April 2019
Lay Down To Rise Up For Poc
Find home in the body temple. Through deep kind listening you will receive the insight you need to take your rightful place in the world. This restorative yoga class is designed for POC to pause, reset and nourish their bodies. Go within yourself and lay down the burdens and residue of injustice. Unplug from the external and internal devices that are always engaged in plotting, preparing and planning for the future or dwelling on the past. Lie down to open…
Find out more »May 2019
Yoga for People of Color
This All Levels Hatha Yoga Class offers a healing space for those identifying as persons of color to help improve their physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing. The Yoga for People of Color class is an entry point for people new to yoga, as well as a means for those with yoga experience to continue to evolve their practice. There will be an opportunity to listen to each other’s stories and learn how yoga philosophy and its practices, can be…
Find out more »Advancing Asana Weekend with Nancy Burtenshaw
Join Nancy for three days of asana exploration designed to meet your growth edge and refine your practice. Skillfully journey towards more advanced backbends, arm balances, and inversions in the fun and supportive environment of this advancing asana weekend. These workshops are intended for students with a minimum of two years of consistent practice and familiarity with Adho Mukha Vrksasana (handstand), Pincha Mayurasana (forearm stand), and Urdhva Dhanurasana (upward bow). This is not intended for beginners or those with injuries.…
Find out more »Trap Vinyasa: A Body Positive Yoga Experience with Abiola Akanni
We’re more than twerking. Get ready for a sensual, sweat-drippin’ yoga experience for the MC in you! Laced with trap music, a beat-based genre of hip hop originating from the South, Trap Vinyasa™ is an all levels yoga fitness class combining dynamic asana with sensual dance and high intensity interval training. Designed to help you explore sensuality and strength, Trap Vinyasa™ classes will empower you to rewrite the story you’ve been told about your body. Let’s drip. Trap Vinyasa™ Intro © –…
Find out more »Yoga For 50+: A Workshop For The Forest Dweller Years
Yoga supports us in awakening to our true selves, to offer clarity of purpose, and to support us in achieving and maintaining physical, mental and spiritual strength. This workshop will provide students in “The Forest Dweller Years” – the 3rd Ashram of life in yogic teachings – with help in shifting to this kinder, gentler time of life, and the challenges that sometimes come along with the aging process. Expect some community discussion and lecture about ways in which the yogic teachings can support us in issues of…
Find out more »Queer Yoga
This class is for folks identifying as LGBTQ, gender non-binary/non-conforming and conscious allies. This yoga class is for practitioners of all levels and aims to create a space in which gender and identity have more room to breathe and more options from which to take shape, so that healing self-expression can emerge. Folks interested in breath and mindful movement to strengthen the body, focus the mind and deepen connection to Self are thoroughly welcomed. This class is interested in meeting…
Find out more »June 2019
Yoga with Astrud at 8 Limbs Yoga
A Weekend of Bhakti Astrud Castillo is a yoga teacher and kirtan wallah living in the Bay Area. She has been teaching nationally and internationally since 2001 and is a senior teacher at Laughing Lotus in San Francisco, and the primary teacher of Nancy Hwang Nomellini, a teacher at 8 Limbs. Astrud’s teachers Mark Whitwell, Jasmine Tarkeshi, and T.K.V Deskichar have inspired and fueled her practice for several years. She is devoted to transformation and wakefulness through the healing power of sound, vibration, asana, pranayama…
Find out more »Seasonal Restorative Rejuvenation
Restorative Yoga practice consists of adaptations of poses fully supported by props to create a deep sense of relaxation and wellbeing. They balance the nervous system and facilitate healing and awareness. These poses are easily adapted for all levels and all bodies and are often used therapeutically. These workshops take into account the time of year and seasonal changes and support the body and mind in the way they experience the transitions in the yearly cycles. No yoga experience necessary,…
Find out more »Seasonal Restorative Rejuvenation
Restorative Yoga practice consists of adaptations of poses fully supported by props to create a deep sense of relaxation and wellbeing. They balance the nervous system and facilitate healing and awareness. These poses are easily adapted for all levels and all bodies and are often used therapeutically. These workshops take into account the time of year and seasonal changes and support the body and mind in the way they experience the transitions in the yearly cycles. No yoga experience necessary,…
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