Join us for a special restorative evening with live cello & singing by Karen Laura Peters. This workshop will focus on nourishing and calming our minds and bodies. We will ease into our practice with a gentle moving flow and then come into an hour of restorative yoga poses. We will build about 7 restorative postures and rest for 5-10 minutes in each while receiving the soothing medicine of live cello and singing.
Space is limited and fill quickly, please preregister.
Cost: $25
Visit Karen's Music Page: KarenLauraPeters.com
Toddler Yoga with Samitha
For parents and toddlers through age 3, join in community to practice yoga with your little ones! This workshop welcomes you and your children to practice yoga in a welcoming space for all to explore. A yoga class like no other - mindful moments share the mat with playful songs and creative expressions.
Monday October 20th
11:15am-12pm
Class size is limited to 10 adults (and their toddlers!). Must Preregister.
Just 2 rooms (shared occupancy) remain. If you register, please email me at erin.joosse@sourceyogaonline.com to let me know if you have someone you are registering with or if you would like me to pair you with someone. First come, first served. Once these two rooms are sold out, I will start a waitlist for openings. Email me to join the waitlist.
Cultivating an Open Heart through Lovingkindness Practice
A Fall Contemplative Yoga and Mindfulness Retreat with Erin Joosse
Sacred Waters Retreat Center – Union, Washington
October 24th-26th, 2025
How can we open our heart with intentionality and awareness? How can we settle into the awareness that is our true home - a spacious, light, gentle noticing of our heart and mind?
Contemplative retreat practice offers us the opportunity to pause the doings of daily life, and the chance to tune more fully into our bodies, minds, and hearts.
In this retreat, we will explore the quality and practice of Lovingkindness (Metta) from the Buddhist Tradition, which helps to cultivate an open and spacious heart. Through yoga asana, talks, meditations, and other practices, we will explore and deepen this quality in ourselves – towards ourselves and towards others.
This retreat will include silent mornings. Silent practice offers the chance to limit the input of information we take in, allowing a gathering of our scattered energies, a clarifying of attention, and awakening of present moment awareness. We will also have ample time to connect with others in community.
Your Weekend: Through a balance of scheduled and unscheduled time, guided yoga and meditation practices, time to rest, be in nature, and delve into two full days of silence, we will practice connecting with and embodying our natural awareness. We will begin our weekend Friday at 4pm, and complete Sunday by early afternoon.
All levels are welcome.
Your retreat includes:
· 2 night's stay in beautiful and thoughtful accommodations
· Use of all Sacred Waters facilities & grounds
· All meals dinner Friday through lunch on Sunday
· All yoga and meditation sessions
There are several lovely options for accommodation at Sacred Waters. Some options are newer constructions, and some in older buildings that are more rustic. Note that Callison House (formerly the Lodge) has our dining room in the same building and kitchen noise can be heard from some rooms during meal prep times.
Retreat Cost (please note single rooms are limited):
- Callison House (formerly The Lodge) or Cottage ~ single occupancy: $665
- Callison House or Cottage ~ shared occupancy: $600 per person*
- Creekside or Gatehouse ~ single occupancy: $795
- Creekside or Gatehouse ~ shared occupancy: $655 per person*
*If registering for shared occupancy ~ (please email erin.joosse@sourceyogaonline.com and let me know if you have a roommate preference or if you would like us to pair you with another participant)
Pay in Full or make a deposit of $300
*** If making a deposit, please choose that purchase option after emailing Erin to confirm the room you are requesting: erin.joosse@sourceyogaonline.com
Final Payment Due: October 3rd
Cancellation Policy:
· Full refund available (minus $50) prior to September 26th
· Refunds to studio account credit only (minus $100) September 26th-October 10th
· No refunds after October 10th unless space is able to be filled
Deep Dive 3-Week Series: A Comprehensive Yoga Practice
Join Jeni Martinez for this three-week series inspired by a similar class formerly taught by Kathryn Payne, one of her beloved yoga teachers.
Deep Dive is an opportunity to explore the depth of yoga practice that is difficult to achieve in a weekly drop-in yoga class.
We will begin with a brief study of a yoga sutra from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, considered a foundational text of classical yoga philosophy. A sutra is one of almost 200 concise statements written in Sanskrit that speak to the theory and framework on which yoga was founded. After discussing the meaning of the sutra and how it is applicable to our modern lives, we will practice chanting it together.
We will follow the sutra study with an exploration of one of the many breath practices that can take your yoga practice to a new level. Each class will include asana (yoga postures) and a restorative pose with a guided meditation.
Deep Dive will allow you to better understand the more subtle benefits of yoga beyond just stretching the hamstrings. Jeni’s goal is for you to leave this series inspired to learn more about this ancient practice and how it continues to be relevant to your life today.
All yoga levels are welcome. Modifications will be offered as needed.