Breath of Life Workshop
2024-03-10 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | SOTE Sanctuary, Jordan, MN
Learn how fundamentally important your breath is in keeping you healthy! Discuss the science behind the breath and discover several breathing techniques (pranayam) that you can utilize in your daily life. Practice a kundalini yoga set to activate the lungs and enhance your breath experience.
Link to register: https://sotesanctuary.as.me/Breath-of-Life-Workshop?fbclid=IwAR1j9VjMIoIcgdVktVPRVhauls5yre-s2E_gKINLVNDggfIT2_zYoYOzdM0

Intro to Thai Yoga Bodywork
2024-03-10 13:00 - 15:30 | Full Circle Yoga, 1907 W Superior St, Duluth, MN, 55806, United States
Intro to Thai Yoga Bodywork
Based on the northern style of Traditional Style of Thai Massage ( Nuad Boran ) Thai Yoga Bodywork is an ancient form of work from Thailand stemming back over 2500 years to the time of Buddha.
In this class, we will pair up with a partner to ground, stretch, twist, breathe and take care of one another while we learn a basic sequence and alternate giving and receiving. Take home a manual and duplicate the practice at home. 2.5 hrs continuing education available from Yoga Alliance.
In this class you will explore:
*The history and benefits of Thai Bodywork
*Basic relaxation techniques for the end of a session
*How to give a basic one hour session designed to share with friends and family, not to give as a practitioner. *No experience necessary and this class is open to all levels.
Five participants needed to run the course. Cancellation policy of 48 hours required.
This class is led by Margaret Harstad, owner of Muggymoose Massage and Thai Bodywork in Duluth, which she has run for 18 years! Margaret is certified with the Thai Healing Alliance as a Registered Thai Therapist. Margaret also has certifications as a Licensed Masage Therapist, a Principle Based Partner Yoga Teacher, an Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor and Therapist, a Chi Nei Tsang Therapist and also holds certifications as an E-RYT-200 and a YACEP. Margaret values the integrity of certification and training andenjoys her work with clients individually and in classes, educating them in keeping their bodies beautiful inside and out, so they may move with grace in this life and beyond. Continuing education credits available from YA or NCBTMB upon request.
Link to register: https://www.fullcircleyogaduluth.com/

Balancing the Ayurvedic Dosha-Spring (1 CEU)
2024-03-10 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-14 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
The end of Winter into Spring marks the Kapha time of year, a season for mud in both Nature and an imbalanced body. Let’s prepare ourselves for a more helpful and health-full transition to the season through balancing the body with Ayurvedic practices and concepts.
This 50 minute webinar will explore nutritive physical practices, nourishing food-based concepts and pairings with herbs and spices to support us to and through the season. 1 CEU available to RYTs through YA
Link to register: https://www.backtocenterspace.com/classes

Mindful Mondays: Free Drop-In Sessions
2024-03-11 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-03-18 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-03-25 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-04-01 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-04-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Mindful Mondays are free drop-in sessions held on Zoom from noon to 1 p.m. Central. Our experienced facilitators will guide you through a series of mindful movements and meditations that will leave you feeling rejuvenated. No prior experience or special clothing is necessary.
To increase the accessibility of Mindful Mondays, a recording is made available to all registrants for one week after the session concludes.
Register at z.umn.edu/MindfulMondays

Earl E. Bakken Free Community Webinar | How You Are Matters: Mental Health Conversations at Work
2024-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
During this webinar, led by Stephanie Wagner, MA, MM, NBC-HWC, we will explore what mental health means and how to initiate mental health conversations at work. Whether you are struggling with mental health or know someone struggling, this webinar is for you.
Link to register: https://umn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YZLHqGJJSguCGzX9acGWCw#/registration

All-Levels Yoga @ Chanhassen Library
2024-03-13 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-03-20 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-03-27 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-04-03 18:00 - 19:00 | Chanhassen Library, 7711 Kerber Blvd., Chanhassen, MN, 55317, United States
Create community while making time for your well-being. Nonprofit onelove.yoga will lead free weekly classes where you will learn foundational yoga, breathwork, meditation, and more. This mind to body connection helps to calm the nervous system. Expect an emphasis on simplicity, repetition, and ease of movement. Registration required.
Link to register: https://www.onelove.yoga/offerings/your-time-for-body-and-mind

yoga + surf retreat in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
2024-03-16 - 2024-03-22 | Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
Join Muddy Waters as we travel to the beautiful Santa Teresa, Costa Rica. Whether it’s your first time ever catching a wave (like me!) or you’ve surfed before, this retreat is for anyone looking for a week living alive. This is meant to be a radical and soulful experience to connect, recharge, and empower yourself where the jungle meets the sea. Expand your body, mind, and soul while embodying the relaxed lifestyle of this unique laid-back destination.

