**Awaken: A Weekly Movement Practice**
with Sunaina

Check out our newest weekly movement offering accessible to all bodies and all levels of experience.

Awaken is a weekly ritual for remembering.

Created through the lens of Bhakti Yoga, this practice weaves together somatic affirmations, accessible yoga, pranayama, mantra, meditation, and reflective writing to support embodied healing and collective liberation.

This is not about striving or fixing ourselves. Rather, it is an invitation to move with what is present, honor the body's intelligence, and cultivate deeper trust in our own rhythms.

Together we leave feeling lighter and more free!

Every class offers a sanctuary for slowing down, reconnecting to inner wisdom, and awakening to the medicine already within.

**Yoga for acceptance and presence**
with Aisha

Part 3/3 of our Summer Yoga Body Series!

Join this supportive container

A yoga workshop that challenges the myth of the "summer body" through movement, reflection, and embodied practice, because every body is already a summer body.

This Month’s Special Events!

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This Month’s Special Events! 〰️

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Weekly + Monthly Themes

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**Subtle Body Energization**
with Harpinder

Are you ready? Reserve now!

This month, we will use points in the physical and the subtle body as our anchors for our meditation practice, utilizing one-pointed concentration, breath, and visualization.

7/6 Ajna Chakra

7/13 Ajna Chakra

7/20 Sahasrara Chakra

7/27 Sahasrara Chakra

**Remembering**

Our brand-new offering with Sunaina

Come home to yourself!

Join our new practice! A month devoted to coming home to ourselves, our bodies, and the wisdom that has always lived within.

July 13: Week One: Return to the Body
Grounding, safety, and beginning again.

July 20: Week Two: Remembering the Wild
Creativity, emotional flow, and trusting what brings us alive.

July 27: Week Three: Reclaiming the Inner Goddess
Cultivating confidence, boundaries, and devotion to ourselves.

Wondering where to start? (Hint: it’s here!)

Yoga helps us to connect to our bodies and our selves through our practice on and off the mat. Using this physical practise as a time to physically take up space, and carrying this sensation off our mats into our daily lives.

7/7 Physical

14/7 Energetic

21/7 Mental/emotional

28/7 Intellectual

See for yourself!

This month we will be focusing on tuning into ancestral wisdom through the shared experience of breath.

7/7 Connecting with Ancestors through Breath

7/14 Connecting with Ancestors through Mantra

7/21 Connecting with Ancestors through Breath

7/28 Connecting with Ancestors through Mantra

**Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)**
with Gauree

Practice with community? Yes, please!

Each week we will do a deep dive into the Crown Chakra (Sahasrara) to explore the yogic understanding of awakening.

7/1 Closed Ajna chakra

7/8 What is Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)?

7/15 Awakened Being

7/22 Oneness

7/29 Practical

**The Ramayana; themes and stories**
with Tejal

Book in now!

7/1 Power of Storytelling

7/8 Good over Evil

7/15 Power of Love

7/22 Power of Devotion

7/29 Who tells the tale

**The Forgotten Limbs of Yoga**
with Manoj

No nonsense, just authentic yoga!

One of the first and core teachings of the Buddha was the Four Noble Truths. These are teachings that can be applied to many different aspects of our life. They allow us space and a way to understand the problems of our life and the solutions. We will relate this approach to our yoga practice this month and grow from there…

4th Ishvara Pranidhana (last one from May focus)

11th Suffering exists

18th A cause for our suffering

25th There is a cure for our suffering/The practice can free ourselves

We will explore the niyama of santosha and the nuances of how to embody it amid suffering, injustice, and rejecting apathy.

Live attendance is strongly encouraged for the rich community conversations!

7/3 Contentment as Presence

7/10 Contentment as Wholeness

7/17 Contentment and Change

7/24 Contentment and Trust

7/31 Contentment and Surrender

Let's dive in!

We will explore the niyama of santosha and the nuances of how to embody it amid suffering, injustice, and rejecting apathy.

7/5 Contentment as Presence

7/12 Contentment as Wholeness

7/19 Contentment as Trust

7/26 Time, Change, Surrender

**How are you finding rest in the summer?**
with Tejal

This way to rest!

7/8: How are you finding rest in the summer?

Join each month for a luxurious rest practice with Tejal.

You’re invited to bring pillows, blankets, chairs, or be in bed.

Find expansiveness!

allowing yourself time and space to relax into your natural state. coming back into alignment in whatever ways possible so that you can then go out into the world and take action when and where you need to to serve the alignment that you've found.

