Join us for a 3-week journey into yoga-after-baby. For the birthing parent and infants (up to active crawling), our Postnatal Yoga Series is an invitation to connect with yourself and your baby as you navigate these first few months together. Awareness of breath, gentle movements, pelvic floor and core strengthening, and shoulder openings are integral in each class. Postnatal Yoga is definitely a unique class, following its own special rhythm with the babies’ needs; feeding, changing diapers and crying is all expected and inevitable! More than a physical exercise, this is a time to move your body, engage with your little one, and enjoy the community of others in a new way.   A special time set aside for you to bond with your baby in a welcoming, fun environment.   Come as you are. Never competitive; always enlightening.   Preregistration is required. Due to a long waiting list we do not allow drop ins or substitutions.   Ages: Newborns to crawlers   Sliding Scale Pricing: $60 for 3 week series    

Join us for a 6-week journey into yoga-after-baby. For birthing parent and infants (up to active crawling), our Postnatal Yoga Series is an invitation to connect with yourself and your baby as you navigate these first few months together. Awareness of breath, gentle movements, pelvic floor and core strengthening, and shoulder openings are integral in each class. Postnatal Yoga is definitely a unique class, following its own special rhythm with the babies’ needs; feeding, changing diapers and crying is all expected and inevitable! More than a physical exercise, this is a time to move your body, engage with your little one, and enjoy the community of others in a new way.   A special time set aside for you to bond with your baby in a welcoming, fun environment.   Come as you are. Never competitive; always enlightening.   Preregistration is required. Due to a long waiting list we do not allow drop ins or substitutions.   Ages: Newborns to crawlers   Pricing: $120 for 6 week series    

Building the Freedom of Equanimity: Finding Calm and Center Amidst Life’s Challenges A Contemplative Yoga and Mindfulness Retreat with Erin Joosse The Whidbey Institute, Clinton, WA November 1st-3rd (Friday-Sunday)   This is a time of great uncertainty, division, and cultural stress. Perhaps this is always true, but it certainly feels heightened the last few years, doesn’t it? Our practice offers us tools to ground ourselves and find a sense of a sturdy center even when things are difficult. With practice and intentionality, we might both live with balance and respond to the real issues we face with courage, strength, and steadfastness. One of the translations of Equanimity in ancient Buddhist texts is “standing in the middle,” which refers to a balance that comes from inner stability; remaining centered when surrounded by turmoil. What are the things that have you come back to your center? The inner qualities of being that have you find balance and stability in the middle of life’s difficulties? In this fall retreat at the serene and beautiful Whidbey Institute, we will explore practices that bring balance and steadiness no matter what is arising, both in yoga and meditation practice and in our day-to-day life.   Your Weekend: 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. Through a balance of scheduled and unscheduled time, guided yoga and meditation practices, and time for rest, we will offer ourselves the gift of slowing down. Your retreat begins Friday at 4pm and completes Sunday by early to mid-afternoon. There will be some periods of silence (mornings until lunch) to deepen your retreat experience. All levels of practitioners of yoga and meditation welcome. Your retreat includes: • 2 nights' stay in thoughtful accommodations • Use of Whidbey Institute’s facilities, grounds and trails • All meals dinner Friday through lunch Sunday • All yoga and meditation sessions   Retreat Accommodations and Cost: There are several lovely options for accommodation at The Whidbey Institute. You can choose a single or shared room in a cozy Farmhouse, with shared bathrooms and common spaces. Or enjoy staying in a sweet Scandinavian-style cabin with either a shared bathroom attached or bathrooms a short walk away. Please register for the accommodation that suits your needs, rooms and cabins first come, first served. Single rooms and cabins are limited, so consider sharing a room with a friend. Price options range from $760-900 per person. Please email Erin at erin.joosse@sourceyogaonline.com to indicate roommate preference if registering for a shared room. If you don’t have a roommate you are registering with, I will pair you with another participant looking to share a room. Payment: Full payment -or- $400 deposit with remaining balance due by October 11th, 2024.   *** PLEASE NOTE: If you are paying a deposit rather than paying in full at time of registration, PLEASE know that you MUST email Erin to advise her of which room you would like to reserve ASAP. **** erin.joosse@sourceyogaonline.com

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, please preregister. *Please note: This is a once a month special event and is not included with Monthly Memberships or 10 Class Pass cards. Cost: $20