Special Events & Workshops
IN PERSON!
Sweet Surrender: softening the psoas, unwinding the hips, soothing the lower back
An Autumnal Equinox Extended Practice
Saturday, September 21, 4-6pm
A gentle celebration to welcome the shifting season and the shortening days. Wind down from the heights of summer while unwinding the great holding places of hips and softening, spreading, and soothing the lower back. This extended practice will incorporate a warmth generating flow sequence followed by long holds in supported postures to maximize release and relief throughout the hips and lower back. We practice softening into intensity - cultivating steadiness and presence as we move into our places of discomfort and dredging our ‘stuck spots’. Ava’s hands-on adjustments are both gentle and deep and will support students in seeking sweet surrender within the postures. Fall freely and with ease into the autumn months, a time of both harvest and restoration.
at Radiate Studio in Sebastopol, CA
SATURDAY SANGHA: COMMUNITY PRACTICE
A monthly offering
where I practice with you
where we practice together
synchronizing our breath
and movement.
In these first Saturday sessions I will simply call out the Sanskrit name of the postures and we'll move and breathe together.
For newer students, it may be more challenging to practice in this way, but you are joyously welcome to join and follow along as best you can! Please just rest in child's pose whenever you need to.
For more advanced students, in initial sessions we’ll practice the ashtanga primary series. In subsequent sessions I’ll start to layer in 2nd series postures.
Please join me the first Saturday of each month, at 10am:
Same zoom link for each Saturday - Zoom!
password: yoga
Practice will be between 90 and 120 minutes. You will have the option to take rest at 11:30am. For those who can stay, we’ll continue with Pranyama and meditation thereafter.
“I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.”
- Mary Oliver