offer a little music at opening and stay to practice with us Sign up @ soulflowoakland.Punchpass.com

Really honored and excited to have the musical offering of @astu.music for class this Saturday 9 am. Come move your body and love yourself into healing with her soulful sound. Outdoors at Lake Merritt and livestream link in bio #outdooryoga #oaklandyoga #bayareayoga #bayareamusic #supportblackartists

Come for a nourishing, slow flow yoga class at a secluded beach at Albany Bulb and be bathed by Amber's healing sound vibrations. This special grounding class will include sacred world instruments and chanting. Come join this special afternoon of healing, joy, and community at the beach! Bring your yoga mat and layers in case it gets windy. It’s about a 5 minute walk from the parking lot to a smaller, more secluded beach to the left (south) of the main beach. Walk along the b...ike/pedestrian path and you’ll see it. Bio: Amber Field is a performer, teacher and sound healer featured in San Francisco Magazine's Best of the Bay for yoga music. Amber has performed and taught at SF Jazz, Esalen, Wanderlust, the Yoga Journal Conference, and SF International Arts Festival. They specialize in world fusion music and freeing people's voices and rhythms so that they can sing, sound, and speak their truths with confidence. Amber studied Indian and Western classical music and plays didgeridoo, djembe, Arabic tambourine, Native flute, esraj, harmonica, harmonium, and more. Amber is available for private and group classes, sound baths, performances, and more. Amberfieldmusic.com

Looking forward to seeing you! We are continuing with livestream and outdoor classes. You can apply for free or discounted classes through the link: www.soulflowoakland.punchpass.com Thank you!

We are so pleased to announce additional phenomenal women joining us for our first ever retreat for Black womxn by Black womxn. This retreat calls all Black womxn into nature, into radical self- love, into beloved community. A weekend of yoga practice, art therapy, meditation, dance, and ritual. Please read below for more information about Yavette Holts and fLO DABOKEMP @officialidaflo -- Yavette Holts is rooted through yoga, specifically Bikram, at first then vinyasa and h...atha then to meditation, moonwork, and bodywork. She received her accupressure certification from the Acupressure Institute in Berkeley after returning from 3 years of life with her two young suns in a pueblo on the Pacific coast in Mexico. Yavette brings with her many years and hours of massage practice. For more information onepressencemassage.com @bethaniehinesphotography -- fLO DABOKEMP, as a movement and health guide, fLO brings awareness to the body and empowers the individual to begin the conversation. Influences of Afro-fusion and hip-hop genres are the soundtrack to the movement she teaches. She encourages all to dance freely on the path of exploration to learn about the self through this expressive and uplifting art form. "Every day is an opportunity to communicate with our body and prioritize its expressions. If we can actively listen to what it feels, wants, and can't move without -- we can develop a healthy and in-sync relationship with ourselves that is, self-love." - fLO @createyourpeace.life @sabibi.davidson #blackwomxn #blackownedbusiness #blackyogis #bipocyoga #bipocyogateachers #oaklandyogaevents @blackmenyoga @black_women_yoga #blackwomenjoy

I'm so honored to steward this journey of deepening Yoga practice, connection to Spirit and community, rewilding with nature, and igniting and honing the gifts we have to offer in these difficult times. All are welcome. More info and link in bio. Begins January 6th. Many thanks to Sabrina Davidson for the graphic. Please share with your loved ones and community. https://www.soulflowoakland.com/event/2020immersion/ #oaklandyoga #virtualyoga #yogaandmindfulness #pocyogateachers #bipocwellness #blackyogateachersrs

Is there a thought that keeps swirling, churning, and repeating? Do you ever wish there was an off button for your brain? Learn some practical tools for quieting the mind and unhooking from incessant fear based thoughts. Unwind tension in your shoulders, belly, and low back through a full spectrum Hatha flow class. 9 am is for all beings 11 am for PoC. DM for guest pass or register at soulflowoakland.com #pocyoga #oaklandyoga @oakland_yoga_collective @anasayoga