No experience necessary. Everyone welcome.

Share this link with your community: https://tejalyoga.as.me/monthlykirtan

**Mantras for Connecting With Your Teachers**
with Melissa

Yep, I’m ready!

7/15: In this month's mantra practice, you'll be guided through an invocation chant that honors your teachers and those you seek guidance from. You'll be invited to explore your relationship to your teachers and to receiving knowledge.

**Pranayama for Connecting With Your Teachers**
with Melissa

Mark me down as a yes!

7/15: In this month's pranayama class, you'll be guided through two breath techniques that support your connection to your teachers. You'll be invited to explore your relationships to your teachers and receiving knowledge.

**Summer Ayurveda: The Breath**
with Melissa

Tell me more!

25th Summer Ayurveda: The Breath

Breath : How to support with breath during the season. Can include pranayama, mantra, sound, repetition, japa

Get your discourse on

Yoga Sutras-- kleshas, obstacles to true nature

7/25: The Kleshas

Rest is resistance!

7/29: Learning from Mammals

Join from bed, or grab pillows, towels, bolsters, or blankets to create a comforting space.

Miss something? Check out the previous monthly themes below!

You can catch up on a particular theme with a particular teacher by becoming a Tejal Yoga community member! Memberships include access to all the previous month's classes!

Click here to review your membership options.

Scholarship membership options available by request. Email →hello@tejalrpatel.com

SUMMER YOGA BODY SERIES WITH AISHA

Mark your calendars for this much-needed 3-part series: Summer Yoga Body, with Tejal & Aisha. We’ll have honest convos about Body Image, diet culture, racism, fatphobia and GLP-1s.

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Subtle Body Energization
This month, we will use points in the physical and the subtle body as our anchors for our meditation practice, utilizing one-pointed concentration, breath, and visualization.
7/6 Ajna Chakra
7/13 Ajna Chakra
7/20 Sahasrara Chakra
7/27 Sahasrara Chakra

AWAKEN: A WEEKLY MOVEMENT PRACTICE WITH SUNAINA
Remembering
A month devoted to coming home to ourselves, our bodies, and the wisdom that has always lived within.
Week One: Return to the Body
Grounding, safety, and beginning again.
Week Two: Remembering the Wild
Creativity, emotional flow, and trusting what brings us alive.
Week Three: Reclaiming the Inner Goddess
Cultivating confidence, boundaries, and devotion to ourselves.
Week Four: Remembering We Belong
Compassion, community, and collective healing.

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Summer Body
Yoga helps us to connect to our bodies and our selves through our practice on and off the mat. Using this physical practise as a time to physically take up space, and carrying this sensation off our mats into our daily lives.
7/7 Physical
14/7 Energetic
21/7 Mental/emotional
28/7 Intellectual

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Ancestral Wisdom
This month we will be focusing on tuning into ancestral wisdom through the shared experience of breath.
7/7 Connecting with Ancestors through Breath
7/14 Connecting with Ancestors through Mantra
7/21 Connecting with Ancestors through Breath
7/28 Connecting with Ancestors through Mantra

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH GAUREE
Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)
Each week we will do a deep dive into the Crown Chakra (Sahasrara) to explore the yogic understanding of awakening.
7/1 Closed Ajna chakra
7/8 What is Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)?
7/15 Awakened Being
7/22 Oneness
7/29 Practical
SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
The Ramayana; themes and stories
7/1 Power of Storytelling
7/8 Good over Evil
7/15 Power of Love
7/22 Power of Devotion
7/29 Who tells the tale
SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
The Forgotten Limbs of Yoga
A lot of of yoga practice is based around the yamas, niamyas and asana, but what about the other 5? This month we will look at the final limbs of yoga and how they support us and bring quality to the mind through meditation.
2nd Pranayama
9th Pratyahara
16th Dharana
23rd Dhyana
30th Samadhi
MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH RIA
Exploring Santosha
We will explore the niyama of santosha and the nuances of how to embody it amid suffering, injustice, and rejecting apathy.
Live attendance is strongly encouraged for the rich community conversations!
7/3 Contentment as Presence
7/10 Contentment as Wholeness
7/17 Contentment and Change
7/24 Contentment and Trust
7/31 Contentment and Surrender

EMBODIED REFLECTIONS, WITH RIA
Exploring Santosha
We will explore the niyama of santosha and the nuances of how to embody it amid suffering, injustice, and rejecting apathy.
7/5 Contentment as Presence
7/12 Contentment as Wholeness
7/19 Contentment as Trust
7/26 Time, Change, Surrender
MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH TEJAL
How are you finding rest in the summer?
Join each month for a luxurious rest practice with Tejal.
You’re invited to bring pillows, blankets, chairs, or be in bed.

