Encouraging Connection

Beginner’s Yoga

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4 PM Wednesdays, August 28-September 18

Beginner’s yoga is a gentle and welcoming introduction to the practice of yoga. It focuses on the foundational poses, breathing techniques, and mindfulness to help build strength, flexibility, and balance into your body and mind. In the beginners class, the instructor often provides modifications and adjustments to support each student’s individual needs and abilities. The emphasis is on moving mindfully, listening to the body, and cultivating a sense of inner peace and relaxation. Beginners yoga is a great way to start your yoga journey and discover the many physical, mental, and emotional benefits of this ancient practice.

We learn best by repetition so we designed a starter series of 4 weeks! You can take classes individually OR register for the whole series and get that 4th class free!

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Happy Birthday Woven Yoga!

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Can you even believe we’ve been on Sandusky Ave for 5 years now?! What a ride – and we’re only just getting started.

If you’ve waited this long to see what it’s all about, now’s your time! This week only we’re offering a 5 days Free pass for new clients who want to taste of our classes.

Grab your pass before Wednesday, August 7 and get 5 days to try our menu of regular classes. We can’t wait for you to try!

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Summer Holiday

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Woven Yoga will be CLOSED July 15-19, 2024

This summer our Woven Yoga staff will be traveling the globe! Michele, Toni, Traci and Shelby will be at the retreat on the Amalfi Coast while Nina climbs Mt. Kilimanjaro and Melissa cruises the mediterranean. What a summer!

During the month of July, the studio will be On Holiday from July 15-19 to allow for the staff R&R. July 9-14 and 20-24 we will be open with a limited schedule.

While we’re closed all Unlimited Members will be paused; Flexible members will accumulate classes. Thank you for supporting our team as we stretch our wings!

Sunrise Encouragement

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The benefit of driving into town so early on a Wednesday morning is that the summertime brings a new view: sunrise. This morning’s was a gorgeous pink hue and I felt like I was catching an early screening of a movie.

It made me consider how the sun, not yet visible to the horizon, still cast its glow over the earth before its arrival. Evidence of what is to come. Yet, it’s effects were present. I used my headlights, but I could still see.

Considering the basic physics, how the earth is simply rotating around to catch a different glimpse of the stationary orb, I then began to consider that darkness – night – is just a different orientation to the light. Correct, we do not see the light. But that doesn’t mean that its presence isn’t still in existence. We – the humans living on this side of the earth – are just turned the other way.

How often do we believe that certain aspects or qualities have escaped us, left us, or have become absent? We use “night” and “darkness” to describe loneliness, hardship, or lack of joy. But if we consider the night is still in relationship to light, just turned in a different direction, we can suddenly have access to hope. Perhaps that’s why the scriptures write that God’s mercies are “new every morning.”

Now that we’re entering into the most light-filled time of year, I hope that you’ll soak it in. Turn your face to the light. Imprint it into your nervous system so that in the depths of winter, when arriving to 6:15 AM yoga classes feels much tougher, you can remember that that light has not left you, we’re simply turned in a different direction, moving through a different season and different relationship to light. But its presence doesn’t stop existing based on our view.

Peace, my friends. Light & love to all.

Summer Solstice Restorative Yoga

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Sunday, June 23

7-8:15 PM

Celebrate the long days of the year with a soothing Summer Solstice Restorative Yoga session. This special class is designed to honor the light of the sun and the energy of the summer season, helping you to relax, rejuvenate, and restore your body and mind.

Join us for a deeply relaxing and meditative practice that incorporates gentle restorative yoga poses, breathwork, and guided meditation. The Summer Solstice marks a time of peak energy and growth, and this class aims to balance that vibrancy with calm and introspection. Each pose will be held for an extended period, supported by props such as bolsters, blankets, and blocks, allowing for complete release and surrender.

Class Benefits:

*Deep relaxation and stress relief
*Enhanced flexibility and joint mobility
*Improved mental clarity and focus
*Emotional balance and a sense of inner peace
*Opportunity to set personal intentions aligned with the energy of the solstice

Members receive 20% off the registration price

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Your body is not a problem to solve

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Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist and writer, begins every semester asking her up-and-coming environmentalists “Do you love nature?” and is regularly greeted by a room full of hands going up. And then she asks “Do you believe that nature loves you in return?” to which the response is not strong. These good-hearted students live in a one-way relationship to the earth, which fundamentally changes the nature of their work. Our ancient ancestors operated with a sense of being in a reciprocal relationship with their surroundings; whether they felt they were being rewarded by Mother Nature or punished by her, at least they were engaged in a constant conversation with her.

The world is getting much better at body acceptance: Do you love your body? And while we can often get at least part of the way there – that we love having a body, and even though we may not love the way our body looks on a particular day or in a specific style, we can acknowledge a baseline love.

But do you believe She loves you back?

One-sided relationships are challenging. (I mean, do you remember the Newborn Years?) We often forget that we live in relationship to our bodies. Psychotherapist Esther Perel notes that we often think in terms of machinery nowadays, and efficiency or maximization might be the language you more frequently use with your body. Perhaps you’ve been taught this pile of muscle and bones is here for “optimization.”

