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Gentle Yoga at Forbes Library
Oct
18

Gentle Yoga at Forbes Library

An exciting collaboration with Forbes Library! Connect with your breath and align your body, mind, and spirit with a slow, grounding flow. Explore a variety of yoga postures and breathing techniques, practicing in a way that feels authentic to you. By the end of the class, you should feel more grounded and centered, with a deeper connection to yourself. All experience levels welcome. Free and open to the public.

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Gentle Yoga at Forbes Library
Sep
6

Gentle Yoga at Forbes Library

An exciting collaboration with Forbes Library! Connect with your breath and align your body, mind, and spirit with a slow, grounding flow. Explore a variety of yoga postures and breathing techniques, practicing in a way that feels authentic to you. By the end of the class, you should feel more grounded and centered, with a deeper connection to yourself. All experience levels welcome. Free and open to the public.

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Gentle Yoga at Forbes Library (Free!)
Jun
7

Gentle Yoga at Forbes Library (Free!)

Connect with your breath and align your body, mind, and spirit with a slow, grounding flow. Explore a variety of yoga postures and breathing techniques, practicing in a way that feels authentic to you. By the end of the class, you should feel more grounded and centered, with a deeper connection to yourself.

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Queer & Trans Yoga (5-Week Series with Fran Astino)
Jun
5

Queer & Trans Yoga (5-Week Series with Fran Astino)

This series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community-oriented environment. This space aims to create a container where queer and trans folks can cultivate joy, a deeper relationship with their bodies, and a sense of connectedness to their yoga practice. Each class will feature time for community and connection and an alignment-focused physical asana practice, ending with gentle restorative movement.

A certified Accessible Yoga Teacher, Fran’s yoga teaching style is a testament to the belief that everyone deserves a space to explore and celebrate their unique identities. She finds it most important to foster an environment where yoga not only nurtures the body but aligns with principles of equity and justice. She has spent years studying to learn more about the needs of marginalized communities within the yoga space and has made it her mission to ensure that she creates as safe a space as possible for BIPOC, trans, and gender diverse folks.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Drop-ins are welcome!

Sliding-scale pricing: $100 - $150. Drop in class rate: $20 - $30.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

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Queer & Trans Yoga (5-Week Series with Fran Astino)
May
29

Queer & Trans Yoga (5-Week Series with Fran Astino)

This series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community-oriented environment. This space aims to create a container where queer and trans folks can cultivate joy, a deeper relationship with their bodies, and a sense of connectedness to their yoga practice. Each class will feature time for community and connection and an alignment-focused physical asana practice, ending with gentle restorative movement.

A certified Accessible Yoga Teacher, Fran’s yoga teaching style is a testament to the belief that everyone deserves a space to explore and celebrate their unique identities. She finds it most important to foster an environment where yoga not only nurtures the body but aligns with principles of equity and justice. She has spent years studying to learn more about the needs of marginalized communities within the yoga space and has made it her mission to ensure that she creates as safe a space as possible for BIPOC, trans, and gender diverse folks.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Drop-ins are welcome!

Sliding-scale pricing: $100 - $150. Drop in class rate: $20 - $30.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Host Website
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Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer
May
28

Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer

Spanning the 7 weeks between Pesach and Shavuot, the Jewish Omer season invites self-study through a sacred practice of taking inventory. We are invited to count each day, marking the ancient accounting of the grain to be offered in honor of receiving Torah on Shavuot. During these weeks, we might also take inventory of our own strengths, resources, dreams, and inquiries in service of getting clearer about what we value & offer in the manifestation of collective liberation. One pathway for this exploration is through the sephirot, the mystical Kabbalistic anatomy that is overlaid on the Omer.

In this 7-week Omer series with LB, we will feel into the sephira of each week by exploring some of its energetic, spiritual, and embodied qualities.

Week 1 (April 16) – Chesed / compassion / right shoulder & arm

Week 2 (April 23) – Gevurah / justice / left shoulder & arm

Week 3 (April 30) – Tiferet / balance / torso

Week 4 (May 7) – Netzach / possibility / right hip & leg

Week 5 (May 14) – Hod / beauty / left hip & leg

Week 6 (May 21) – Yesod / foundation / expressive erotic self

Week 7 (May 28) – Shekhinah / presence / receptive erotic self

Practice will include invitational explorations of breath, movement, imagination, rest, reflection, and creative expression. If you have an active creative practice of any kind (e.g., journaling, drawing, collage, songwriting, poetry, dance), please feel free to bring your materials. Basic writing and drawing materials will be provided.

