Encouraging Connection
Have you ever wanted to “linger longer” in a pose? Looking for a slower paced counterpart to your workout routine? Join us for an inquiry into the benefits of Yin Yoga. We will gently stress the connective tissues of our bodies while working to calm the mind and focus on the sensations we uncover when we give ourselves time to find stillness in each pose.
Sign up now for our October offering of Yin Yoga!
Toni will teach an in-studio All-Levels Flow at 6 PM or join Michele outdoors at the South Park at 7:15 PM for an All-Levels Flow. Livestream will be available only for the 7:15.
Join Kelsey for a trial class of Barre at 10 AM on Saturday. There’s room for 6 of you, so register early. Use code TRYBARRE and it’s free!
Now through mid-September there’s an Unlimited Pass option for teachers as we head back to our learning stations. The pass begins at purchase and runs for one month; this includes all the classes on our regular schedule (including Barre when it begins).
Mark your calendar now for an evening on the White Shutter Winery hillside. No need to pre-register. This is likely our last of this event for the year.
September will welcome back the 6:15 AM class on Wednesdays and add a Chair Yoga option on Tuesdays. With the addition of Barre, our studio will have evening classes 5 nights a week! Now’s the perfect time to commit to a regular practice and find a routine that fits your schedule.
Ayurveda, the Sister Science of Yoga (literally translated “the science of life”) is an ancient way of seeing the world. It uses ideas of opposite qualities (hot-cold, dry-wet, solid-spacious) to help identify ways to restore balance. Most often, Ayurveda can be used to help us decide what to take in to our lives and bodies through foods, media, and use of time.
Most years I take a week for an Ayurvedic “reset” to help me restore balance and prepare for a change in the seasons, mentally and physically. Every time I bring up this topic amongst friends or in the studio, I get a surge of interest. This year I will offer both a workshop that gives an overview of Ayurveda, the doshas, and how it can be a tool of restoring balance, paired with a guided reset experience for those interested. Details are coming your way soon, but for the moment, please email me if you have interest in participating in the workshop and/or the reset experience so I can begin to make preparations.
Since experiencing a Barre class several years ago, I’ve been on the hunt for a way to bring it into the studio. A friend who taught here in town moved on to new things; I was nearly signed up training three different times, but the scheduling didn’t work. Then I had a visit from my friend, Kelsey, and she revealed that she has been practicing at Pure Barre for years and was interested in taking a training and becoming a Barre teacher. I gave her some strong encouragement and within the month she completed her training with Barre Intensity at GoYoga!
Barre isn’t a form of yoga, but rather it’s a form of movement that taps into some yoga poses and adds strong movement to smaller muscle groups that often get looked over in traditional workouts or gross motor movements like running and biking. And for yogis who are regularly tending to the act of lengthening our musculature, a practice such as Barre that aims to work those areas will help to keep us safe and strong.
I’m super excited about this addition and you can anticipate seeing me in the classes! Barre classes will run on the same pricing and packaging as yoga and it’s already been added to your options for passholders and members – just sign up the way you would normally for a yoga class.
Kelsey is going to give a sampler class on Saturday, August 29 at 10 AM. Try it out for free by using the discount code TRYBARRE at checkout.
Our teaching team has been working diligently to listen to your needs and help you find the style and pace of yoga that your body welcomes. While Slow Flow is taking a break as Traci gets her classroom back in order, you’ll see it again in the future!
My study of yoga, along with my work with Mind Body Health Associates, has taught me a lot about stress. We have two sides of our nervous system that is used in our management of stress, the part that keeps us alert and alive (sympathetic nervous system) and the part that keeps us whole and integrated (parasympathetic nervous system).
When our stress system is triggered, humans have a myriad of ways to deal, anything from Quarantine Baking to Netflix binging. What we need to know is that survival strategies serve us for a particular reason, so say a little Thank You to your body and brain. Survival is a perfectly good way to… survive. And what we’ve endured collectively has been something we’ve survived.
When we watch tigers in the wild (or, more accurately, as Dr. Peter Levine explains in Waking the Tiger), we can note particular behavior as it comes back from stressful, life-endangering situations. It shakes and moves its entire body. It licks their wounds and tends to its body. It nourishes itself with food and water. It falls into a deep sleep.
This transition from stress to relaxation can be a slow one, and often it needs to be quite purposeful to be effective. The best tools are already within: a slow exhale, a calm mind, and moving the body.