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for Connecting With Your Teachers
In this month's mantra practice, you'll be guided through an invocation chant that honors your teachers and those you seek guidance from. You'll be invited to explore your relationship to your teachers and to receiving knowledge.
MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Connecting With Your Teachers
In this month's pranayama class, you'll be guided through two breath techniques that support your connection to your teachers. You'll be invited to explore your relationships to your teachers and receiving knowledge.
MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH MELISSA
Summer Ayurveda: The Breath
Breath : How to support with breath during the season. Can include pranayama, mantra, sound, repetition, japa
MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Learning from Mammals

Join from bed, or grab pillows, towels, bolsters, or blankets to create a comforting space.
MONTHLY SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH GAUREE
The Kleshas
Yoga Sutras-- kleshas, obstacles to true nature

LIVE KĪRTAN WITH MX PUJA SINGH
singing in community
allowing yourself time and space to relax into your natural state. coming back into alignment in whatever ways possible so that you can then go out into the world and take action when and where you need to to serve the alignment that you've found.
No experience necessary. Everyone welcome.
Share this link with your community: https://tejalyoga.as.me/monthlykirtan
SUMMER YOGA BODY SERIES WITH AISHA

Mark your calendars for this much-needed 3-part series: Summer Yoga Body, with Tejal & Aisha. We’ll have honest convos about Body Image, diet culture, racism, fatphobia and GLP-1s.

INTRO TO KARMA THEORY WITH TEJAL

Join Tejal for this Intro to Karma Theory* – only in the Activist Sanctuary!
*Enroll in the Activist Sanctuary to reserve!
Questions? Email us here!

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Honing our Presence, continued
This month, we will use points in the physical and the subtle body as our anchors for our meditation practice, utilizing one-pointed concentration, breath, and visualization.
This month, we will use points in the physical and the subtle body as our anchors for our meditation practice, utilizing one-pointed concentration, breath, and visualization.
6/1 Manipura Chakra
6/8 Anahata Chakra
6/15 Vishuddha Chakra
6/22 Ajna Chakra
6/29 Sahasrara Chakra

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Summer Body - Body Acceptance
Yoga helps us to connect to our bodies and our selves through our practice on and off the mat. In both Yoga, through the study of the koshas, our physical, emotional and spiritual health are intertwined.
2/6 Physical
9/6 Energetic
16/6 Mental/emotional
23/6 Intellectual
30/6 Spiritual

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Balancing Pitta through Breath
Summer invites outwards movement, pranayama gives us a moment to tune in. As we move into the heat, this month will be focused on refreshment for the mind and body through cooling pranayama techniques.
6/2 Kaki pranayama
6/9 Sheetkari pranayama
6/15 Sheetali pranayama
6/22 Bhramari Pranayama
6/29 Putting it all together

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH GAUREE
Ajna (third eye center)
Each week we will do a deep dive into the Ajna (third eye center).
6/3 What is ajna chakra?
6/10 Discernment
6/17 Visioning
6/24 Integration
SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Light on Hatha Yoga
6/3 hatha yoga practices of old
6/10 more on kriya yoga
6/17 asana for steadiness, diseaselessness, and lightness
6/23 asana for steadiness, diseaselessness, and lightness
6/30 the 4 main asana
SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
The Four Noble Truths
One of the first and core teachings of the Buddha was the Four Noble Truths. These are teachings that can be applied to many different aspects of our life. They allow us space and a way to understand the problems of our life and the solutions. We will relate this approach to our yoga practice this month and grow from there…
4th Ishvara Pranidhana (last one from May focus)
11th Suffering exists
18th A cause for our suffering
25th There is a cure for our suffering/The practice can free ourselves
MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH RIA
Sourcing from Earth
Building upon last month's theme of receiving and sustaining, we will work with the lower chakras in particular through various meditative practices designed to source grounding and nourishment from the earth.
Live attendance is strongly encouraged for the rich community conversations!
6/5 Dirgha Pranayama
6/12 Root Bija Mantra
6/19 Root to Heart to Crown
6/26 Infinite Sourcing

EMBODIED REFLECTIONS, WITH RIA
Sourcing from Earth
Building upon last month's theme of receiving and sustaining, we will work with the lower chakras in particular through various meditative practices designed to source grounding and nourishment from the earth.
6/7 Covered by Sunaina
6/14 Dirgha Pranayama
6/21 Root Bija Mantra
6/28 Root to Heart to Crown
MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH TEJAL
Light on Hatha Yoga
6/10 restorative asana for steadiness, diseaselessness, and lightness
Join each month for a luxurious rest practice with Tejal.
You’re invited to bring pillows, blankets, chairs, or be in bed.