Open to all - no experience with Omer, Kabbalah/sephirot, somatic practice, or creative expression required! This series is structured to facilitate individual exploratory and expressive practice within a hybrid collective container, and will not include group discussion. There will also be an opportunity at the end of each session to mark the night of the Omer together (in English).

You’re welcome to join any number of sessions either in-person (masks required) or online.

LB Marger Moore (they/them) is a neuroqueer Jewish somatics practitioner and experimental earth-based ritualist interested in weaving justice-focused contemplative practices into the weft of bodies, land, and ancestral magic in service of collective liberation. Feel free to learn more at altarofearth.com.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Wednesdays, April 16 - May 28, 7:30-9:00pm (in-studio & online).

Pay-what-you-can: $5–36 per session. 18% of proceeds will be redistributed equally between 1for3 and No Loose Braids

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Queer & Trans Yoga (5-Week Series with Fran Astino)
May
22

Queer & Trans Yoga (5-Week Series with Fran Astino)

This series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community-oriented environment. This space aims to create a container where queer and trans folks can cultivate joy, a deeper relationship with their bodies, and a sense of connectedness to their yoga practice. Each class will feature time for community and connection and an alignment-focused physical asana practice, ending with gentle restorative movement.

A certified Accessible Yoga Teacher, Fran’s yoga teaching style is a testament to the belief that everyone deserves a space to explore and celebrate their unique identities. She finds it most important to foster an environment where yoga not only nurtures the body but aligns with principles of equity and justice. She has spent years studying to learn more about the needs of marginalized communities within the yoga space and has made it her mission to ensure that she creates as safe a space as possible for BIPOC, trans, and gender diverse folks.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Drop-ins are welcome!

Sliding-scale pricing: $100 - $150. Drop in class rate: $20 - $30.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Host Website
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Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer
May
21

Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer

Spanning the 7 weeks between Pesach and Shavuot, the Jewish Omer season invites self-study through a sacred practice of taking inventory. We are invited to count each day, marking the ancient accounting of the grain to be offered in honor of receiving Torah on Shavuot. During these weeks, we might also take inventory of our own strengths, resources, dreams, and inquiries in service of getting clearer about what we value & offer in the manifestation of collective liberation. One pathway for this exploration is through the sephirot, the mystical Kabbalistic anatomy that is overlaid on the Omer.

In this 7-week Omer series with LB, we will feel into the sephira of each week by exploring some of its energetic, spiritual, and embodied qualities.

Week 1 (April 16) – Chesed / compassion / right shoulder & arm

Week 2 (April 23) – Gevurah / justice / left shoulder & arm

Week 3 (April 30) – Tiferet / balance / torso

Week 4 (May 7) – Netzach / possibility / right hip & leg

Week 5 (May 14) – Hod / beauty / left hip & leg

Week 6 (May 21) – Yesod / foundation / expressive erotic self

Week 7 (May 28) – Shekhinah / presence / receptive erotic self

Practice will include invitational explorations of breath, movement, imagination, rest, reflection, and creative expression. If you have an active creative practice of any kind (e.g., journaling, drawing, collage, songwriting, poetry, dance), please feel free to bring your materials. Basic writing and drawing materials will be provided.

Open to all - no experience with Omer, Kabbalah/sephirot, somatic practice, or creative expression required! This series is structured to facilitate individual exploratory and expressive practice within a hybrid collective container, and will not include group discussion. There will also be an opportunity at the end of each session to mark the night of the Omer together (in English).

You’re welcome to join any number of sessions either in-person (masks required) or online.

LB Marger Moore (they/them) is a neuroqueer Jewish somatics practitioner and experimental earth-based ritualist interested in weaving justice-focused contemplative practices into the weft of bodies, land, and ancestral magic in service of collective liberation. Feel free to learn more at altarofearth.com.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Wednesdays, April 16 - May 28, 7:30-9:00pm (in-studio & online).

Pay-what-you-can: $5–36 per session. 18% of proceeds will be redistributed equally between 1for3 and No Loose Braids

Register
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Queer & Trans Yoga (5-Week Series with Fran Astino)
May
15

Queer & Trans Yoga (5-Week Series with Fran Astino)

This series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community-oriented environment. This space aims to create a container where queer and trans folks can cultivate joy, a deeper relationship with their bodies, and a sense of connectedness to their yoga practice. Each class will feature time for community and connection and an alignment-focused physical asana practice, ending with gentle restorative movement.

A certified Accessible Yoga Teacher, Fran’s yoga teaching style is a testament to the belief that everyone deserves a space to explore and celebrate their unique identities. She finds it most important to foster an environment where yoga not only nurtures the body but aligns with principles of equity and justice. She has spent years studying to learn more about the needs of marginalized communities within the yoga space and has made it her mission to ensure that she creates as safe a space as possible for BIPOC, trans, and gender diverse folks.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Drop-ins are welcome!

