Age-appropriate instruction for classic poses, yoga-based games, partner/teamwork. Featuring easy-to-remember techniques for calming and relaxation, which you can continue practicing at home. Use yoga’s wisdom to help your family flow and grow together! Ideal for kids aged 2-11 with at least one adult present. 

A mindful, gentle approach to movement and stillness, fostering a deep connection between mind and body. Explore intentional stretching and contracting movements, ease into restorative and yin-inspired yoga poses, and during times of stillness, receive hands-on Reiki energy to enhance your healing experience and encourage the flow of fresh, revived energy. 

Age-appropriate instruction for classic poses, yoga-based games, partner/teamwork. Featuring easy-to-remember techniques for calming and relaxation, which you can continue practicing at home. Use yoga’s wisdom to help your family flow and grow together! Ideal for kids aged 2-11 with at least one adult present. 

Join Catha as she guides best practices in using targeted yoga poses to mindfully improve posture and balance, correct habitual postural patterns, and learn to stand taller and fall less, both on and off the mat. 

Join Sun & Moon Reads Community Book Club as we dive into the exploration of our relationship to self and others through written stories. 

MARCH SELECTION: Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino 

An alien girl infiltrates Earth-life and communicates with her fellow life-forms via fax as she helps gather intel about whether our planet is habitable. This funny-sad novel follows the girl and her single mother as they find the means to persevere.

Shake loose from the slumber of winter and prepare for the energy of spring. Meet the season of clearing space, rooting, and blossoming toward a fuller expression of yourself, just like flowers, trees and wildlife will be doing all around us. Using sound bowls, gongs and other instruments, we will rest our nerves to prepare to receive and engage with spring more authentically. Leave feeling rejuvenated, refreshed, and renewed, ready for the new beginnings that spring offers. 

The shoulders are the most mobile joint in the human body, but when joint function is overly focused on mobility, stability is sacrificed as a result, and if weight bearing through the arms outside of yoga practice is not part of a yoga practitioner's repertoire, it's quite common to develop shoulder issues over time. Join Dr. C to learn more about your shoulder structure, strengths, and weaknesses, and learn to sustain a regular yoga practice for years to come. 

Healthy hips require strength and flexibility within the joints themselves, but it's part of a larger system that requires attentive movement and balanced posture in neighboring knee joints and lower back as well. This workshop is perfect if you are looking to alleviate hip pain and discomfort by safely and effectively use yoga as a tool. 

Experience the state of deep relaxation that awaits you from within. Relax, get comfortable, snuggle in your own home, and take an hour to tune in and be soothed by sound. 

This workshop event is cancelled. We hope to offer it again in the Spring quarter

Auricular acupuncture involves the stimulation of specific points on the ear, which can help unblock qi (energy) in the body's meridians (energy channels) and may help with an array of conditions, including orthopedic pain, insomnia, depression and anxiety, indigestion, and more. Join the communal space, cozy with quiet voices and relaxing music, to receive a 30-minute auricular acupuncture treatment of your choice,  which will include 6-12 sterile hair-thin needles inserted into various points in your ear. One of the oldest specialized medical therapies, acupuncture dates back over 3,000 years, and is widely regarded as a wonderful tool for healing. 

The wall is an extension of the yoga classroom, and can help in many poses beyond balancing or inversions. In this lively workshop, we will have fun experimenting with how the wall can aid or deepen your practice in a variety of seated, standing, and reclined poses.

This workshop has been cancelled

Join Kristen to kick off March Meditation Madness, a 31-day challenge to jump start your meditation practice. This workshop will be a fun and explorative session to introduce you to a variety of ways to meditate, from the extraordinarily simple to more elaborate practice options, that you can use throughout the month.

Join Sun & Moon Reads Community Book Club as we dive into the exploration of our relationship to self and others through written stories. 

FEBRUARY SELECTION: Read This to Get Smarter (About Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More) by Blair Imani 

An approachable guide to being an informed, compassionate, and socially conscious person today—from discussions of race, gender, and sexual orientation to disability, class, and beyond—from critically acclaimed historian, educator, and author Blair Imani.

Join us at the Fairfax Studio for an afternoon of sustenance for mind, body and spirit to help you establish or deepen contemplative practices. Spend a winter afternoon exploring intentional silence at our lovely Fairfax Studio. This half-day workshop provides an opportunity for meditation and mindfulness as well as gentle, guided movement and periods of intentional silence. Wrap-up the retreat with a sound healing session featuring peacefully employed gong, chimes, and crystal bowl tones. Accessible for all whether meditation-curious or an established practitioner. 

