Upcoming Workshops
Special Events and Classes
Prenatal Yoga 6-Week Series - Oct/Nov 2024
Dates: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 - Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
$108 general / $96 members
6:00pm-7:15pm, Online or in person.
Join birth and postpartum doula Rebecca Henry for her unique 6-week hybrid Prenatal Yoga Series!
Prenatal yoga is not just a regular yoga class adapted for pregnant people. At a time when everything is changing in your body, prenatal yoga helps moms-to-be reconnect with and build body awareness, stretch, strengthen and release the muscles most easily affected by pregnancy and foster a greater understanding of what is happening with our bodies during pregnancy and childbirth.
The Bhagavad Gita Book Club - Oct 2024
Dates: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 - Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Location: Online
Online
$90 general/$80 members
Online, 7:30-8:30pm
How can we live a spiritually meaningful life without withdrawing from society and our family obligations?
How do we make it through our struggles for self-mastery?
These are the essential questions posed in the beloved and sacred ancient Hindu scripture known as The Bhagavad Gita. Sometimes criticized for contradicting itself, this insightful text appeals to seekers of all sorts, assuring us that yoga takes different forms for different people.
Join Tara Lemerise for this workshop/book club to read and unpack all of the beauty and profound wisdom in this text that will deepen your understanding of yoga.
Postnatal Yoga 6 Week Series -Oct/Nov 2024
Dates: Friday, October 25, 2024 - Friday, November 15, 2024
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
$108 general / $96 members
Fridays, 11am-12:15pm, online or in person.
The Transition to Motherhood - Oct 2024
Dates: Saturday, October 26, 2024
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
In-Person
$150 general/$130 members
2-5pm, in-person
Becoming a mother is a profoundly transformative experience. It can be
simultaneously thrilling and nerve wracking to welcome a baby into your
family. Conversations with expecting first-time moms tend to focus on
how to take care of babies – from sleep schedules to registry products
to pediatrician visits. These conversations are critical. What is often
omitted, however, are open and honest discussions about how to take care
of moms and the challenges inherent in transitioning to motherhood.
Tired and struggling new moms can feel isolated, overwhelmed, and even
ashamed that they are doing something wrong, when in reality, many of
these struggles are universal. In this workshop, we will debunk the
common myths of early motherhood, connect over the anticipation of your
baby’s upcoming arrival, discuss tips for navigating family dynamics in
the postpartum phase, and learn how to recognize postpartum mood
disorders.
Honoring the Ancestors - Fall 2024
Dates: Sunday, October 27, 2024
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
In-Person
$40 general/$36 members
4-6:30 pm In-person
Whether you call it Shradh, Samhain, Da de los Muertos, All Hallow Eve, All Saints Day, or All Soul Day, cultures across the planet believe this moment halfway between fall and winter is a time when the veil between worlds grows thin, allowing us to connect with the souls of the departed. We will come together to create a safe community to make peace with the past, honor our grief, and connect with our ancestors, both known and unknown.
Compassion Cultivation Training© - Fall 2024
Dates: Monday, October 28, 2024 - Monday, December 16, 2024
Location: Online
Online
$395 general/ $335 early-bird (ends Oct 20)/members
Online, 8 Mondays, 6:30-8:30pm
What exactly is compassion? How does it differ from empathy? And how can compassion prevent burnout, build resilience, and increase happiness? All questions you can find answers to in this course!
Each of us is born with the capacity for compassion. It’s the seed within that has allowed the human species to evolve and flourish. Most scientists now agree that Darwin’s theories support “survival of the kindest,” not survival of the fittest! Our instinct to care is what has allowed us to adapt to changing, even challenging circumstances, and thrive. However, the seed of compassion, like any seed, needs tending. We have to cultivate compassion because there are many forces in society that mitigate against it taking root and growing tall. Meditation can help us nourish the soil and water the seedling. Similarly, learning to practice compassion in our day-to-day life is an exercise we can do that’s good for those we interact with, but also good for ourselves—like training at the gym. And just as there is sports science, there is compassion science!
Rest For All: Restorative Yoga Teacher Training - 2024
Dates: Saturday, November 02, 2024 - Sunday, November 03, 2024
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
In-Person
$225 general/$195 members
1-7:30pm Saturday and Sunday, in person
Some of our deepest experiences of connection with our most authentic self (yoga!) happen when we have the opportunity to stop working to control our body and mind and we rest with support, awareness, and intention. Restorative Yoga is a powerful way to experience this shift. Join Tara for this powerful and in-depth 12 hour teacher training.
