Retreat Yoga + Soulful Fitness

✨ Teacher Feature: Kewal ✨

Some teachers have a way of making every class feel like an experience. Kewal is one of them.

Known throughout the Austin yoga community for their dynamic teaching style, uplifting energy, and ability to meet students exactly where they are, Kewal brings a depth of experience that inspires both longtime practitioners and first-time yogis alike.

We're THRILLED to welcome Kewal to The Retreat as they begin spending more time with our community. If you've been curious about practicing with Kewak, this is the perfect opportunity!

🤍 Kewal will be subbing several classes over the next few weeks, so come introduce yourself, experience their incredible teaching, and help us give a warm Retreat welcome! Your chances to practice with Kewal this month are:

Slow Flow
Wednesday, July 22nd @ 10:45am

Infrared Heated Vinyasa Flow
Wednesday, July 22nd

Vinyasa Flow + Sound
Thursday, July 23rd

✨ Reserve your spot through the Mindbody app, the link in our bio or at retreatyogaaustin.com.

✨ Freedom Begins with the Way You Move ✨

The way you move through your yoga practice shapes the way you move through daily life.

Freedom + Function is a thoughtful, infrared-warmed class (set to 80-85 degrees) designed to help you better understand your body's unique architecture while building strength, mobility, and resilience. Inspired by Katonah Yoga®, each class incorporates breathwork, mobility drills, lymphatic support, restorative visualization, and personalized prop work to create a practice that's both intelligent and deeply supportive.

Whether you're looking to improve your range of motion, refine your alignment, or simply move with greater ease, this class offers tools you can carry well beyond the studio.

🔥 Infrared Warmed
🧘 Mondays at 10:45 AM
🤍 With Kayla Soibelman

Come discover a practice that helps you feel more capable, more connected, and more at home in your body.

✨ Reserve your spot through the link in our bio or at retreatyogaaustin.com.

🪶 Create Something You'll Actually Wear 🪶

Some keepsakes carry a little more meaning because you made them yourself.

Join local jeweler & Retreat Yoga teacher, Kate Smith, for Sacred Strands: Feather Earrings Edition, a hands-on workshop where you'll design and create your own pair of feather earrings while learning techniques from an experienced artisan.

This experience is about more than making jewelry—it's about slowing down, exploring your creativity, and enjoying an afternoon spent in good company. You'll leave with a handcrafted pair of earrings and the confidence to appreciate the beauty of creating something from scratch.

✨ No experience needed
🪶 All materials are provided
🤍 Perfect for a solo creative date or an afternoon with a friend
Come create, connect, and take home something that's uniquely yours.

✨ Reserve your spot at retreatyogaaustin.com/events 🤍

🐾 Rediscover the Joy of Movement 🐾

When was the last time you moved simply because it felt good?
Animal Flow® invites you to step away from your usual routine and experience movement through a new lens. This workshop blends bodyweight movement, mobility, and flowing transitions to help you build strength, improve coordination, and move with greater confidence—all while staying close to the ground.

Led by Erikka Walor, this practice encourages curiosity, presence, and play. You'll learn foundational Animal Flow movements that challenge both your body and your mind, leaving you with skills you can continue exploring long after the workshop ends.

Whether you're a yogi, runner, lifter, or completely new to functional movement, this workshop is designed to meet you where you are.

🐾 Explore a fresh way to move
💪 Build strength and stability
✨ Leave feeling energized, capable, and inspired

✨ Reserve your spot at retreatyogaaustin.com/events 🤍

📚 Meet the Author at The Retreat 🤍

We're honored to welcome Sara Hirsh Bordo, author of Autoimmunity & the Good Girl, for an evening of conversation, reflection, and community.

In Autoimmunity & the Good Girl, Sara explores the connection between the roles many women are taught to embrace—caretaker, peacekeeper, people pleaser—and the impact those patterns can have on both emotional and physical health.

Drawing from her own healing journey and groundbreaking research, she invites readers to examine the stories they've inherited, reconnect with their authentic voice, and discover what becomes possible when they begin putting themselves back into the equation.

Join us as Sara shares the inspiration behind her work, answers your questions during a live Q&A, signs copies of her book, and closes the evening with a restorative community sound bath.

✨ Event Schedule
📚 6:00 PM • Book Signing & Mingling
💬 6:30 PM • Conversation & Audience Q&A
🎶 7:15 PM • Community Circle & Sound Bath
🤍 8:00 PM • Closing

📖 Admission is your copy of the book. Please purchase your copy in advance and bring it with you for entry and signing. Books will not be available for purchase at the event.

