Upcoming Workshops
Special Events and Classes
Introduction to Hidden Language Hatha Yoga
Dates: Saturday, September 20, 2025
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
In-Person
$36 general/$30 members
2-3:30pm, in-person
Hidden Language Hatha Yoga is a gentle and meditative style of Hatha that honors the body as a spiritual tool. By working with metaphor, symbolism, imagery and visualization, the ‘hidden’ messages of each asana are revealed. This workshop includes asana practice, time for personal reflection, and the opportunity to share insights.
Autumn Equinox Forest Bathing - 2025
Dates: Sunday, September 21, 2025
Location: Rock Creek Park
In-Person
$50 general/$45 members
2-4pm, In-person only, Rock Creek Park
Celebrate the start of Autumn with a mindful walk in nature. Join DC
Certified Forest Therapy Guide, Sarah DeWitt, in this two-hour gentle
walk that encourages you to slow down and reconnect with yourself,
nature, and your community. Forest bathing, or shinrin yoku, is
the simple practice of taking in the woods through the senses.
Becoming the Best Birth Partner - Sept 2025
Dates: Saturday, September 27, 2025
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.
The Seven Secrets of Vishnu Book Club
Dates: Wednesday, October 01, 2025 - Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Location: Online
Online
$95 general/$85 members
5 Wednesdays, 7:30-8:30pm, online
From Hindu practices for the
renunciates to the rise of Buddhism and its appeal to the common person,
the symbols and rituals of Vishnu guide us to a deeper connection with
our yoga practice today. Devdutt Pattanaik's book "7 Secrets of Vishu"
is a gem that offers accessible writing and dozens of annotated images
of sacred art. Join us for this 5-week book club to read and discuss
Vishnu’s role in and influence on modern yoga practices.
Un-hunch: Yoga for Your Upper Back, Shoulders, and Neck
Dates: Saturday, October 04, 2025
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
In-Person
$36 general/$30 members
2-3:30pm, in-person
This workshop is devoted to the exploration of the connections between your upper back, shoulders, and neck. You'll discover the ways your shoulder blades move well and other ways they don't move much at all. This will help you understand how weakness or lack of mobility in these movements could be contributing to your neck, shoulder, and back pain. Using simple strength building exercises coupled with yoga posture work to increase flexibility, you will develop your own plan to un-hunch.
Soothing Sound Bath Sunday Oct 2025
Dates: Sunday, October 05, 2025
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
In-Person
$36 general/$22 members (deep discount for members!)
7-8:30pm, in-person
Explore your personal relationship with sound, mood, health, and
body. Sound healing is an ancient technique used around the world, from
the gongs and bowls of Tibet to the Salish Drum Circles of the Pacific
Northwest. Advances in aural science have allowed scientists to
study the impact certain frequencies and tones have on cellular
structure and biorhythmic processes. Increasingly, sound healing is
employed as a holistic tool to calm, repair, and heal. We begin
our monthly sessions by setting a personal intention (sankalp) and
dimming the lights. We are guided through meditation to center ourselves
before we drift into a sonic bath. Every month, we will employ
frequencies and tones to aid cell repair, reduce anxiety, and manage
stress.
Prenatal Yoga 6-Week Series - Oct/Nov 2025
Dates: Thursday, October 09, 2025 - Thursday, November 13, 2025
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
Online In-Person
$108 general / $96 members
6:00pm-7:15pm, Online or in person.
Join birth and postpartum doula Rebecca Henry for her unique 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.
Postnatal Yoga 5 Week Series - Oct/Nov 2025
Dates: Friday, October 10, 2025 - Friday, November 14, 2025
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
Online In-Person
$108 general / $95 members
Fridays, 11am-12:15pm, online or in person.
This postnatal class series, designed for people with babies 6-weeks to pre-crawling, will focus on exploring and learning about how the core, pelvic floor and joints can all be affected by pregnancy and how we can work to heal, strengthen and stabilize. Restorative poses throughout each class will help soothe baby-addled nerves. And with babies welcome in class (both online or in person), you can feel free to stop your practice anytime you need to care for baby. And you'll receive a recording of each class, so if you had to leave practice to care for baby, you can pick up where you left off on the recording later! Each class gives you a chance to connect with other new parents in the community and talk about any issues you are having with your post baby body.Hip to Hip
Dates: Sunday, November 02, 2025
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
In-Person
$36 general/$30 members
2-3:30pm, in-person
There’s a saying that the hips govern all of our movements and our emotions. If you feel tight and stiff physically or emotionally as we head into the shorter days and cold weather of winter, this workshop is for you. We will take a gentle, supported approach to thawing out your hips in a practice mostly done reclining, with exercises and yoga poses to gently stretch and sweetly strengthen all sides of your hips.
Low Back Love
Dates: Sunday, November 02, 2025 - Sunday, November 16, 2025
Location: Online
Online
$65 general/$60 members
3 Sundays, 5:15-6:15pm, online
With Tara Lemerise
Low back pain is one of the most commonly reported body discomforts. If you have an achy low back or you are trying to keep low back pain at bay, this series is for you! Over the course of 3-weeks, we'll explore gentle dynamic movements, drills, exercises, and yoga postures for your legs and hips designed to help you love up your low back. Each class will end with a sweet supportive resting pose to allow for greater integration of the practice.
Meditation Informed Mediation: Conflict Resolution Training
Dates: Saturday, November 15, 2025
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
In-Person
$36 general/$28 members
2-3:30pm, in-person
Meet Colleen, a lawyer and a yoga & meditation teacher who has drawn on her background of conflict resolution, stress management and mindfulness to create Meditation Informed Mediation (MIM), a dispute resolution practice aimed at centering dignity and honoring the wisdom and the compassion that can be harvested from conflict. This workshop will provide attendees with the techniques needed to navigate interpersonal disagreements, identify points of alignment and imbalance and ultimately lead both sides towards empathy, understanding and create a path forward that all participants can walk with contentment.
This workshop will describe in detail the MIM approach to conflict resolution. Here you will learn, as a leader in your organization, how to guide your colleagues through conflict and towards resolution and/or contentment with practical techniques such as intention setting, scents, sounds and tactile tools to ease tension, and movement to get through tough emotions.
Restorative Yoga Mini-Retreat
Dates: Sunday, November 23, 2025
Location: Lighthouse Yoga Center
In-Person
$40 general/$36 members
2-4pm, in-person
At this time of the year, the natural world is calling us to wind down in the direction of winter but the demands of life in this season don't allow much time to rest and reflect. This two-hour min-retreat is the perfect opportunity for you to pause from the doing, settle in, and get the nourishing rest your body is craving. Instead of asking your body and mind to do more, this practice will soothe your nervous system, quiet your mind, and help you release deeply held tension.