While I have so much joy in my heart with #bidenharris2020 win, I’m also aware that for many of us are struggling with our mental health. Join Dr. Bree McDaniel and I for a morning of healing, community, and Yoga. Discover how depression may look different for POC (people of color.) Practice tools for navigating feelings of depression and meeting them with compassion and awareness. Wednesday, November 11th Link in bio or visit soulflowoakland.com #pocyoga #traumainformed #traumahealing #traumainformedyoga #pocyogateachers #blacklivesmatter #blackpsychologist @black_healing_and_liberation

Join me and the Anasa community tomorrow 6-8 pm to take a sacred pause in all this uncertainty. We will lean into our own vulnerability and bear witness to each other--whether there is deep suffering, compassion, or jubilation. Register @anasayoga or anasaoakland.com #traumahealing #traumainformedyoga #oaklandyoga

Really honored to steward this journey of deepening Yoga practice, connection to Spirit and community, rewilding with nature, and igniting and honing the gifts we have to offer in these difficult times. Applications due this Saturday. All are welcome. More info @ https://soulflowoakland.com/event/2020immersion/ Many thanks to @sabibi.davidson for the graphic. Please share with your loved ones and community.

Tuesdays 12 pm & Thursdays 545 pm are FREE or sliding scale. Hit me up for a guest pass for the other classes if you need it. DM for zoom links or more info. Saturday 11 am class will be virtual and outdoor by the lake if the air quality is right. With @anasayoga @oakland_yoga_collective @ebmc_oakland #oaklandyoga #lunglove #pocyoga #blackyogateacher #blm #zoomyoga #outdooryoga

Registration extended until tomorrow! While I’m sad that normally we could be in the streets celebrating Oakland pride, I’m grateful for the opportunity to gather QTPOC virtual community tomorrow in meditation, movement, music, and discussion. 2-6 pm PDT. By donation. Link in bio! With the phenomenonal joyful @freshlevlove #blacktranslivesmatter #blackjoy #blackjoyisresistance #oaklandpride #qtpocyoga #pocyoga #queeryoga #lovewins

Registration closes Friday! Prayers for the fires to be tamed and the air to clear so we can gather outside this Sunday. Virtual option will be available no matter what. We find joy in strength of our connection to each other. We find joy when we open to the grief, rage, and fear we experience. We find joy in through meditation, movement, and music. Joy gives us the will to go on when we feel like we can't take another day with things as they are. Beginners are welcome. No Yoga or meditation experience necessary.

Times is rough out there. Daily affirmation helps me set the tone for my day and make space for the rage, frustration, lethargy, and sorrow. Fill in the blank below or make it your own in whatever way feels right to you. Here is how I filled in the blank this morning: 1st blank: Black Womxn 2nd blank: Buddhas, Devis, Devas, family, friends, neighbors. Affirmation adapted from The Heart of the Matter by Jack Addington #affirmations

New hampshaa! Practicing yoga with my mama & in community in the vineyard thanks to @symmetryyogastudio

Really honored to collaborate with @freshlevlove to offer this Oakland Pride healing event for Queer and Trans People of Color Sunday, September 13th. Join us virtually or in the park with personal distancing! Looking for straight and white folks to leverage their privilege and sponsor spots for folks who can’t afford to purchase a ticket. Link in bio. #pocyoga #qtpocyoga #blackjoy #blackjoymatters #queeryoga #oaklandyoga #blackbuddhist

Join me this Friday 9:30 am for Yoga to support Cycles of Change an Oakland org that addresses transportation justice and health and offers youth programming ac...ross East Oakland and all of Alameda County. Zoom or outdoor by the lake! Sign up by Thursday 6 pm. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yoga-outside-for-everybody-fun See more

