Encouraging Connection
Beginning September 7, we’ve got Barre classes on the schedule 5 days a week. This is great news for you! And if you haven’t yet tried Barre or found your Barre Groove, here’s your chance.
Purchase your Barre Blitz Intro offer: 5 Barre Classes for $45. The pass is good for 45 days, but when you step up to the challenge and use it in just 10 DAYS, you’ll get your first month of Unlimited Membership for half price.
Did you visit a yoga class long ago but feel unsure about jumping right into an All-Levels Class?
Or maybe you have a fair amount of fitness experience but hate the feeling of something being new/awkward/strange?
Our Newbies Jumpstart is our flash-baptism into yoga at Woven. Get familiar with the studio, the language we use to talk about poses and movements, and just get to know us before walking into a room of people “who know what they’re doing.”
Our Slow Flow for Newbies series spends 4 weeks covering the basic poses and movements of many of our All-Levels classes: it’s the best way to feel confident walking into a group of yogis, knowing you are familiar and “ready.”
But sometimes, 4 weeks in a row at the exact same time just isn’t possible. Sometimes, life happens.
We’ve added the Newbies Jump Start class to a monthly rotation. This is an 80-minute version of our Newbies introduction, designed to give you a jump start to attending open classes. If you have a regular movement practice (you’re a runner, weightlifter, prima ballerina, or cross-fit master, for example), this class might be completely sufficient to get you going. Or, maybe you want just a taste.
You can take the Newbies Jump Start class as often as you need to feel confident enough to join us in our open classes.
We’ve made some adjustments to the schedule as we move into our new space! Here are the highlights:
Our Yin Yoga class, taught by Traci each month, is a chance to move inward and slow down. You can pay attention to the subtleties of poses, but more so, the way your mind, breath and energy interact with a pose, over time. Yin Yoga isn’t a practice of push, it’s a practice of receiving.
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 November 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.