February is Heart awareness month. Join Christine Jansen, cardiology nurse practitioner and certified yoga teacher, in exploring the anatomy and physiology of the heart alongside the research that has debunked the myth that the heart is merely a pump. This workshop is an invitation to "see" through the lens of the heart. Using a combination of lecture, asana practice and guided meditation, we will bring our perception to our hearts allowing our entire body to operate in harmony and balance with the heart leading the way. All levels of experience are welcome.

Grab a buddy for Valentine's Day – couples, friends, family pairs all welcome – and join Annie and Amir to learn to give and receive an easy sequence of Thai Yoga Massage. In this unique system, the "giver" guides the "receiver" through a series of relaxed yoga postures, while palming and thumbing along the body’s energy lines and pressure points. The experience can relieve muscular tension, improve circulation, boost the immune system, and balance the body energetically.

A special invitation to experience Suzanne's new Wednesday evening "Movement Medicine: Yoga Tools for Life" class!  Tame your mind, up-level your health, live your best life. In addition to a highly curated yoga and meditation class, each week will include a short discussion and time-tested practices for better nutrition, tips for managing chronic disease, reducing anxiety and living your truth.

Do you find yourself hunched over your phone, computer or desk? Do you feel tight and sore, or experience limited mobility, headaches or TMJ syndrome? Upper body, neck, and shoulder tension can become so chronic that it masquerades as normal, and the symptoms take on a life of their own. If you have chronic neck and/or shoulder pain, this workshop will show you how to re-align your neck and shoulders, improve neck and shoulder function, and increase natural and safe range of motion.

As we settle into winter, this practice will allow for deep rest for mind, body and spirit - individually and collectively.  Using sound bowls, gongs, other instruments and silence, this class will be the best gift you can give yourself - a long winter's nap.  Or at least a deep meditation session....

Indulge in mindful movement! First, take a stroll through Fairfax City's annual Chocolate Lovers Festival, and then indulge in yoga inspired by the richness of chocolate as you melt into sweet spots with slow, soothing postures, ending in a blissful and luxurious restorative practice to start your weekend just right. 

Start 2025 with intention and discover the clarity, inner peace, and inspiration to make this year a true reflection of who you are and what you’re meant to share with the world. In this full-day workshop/afternoon retreat, you'll practice a gentle Hatha Yoga flow, learn easy meditation techniques to ease into the present moment and cultivate awareness of your thoughts, and make space to connect with your inner self. 

Yoga Nidra means "yogic sleep," a guided meditation that can take you into deep relaxation where you may encounter the blissful state that some yogis consider the "true self." NOTE: This is now being offered as a pre-recorded event, available for one month.

Yoga Nidra means "yogic sleep," a guided meditation that can take you into deep relaxation where you may encounter the blissful state that some yogis consider the "true self." This workshop has been moved to Zoom-only due to weather!

Join Sun & Moon Reads Community Book Club as we dive into the exploration of our relationship to self and others through written stories. 

January SELECTION: This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite  

Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces the author's journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life.

Restorative yoga is a practice that is focused on slowing down and opening your body through passive, supported stretching. During the long holds of restorative yoga, muscles and connective tissues are allowed to relax and elongate deeply as props, rather than muscles, are doing the work. This workshop will be recorded and available for one month following the event.

Mindfulness, or mind-training, is the practice of being awake. By training up our ability to closely watch our mind, we become intimate with our suffering, our habitual patterns of grasping and avoiding, all the while opening a doorway to personal insight. Only when we know ourselves deeply can we relax reactive habits and live with a more open-heart. In this 4-week series, you'll practice a variety of traditional mindfulness meditation methods that calm the mind and relax the body, improve focus and concentration, develop an accepting and resilient orientation towards life's challenges, and cultivate an open-hearted and friendly attitude towards yourself and others. 

On the heels of the holiday season, we sometimes need a break from the holiday and all of the corresponding things - travel, family, too much to do....  And at the beginning of the calendar year, it's always good to sit in stillness to feel into what commitments we want to make to our lives and communities.  With light restorative movement, gongs and sound bowls, this workshop will give space to relax, clear the mind and start the New Year with peace, presence and purpose. All levels of experience will benefit from these practices and all are welcome.