Sliding-scale pricing: $100 - $150. Drop in class rate: $20 - $30.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Host Website
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Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer
May
14

Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer

Spanning the 7 weeks between Pesach and Shavuot, the Jewish Omer season invites self-study through a sacred practice of taking inventory. We are invited to count each day, marking the ancient accounting of the grain to be offered in honor of receiving Torah on Shavuot. During these weeks, we might also take inventory of our own strengths, resources, dreams, and inquiries in service of getting clearer about what we value & offer in the manifestation of collective liberation. One pathway for this exploration is through the sephirot, the mystical Kabbalistic anatomy that is overlaid on the Omer.

In this 7-week Omer series with LB, we will feel into the sephira of each week by exploring some of its energetic, spiritual, and embodied qualities.

Week 1 (April 16) – Chesed / compassion / right shoulder & arm

Week 2 (April 23) – Gevurah / justice / left shoulder & arm

Week 3 (April 30) – Tiferet / balance / torso

Week 4 (May 7) – Netzach / possibility / right hip & leg

Week 5 (May 14) – Hod / beauty / left hip & leg

Week 6 (May 21) – Yesod / foundation / expressive erotic self

Week 7 (May 28) – Shekhinah / presence / receptive erotic self

Practice will include invitational explorations of breath, movement, imagination, rest, reflection, and creative expression. If you have an active creative practice of any kind (e.g., journaling, drawing, collage, songwriting, poetry, dance), please feel free to bring your materials. Basic writing and drawing materials will be provided.

Open to all - no experience with Omer, Kabbalah/sephirot, somatic practice, or creative expression required! This series is structured to facilitate individual exploratory and expressive practice within a hybrid collective container, and will not include group discussion. There will also be an opportunity at the end of each session to mark the night of the Omer together (in English).

You’re welcome to join any number of sessions either in-person (masks required) or online.

LB Marger Moore (they/them) is a neuroqueer Jewish somatics practitioner and experimental earth-based ritualist interested in weaving justice-focused contemplative practices into the weft of bodies, land, and ancestral magic in service of collective liberation. Feel free to learn more at altarofearth.com.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Wednesdays, April 16 - May 28, 7:30-9:00pm (in-studio & online).

Pay-what-you-can: $5–36 per session. 18% of proceeds will be redistributed equally between 1for3 and No Loose Braids

Register
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Gentle Yoga at Forbes Library (Free!)
May
10

Gentle Yoga at Forbes Library (Free!)

Connect with your breath and align your body, mind, and spirit with a slow, grounding flow. Explore a variety of yoga postures and breathing techniques, practicing in a way that feels authentic to you. By the end of the class, you should feel more grounded and centered, with a deeper connection to yourself.

View Event →
Queer & Trans Yoga (5-Week Series with Fran Astino)
May
8

Queer & Trans Yoga (5-Week Series with Fran Astino)

This series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community-oriented environment. This space aims to create a container where queer and trans folks can cultivate joy, a deeper relationship with their bodies, and a sense of connectedness to their yoga practice. Each class will feature time for community and connection and an alignment-focused physical asana practice, ending with gentle restorative movement.

A certified Accessible Yoga Teacher, Fran’s yoga teaching style is a testament to the belief that everyone deserves a space to explore and celebrate their unique identities. She finds it most important to foster an environment where yoga not only nurtures the body but aligns with principles of equity and justice. She has spent years studying to learn more about the needs of marginalized communities within the yoga space and has made it her mission to ensure that she creates as safe a space as possible for BIPOC, trans, and gender diverse folks.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Drop-ins are welcome!

Sliding-scale pricing: $100 - $150. Drop in class rate: $20 - $30.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Host Website
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Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer
May
7

Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer

Spanning the 7 weeks between Pesach and Shavuot, the Jewish Omer season invites self-study through a sacred practice of taking inventory. We are invited to count each day, marking the ancient accounting of the grain to be offered in honor of receiving Torah on Shavuot. During these weeks, we might also take inventory of our own strengths, resources, dreams, and inquiries in service of getting clearer about what we value & offer in the manifestation of collective liberation. One pathway for this exploration is through the sephirot, the mystical Kabbalistic anatomy that is overlaid on the Omer.

In this 7-week Omer series with LB, we will feel into the sephira of each week by exploring some of its energetic, spiritual, and embodied qualities.

