Midwest YOGA Magazine

Ayurvedic Spring Cleanse
2024-04-01 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | 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

All-Levels Yoga @ Chanhassen Library
2024-03-27 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-03-20 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-03-13 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-03-06 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-02-28 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

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

Mindful Mondays: Free Drop-In Sessions
2024-03-25 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-03-18 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-03-11 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-03-04 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-02-26 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

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

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

Yoga and Essential Oils (1 CEU)
2024-03-21 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-17 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

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

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/

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

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

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.

Balancing the Ayurvedic Dosha-Spring (1 CEU)
2024-03-14 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-10 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

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

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/

Breath of Life Workshop
2024-03-10 09:00 - 12:00 | 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

Mental Health Support with the HPA Axis
2024-03-06 17:30 - 19:30 | Online
Your system is hardwired to keep you safe, not necessarily happy. But there are simple practices you can bring into your everyday life to support your mental, physical, and emotional health. You may do a lot of them already, and knowing more about your body’s processes, especially your hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA Axis), can be an incredible motivator to keep the good things going. Plus if you ever feel stuck in a stress cycle, you may try some targeted techniques that you’ll learn in this workshop.
In these two hours together, you will learn * how to let your central nervous system know you are safe, quickly and easily * details about how your body’s systems respond to stress * specific ways that yoga and Ayurveda provide ongoing support to your health * how yoga, Ayurveda, and Western medicine can work beautifully together for whole person well-being
When you join us, you will enjoy community, a full practice appropriate for all levels of ability and experience, plus an easy-to-digest presentation led by Yoga Therapist and Certified Health and Wellbeing Coach Kami Kessel, MBA, ERYT500. Working out of Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Kami helps leaders avoid and address burnout. Speaker and author of Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners and other titles, Kami has been practicing yoga since she was seven years old. She blends SomaYoga, positive psychology, trauma informed care, and her years in database product marketing to walk with clients as they reclaim peace in their bodies and minds. Kami teaches community classes at Sankalpa Therapy and Wellness Center and Tula Yoga and Wellness
Link to register: https://www.yoganorthduluth.com/workshops/

Intro to Thai Yoga Bodywork
2024-03-02 13:00 - 16:00 | Devanadi Yoga, 4401 Upton Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Unique from other types of bodywork and massage, Thai Yoga Bodywork is also a form of Yoga Therapy that combines rhythmic massage, assisted Yoga poses, acupressure along pathways of movement in the body, healing energy work, and meditation.
This is a great add-on for yoga teachers, massage therapists, bodyworkers, energy workers, or anyone wishing to learn more about this amazing style of healing with roots in Yoga and Ayurveda.
Bring your honey and make it a Yogi Date Night at one of the amazing restaurants around Devanadi (i.e. Martina, Rosalia, Tilia, Naviya’s, Harriet Brasserie and more)!
CEs: 3 with YA and NCBTMB
Link to register: https://devanadiyoga.com/workshops-class-series/

1st Friday Healing
2024-03-01 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

Roll, Release, and Relax
2024-02-24 13:00 - 14:30 | The Yoga Room, 4153 N Thomas Ave., Minneapolis, MN, 55412, United States
Join yoga instructor, Mary McCallum, for 90 minutes of stress relief and self-care. Learn how to use Yoga Tune-up therapy balls and self-myofascial release techniques to improve mobility, relieve pain, and tame tension from head to toe. You will leave feeling completely relaxed and refreshed!
This workshop is suitable for all levels, no previous experience is necessary. Participants will have the option to purchase their own pair of Yoga Tune Up therapy balls to continue their self-care practice at home
Link to register: https://www.ncewellness-yogaroom.com/book-online?category=0164aeed-8f6b-45e8-a156-3f83491915a9
