You can find some many places to move, groove, meditate, learn, breathe, and grow in NJ this week.
We’ve got an awesome list of can’t miss opportunities, from mini-retreats, immersions, and spring celebrations to fun and funky flows with adult-only libations (whiskey and wine!).
Don’t forget to tag us at @njyogacollective so we can see where you choose to spend your time and deepen your practice. If you make a new yoga BFF, give us a virtual “namaste-heeeeeeeey” in your IG stories! If you nail your first crow, make sure to let us know – oh and also if you take your practice out into the snow (the weather can’t stop of flow, fo’ sho’).
Haha! Okay, enough. Have an amazing night. We love you!
Planting Energetic Seeds: Spring Equinox Celebration
March 19
6-8 PM
Hot or Not Yoga, Manahawkin
Join Beth Connelly for a unique and beautiful equinox celebration, giving thanks, and creating a sacred space to help you reach your greatest good and highest potential.
Students will have an opportunity to set intentions- taking advantage of the high vibration formed by the collective consciousness of the group to plant energetic seeds for the season to come.
Students will also have an opportunity to write down any situations that are no longer serving purpose in their lives, or to write the name of a person who needs healing. The papers will be kept private and placed in a crystal bowl so the vibration can be raised, prayed upon, and burned the next day at the exact time of the equinox.
Spring Equniox Yinyasa
March 20
9:30 AM
Hot or Not Yoga, Manahawkin
The fusion of Yin yoga with Vinyasa flow creates an integrated, balanced 75-minute yoga practice. The standing sequence is flowing movement requiring strength and balance. The internal heat generated burns off excess energy allowing for a quieting of the body and mind in order to dive more deeply into the Yin portion. These longer held poses are designed to release connective tissues and create space and integrity in the joints; allowing energy to flow through the body.
Spring Equinox: A Spring Cleaning Practice with Daniele Parisi
March 20
6:30-8:00PM
Pearl Yoga and Fitness, Keyport
Celebrate the Spring Equinox with this 90 minute rejuvenating, mentally and physically, cleansing class!
Join Danielle for a blended flow including heart openers, hip openers, essential oils, and other strengthening poses to help prepare the mind and body for the new shift in season. We will focus on breathing, alignment in poses and combining our energies into one united force. Come clear out any clutter in your life and set your intentions as we enter the spring!
Sip + Shop + Silent Yoga Hosted by Mettamade, Babes in Business NJ, and NPZ Studio
March 21
4-8PM
BellWorks, Holmdel
Join Us for an evening of yoga, cocktails, appetizers, and shopping with local Babes In Business vendors! YOGA IS FROM 6-7PM with Silent NJ headphones! Flow through a 60min all levels yoga class while using SilentNJ™ headphones — led by Mettamade’s Jennifer Hansen, with bllissful beats as you zen out and get away from the workweek hustle! After yoga, join Babes in Business vendors and explore a curated collection of unique and stylish pop-up shops while you sip cocktails and mix and mingle in the beautiful space of Bell Works!
Yoga and Whiskey Night
March 23
6:30-8PM
POE, Fair Haven
From Brooklyn, DJ Lefty Love’s special blend of slow and low beats will be the backdrop for Vanessa Van Noy’s warm yoga flow. After you detox, we will retox with some Slow and Low Rock and Rye whiskey cocktails.
Restorative Moon Workshop with Emily Bessemer
March 23
6:30-8:00PM
Yoga Peace Kula, Howell
Restorative Yoga Flow based on the moon cycle and practices of intention setting with the Moon phase. Each person will receive a written copy of the Moon astrology report + a crystal to use for the remainder of the moon cycle.
A Transformative Weekend with Desiree Rumbaugh
March 23, 24 and 25
Dig Yoga, Lambertville
Join us in welcoming Desiree Rumbaugh back to DIG Yoga for an inspiring weekend of yoga, community, and learning. The focus of this workshop will be the interweaving of strength with flexibility and the constant adjustment and re-calibration that this requires through vertical stacking.