Week 1 (April 16) – Chesed / compassion / right shoulder & arm

Week 2 (April 23) – Gevurah / justice / left shoulder & arm

Week 3 (April 30) – Tiferet / balance / torso

Week 4 (May 7) – Netzach / possibility / right hip & leg

Week 5 (May 14) – Hod / beauty / left hip & leg

Week 6 (May 21) – Yesod / foundation / expressive erotic self

Week 7 (May 28) – Shekhinah / presence / receptive erotic self

Practice will include invitational explorations of breath, movement, imagination, rest, reflection, and creative expression. If you have an active creative practice of any kind (e.g., journaling, drawing, collage, songwriting, poetry, dance), please feel free to bring your materials. Basic writing and drawing materials will be provided.

Open to all - no experience with Omer, Kabbalah/sephirot, somatic practice, or creative expression required! This series is structured to facilitate individual exploratory and expressive practice within a hybrid collective container, and will not include group discussion. There will also be an opportunity at the end of each session to mark the night of the Omer together (in English).

You’re welcome to join any number of sessions either in-person (masks required) or online.

LB Marger Moore (they/them) is a neuroqueer Jewish somatics practitioner and experimental earth-based ritualist interested in weaving justice-focused contemplative practices into the weft of bodies, land, and ancestral magic in service of collective liberation. Feel free to learn more at altarofearth.com.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Wednesdays, April 16 - May 28, 7:30-9:00pm (in-studio & online).

Pay-what-you-can: $5–36 per session. 18% of proceeds will be redistributed equally between 1for3 and No Loose Braids

Register
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Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer
Apr
30

Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer

  • Sanctuary, Thornes Marketplace Third Floor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Spanning the 7 weeks between Pesach and Shavuot, the Jewish Omer season invites self-study through a sacred practice of taking inventory. We are invited to count each day, marking the ancient accounting of the grain to be offered in honor of receiving Torah on Shavuot. During these weeks, we might also take inventory of our own strengths, resources, dreams, and inquiries in service of getting clearer about what we value & offer in the manifestation of collective liberation. One pathway for this exploration is through the sephirot, the mystical Kabbalistic anatomy that is overlaid on the Omer.

In this 7-week Omer series with LB, we will feel into the sephira of each week by exploring some of its energetic, spiritual, and embodied qualities.

Week 1 (April 16) – Chesed / compassion / right shoulder & arm

Week 2 (April 23) – Gevurah / justice / left shoulder & arm

Week 3 (April 30) – Tiferet / balance / torso

Week 4 (May 7) – Netzach / possibility / right hip & leg

Week 5 (May 14) – Hod / beauty / left hip & leg

Week 6 (May 21) – Yesod / foundation / expressive erotic self

Week 7 (May 28) – Shekhinah / presence / receptive erotic self

Practice will include invitational explorations of breath, movement, imagination, rest, reflection, and creative expression. If you have an active creative practice of any kind (e.g., journaling, drawing, collage, songwriting, poetry, dance), please feel free to bring your materials. Basic writing and drawing materials will be provided.

Open to all - no experience with Omer, Kabbalah/sephirot, somatic practice, or creative expression required! This series is structured to facilitate individual exploratory and expressive practice within a hybrid collective container, and will not include group discussion. There will also be an opportunity at the end of each session to mark the night of the Omer together (in English).

You’re welcome to join any number of sessions either in-person (masks required) or online.

LB Marger Moore (they/them) is a neuroqueer Jewish somatics practitioner and experimental earth-based ritualist interested in weaving justice-focused contemplative practices into the weft of bodies, land, and ancestral magic in service of collective liberation. Feel free to learn more at altarofearth.com.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Wednesdays, April 16 - May 28, 7:30-9:00pm (in-studio & online).

Pay-what-you-can: $5–36 per session. 18% of proceeds will be redistributed equally between 1for3 and No Loose Braids

Register
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Queer & Trans Yoga (6-Week Series with Fran Astino)
Apr
24

Queer & Trans Yoga (6-Week Series with Fran Astino)

  • Sanctuary, Thornes Marketplace Third Floor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community-oriented environment. This space aims to create a container where queer and trans folks can cultivate joy, a deeper relationship with their bodies, and a sense of connectedness to their yoga practice. Each class will feature time for community and connection and an alignment-focused physical asana practice, ending with gentle restorative movement.

A certified Accessible Yoga Teacher, Fran’s yoga teaching style is a testament to the belief that everyone deserves a space to explore and celebrate their unique identities. She finds it most important to foster an environment where yoga not only nurtures the body but aligns with principles of equity and justice. She has spent years studying to learn more about the needs of marginalized communities within the yoga space and has made it her mission to ensure that she creates as safe a space as possible for BIPOC, trans, and gender diverse folks.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Drop-ins are welcome!