✨ Reserve your spot through the link in our bio or at retreatyogaaustin.com/events. We can't wait to share this meaningful evening with you.

🪶 An Afternoon of Creativity & Connection 🪶

Some of the best moments happen when we slow down, work with our hands, and create alongside others.

Join us for Sacred Strands: Feather Earrings Edition, where you'll design your own handcrafted pair of feather earrings in a welcoming, creative environment. Guided by local jeweler & Retreat Yoga Teacher, Kate Smith, this workshop is a chance to learn a new skill, connect with community, and leave with something that carries your own personal touch.

No artistic experience is needed—just curiosity and a willingness to create.

✨ Design your own one-of-a-kind feather earrings
🤍 All materials are included
🪶 Support local artists and spend an afternoon in community

Whether you're coming with a friend or treating yourself to a creative afternoon, we'd love to have you.

✨ Reserve your spot at retreatyogaaustin.com/events 🤍

🐾 Animal Flow Workshop 🐾

Ready to move in a whole new way?

Join Erikka Walor for an energizing introduction to Animal Flow®—a ground-based movement practice that combines strength, mobility, coordination, and body control into one fun, challenging experience.

Inspired by the way animals move, this practice helps you build stability, improve flexibility, and develop a deeper awareness of how your body moves. Whether you're a yogi, athlete, or simply looking to try something new, Animal Flow offers a playful way to challenge yourself while reconnecting with your body.

✨ Improve mobility and coordination
💪 Build functional strength
🐾 Explore movement in a creative, supportive environment

No experience is necessary—just come ready to move, learn, and have fun!

✨ Reserve your spot at retreatyogaaustin.com/events 🤍

🌿 Discover Ayurveda, Discover Yourself 🌿

So much of wellness begins with understanding your own unique nature.

Join Kaytee Hernandez for an afternoon exploring Ayurveda, the ancient "science of life," and learn how this time-tested practice can help you create more balance, energy, and ease in your everyday routine.

Together, you'll uncover your unique mind-body type (Prakriti) and gain practical insights into how food, daily habits, yoga, and seasonal living can support your well-being. This workshop is approachable, interactive, and designed to give you tools you'll continue using long after you leave.

Whether you're curious about holistic wellness or looking for a fresh perspective on self-care, this workshop offers a meaningful place to begin.

🌿 Discover your natural constitution
✨ Learn simple, sustainable wellness practices
🤍 Leave with a deeper understanding of what helps you thrive

✨ Reserve your spot at retreatyogaaustin.com/events 🤍

✨ Teacher Feature: Kelsey Mayes ✨

Some teachers guide a class. Others, like Kelsey Mayes, create a space where people feel safe enough to truly meet themselves. We’re thrilled to welcome Kelsey to the Retreat Teacher Family!

Kelsey brings a rare blend of therapeutic insight, embodied wisdom, and wholehearted presence to The Retreat. As a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and facilitator, she understands the profound connection between mind, body, and nervous system. Her work is rooted in helping people feel more connected—to themselves, their experiences, and the communities that hold them.

After moving to Austin, earning her master's degree, building a thriving therapy practice, and supporting clients through deep transformational work, Kelsey never lost her love for yoga. In fact, the principles that have shaped her own practice continue to inform the way she shows up for others—with compassion, curiosity, and authenticity.

What we admire most about Kelsey is her ability to hold space. Whether she's guiding movement, facilitating reflection, or simply welcoming someone into the room, she brings a depth of care that leaves a lasting impact.

Her offerings invite students to reconnect with their bodies, explore their inner landscape, and remember the wisdom that already exists within them. Every class feels intentional, grounded, and deeply human.

🤍 We are so grateful to have Kelsey sharing her gifts with The Retreat community every Thursday evening for Gentle Yoga at 7:15pm.

✨ Take a class with Kelsey and experience her magic for yourself.

✨ Rest & Restore ✨

Your nervous system deserves time to recover, too.

Join Kimberly Wharton for a deeply restorative evening that combines Yoga Nidra and a soothing sound bath to help you unwind, reset, and replenish. With minimal movement, this experience invites you into a state of profound relaxation where the body can rest and the mind can soften.

Whether you've been feeling overwhelmed, overstimulated, or simply ready for a quiet pause, this monthly offering is a beautiful way to reconnect with yourself and create space for deep restoration.

🌙 Friday, July 11
🕖 7:00 PM
🎶 With Kimberly Wharton

✨ Reserve your spot at retreatyogaaustin.com/events 🤍