Yess Yoga

Join us for this afternoon for Immersive Embodiment: A holistic sensory journey w/ Ray and Vani. This workshop will bring together light, sound, yoga, acupuncture, and storytelling for a two-hour experience to leave guests feeling liberated and restored in body and spirit. Ray will guide a nourishing Yin Yoga practice while DJ Vani’s low-fi soundtrack will be complimented with music-responsive lighting, washing the studio in color. With guests in deep yoga holds, Vani will bring in a storytelling element, reading excerpts of Life Chant by Diane Di Pima. To conclude the experience, Vani will guide Yoga Nidra and participants will have the option to receive acupuncture from Ray.

Details: Saturday, August 29th| 2-4 pm | $40 or $70 for two people
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Link in bio to sign up

Make it happen Minnesota!!!

Community Acupuncture w/ Ray and Nikki
Sunday, August 23rd | 2-4 pm | Sliding scale

Community Acupuncture for Collective Resistance is a monthly donation-based offering created by Ray of Ray Himmelman Acupuncture and Nikki of Perenial Acupuncture. This is a space to heal and rest, with the intention that our own healing can ripple out and support collective healing and liberation. Appointments are 45 minutes long and are scheduled in 15 minute intervals. Walk-ins welcome, or you can in Ray’s website. Suggested donation is $20-$50, but no one is turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds go to local mutual aid efforts!

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Freely offered mini sessions from bodyworkers + energy healers. Donations collected for mutual aid + rent relief in mpls

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Bodywork for Collective Liberation w/ Paige and Friends on Monday, August 17th from 3-7 pm. These are 30 min sessions -sliding scale.

Softest of mornings, hello.
And what will you do today, I wonder,
to my heart?
And how much honey can the heart stand, I wonder,
before it must break?

This is trivial, or nothing: a snail
climbing a trellis of leaves
and the blue trumpets of flowers.

No doubt clocks are ticking loudly
all over the world.
I don’t hear them. The snail’s pale horns
extend and wave this way and that
as her fingers-body shuffles forward, leaving behind
the silvery path of her slime.

Oh, softest of mornings, how shall I break this?
How shall I move away from the snail, and the flowers?
How shall I go on, with my introspective and ambitious life?

Softest of Mornings
by Mary Oliver

Craving such a morning? Plan on joining us for either the 7 or 9 am vinyasa class tomorrow. It’s a fabulous way to start your day. You can meet us in person or a live online class.

5 spots left for Yoga and Acupuncture: Earth Element w/ Tatum. Join us this Sunday, August 9th | 2-4 pm | $40 or $75 for two people. Link in bio to sign up.

Chinese Medicine follows a cycle that contains five phases. Similar to seasons in nature and life, each phase evolves into the next on a loop, forever. The Fire Phase (or element) is seen in a licking flame, bright flowers, buzzing bees, and joyful butterflies.

During this workshop, licensed acupuncturist and yoga teacher, Tatum Fjerstad, will share the various ways in which this element shows up in our lives and how to provide it with the care it deserves. After this discussion, she will lead you through a yin yoga practice and a long rest, during which you can choose to receive acupuncture in 5 points.

Pre-registration is required. Masks are optional for the discussion and for yoga, but required for acupuncture
📸 Zoe Prinds-Flash

Invitation

Oh do you have time
to linger
for just a little while
out of your busy

and very important day
for the goldfinches
that have gathered
in a field of thistles

for a musical battle,
to see who can sing
the highest note,
or the lowest,

or the most expressive of mirth,
or the most tender?
Their strong, blunt beaks
drink the air

as they strive
melodiously
not for your sake
and not for mine

and not for the sake of winning
but for sheer delight and gratitude –
believe us, they say,
it is a serious thing

just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
I beg of you,

do not walk by
without pausing
to attend to this
rather ridiculous performance.

It could mean something.
It could mean everything.
It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote:
You must change your life.

(Mary Oliver)

Join us this Tuesday and Thursday at 7 am for a Vinyasa with mini sound bath with Diane. These classes are considered our regular drop-in classes so this is a special treat! All welcome.

Join us tomorrow for a free yin class with Byrd. Sign up like you would any other class on your “schedule” page.