Sliding-scale pricing: $120 - $180. Drop in class rate: $20 - $30.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Register
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Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer
Apr
23

Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer

  • Sanctuary, Thornes Marketplace Third Floor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Spanning the 7 weeks between Pesach and Shavuot, the Jewish Omer season invites self-study through a sacred practice of taking inventory. We are invited to count each day, marking the ancient accounting of the grain to be offered in honor of receiving Torah on Shavuot. During these weeks, we might also take inventory of our own strengths, resources, dreams, and inquiries in service of getting clearer about what we value & offer in the manifestation of collective liberation. One pathway for this exploration is through the sephirot, the mystical Kabbalistic anatomy that is overlaid on the Omer.

In this 7-week Omer series with LB, we will feel into the sephira of each week by exploring some of its energetic, spiritual, and embodied qualities.

Week 1 (April 16) – Chesed / compassion / right shoulder & arm

Week 2 (April 23) – Gevurah / justice / left shoulder & arm

Week 3 (April 30) – Tiferet / balance / torso

Week 4 (May 7) – Netzach / possibility / right hip & leg

Week 5 (May 14) – Hod / beauty / left hip & leg

Week 6 (May 21) – Yesod / foundation / expressive erotic self

Week 7 (May 28) – Shekhinah / presence / receptive erotic self

Practice will include invitational explorations of breath, movement, imagination, rest, reflection, and creative expression. If you have an active creative practice of any kind (e.g., journaling, drawing, collage, songwriting, poetry, dance), please feel free to bring your materials. Basic writing and drawing materials will be provided.

Open to all - no experience with Omer, Kabbalah/sephirot, somatic practice, or creative expression required! This series is structured to facilitate individual exploratory and expressive practice within a hybrid collective container, and will not include group discussion. There will also be an opportunity at the end of each session to mark the night of the Omer together (in English).

You’re welcome to join any number of sessions either in-person (masks required) or online.

LB Marger Moore (they/them) is a neuroqueer Jewish somatics practitioner and experimental earth-based ritualist interested in weaving justice-focused contemplative practices into the weft of bodies, land, and ancestral magic in service of collective liberation. Feel free to learn more at altarofearth.com.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Wednesdays, April 16 - May 28, 7:30-9:00pm (in-studio & online).

Pay-what-you-can: $5–36 per session. 18% of proceeds will be redistributed equally between 1for3 and No Loose Braids

Register
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Queer & Trans Yoga (6-Week Series with Fran Astino)
Apr
17

Queer & Trans Yoga (6-Week Series with Fran Astino)

  • Sanctuary, Thornes Marketplace Third Floor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community-oriented environment. This space aims to create a container where queer and trans folks can cultivate joy, a deeper relationship with their bodies, and a sense of connectedness to their yoga practice. Each class will feature time for community and connection and an alignment-focused physical asana practice, ending with gentle restorative movement.

A certified Accessible Yoga Teacher, Fran’s yoga teaching style is a testament to the belief that everyone deserves a space to explore and celebrate their unique identities. She finds it most important to foster an environment where yoga not only nurtures the body but aligns with principles of equity and justice. She has spent years studying to learn more about the needs of marginalized communities within the yoga space and has made it her mission to ensure that she creates as safe a space as possible for BIPOC, trans, and gender diverse folks.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Drop-ins are welcome!

Sliding-scale pricing: $120 - $180. Drop in class rate: $20 - $30.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Register
View Event →
Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer
Apr
16

Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer

  • Sanctuary, Thornes Marketplace Third Floor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Spanning the 7 weeks between Pesach and Shavuot, the Jewish Omer season invites self-study through a sacred practice of taking inventory. We are invited to count each day, marking the ancient accounting of the grain to be offered in honor of receiving Torah on Shavuot. During these weeks, we might also take inventory of our own strengths, resources, dreams, and inquiries in service of getting clearer about what we value & offer in the manifestation of collective liberation. One pathway for this exploration is through the sephirot, the mystical Kabbalistic anatomy that is overlaid on the Omer.

In this 7-week Omer series with LB, we will feel into the sephira of each week by exploring some of its energetic, spiritual, and embodied qualities.