As we slowly shift out of our survival response, many of us might find our yoga practices to be leading us there. Eventually, we will recognize we are safe and can begin to relax, rest, and synthesize this experience to make us stronger and healthier.
For me, I’m just now feeling like I’m resuming “normal” and I notice how I’m finally able to start planning again. Did anyone else notice how calendars were worthless back in April? And not just in the day-to-day monotony, but in my brain’s lack of ability to think clearly about the future. With the studio now open and new activities coming onto the calendar, that part of my mind is finally coming online, too. I’m glad to be able to share with you again the hope of new events and classes in the studio. I look forward to seeing you again soon!
Registration is available online but not required.
Our universe is constantly being created and recreated – just look out into those fields full of green sprouts. As an act of remembering, I’m doing a gift card giveway this summer. Every time we’ve got a full class in the studio, we’ll celebrate. Each person in the class will get to pull a gift card out of the pile that gets you $5-$15 from our favorite downtown Upper Sandusky small businesses.
So grab a group of friends and show up together! Fill the room (which, right now, means just 6 people!)
Longtime regular yogi, Toni Daughenbaugh, is joining Woven Yoga as an instructor beginning July 1. Toni recently finished her 200-hour certification and is looking forward to teaching Gentle Yoga twice a week: Mondays at 10 AM and Wednesdays at 4:30 PM.
Students, don’t forget: we’ve got a special deal for you during the summer. Enjoy 2 classes each week for $15 with this summer pass. Sign up now and dive into the regular class schedule.
In a string of days that tend to feel eerily similar to the one before, I’ve found a bit of solace in allowing myself to think about after. After we get to return, after this is behind us (-ish… there will be some reverberations, and that’s to be expected.) I’m allowing myself to think about a schedule for the remainder of the spring and into the summer.
In order to do this with the most accurate information available to me, I’m asking you for a quick 5 minutes to tell me about your preferences. I’d like to know when classes work best for you, what types of classes you enjoy most, and what your experience of livestream yoga has been.
I truly appreciate your voice in these matters. While I know I can’t make all people happy, if there are themes and trends that help many of us, then I want to make those adjustments. As always, if there’s something you’d love to see over the course of the summer, let me know!
During these times of limited social interaction (and thus closing the studio), I’m working very hard to offer digital options that will serve our membership base along with offering something for other yogis to practice while at home for the days and weeks ahead.
On Sunday, March 15, our first Livestream All-Levels Flow will be available for free to try out the platform. Join us online at 6 PM at https://zoom.us/j/987452188 (no password is required). I highly recommend jumping online prior to 6 to get yourself settled. You should be automatically muted, but it doesn’t hurt to double check.
Beginning Monday, March 16, I’ll be offering a livestream class of various sorts each day. These classes are for purchase and you’ll be emailed the login and password information at least one hour prior to the class. If you can’t make it at that exact time, the class will be recorded and you will be sent a link to view at your convenience. The link should be sent within an hour of the end of class.
Each class is listed on the regular schedule via Vagaro and you can register a la carte, but to be more cost-efficient you can get them all as a package for just $20. *You will need to register for each class individually for which you want to receive links.*
For ALL MEMBERS (whether unlimited, 4 classes/month or 8 classes/month): these online offerings are now included in your membership. When you register online it should ring you to $0. If you have issues, please don’t pay – email or text me.
Our first week’s online schedule is:
Monday 9 AM Guided Meditation (20 minutes) – $5 or included in the weekly package
Tuesday 6 PM Yoga Strong (60 minutes) – $10 or included in the weekly package
Wednesday 10 AM Children’s Yoga (30 minutes) – $5 or included in the weekly package
Thursday 6 PM All-Levels Flow Yoga (60 minutes) – $10 or included in the weekly package.
I’m going to evaluate at the end of the week to see if schedule changes are advantageous or necessary. Feedback is always welcome and appreciated!
A signed waiver is required to participate in the livestream options. If you’ve practiced with me before and have filled out your form, you’re all set. If you’ve not been in the studio, please fill out this waiver and email it back prior to class beginning.
January brings new options to the yoga class schedule! Find one that fits best for you.
A head’s up on this week’s holiday schedule: NO Yoga Strong on Monday, 12/30 and no classes on Wednesday, 1/1 EXCEPT for The Experiment at 7:15 PM. Learn more about The Experiment weekly workshop…