Yoga for a Cause! For over 20 years now Cycles of Change has successfully shared bike education to address violence, transportation justice, health, and accessibility with our youth across East Oakland and all of Alameda County. The work they do directly assists and brings in youth of color, from our non-profit community bike shop, The Bikery, to after-school clubs, bike rodeos, and bike safety education programs, and during these difficult times they are still committed to making these programs accessible. Link in bio! #oaklandyoga #yogaforacause

Sick of zoom? Join me weekly for outdoor POC Yoga Saturdays 11 am by the lake! Registration closes 6 pm Friday. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poc-yoga-by-the-lak...e-tickets-1 photo credit Gaia Esensten #pocyoga #decolonizingyoga #blackyogateacher #pocwellness #blackjoy #blackyogasuperstars #oaklandyoga #lakemerritt See more

@brownsugahealing is offering these healing sessions for Black folks. Really can’t recommend enough.

@soulisticwellness @blacktoyoga @black_healing_and_liberation @her365fitness @getitgirlinfo @ebmc_poc_sangha @ebmc_oakland

I have a full scholarship available for the Mount Shasta retreat July 12th for someone who identifies as Black. Apply by July 2nd. https://docs.google.com//1FA...IpQLSchixYi3hcuJMqgm/viewform https://www.wetravel.com//mount-shasta-yoga-retreat-2020-f. Babe Kawaii-Bogue Dominique Cowling Paul Wayne Hollins Candi Martinez - Carthen Elika Aird Fresh White Saun-Toy Trotter Patrick Brown

Let’s ground and connect to our power together. Thursdays 5:45 pm and Saturdays 11 am are POC only. All other classes open to all. Outdoor classes coming soon! Link in my bio. @anasayoga @ebmc_oakland #oaklandyoga #blackyogateachers #zoomyoga #alignmentbasedyoga #inclusiveyoga #traumacenteredyoga #pocyoga #pocyogateachers

Check out this self-massage workshop my sis is offering this Saturday 5 pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/self-massage-workshop-single-o

I’m really honored to partner with the Northwest Network to offer free gentle Yoga Wednesday 6 pm for Queer survivors & allies. www.eventbrite.com/e/liberation-can-look-like-love-event-se #queeryoga #pride #livestreamyoga #zoomyoga #freeyogaclasses

Really honored to partner with @thenwnetwork to offer gentle yoga for Queer survivors of violence and allies. This is a free event! Link in my bio! #pride #queeryoga #sangha #wegotus #zoomyoga #livestreamyoga

This rose bush has gotten bigger and more bountiful in the two years that we’ve lived in Pinole. This year it even wove together with the bourgainvillea and rose (pun intended ) above it. Tell me, what wild rose is springing up within you?

Embark on a journey of deepening your teaching and spiritual friendship. Through asana, discussion, reflection, chanting, lecture, and Q&A explore trauma-informed, POC (people of color)-centered practices for awakening and redefining your offering as a Yoga teacher during difficult times. Open to self-identified people of color including multi-racial folks. Replay available for those who can’t make it day of. Link in the bio! @thisis_meha @instameha @smdmontoya @paravida__ @rajpractice @bigfirebaker @blacktoyoga @black_healing_and_liberation @ebmc_oakland @mabengi001 @lotusawakens #pocyoga #pocyogateachers

Lifting up this incredible virtual offering by @lotusawakens tomorrow. Circle for Womxn of Color and gender expansive folx that explores Strength, Softness, and Sensuality Lotus is a beautiful leader who embodies grace, vulnerability, and lightness of being. Her souls journey will inspire you. 430 pst DM @lotusawakens for zoom link.