Week 1 (April 16) – Chesed / compassion / right shoulder & arm

Week 2 (April 23) – Gevurah / justice / left shoulder & arm

Week 3 (April 30) – Tiferet / balance / torso

Week 4 (May 7) – Netzach / possibility / right hip & leg

Week 5 (May 14) – Hod / beauty / left hip & leg

Week 6 (May 21) – Yesod / foundation / expressive erotic self

Week 7 (May 28) – Shekhinah / presence / receptive erotic self

Practice will include invitational explorations of breath, movement, imagination, rest, reflection, and creative expression. If you have an active creative practice of any kind (e.g., journaling, drawing, collage, songwriting, poetry, dance), please feel free to bring your materials. Basic writing and drawing materials will be provided.

Open to all - no experience with Omer, Kabbalah/sephirot, somatic practice, or creative expression required! This series is structured to facilitate individual exploratory and expressive practice within a hybrid collective container, and will not include group discussion. There will also be an opportunity at the end of each session to mark the night of the Omer together (in English).

You’re welcome to join any number of sessions either in-person (masks required) or online.

LB Marger Moore (they/them) is a neuroqueer Jewish somatics practitioner and experimental earth-based ritualist interested in weaving justice-focused contemplative practices into the weft of bodies, land, and ancestral magic in service of collective liberation. Feel free to learn more at altarofearth.com.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Wednesdays, April 16 - May 28, 7:30-9:00pm (in-studio & online).

Pay-what-you-can: $5–36 per session. 18% of proceeds will be redistributed equally between 1for3 and No Loose Braids

Register
View Event →
Queer & Trans Yoga (6-Week Series with Fran Astino)
Apr
10

Queer & Trans Yoga (6-Week Series with Fran Astino)

  • Sanctuary, Thornes Marketplace Third Floor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community-oriented environment. This space aims to create a container where queer and trans folks can cultivate joy, a deeper relationship with their bodies, and a sense of connectedness to their yoga practice. Each class will feature time for community and connection and an alignment-focused physical asana practice, ending with gentle restorative movement.

A certified Accessible Yoga Teacher, Fran’s yoga teaching style is a testament to the belief that everyone deserves a space to explore and celebrate their unique identities. She finds it most important to foster an environment where yoga not only nurtures the body but aligns with principles of equity and justice. She has spent years studying to learn more about the needs of marginalized communities within the yoga space and has made it her mission to ensure that she creates as safe a space as possible for BIPOC, trans, and gender diverse folks.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Drop-ins are welcome!

Sliding-scale pricing: $120 - $180. Drop in class rate: $20 - $30.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Register
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Queer & Trans Yoga (6-Week Series with Fran Astino)
Apr
3

Queer & Trans Yoga (6-Week Series with Fran Astino)

This series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community-oriented environment. This space aims to create a container where queer and trans folks can cultivate joy, a deeper relationship with their bodies, and a sense of connectedness to their yoga practice. Each class will feature time for community and connection and an alignment-focused physical asana practice, ending with gentle restorative movement.

A certified Accessible Yoga Teacher, Fran’s yoga teaching style is a testament to the belief that everyone deserves a space to explore and celebrate their unique identities. She finds it most important to foster an environment where yoga not only nurtures the body but aligns with principles of equity and justice. She has spent years studying to learn more about the needs of marginalized communities within the yoga space and has made it her mission to ensure that she creates as safe a space as possible for BIPOC, trans, and gender diverse folks.

Registration

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Drop-ins are welcome!

Sliding-scale pricing: $120 - $180. Drop in class rate: $20 - $30.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

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Yoga and Sound
Mar
29

Yoga and Sound

  • Sanctuary, Thornes Marketplace Third Floor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Immerse yourself in this blissful workshop of movement and sound meditation. This 90-minute Yoga & Sound workshop combines a revitalizing yoga practice with the deeply relaxing and restorative benefits of sound meditation.

In the first 45 minutes, you'll flow through a nurturing sequence of yoga asana (postures) designed to release tension and cultivate mind-body awareness. The practice will be accessible for all levels, with many variations to honor your body.

The second half of the workshop will be devoted to a profoundly calming sound meditation/sound bath. As you rest in gentle seated or reclined postures, you'll bathe in the vibrations of singing bowls, chimes, steel drums, and other sound meditation instruments. These resonant tones will help relax your nervous system, reduce stress and anxiety, and transport you into a state of deep relaxation and inner stillness.

You'll leave feeling grounded yet uplifted–your body rejuvenated and your mind at peace.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Drop-ins are welcome! Sliding-scale pricing: $30 - $50.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

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Queer & Trans Yoga (6-Week Series with Fran Astino)
Mar
27

Queer & Trans Yoga (6-Week Series with Fran Astino)

  • Sanctuary, Thornes Marketplace Third Floor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community-oriented environment. This space aims to create a container where queer and trans folks can cultivate joy, a deeper relationship with their bodies, and a sense of connectedness to their yoga practice. Each class will feature time for community and connection and an alignment-focused physical asana practice, ending with gentle restorative movement.