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for Soothing An Overwhelmed Mind
6/17/2026 Mantras for Soothing An Overwhelmed Mind
In this month's mantra practice, you'll guided through a chant that can clear and soothe the mind during times of overwhelm. You'll be invited to explore how chanting can help you pause and refocus your attention.
MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Soothing an Overwhelmed Mind
6/17/26 Pranayama for Soothing An Overwhelmed Mind
In this month's pranayama class, you'll be guided through two breath techniques that can soothe an overwhelmed mind. Breath has a powerful way of bringing us back into the present moment, giving us the strength to refocus our attention
MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH MELISSA
Summer Ayurveda: The Body
Body : How to support the body during the season. Can include self massage, asana, marma points, oiling, and more.
MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Light on Yoga
6/30: Join Tejal to practice the June theme of Light on Yoga for resting and regeneration during a season of growth

Join from bed, or grab pillows, towels, bolsters, or blankets to create a comforting space.
MONTHLY SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH GAUREE
Karma
Note date change!
Join Gauree for this 90-minute deep-dive of Spirituality discourse.
27th Karma

LIVE KĪRTAN WITH MX PUJA SINGH
relaxing into alignment
6/14 relaxing into alignment
allowing yourself time and space to relax into your natural state. coming back into alignment in whatever ways possible so that you can then go out into the world and take action when and where you need to to serve the alignment that you've found.
No experience necessary. Everyone welcome.
Share this link with your community: https://tejalyoga.as.me/monthlykirtan

Quarterly Creative Expression Workshop with Jotika
In this quarterly workshop guided by Jotika, we will slow down, write, reflect and create visual art to express themes from the past season of our lives. No special supplies or experience necessary! Come as you are.
Jotika’s art centers around themes of: intergenerational trauma and healing, processing grief, her diasporic Fijian-Indian identity, being a queer, disabled, femme and searching for hope.
ACT AGAINST APPROPRIATION WITH TEJAL
4-hr workshop

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  MEDITIATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
  Honing our Presence
This month, we will use points in the physical and the subtle body as our anchors for our meditation practice, utilizing one-pointed concentration, breath, and visualization.
5/4 Muladhara Chakra
5/11 Svadhishtana Chakra
5/18 Manipura Chakra
5/25 Anahata Chakra

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Svadyaya - learning the self
Taking our time this month to notice our feelings, our impulses, and our reactions to this world in which we live in. What can we learn from the way we react and feel, taking this knowledge into every moment.
5/5 Contemplation
12/05 Meditation
19/05 Introspection
26/05 Reflection

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Breathing Through the Elements
Inspired by Meera's recent retreat to Costa Rica, this month's theme will focus on calling in the elements in practice to reconnect with ourselves as nature.
5/5 Earth
5/12 Water
5/19 Fire
5/26 Air/Space

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH GAUREE
Vishuddha (Throat Chakra)
Each week we will do a deep dive into the Maṇipūra (Solar Plexus Chakra).
5/6 What is Throat Chakra (Vishuddha)?
5/13 Balance vs. Inbalance
5/20 Clearing the Channel
5/27 Speaking Truth
SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Moving through life supported
Moving through life supported by readings from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
5/6 On Work
5/13 On Joy & Sorrow
5/20 On Pleasure
5/27 On Beauty
SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
The Niyamas
The Niyamas are the next step as laid out by Patanjali in the eight limbs of Ashtanga. These observances are personal practices that expand our inner world that help to support our mind, body and spirit through the path of Yoga.
7th Saucha
14th Santosha
21st Tapas
28th Svadhyaya
MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH RIA
Receiving and Sustaining
Building upon last month's theme of receiving, this month we will explore sustaining following receiving and activations that may arise from it.
Live attendance is strongly encouraged for the rich community conversations!
5/1/2026 Barriers to Receiving
5/8 Surrender to Sustain
5/15 (sub)
5/22 Heart-Solar Plexus Coherence
5/29 Gratitude and Self-Trust

EMBODIED REFLECTIONS, WITH RIA
Receiving and Sustaining
Building upon last month's theme of receiving, this month we will explore sustaining following receiving and activations that may arise from it.
Live attendance is strongly encouraged for the rich community conversations!
5/3/2026 (sub)
5/10 Barriers to Receiving
5/17 (sub)
5/24 Surrender to Sustain
5/31 Gratitude and Self-Trust
MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH TEJAL
Resting for Self-knowledge
5/13: Resting for Self-knowledge supported by readings from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Join each month for a luxurious rest practice with Tejal.
You’re invited to bring pillows, blankets, chairs, or be in bed.