So we know that Covid disproportionately affects people of color. We also know that the systems that be fail people of color and have even found new ways to demonize and criminalize black folks and other people of color in the pandemic. So we have to look at Covid and resilience through a racial lens. We have to have each other’s backs. Community is resilience. Breath is resilience. Making space for the pain and the grief is resilience. I’m incredibly honored to collaborate w...ith two mental health professionals, Dr. Bree McDaniel and Tiha Baker to offer an afternoon of yoga, Circle, and resources for resilience in these trying times. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/healing-the-black-psyche-yoga- White folks: do you feel called to support racial equity? Will you leverage your privilege and donate toward a spot for a person of color to attend? You are investing in black healers, healing the black psyche, and mental health for people of color. Thank you from the depths of my heart for whatever you’re able to offer. You can offer directly through the eventbrite page or smaller amounts through Venmo @satyabodyworks and PayPal PayPal.me/satyabodyworks #pocyoga #bayareayoga #healingtheblackpsyche #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawarenessmonth

Sliding scale $15-40. One full scholarship left! Register @ anasaoakland.com/events-workshops/ #virtualyoga #zoomyoga #bayareayoga #wochealers #supportblackownedbusinesses

Need a free pass? DM me. Free for health care workers. Register @ilovenamaste at least 30 minutes in advance. #zoomyoga #oaklandyoga #wochealers #hathaflow

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Join me weekly for online Yoga classes to ground, move your body, and tend to your heart. Many classes have a by donation option. All classes in Pacific time. ...Tuesdays 12 pm Vinyasa and Meditation https://zoom.us/s/311598905 Tuesdays 6 pm Aligned Vinyasa anasaoakland.com/classes Wednesdays 4 pm Hatha Flow https://ilovenamaste.com/offerings/class-schedules Thursdays 12 pm Yoga Basics https://zoom.us/j/324073729 Thursdays 5:45 pm Hatha Flow for People of Color https://zoom.us/j/558610086 Saturdays 9 am Aligned Vinyasa anasaoakland.com/classes Saturdays 11 am Hatha Flow for People of Color ilovenamaste.com/offerings/class-schedules See more

Slow nourishing flow that reminds us the heart can be a refuge in the middle of crisis. Includes chanting, warming up the joints and spine, sun salutations, sta...nding poses like Triangle, Warrior 2, and half moon. Backbends sprinkled through out. Practice listening to your heart and feeling the flows of energy moving through the heart. Feel yourself as Divine Love in motion. Finish with a 10 minute lovingkindess meditation. #satyabodyworks #quarantineyoga #wochealers #metta See more

Can you help me shower some appreciation and love on Abu Baker? This fearless Yogi/Fireman just worked a 48 hour shift in Oakland. Now he is always out risking ...his life for the greater whole but even more right now. Send some love to his FB inbox or email it to me and I will forward it to him. [email protected] #COVID19Heroes #FrontlineHeroes #EssentialWorkers See more

During these strange and difficult times, my heart is with you. I am praying for you. For us. While we navigate the uncertainty, the news cycles, the illness we... may experience, may we stay kind. May we meet our emotional distress and changing bodies with gentle, compassionate attention. We can stay 6 feet from someone and smile from the depths of our hearts. We can stay 6 feet from someone and ask them what they need. May we also stay connected to what grounds and enlivens us. Take a walk in nature, take a long bath, make up a new game with a loved one, or blast the music and dance until your lungs burn. When we face the depths of impermanence and suffering, we're also ripe for profound soul growth and wise, compassionate action. Some of you have joined me for our New Year's Celebrations where we explore a stream of conscious question: What wants to awaken in me now? While feeling waves of anxiety and distrust, I've been whispering: What wants to awaken in me through this? Over and over again. What's revealed itself is deep solitude, courage, and the desire to wander in nature. For the next week I will be taking refuge in deep solitude, meditating, taking slow walks in the fresh spring mud, rejuvenating my spirit and each cell in my body so I can show up more fully in the weeks to come. For now, I am still planning on offering all of my Spring workshops and retreats while keeping a close eye on CDC recommendations. The April 11th workshop will go online need be. Check out my classes on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbeHnlu7EaCW5Ug3ahp2BkA and these upcoming online classes... Upcoming Zoom online classes: 3/19 Yoga for People of Color with Jessy 5:45 pm https://zoom.us/j/558610086 3/21 Yoga for People of Color with Shirley Johnson 11 am https://ilovenamaste.com/offerings/class-schedules/ 3/24 Vinyasa and Meditation: Heart as Touchstone with me 12 pm https://zoom.us/j/311598905?status=success 3/24 Aligned Vinyasa with me 6 pm https://www.anasaoakland.com/classes I will post more next week. I leave you with a poem that my colleague, David Moreno, shared with me. It invites us in a deeper relationship with solitude. Pandemic What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world different than it is. Sing. Pray. Touch only those to whom you commit your life. Center down. And when your body has become still, reach out with your heart. Know that we are connected in ways that are terrifying and beautiful. (You could hardly deny it now.) Know that our lives are in one another’s hands. (Surely, that has come clear.) Do not reach out your hands. Reach out your heart. Reach out your words. Reach out all the tendrils of compassion that move, invisibly, where we cannot touch. Promise this world your love-- for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, so long as we all shall live. --Lynn Ungar 3/11/20