A certified Accessible Yoga Teacher, Fran’s yoga teaching style is a testament to the belief that everyone deserves a space to explore and celebrate their unique identities. She finds it most important to foster an environment where yoga not only nurtures the body but aligns with principles of equity and justice. She has spent years studying to learn more about the needs of marginalized communities within the yoga space and has made it her mission to ensure that she creates as safe a space as possible for BIPOC, trans, and gender diverse folks.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Drop-ins are welcome!

Sliding-scale pricing: $120 - $180. Drop in class rate: $20 - $30.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Register
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Queer & Trans Yoga (6-Week Series with Fran Astino)
Mar
20

Queer & Trans Yoga (6-Week Series with Fran Astino)

  • Sanctuary, Thornes Marketplace Third Floor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community-oriented environment. This space aims to create a container where queer and trans folks can cultivate joy, a deeper relationship with their bodies, and a sense of connectedness to their yoga practice. Each class will feature time for community and connection and an alignment-focused physical asana practice, ending with gentle restorative movement.

A certified Accessible Yoga Teacher, Fran’s yoga teaching style is a testament to the belief that everyone deserves a space to explore and celebrate their unique identities. She finds it most important to foster an environment where yoga not only nurtures the body but aligns with principles of equity and justice. She has spent years studying to learn more about the needs of marginalized communities within the yoga space and has made it her mission to ensure that she creates as safe a space as possible for BIPOC, trans, and gender diverse folks.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Drop-ins are welcome!

Sliding-scale pricing: $120 - $180. Drop in class rate: $20 - $30.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Register
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Embodied Possibilities: Choiceful Movement for Trauma (6-Week Series with LB Moore)
Mar
11

Embodied Possibilities: Choiceful Movement for Trauma (6-Week Series with LB Moore)

  • Sanctuary, Thornes Marketplace Third Floor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

As we collectively continue to better understand the diverse impacts of trauma in our bodyminds, the call for dynamic, embodied practices for survivors expands. Simultaneously, so many of our communities are being exposed to persistently or increasingly traumatizing conditions in our social-political landscape. Within this landscape, Embodied Possibilities is a 6-week series for folks interested in a non-verbal container to explore the possibility of having a body through choiceful movement. Rooted in research in complex trauma, neurophysiology, and attachment, as well as yoga, Embodied Possibilities provides a pathway to transform embodied trauma patterns through practicing personal agency in a container attuned to safety.

In practice, an Embodied Possibilities session looks and sounds like a series of invitations to move or find stillness within the range of ways that your body moves. There's no expectation to look, move, or feel a certain way, and you’re free to make each practice your own. Importantly, there’s no specific movement or flow that heals trauma. Rather, this practice is about exploring choices and noticing points of curiosity or sensation that might serve to create more possibilities for how to move forward. I will also be practicing, from my own mat; facilitation is entirely verbal, and never includes “hands-on assists” or other “corrections.” You are welcome to practice from a chair or mat as suits you; both will be available for each in-studio session.

Embodied Possibilities is an expression of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), an evidence-based intervention for survivors navigating the effects of complex trauma found to be supportive for many survivors experiencing unwanted trauma-related patterns like fatigue, numbness or detachment, fear and sadness, self-doubt, nightmares, confusing emotions, and more. LB Marger Moore (they/ze) has been supporting folks as a neuroqueer, disabled somatic trauma steward in their work as a movement facilitator and somatic trauma therapist since 2015. You’re welcome to learn more about TCTSY and LB on their website, including a brief sample TCTSY practice.

As part of the registration process for this series, it is required to complete an additional participant waiver/registration form (Google form, only viewable by LB, see below). You will not be asked to identify as a trauma survivor or describe experiences of trauma. While Embodied Possibilities is intended to be therapeutic, this offering is not therapy. Any movement practice can bring up unexpected thoughts, feelings, or sensations; some participants find it useful to identify supportive people (such as a trusted friend, bodyworker, therapist, etc.) with whom they can verbally process their experiences outside of class if desired.

Note: Masks will be required.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Sliding-scale pricing: $120 - $180.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Register
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Embodied Possibilities: Choiceful Movement for Trauma (6-Week Series with LB Moore)
Mar
4

Embodied Possibilities: Choiceful Movement for Trauma (6-Week Series with LB Moore)

  • Sanctuary, Thornes Marketplace Third Floor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

As we collectively continue to better understand the diverse impacts of trauma in our bodyminds, the call for dynamic, embodied practices for survivors expands. Simultaneously, so many of our communities are being exposed to persistently or increasingly traumatizing conditions in our social-political landscape. Within this landscape, Embodied Possibilities is a 6-week series for folks interested in a non-verbal container to explore the possibility of having a body through choiceful movement. Rooted in research in complex trauma, neurophysiology, and attachment, as well as yoga, Embodied Possibilities provides a pathway to transform embodied trauma patterns through practicing personal agency in a container attuned to safety.