Digestion + Weight Management
2024-03-16 14:30 - 16:30 | Yoga Sanctuary, 100 W. 46th St, Minneapolis, MN, 55419, United States
Discover how Ayurveda can help you improve digestion and help you find balance in your weight with Ayurvedic Practitioner Stephanie Sajady at Yoga Sanctuary.
Often what works for one person does not work for another. This is where Ayurveda can bring clarity because it considers the whole person and their own unique constitution.
Stephanie will talk about how Ayurveda treats digestive disorders, with a focus on weight loss. Ayurveda is a 5000-year-old living science that emerged in ancient India. Nowadays, this science is gaining in popularity because of the need for holistic standards of care.
This workshop will focus on: the cause of weight gain in connection with digestion the premonitory signs and symptoms of digestive issues the best tips and tricks that Ayurveda recommends.
Link to register: https://www.yogasanctuarympls.com/workshops-class-series

Mindfulness 1/2 Day Retreat
2024-03-17 14:00 - 17:00 | Yoga Sanctuary, 100 W. 46th St, Minneapolis, MN, 55419, United States
This ½ day Mindfulness Retreat at Yoga Sanctuary is an invitation set aside the demands of everyday life to indulge in an afternoon of nurturing yourself with mindfulness. Through a series of gentle, guided practices you will experience how mindfulness practice relieves stress, builds resilience, and increases (self) compassion.
Over the 3 hours we spend together you will:
· Explore the connections between stress, resilience and mindfulness practice
· Examine how stress lives as a dynamic pattern in both your body and mind
· Practice guided, formal mindfulness training – meditation, yoga and breathing
· Learn quick ways to regulate yourself in the moment
· Reflect and integrate what you learn and experience in community with other seekers
Please join Colette DeHarpporte, qualified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) instructor and certified RYT through Holistic Yoga Teacher Training, for this rare opportunity to pause and deeply experience the space, and the profound sense of peace and freedom that can arise out of mindfulness practice.
Link to register: https://www.yogasanctuarympls.com/workshops-class-series

Yoga and Essential Oils (1 CEU)
2024-03-17 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Elevate your yoga practice by a sensory exploration of the 8 Limbs of Yoga through aromatics. Cross referencing Ayurvedic texts and plant research, we’ll pair the limbs of yoga with essential oils to support us in the mat practices as well as lifestyle elements.
A 50 minute interactive webinar with a brief introduction to aromatics and essential oils, may your yoga be elevated, one sensory experience at a time! 1 CEU available for RYTs of YA.
Link to register: https://www.backtocenterspace.com/classes

Breathwork & Meditation Workshop
2024-03-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Devanadi Yoga, 4401 Upton Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Come get your breath on! This short workshop is a full practice with gentle movement to unwind the spine, purifying and balancing breathing exercises, pranayama (breath retentions), meditation and finally a lovely guided rest in Savasana. Come and learn how managing the breath and mind can help you feel more energized and focused with a calm and serene attitude.
Link to register: https://devanadiyoga.com/workshops-class-series/

Spring Equinox Yoga
2024-03-19 19:00 - 20:30 | The Yoga Room, 4153 N Thomas Ave., Minneapolis, MN, 55412, United States
Spring is a time for renewal, to release anything that is no longer serving us and make way for transformation and new beginnings. In this workshop, we will explore the balance of energy, practice grounding, and celebrate the transition of seasons. You will be guided through a gentle and mindful movement practice, concluding with a guided meditation for stress relief and relaxation.
Link to register: https://www.ncewellness-yogaroom.com/book-online?category=0acf63dc-205a-4b0e-8263-1afe46508808

Bakken + Immergent | Waking the Oracle: Calling in New Life: A Turning Toward Spring Music & Meditation Immersion
2024-03-22 11:30 - 12:30 | Online
You are invited to relax in an online music and meditation immersive experience. During the session, relaxation-enhancing music with a guided meditation will help to relieve stress and promote positive feelings and wellbeing. There is no experience necessary, and you may participate as much or as little as you’d like. Optional reflective journaling time will be offered to help shed old energies and call in futures of wellbeing.
Link to register: https://umn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hh8UyFDwRt-Yn_hpL6Y5vg#/registration

A Yogic Pause for Sorrow and Heartache
2024-03-23 14:00 - 17:00 | Yoga Sanctuary, 100 W. 46th St, Minneapolis, MN, 55419, United States
For everyone experiencing sorrow, grief, or heartache. A Yogic Pause for Sorrow and Heartache workshop is intended to provide a space to sit with sorrow and heartache in a calm and supportive environment and provide tools so you can you move through the world with more ease. Often society turns away or hurries us through grief and sorrow. Whether feelings are around a personal loss or transition or around what is happening in the world, this is an opportunity to meet sorrow like a wise friend you welcome into your home. Using breathing techniques, gentle yoga movements, reflection, creative expression, readings, sound and yoga nidra, you will be encouraged to settle into yourself, discover the lessons sorrow brings, spend time with like-minded sojourners, and take away benefits that can support the quest to live a full, rich life.
Our hopes for you:
• Identify where in your body grief and sorrow may live.
• Immersion in various yogic practices, such as movement, meditation, focus and sound curated to support emotional, spiritual, and physical health.
• Increase your confidence in managing waves of grief and heartache.
• Allow sorrow and heartache to be present as natural aspects of the human experience.
• Identify practices that best support you.
Link to register: https://www.yogasanctuarympls.com/workshops-class-series