This training is ideal for:
- New yoga teachers who want to continue to learn
- Experienced yoga teachers who want to expand their yoga teaching skills and offerings
- Anyone interested in deepening their understanding and experience of Restorative Yoga
Yoga for Tots (children's yoga, age 2 to 4) - Fall 2024
Dates: Sunday, November 03, 2024 - Sunday, November 24, 2024
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
In-Person
$64 general/$55 members
4 Sundays, 10:45-11:30am
Yoga for tots is a playful class designed for toddlers ages 2-4 years old to begin to explore yoga- alongside their parent or caregiver- in a caring, safe, and FUN environment. Together we will learn yoga poses and games that are designed to encourage body awareness, increase attention span, nurture creativity, and generally support development across this range of ages. Each class incorporates repetition, social interaction, music, fun with props, sensory exploration…and always play!
Samhain Sound Immersion - 2024
Dates: Sunday, November 03, 2024
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
In-Person
$60 general/$50 members
6-7:30pm, In-person only
The harvest season, also known as Samhain, Autumn, or Fall, presents a brief opportunity for self-care between the busy summer months and the onset of holiday festivities. We invite you to take a deep breath and immerse yourself in a 90-minute, one-of-a-kind sound experience, using sound vibrations to clear your energetic pathways and allow your body to release tension and find rest.Sweet Sounds of Rest: Yin + Restorative Yoga with Live Music
Dates: Saturday, November 09, 2024
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
In-Person
$45 general/$36 members
7-9pm, in person
Our sense of hearing, also known as our auditory perception, has a
surprising impact on our nervous system and our ability to down regulate
and de-stress. You'll learn why and experience the impact of sound on
your ability to relax in this mini-retreat from the normal city
soundscape with Melody and Tara. First Melody will lead you through a
nurturing Yin Yoga practice for the joints and then during Restorative Yoga portion of the
class, Tara will help you prop your body for comfort and deep rest while
Melody plays sweet, calming music on the guitar.
Becoming the Best Birth Partner - Nov 2024
Dates: Sunday, November 17, 2024
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
In-Person
$95 (per couple) general/$85 members
2-5pm, In-person at Lighthouse studio.
Working with both pregnant person and partner, Rebecca will show birth partners how to guide, and support the laboring person, both at home and in the hospital, so that they can find their inner strength to bring forth baby. Together you’ll learn the basics of what to expect during labor, along with partner-enhanced poses and other relaxation techniques that you can use throughout the remainder of pregnancy and labor. The goal is to to ease stress, anxiety and pain, and to promote relaxation and calm so that you can both work to bring baby into the world surrounded with love and joy!Price is per couple.
YOUR Body in Yoga: A Functional Anatomy Immersion - Dec 2024
Dates: Saturday, December 14, 2024 - Sunday, December 15, 2024
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
In-Person
EARLY BIRD PRICING! $260 for all - ends November 25th!
$280 general/$260 members IN-PERSON
With Machelle Lee, MA, E-RYT 500, CMT, YACEP
Harshly judging one's range of motion is one of the greatest sources of unnecessary suffering in many people’s yoga practice. The asanas (poses) were designed to move the regenerative and healing life force. To do that effectively in yoga, we must understand our own (or our students') unique structures and explore when we can safely move deeply into a posture or when to acknowledge limitations with respect.
This functional anatomy workshop explores the 10 muscle groups and the 14 major joint segments of the body that account for most of our yoga postures. For each joint intersection, we will perform analysis and range of motion tests on ourselves, ask specific questions about the key sensations, compare with each other, and demonstrate how each person will express particular poses based on their unique anatomic make up.
12 CEUs Available for Yoga Teachers with Yoga Alliance
12 Hour Foundations of Yin Yoga: Theory and Science of Joint and Fascia Tending - Jan 2025
Dates: Saturday, January 11, 2025 - Sunday, January 12, 2025
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
In-Person
WITH Machelle Lee!
EARLY BIRD! $250 for all if you register before Dec 31!
$280 general/$250 members
1-7:30pm each day, In-person
Yin Yoga utilizes muscularly relaxed poses, practiced on the floor, that are held for 3-5 minutes in order to safely and systematically stimulate chemical regenerative responses in tissues, particularly of fascia, ligaments, and within joint capsules. Through modest traction and compression, one trains the structural tissues to reduce the process of contracture that shortens tissues and can cause degeneration, adhesions, pain, and decreased range of motion. Yin Yoga's methodical and subtle approach provides lubrication, mobility, and a sense of lightness to the body's structure, energetics, and thus to the nervous system, the mind and emotions.