In practice, an Embodied Possibilities session looks and sounds like a series of invitations to move or find stillness within the range of ways that your body moves. There's no expectation to look, move, or feel a certain way, and you’re free to make each practice your own. Importantly, there’s no specific movement or flow that heals trauma. Rather, this practice is about exploring choices and noticing points of curiosity or sensation that might serve to create more possibilities for how to move forward. I will also be practicing, from my own mat; facilitation is entirely verbal, and never includes “hands-on assists” or other “corrections.” You are welcome to practice from a chair or mat as suits you; both will be available for each in-studio session.

Embodied Possibilities is an expression of Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), an evidence-based intervention for survivors navigating the effects of complex trauma found to be supportive for many survivors experiencing unwanted trauma-related patterns like fatigue, numbness or detachment, fear and sadness, self-doubt, nightmares, confusing emotions, and more. LB Marger Moore (they/ze) has been supporting folks as a neuroqueer, disabled somatic trauma steward in their work as a movement facilitator and somatic trauma therapist since 2015. You’re welcome to learn more about TCTSY and LB on their website, including a brief sample TCTSY practice.

As part of the registration process for this series, it is required to complete an additional participant waiver/registration form (Google form, only viewable by LB, see below). You will not be asked to identify as a trauma survivor or describe experiences of trauma. While Embodied Possibilities is intended to be therapeutic, this offering is not therapy. Any movement practice can bring up unexpected thoughts, feelings, or sensations; some participants find it useful to identify supportive people (such as a trusted friend, bodyworker, therapist, etc.) with whom they can verbally process their experiences outside of class if desired.

Note: Masks will be required.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Sliding-scale pricing: $120 - $180.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Register
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Yoga and Sound
Mar
1

Yoga and Sound

  • Sanctuary, Thornes Marketplace Third Floor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Immerse yourself in this blissful workshop of movement and sound meditation. This 90-minute Yoga & Sound workshop combines a revitalizing yoga practice with the deeply relaxing and restorative benefits of sound meditation.

In the first 45 minutes, you'll flow through a nurturing sequence of yoga asana (postures) designed to release tension and cultivate mind-body awareness. The practice will be accessible for all levels, with many variations to honor your body.

The second half of the workshop will be devoted to a profoundly calming sound meditation/sound bath. As you rest in gentle seated or reclined postures, you'll bathe in the vibrations of singing bowls, chimes, steel drums, and other sound meditation instruments. These resonant tones will help relax your nervous system, reduce stress and anxiety, and transport you into a state of deep relaxation and inner stillness.

You'll leave feeling grounded yet uplifted–your body rejuvenated and your mind at peace.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Drop-ins are welcome! Sliding-scale pricing: $30 - $50.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

Register
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Art of Props: Support and Strengthen Your Yoga Asana Practice
Feb
8

Art of Props: Support and Strengthen Your Yoga Asana Practice

  • Sanctuary, Thornes Marketplace Third Floor (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Do you often find yourself unsure how to integrate props into your personal yoga practice? In “The Art of Props,” Fran will guide you through various techniques to enhance your practice using essential props like bolsters, blocks, blankets, and straps. 

This 90-minute immersive workshop will help you better understand how to use props for deeper support and stability. Props will be incorporated to help release tightness, and offer a more accessible practice for yogis of all levels. The workshop will be set up like an all-levels yoga asana class, with opportunities for Fran to provide pointers on how to use props, and will end with a lengthy savasana.

This workshop will empower you to make the most of your props – turning them into powerful tools for transformation. Props are not just for beginners; they offer benefits for practitioners of every level, adding an element of ease and exploration to your yoga journey.

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.

Drop-ins are welcome! Sliding-scale pricing: $30 - $50.

A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:

Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.

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Prenatal Yoga: Love, Joy, Compassion, & Equanimity
Jan
30

Prenatal Yoga: Love, Joy, Compassion, & Equanimity

This 4-week series is for people carrying and birthing a baby who are looking to connect with their bodies, their breath, and their pregnancy in a supportive environment. Each class will include time for community and connection and an exploration of the ways that yoga can support pregnancy and birth through movement, breath, and meditation. All bodies, sizes, and abilities are welcome and celebrated.

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