Folks check out this queer womxn’s retreat with two of my favorite teachers Skeeter Barker and Richelle Donigan of Ojah Retreat. I went to the last retreat and it was an incredibly magical experience. Richelle and Skeeter co-create a container of joy, inclusion, and transformation within the sacred grounds of Groundswell. The retreat combines the expanse of grasslands and redwoods with community and a soulful dive our innermost being.

Hokusai Says by Roger Keyes. Hokusai says look carefully. He says pay attention, notice. He says keep looking, stay curious.... He says there is no end to seeing He says look forward to getting old. He says keep changing, you just get more who you really are. He says get stuck, accept it, repeat yourself as long as it is interesting. He says keep doing what you love. It matters that you feel. It matters that you notice. It matters that life lives through you. Contentment is life living through you. Joy is life living through you. Satisfaction and strength is life living through you. Peace is life living through you. He says don’t be afraid. Don’t be afraid. Look, feel, let life take you by the hand. Let life live through you. ~ Roger Keyes

Yoga tmr! 9 am Anasa Yoga with me and 11 am Namaste Grand Lake Rondy is guest teaching. Stretch your hips and build core and upper body strength

Many of you have asked me about this so I decided to just make this a public post. Please consider this a resource; share and utilize as needed. To my knowledg...e (and what I can also co-sign on) here is a list of Yoga for People of Color in Oakland. Please support these studios and teachers who are intentionally carving out space for us to move, breathe and heal. WEEKLY: Thursdays 5:45PM - 6:45PM East Bay Meditation Center Led by Satya de la Paz Donation Based / Scent Free Space Saturdays 11AM - 12:15PM Namaste - Grand Lake Led by Satya de la Paz Donation Based Saturdays 11:45AM - 12:45PM Latinx Yoga - Yoga en Español Left Coast Power Yoga - Laurel Led by Cynthia Santiago Donation Based Saturdays 12:30 - 1:45PM Yoga and Meditation for Black Men Loka Yoga, Oakland CA Led by Rondy Isaac $19-21 Sundays 10AM - 2PM (Four Classes) Black to Yoga at Impact Hub Led by Maureen Miller, Kirsten Rogers, Zen Forbes and Special Guests. $10-15/Class MONTHLY: 1st Saturdays 6-7:30PM Noire Wellness Left Coast Power Yoga - Laurel Led by Keisha Courtney / the Driven Yogi $35 BONUS: Shout out to YogaLove, Oakland for offering three weekly Kemetic and Egyptian Yoga classes. Check their schedule! Peace, Love + Liberation, Candi

Check out this "pay what you can" Meditation Retreat March 27th in the Santa Cruz mountains.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/partner-yoga-thai-massage-for-

Treasuring the wisdom of my ancestors today. Thanks to Lama Rod Owens I’ve been asking daily: Ancestors show me the truth. Teach me about resilience, kindness, courage, and equanimity.