Super Duper Self Care Workshop with Upward Facing Dawn
2024-03-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Upward Facing Dawn Yoga Studio, 199 Coon Rapids Blvd. NW, Suite 208, Coon Rapids, MN, 55433
Dive into gentle yoga, and simple practices to nurture your mind, body, and spirit, and feel, well, super duper. This is in-person and space is limited. Please reserve yours early.
Link to register: https://upwardfacingdawnscheduling.as.me/superduper

Ayurvedic Spring Cleanse
2024-04-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Online
Change of season is the best time to re-set our bodies to prevent seasonal colds and other imbalances. Join me as I lead us through a week-long gentle re-set.
Day 1-2: Preparatory phase
Day 3-5: Cleansing phase (kitchari mono-diet) with additional daily habits
Day 4-7: Re-kindle phase
This package includes all the instructions needed for the cleanse, all the materials (kitchari supplies, any herbs & oils), as well as a private group for moral support and information along the week.
Link to register: https://checkout.square.site/merchant/XAKEQN9C6YMAE/checkout/OOS6P6LNIRXK2JMXXPT5MCC6?fbclid=IwAR03SacZ7Wu2FEJ4agCZ23Lo99Y5wMGAhB5lSjthzFEHxmoEvlPy1xnGkjA

Virtual: Yoga for Better Balance
2024-04-01 11:00 - 11:45 | Online
Find your inner calm, feel more balanced inside and out. Join me every Monday in April @11am, for 45 minute practices to improve your balance. Classes are accessible and gentle enough for most – modifications are offered to help with sore knees, hips, and shoulders. All classes are virtual, held via zoom.
Easy sign-up in my virtual studio, and live class links will be sent to you. Can’t make it live!? No worries – you can catch the replays. Recordings will be available to all participants for one-year. Free for my virtual members. All ages & levels welcome.
Link to register: https://thewildbloom.com/courses

Travel to India Info Session(Free)
2024-04-02 19:00 - 20:00 | Online
Always dreamed of going to India? Don’t miss this opportunity of a lifetime to explore India with your guide, Tiffany, who has been there 8 times. Enjoy the rich history of the Golden Triangle tour – exploring Delhi, the Taj Mahal & Jaipur. From there, you will travel to the yoga center of the world – Rishikesh – where we will be staying at a yoga ashram. You can immerse yourself in yoga life, and optionally add on Ayurvedic services at a trusted clinic nearby. Explore the wonders, shops & sites of Rishikesh, on the sacred Ganges River.
Link to register: https://www.omshantiwellnessmn.com/travel-to-india

Midwest YOGA + Life Magazine Launch Party
2024-04-04 17:00 - 19:00 | The Yoga Center Retreat
Join us for the official launch party for Midwest YOGA + Life magazine, and meet our cover model, Jennifer Golden. Enjoy light refreshments, connect with other community members, and shop from our vendors.
Link to register: www.bit.ly/MNYLmeetup

1st Friday Healing
2024-04-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Yoga Sanctuary, 100 W. 46th St, Minneapolis, MN, 55419, United States
Join us at Yoga Sanctuary the first Friday of each month for a healing experience in community.
Each month we will offer a unique healing experience for you, your family and your friends. Each of us, no matter who we are, carry burdens.
We invite you to rest with us, in sacred space for these special evening gatherings. This workshop is offered IN-STUDIO ONLY, Limited to 12. Please pre-register. 1st Friday Healing 7-8:30pm.
Link to register:https://www.yogasanctuarympls.com/workshops-class-series

Kitty Yoga
2024-04-07 13:00 - 14:00 | The Yoga Center Retreat
Haven’t tried Bitty Kitty Yoga at YCR yet?! You’ve got to be kitten me! You really oughta sign up for this class right meow!! You’ll be feline great after this gentle flow class with some of the cutest, fluffiest and silliest classmates around. Proceeds from this 1-hour class benefit the pawsitively pawesome organization, the Bitty Kitty Brigade. Paws, stretch and support a great cause. We litter-ally can’t wait to see you on the mat!

The Bitty Kitty Brigade teams up with the most amazing, most loving, most wonderful foster care providers to save hundreds of the itty-bittiest of kittens in the Twin Cities metro area. They also partner with rescue organizations and impound facilities to improve survival rates of the smallest and most vulnerable animals in their care.

We welcome all ages and skill levels to enjoy a joyful class and make many happy memories together. Bitty Kitty Brigade staff will be at YCR if you are interested in more information on adoption or fostering kittens.

Space is limited and will sell out so register today!

Link to register: https://theyogacenterretreat.com/workshops/