Except that our bodies aren’t machines, based off a zeros-and-ones algorithm. Our bodies are hosts of a complex web of relationships, which often comes with paradox and tension. The push-pull of strength and flexibility, taking in and letting out that happens within a body is not easily reduced to if/then statements that engineers and programmers prefer.

What if you began to believe that in your relationship to your body, your body loves you back? Hold the tension that comes with normal human relationships: she might love you in ways that aren’t how you asked to be loved. Like a romantic partner, sometimes she might not do everything you say you want to happen. But getting everything you want isn’t a reflection of love, it’s a reflection of control.

Our bodies have ways of loving us that might fit outside of our romantic expectations. Your body cares for you with it eliminates the toxins of digestion instead of asking you to carry around poison. Your body cherishes you when it slows you down your abilities to think clearly at night, reminding you that you need sleep. Your body provides you reminders of boundaries with aches and pains so that you won’t continue to carry loads that will take you beyond normal wear and tear of your structure. Your body treats you when it makes chocolate and cheeseburgers and garden mulch taste distinctly different – and thanks to the heavens that it all doesn’t taste like garden mulch!

Our bodies are not problems to be solved but home to multiple complex relationships. We get to decide how to manage, maintain and improve these relationships, and past experience tells me that we do that by how we spend our time and energy – including thought energy. I’m hopeful that we can at least begin to think and receive indications of love from living in and with a body.

Peace, my friends. We keep at it. Show up, Work hard, Shine bright and Love all.

Meta Strength

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New Class Added!

Wednesdays, 5:45 PM with Melissa Summit

Ready to turn up your Metabolic Strength? Using body weight movements, dumbbells, and resistance bands, we will develop strong muscles (& bones & mental fortitude) with this time-based 40-45 minute workout. While it is adaptable to all ages and abilities, you should be comfortable with, or willing to work toward basic body weight movements (squats, lunges, planks, pushups) with plenty of regressions and progressions to suit all fitness levels. Working for time periods of :20-:90 seconds will give you the sweaty, metabolic boost that your body craves!

This class is included with Unlimited and Flexible Memberships and 5-class passes will apply. Drop in for $9 or get a 5-class pass specifically for Express classes for $40 (one-year expiration).

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New Membership Option

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Unlimited Membership at a Weekly Pricing

$21 per week

Given the expensive nature of the world today, life can be hard to budget. In an attempt to access flexibility as a strength, we’ve created a membership option that allows you UNLIMITED access but paid out across the month instead of a single payment.

Our same terms apply to this membership: unlimited access to regular classes, discounted retail purchases, early access and discounts on special events and workshops and a personal cubby to keep your props.

Due to increased fees associated with using debit and credit cards on a weekly basis, this membership does have a one-time $5 registration fee. If you decide to utilize ACH payments instead this fee can be waived – please contact Michele for this arrangement.

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Silver Sneakers

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9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

Monday and Wednesday

With Melissa Summit

Beginning May 6, Woven Yoga will hold space for our friends who participate in the Silver Sneakers program. Local fitness instructor Melissa Summit will be leading the class and program designed for “boomers and beyond.” Those who have a Silver Sneakers benefit package through their medical insurance will be able to participate for free; those who will be dropping in can pay Melissa the $3 per class fee or invest in a punch card of 10 classes for $25. These fees are paid directly to Melissa. Woven Yoga is the location, not the host of the program.

Because reciprocal relationships work a special magic, active members of Woven Yoga are welcome to attend these classes for free.

There is no pre-registration for Silver Sneakers in fitDegree – Melissa will take care of all waivers, payment and attendance when you arrive at class.

Indian Lake Relief Pass

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If you’ve had more than one conversation with me (Michele), you know that Indian Lake is near and dear to my heart. It’s the substance of my magical childhood, the place of adventures and memories. Now, my own children treasure our time there.

We were fortunate that our family’s home did not sustain any damage. So many others were not as fortunate. I’m watching nearby communities donate items for victims who now don’t know what “home” will mean in the future.

The Bhagavad Gita states: “Perform your obligatory duty, because the action is indeed better than inaction.” The book of James of the New Testament says “Anyone who knows the right thing to do, but does not do it, is sinning.” These verses align with my general sense of: we need to do something. So in our small corner, I’m offering a way to take action.

The United Way of Logan County has already set up a relief fund, to which you can donate. As a community, I’m asking that you consider giving monetarily so that the people who will be rebuilding their lives can make choices that align with their values.

To encourage giving, I’ve set up a Relief Fund 4-class Pass for purchase online. 100% of these funds will be donated to the Logan County United Way. You get to help others and enjoy 4 yoga classes, to bring your own action and heart into alignment.

These passes will be on sale for a limited time; you can buy any number of them, and they are good for any of our regular open classes on the schedule. These classes expire in 45 days.

Give them to a friend, take a few extra classes, or just give – it’s up to you.

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