Really excited for these Yoga in Action workshops next weekend with NY based Iyengar teacher Deidra Demens. Saturday is for everyone and Sunday is POC only. Tun...e up your alignment while supporting an incredible Black yoga teacher. Hit up Andrés Roy León for scholarship info. https://www.adelineyoga.com/event/deidra-demens/ #pocyoga #decolonizingyoga #blackyogasuperstars See more

Thank you so much Ashley Brown for the nourishing class yesterday. Make sure you catch the deep rejuvenation of Restorative Yoga with Dominique Camille next Sunday.

Try repeating this mantra throughout your day.

I’m learning to love myself unconditionally, irrevocably, and infinitely. Will you join me? Special thanks to Sonya Renee Taylor, Sianna Sherman, and Kimber Simpkins for their insight and inspiration. #satyabodyworks #40dayradicalselflove

"When we work with love, we renew the spirit" - bell hooks

It's that time of year we try to keep it all together and we can't. Remember to ask for help when you want it. That will make it easier to ask for help when you desperately need it but are afraid to ask.

Join me to stretch hips and low back and remember our true nature, our cosmic self is available at any moment....yes even during those moments of family drama d...uring the holidays. Message me if you want a guest pass. Friday 430 Namaste GL Saturday 9 am Anasa Yoga Saturday 11 am Namaste GL* *this class open to self-identified people of color only. by donation. notaflof

Sweet slow hip opening Hatha flow which includes side bends to clear the low back, pigeon, sun salutations, standing and seated postures. Drop back into the remembrance that every part of you is sacred. Thanks to amazing Yoga teacher @siannasherman for the inspiration

Yoga will be gentle over the next few days with exercises to build your immune system and care for your sweet lungs. We have air filters too!! Tuesday 6 pm ANAS...A Wednesday 430 pm Namaste GL Thursday 545 pm EBMC* *for self identifying people of color only **my goal is to help folks access healing regardless of income. PM me for a guest pass**

Reclaiming our sovereignty as womxn of color 9/7

Reclaiming our sovereignty as womxn of color 9/7/19

One of the biggest gifts of my spiritual practice has been learning to grow a forgiving heart. Mostly, I practice forgiving myself...for overexerting myself, for a class or a conversation not going according to my expectations, for not giving someone or something my full attention. It's a way I really let go and live in the moment. Forgiveness has also been essential for being in community and navigating hyper individualistic, white supremacist patriarchy. It's helped me work... through the domestic violence I experienced in past relationship with compassion and tenderness. It's been a deep journey of touching the pain that's beneath the blame, betrayal, and rage. Forgiveness doesn't mean we condone abuse, harm, or oppression. We can forgive someone and never see them again. We can forgive someone and never vote for them. We can forgive someone and maintain strong compassionate boundaries. In fact, I find the journey of forgiveness can help me navigate how I want to be in relationship to oppression more clearly. Forgiving the past frees my heart. I invite you to join me for this workshop on forgiveness and Restorative Yoga postures. Restorative Yoga is a gentle, therapeutic style of yoga that uses props to support the body and deepen the benefits of the poses. It is a soothing and nurturing practice, which boosts the immune system and promotes conscious relaxation by stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system. We will focus on poses that stretch the chest, shoulders, and upper back to foster self-compassion and letting go. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/restorative-yoga-and-the-journ

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. - William Blake

#repost thanks David Grodjesk

I hope to connect with you this week! Really honored to have Sierra Wagner subbing Friday 430 Namaste Yoga + Wellness, Saturday Ainka J Fulani will step in for 9 am at Anasa Yoga, and Richelle Donigan 11 am Namaste Yoga + Wellness

Last chance! 3 spots left. Registration closes tonight. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reclaiming-our-sovereignty-as-

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. Rumi