Upcoming Grateful Events

• New Wednesday class with Lela: Baby & Me Yoga, 4:15-5p. Drop-in anytime!
• Embodied Life, Meditation and Spirituality Classes with Melissa Matson: Fridays, 7-8:30p, May 3, June 7.
• Ongoing Alignment Study- A 4-week Yoga Therapy Series with Sarah Westbrook: Tuesdays, 1:30-3p, Apr 9-30 + optional Apr 2 Preparatory Day
• Getting to the Core of Postpartum Recovery: Pelvic Health and Optimal Functioning with Annie Cumming, PT: Sunday, April 14, 12:15-2:15p.
• Yoga for Childbirth - A Couples Workshop with Cassie Rodgers: Saturday, Apr 27, 4-6:30p
• Sunday Reset: Restorative Yoga to Begin/End Your Week Well with Rhoda Miriam: Sunday, April 28, 4-5:30p.
• Yoga for Bone Health - Strength, Posture and Balance with Becky Liston, PT: Six Mondays, 12-1p, Apr 29 - June 10 (off May 27)
• Women Aging Well - The Wisdom of Movement and Stillness with Rhoda Miriam and Becky Paulin-Liston: Wed, May 8, 12:30-3:30p
• Wise Masculinity - An Embodiment Workshop for Men with Per Erez and Nick Beem: Sunday, June 2, 3-5p.
• Foundations of Yoga: A 4-week Intro Series with Jessica Andreadis: Four Mondays, 7:15-8:30p, June 3-24.

Women's Health Events with the Amala School of Yoga

• 95 hour Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga teacher training begins January 2019 at Yoga Six South Loop. Learn more about becoming certified or for CE hours at www.amalaschoolofyoga.com
• The Circle of Womanhood: A Yoga Retreat to Honor the Wisdom Goddesses with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, Chanti Tacoronte-Perez and Yoli Maya Yeh, co-hosted by Cassie Rodgers and Lela Beem. The Christine Center, Willard Wisconsin. June 26-30, 2019. Registration now available for this spectacular opportunity!

Spring Theme: Fire Practices

Fire (agni) is a metaphor for spiritual transformation, the force that transmutes the unknown into the known, obstacles into awakenings, the mundane into the sacred. Fire practices point towards the final destination of yoga - experiential knowledge of the Mystery.  No dogmatic lectures here - just possibilities to be tested with first-hand experience.

This theme comes last in our yearly curriculum, as it draws on the physical and mental stability of Earth and Moon practices, and the energetic expansion and sensitivity that comes from Sun practice.  Classes will include more opportunities for self-reflection and longer (5-10 minute) meditations.  

Learn more about our year-long syllabus here.

Some suggested reading:

The Mirror of Yoga: Awakening the Intelligence of Body and Mind by Richard Freeman

New Self New World: Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-first Century by Philip Shepherd

Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body by Reginald Ray

Be Here Now by Ram Das

A Gradual Awakening by Stephen Levine

Meditation for the Love of It by Sally Kempton