Full Weekend: $160, Per Session:$50
Yoga of Self Healing Weekend Retreat with Gail Cristelli
March 23, 24 and 25
Tula Yoga, Long Branch
This workshop retreat includes 14 hours of exploring how to make lasting life changes to live more productively and peacefully in today’s world. Included will be: asana and pranayama techniques, theory, implementing the 12 steps of recovery, the Yoga Sutras, The Chakra System and Koshas, and will touch on Ayurveda and the Gunas, Meditation Techniques and Yoga Nidra.
Spring Equinox Workshop with Amy Jean Pastore
March 24
1:30-3:30PM
Powerflow Yoga, Glen Rock
The Spring Equinox represents the halfway point between Winter and Summer. Day and night are equal. And Spring officially begins! Join us as we welcome the return of the light, warmer air and reawakening of the earth. Detoxify the body and mind through dynamic vinyasa flowthat includes cleansing breath work, deep twists, inversions and, of course, sweat. Amy will spend the first 30 minutes of this 2-hour workshop teaching Ayurvedic detoxing practices that students can do before a 90-minute asana practice. Thaw out and reawaken with Amy!
Tune-in to Bloom!! Restorative Mini-Retreat with Stefanie Haberman & Deb Kephart
March 24
1-3 PM
Bhakti Barn Yoga, Millburn
Say “goodbye” to winter and greet spring, a time of rebirth and renewal, with some personal restoration and rejuvenation. As the seasons change, so do the needs of our bodies. In this 2 hour mini-retreat Deb and Stefanie will guide you through a sequence of restorative poses designed to release tension from your body, quiet your mind, soothe your soul and to “tune-in” to the new season. Guided meditation, breathing techniques, comforting assists and essential oils will also be used to deepen relaxation, melt away stress and prepare you to bloom.
Next Level Workshop: Plank, Chaturanga & Surya Namaskar
March 24
11:30AM-1PM
Indigo Yoga, Caldwell
Take your yoga practice to the next level! Each month, a featured teacher from the Indigo Yoga team will guide Indigo Yogi’s (and visitors are welcome too!) through the steps of how to advance their practice by focusing on specific advanced yoga poses. Each of these monthly workshops will begin with a warm up and end with a cool down/savasana and will break down alignment points of the pose and help you understand how to properly enter and exit the pose and efficiently hold or move through the advanced pose
Aerial Yoga Yin/Vin Workshop
March 24
1:30-3:30PM
Princeton Integral Yoga Community Center
Join us for a detox aerial flow combining the energy clearing elements of the aerial & yin practice. The holiday-winter season can take a toll on our physical body and energy body, and often leaves us feeling more stagnant. Focusing on getting our bodies and circulation moving we go through lengthening the spine, do cleansing twists, and end with aerial yin yoga postures.We will close with a guided yoga Nidra and extended savasana.
Bad Yogi: Erin Motz
March 24 and 25
Princeton Center for Yoga & Health
Erin is co-Founder of Bad Yogi & voice of real yogis everywhere and the creator of the Perfect Body Yoga Program which is centered around the belief that the “perfect” body is simply the healthiest version of the body you already have.
You won’t hear much Sanskrit in Erin’s workshops but you’ll probably get plenty of corny jokes, she believes yoga is for everyone and invites all good/bad/new/old yogis to come and practice with her.
The Anatomy of Yin Yoga Immersion
March 24 and 25
Inlet Yoga, Manasquan
Yin Yoga greatly enhances your mobility and flexibility, as well as your overall health. When you gain more understanding of the physical effects of this practice, you will be able to gear it towards the needs and abilities of your body in order to get the most benefit. In this 2-day Intensive we will look at how Yin Yoga affects the body; why it has different effects than a dynamic practice; how Yin Yoga enhances joint health; and how skeletal differences affect our yoga practice in general.
In this Intensive you will learn the foundational principles of Yin Yoga; the concepts of Yin and Yang; the physiological effects of Yin Yoga; basic anatomy of bones and joints; joint health; skeletal differences and their effects.
Spring Fling & Open House
March 24
1PM-5PM
Strong and Soulful, Sea Girt
We invite the entire community to stop in and check out our healing services, meet our staff, enjoy our healthy food and maybe treat yourself to one of our vendors’ products or services. We will have jewelry, soaps, tarot readings, reiki sessions, biomat sessions, infrared sauna, food samples, candles, raffles and much more!
