Do you feel like you should be heading back to school this week?
Us too – and that vibe has us REALLY excited for the events, immersions, workshops, and trainings happening all over NJ this week. From yoga with goats to Kirtan, we know there is something for anyone and everyone seeking to learn in a “yogi uniform” – aka tank tops, leggings, and NO SHOES.
We’d also love to see your name on the list of official attendees for the 2019 Global Mala, our 10th Annual Celebration of the Sacred Cycle of 108.
108 Sun Salutations + 100s of NJ yogis + almost 20 teachers who are ready to share their practice + incredible studios pitching in to support the event (thank you Karma Barre, POE, Evenflow, and Inlet for signing on as studio partners for the Mala!) + the Asbury Park Yacht Club showing the love and letting us handle registration in their space AND hang afterward with some apps, libations, and yogi convo. 
Here’s where you’ll find us this week…
Saturday at Elevate Yoga in Hazlet
Join Stephanie Barrios-Cullins, MPA, RYT-500 for meditation and a larger conversation focused on what these topics mean to us in the yoga community, among healers, and in our society in modern day America. This workshop is open to all – yoga teachers, helping professionals, healers, and students.
You’ll also have the chance to connect with Stephanie at VibeWell on October 27; she is a part of our panel discussion on Yoga and Inclusivity NOW, alongside Phyllicia, Lockey, and Alisha.
Here are the details for our VibeWell panel:
We invite you to join us for a groundbreaking conversation about inclusivity and diversity in the yoga and wellness industries: where we are, who we are, where we’ve come from, and what we can do to open lines of communication and stand in solidarity with communities whose voices are inadequately heard and represented.
“Yoga is a microcosm of what’s happening in the world,” says Grace Millsap, a Charlotte-based teacher and activist. “We are not exempt from these issues, and sometimes they become even more hush-hush, as the yoga community is supposed to be a safe space.”
Our incredible panelists are advocated for more inclusion in the yoga and wellness industries. They live that mission everyday by showing up, speaking on it, and doing something about it. Come learn from them and engage in what might sometimes be uncomfortable, but ultimately is our greatest possible path towards wholeness, authenticity, and a true 8 limbed practice of yoga.
With Janice Liou for THE PRACTICE at Honor Yoga North Brunswick, all weekend long
Janice is offering workshops from the 6th through the 8th, focusing on assists, inversions, a foundational practice, and flexibility. You’ll also have the chance to experience a “Master” Practice with this absolutely fantastic teacher. Want to see more of what Janice does? We highly recommend a deep dive into her Instagram. Here are a few posts that got our minds percolating. The third posts gives all the details for Janice + Honor Yoga this week.
Friday at Align Yoga & Strength in Matawan
This workshop is intended for newer to experienced yoga practitioners to challenge the mind and body. Come learn the Basics of Flight (lifting the feet off the ground) in this introduction to arm balances. We will primarily explore “Bakasana” /Crow pose. Class will conclude with a flow into stillness and guided meditation on courage. Learn to face a challenge with confidence, but without attachment to the result of the effort and you may just find yourself soaring!
Spark Joy: A Kundalini Celebration
Friday at JaiPure Yoga in Montclair
Joy… it’s an everlasting bliss that runs through our body, mind, and spirit that takes us to that attitude of gratitude in every moment. Cultivating a life of joy is our birthright, when we experience joy on the inside it always surrounds us in our external environments. Join Abhaijot Kaur, KRI, and Gurunam Singh, KRI for an evening Kundalini attunement into joyous living. Through Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan, live music and a meditated mind allowing us to receive the Sparks of Joy in life.
A Kirtan Concert of Love Music
Friday at JaiPure Yoga in Montclair
Come chant your way to peace as we fill the room with our voices and our love, deeper into the heart and higher into the heavens! Using Naad Yoga, The Yoga of Sound, from the Kundalini Yoga tradition, and live music with Gurunam Singh, we will elevate through the sound current to bring peace, bliss, balance and an open heart! Gurunam’s stories and humor and voice soothe the soul. Together we will Beam up and Bless up.
Cacao Ceremony with Ashley Seymour
Saturday at Blue Moon Yoga in Shrewsbury
We will begin with a chakra mediation which will prepare you for the sacred cacao drink (cacao melted down with hot water). Through the meditation your inner calling and seeds of expansion shift the energy of your cacao so when it is time to drink, it is pure medicine, perfectly made for your own transformation. We then sink and rest into our journey through inner and group reflections. To end, we move through an energetic release journey where you will use a crystal to help release any last density in the heart space- letting go of anything that is restricting the pure openness of your heart space in order to expand the heart to a greater capacity of love and compassion.
Saturday at Oasis TLC in Middletown
Lay your mat in the field. Try to pay attention to yoga while baby goats climb on you, push you over and generally cause a ruckus. Join teachers from Hot and Soul Yoga and Synergy Hot Yoga Studios.
Fill Your Cup with Self-Renewal; Self-Love; and, Self-Compassion!
Sunday at Bambu Yoga in Hamilton
This yoga immersion led by Meg offers you the beautiful space to give yourself that which you so generously offer to others. In this practice, an almost womb-like atmosphere is created in which you can deeply relax and begin to fill your cup.Held by comforting blankets, pillows, and bolsters, the body feels supposed and safe. Gentle poses are held for five to ten minutes as the mind softens and quiets through guided meditation. Reiki healing energy is generously offered throughout.
Farm Goat Yoga by Allaire Community Farm
Sunday at the Allaire Community Farm in Wall
Goat Yoga on the farm is fun for all yoga levels. Cheryl from Twisted Sister Yoga will lead you through yoga exercises while the goats walk around and make visits to you. All proceeds go to the continued care of our rescued animals.
Sound Healing Meditation with Bridget Lyons
Sunday at Trinity Wellness Emporium in Union Beach
Experience healing, balance and relaxation through sound. Bridget, a certified sound healer will guide you through a vibratory journey into a deep meditative state using the sounds and vibrations of crystal singing bowls, crystal pyramids, drums, chimes and other healing instruments. A relaxing fragrance designed to balance the Chakra system will be used.
Iyengar-Style 101: AIR with Julie Melik
Sunday at Dig Yoga in Lambertville
An Iyengar Practice focused on Air. The chest is the origin of the air element in the body. This session explores poses that open the thoracic cavity like back bends and side bends to connect with the vast spaciousness within.
May Louie first took yoga in college to fulfill a Phys-Ed requirement and immediately fell in love. She, unfortunately, did not continue with her practice but reconnected with it when she retired from her corporate job in 2002 and has since become a serious yoga enthusiast. After her second retirement in 2017, she completed her 200-hour RYT certification, studying with Dina Crosta, Ellen Mosko, and Jamie Segal Hanley, with a focus on alignment based flow.
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