New Beginners’ Yoga with Cynthia Winick. This step-by-step class is a great way to get started. Cynthia will guide the students in a progressive series, adding a little more each week, resulting in a great Introduction to Yoga postures and alignment. A safe and practical way to bring more balance into one's life. Students will gain body awareness and learn 10 essential yoga poses. The five-week session meets at The Yoga Place for five Wednesdays in a row. Please pre-register for all sessions for $50. If pre-registration is troublesome, skip the hassle and register in person, either at the class, or before.

Class starts at noon on Wednesdays, beginning Sept. 10, at The Yoga Place (at 6734 Wise Ave. NW).

Let yourself melt into this 60-minute immersion of crystal sound bowl healing, coupled with gentle Holy Fire Reiki offered by Rabecca Rocco and Dr. Jessica Eckman of The Goddess Grove.

All of our events offere through The Goddess Grove are donation based. We accept cash, venmo, & zelle. Please sign up to save your spot!

This class is an 8-week series for $100, open to all ages. No dance experience is required.

It is an excellent starting place for anyone who struggles to enjoy conventional exercise programs and is looking for fun, alternative ways to get fit, toned, and energized, or just to have fun and experience something new.

In this class, you will learn the foundational movements and techniques of belly dance. You will also learn to understand and appreciate how your body works during dance and how to isolate specific muscles and breathe through movement. Belly dance can increase confidence, relieve stress and tension, and create a time that is just for you to relax and celebrate your body and how it moves.

This beginner series will focus on proper posture and technique that will allow you to learn the foundations of belly dance. From there we will build up to movement combinations. Students should wear comfortable exercise clothes and either bare feet or socks.

So if you're looking for a fun new way to build strength, stamina and increase flexibility, in a safe and nurturing environment, come dance with us!

Series consists of 8 weekly one-hour classes. $100 for the 8 week series.

This class is open to all ages, and students should have taken at least one beginner Belly Dance class with Shanrae or another instructor with a minimum of 6 months of belly dance experience.

Belly Dance is for anyone who struggles to enjoy conventional exercise programs and is looking for fun, alternative ways to get fit, toned, and energized, or just to have fun and experience something new.

In this class, you will continue to build on the foundational movements and techniques of belly dance learned in the Beginner class.

You will continue learning to understand and appreciate how your body works during dance and how to isolate specific muscles and breathe through movement while enjoying movement combinations and short choreography. Belly dance can increase confidence, relieve stress and tension, and create a time that is just for you to relax and celebrate your body and how it moves.

This Intermediate class will focus on continued use of proper posture and technique that will allow you to build on the foundations of belly dance and begin exploring more in depth movements, isolations and layering of movements.

So if you're looking for a fun, new way to build strength, stamina and increase flexibility, in a safe and nurturing environment, come dance with us!

$100 for the 8 week session.