Alignment Refinement with Celeste Kolodin
March 24
12:30 – 2:00 PM
Honor Yoga, North Brunswick
Another great benefit of membership! A lovely, intimate yoga workshop limited to 10 students with 2 instructors for lots of individual attention, adjustments, and plenty of room to try new things and meet other members. This class will be run as a question & answer style, allowing you to have the breakthroughs you have been working toward!
Free for Auto-Pay Members, $25 for all others.
Please limit yourself to once per month to open this experience to others.
Full Practice Workshop with Janice Liou
March 24
2-4 PM
Honor Yoga, North Brunswick
Experience a fully integrated practice in this 2 hour workshop that will include not only a balanced vinyasa sequence but also pranayama breathwork – the root of the yoga practice. Students will be led and guided through a standing yang sequence suitable for beginners with options leading up to variations for advanced practitioners. Physical practice will conclude with a grounding yin-like sequence for meditative stillness. Workshop concludes with Yoga Nidra (meditative yogic sleep) to translate the work of the physical body to the mental state.
Practice consists of:
Pranayama breathwork
Standing/balancing postures (along with arm/hand balance options)
Heart-opening sequence
Hip-opening sequence
Meditative Yoga Nidra
The goal of this workshop is for you to learn and take the exercises and methods that we will introduce into your own home/studio practice.
Inversion Lab with Janice Liou
March 25
2-4PM
Honor Yoga, North Brunswick
This 2-hour workshop is perfect for the novice inverter as well as more experienced inverters looking for additional transitions and options!
Come learn what is necessary to balance on your hands and your forearms. We will cover the necessary strength components of arm /hand balances as well as the proper alignment to move upside down. Students will learn how to navigate a new awareness within their physical bodies upside down!
Segments include:
The foundation: Bakasana
Headstand Srisasana
Forearmstand Pinchamayurasana
Handstand
The goal of this workshop is for you to learn the fundamental concepts of inverting to take with you into your personal practice (studio or home). All levels welcome!
Activate Your Core
March 25
3-5:00PM
Honor Yoga, Princeton
In this fun and challenging workshop you will learn how to activate your core muscles to bring your yoga practice to the next level! Learn what muscles make up the core, how to activate those muscles during core yoga exercises, and how to use your core n your yoga practice. Core exercises will be taught to challenge your body, assist your development of core awareness and make you strong from the inside out! You will leave with a solid understanding of what constitutes the core, how to engage the core muscles during exercises, and how these exercises can prepare your body for more challenging asanas.
Oh My Aching Neck!
March 25
5-8PM
Jivamukti Yoga Center, Jersey City
Have pain or stiffness in your neck? Can’t get rid of that nagging neck pain? In this workshop we will explore the basic anatomy of the neck, discuss common causes of neck pain and review the alignment of the head/neck in familiar yoga poses. There will be an asana class focused on the cervical spine and an asana lab in which personal questions can be addressed.
The workshop will start with a 45 minute lecture about the anatomy of the next and spine followed by a 1 hr asana class. The remainder of the workshop will be devoted to individualized attention and Q&A regarding neck issues that students have encountered.
Alignment Refinement with Charity Luyben
March 25
3-4:30PM
Honor Yoga, Jackson
This small yoga workshop is limited to 10 students for lots of individual attention, adjustments, and room to try new things. Come with a pose that you want help working on. Your instructor will help you fine tune the alignment, provide you with individualized modifications and assists, and provide you with tools to progress into the next level of your practice!
Sacral Chakra Workshop with Josh Ansley
March 25
4-6PM
Yoga Essence, New Providence
The Chakras, or energy centers within our body are responsible for receiving and expressing energy. They are the storage centers for our life experiences and they affect us physically, mentally and spiritually. The sacral chakra is the second chakra. It is associated with the emotional body, sensuality, and creativity. Its element is water and as such, its energy is characterized by flow and flexibility. The function of the sacral chakra is directed by the principle of pleasure. Josh’s workshop will include discussion, meditation, breath work, journaling and asana practice.
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 last year, 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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