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for Sustained Attention
5/20 Mantras for Sustained Attention
In this month's Mantra practice, you'll be invited to practice chants to bring your mind toward the one of the most significant definitions of yoga -- sustained attention. You'll be invited to expore what disrupts your ability to be attentive in your life.
MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Sustained Attention
5/20 Pranayama for Sustained Attention
In this month's pranayama practice, you'll be invited to practice two breath techniques that move you toward the definition of yoga -- sustained attention. You'll be invited to reflect on what disrupts your ability to attentive.
MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH MELISSA
Spring Ayurveda: The Mind
5/23: Spring Ayurveda: The Mind
In this month's Ayurveda workshop, Melissa offers ways to support the Mind: How to support your mind during the season. Can include meditation, journalling, visualisation, reflection, mantra and more!
MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
The healing power of rest
Join Tejal to practice the May theme of “The healing power of rest supported by the work of Dr. Gail Parker”

Join from bed, or grab pillows, towels, bolsters, or blankets to create a comforting space.
MONTHLY SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH GAUREE
Non-Attachment
Note date change!
5/16: Join Gauree for this 90-minute deep-dive of Spirituality discourse.
5/16: Non-Attachment

NEW! LIVE KĪRTAN WITH MX PUJA SINGH
personal bhakti (devotion to Self)
5/17: personal bhakti (devotion to Self)
Join mx puja singh + community for monthly online Kīrtan. We will sing Indian devotional songs in call and response. Open up your channels of communication and expression!
No experience necessary. Everyone welcome.
Share this link with your community: https://tejalyoga.as.me/monthlykirtan

Quarterly Creative Expression Workshop with Jotika
In this quarterly workshop guided by Jotika, we will slow down, write, reflect and create visual art to express themes from the past season of our lives. No special supplies or experience necessary! Come as you are.
Jotika’s art centers around themes of: intergenerational trauma and healing, processing grief, her diasporic Fijian-Indian identity, being a queer, disabled, femme and searching for hope.
MEDITIATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Meditating on the Duality of Life
Both/and - Yoga has many forms and many lessons for us, especially in noticing that life is more than two opposite concrete ideals - there is a middle ground. In April, we will apply this to our practise, how can we move in ways that nourish our bodies, but also strengthen us mentally and physically.
6th with Aisha: Noticing
13th with Aisha: Bringing in
20th Holding
27th Practising

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Duality of life
Both/and - Yoga has many forms and many lessons for us, especially in noticing that life is more than two opposite concrete ideals - there is a middle ground. In April, we will apply this to our practise, how can we move in ways that nourish our bodies, but also strengthen us mentally and physically.
7/4 Noticing
14/4 Bringing in
21/4 Holding
28/4 Practising

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Emotional Release with Pranayama
Emotions is a crucial part of Anandmaya Kosha. Often times bliss and joy get blocked through heavier emotions. This month we will work to move, explore and expand emotions in the body through pranayama
4/7 Moving Anger
4/14 Moving Sadness
4/21 covered by Nirja
4/28 Playing with Joy

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH GAUREE
Anāhata (Heart Chakra)
Each week we will do a deep dive into the Maṇipūra (Solar Plexus Chakra).
4/8 What is Anāhata (Heart Chakra)? Meeting the Heart
4/15 Soften, releasing armor
4/22 Opening
4/29 Boundaries and balanced heart
SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Building access to Vajra/Thunderbolt energy
4/1 Experiencing Vajrasana / Thunderbolt pose
4/8 Practicing for Padidhirasana and Bhadrasana / Breath Balancing and Gracious pose
4/15 Practicing Veerasana / Hero's pose
4/22 Practicing Meditative postures
4/29 Practicing Shashank Bhujangasana / Striking Cobra pose
SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
The Yamas
The yamas are the first limb of yoga in the Ashtanga yoga system—also called the eight-limbed path. Translating as "restraint" in sanskrit, the guidence offered gives as a set of tools and boundaries to live our lives more ethically. Throughout the next few weeks, we will reflect upon our words, thoughts and actions.
2nd Ahimsa
9th Satya
16th Asteya
23rd Brahmacharya
30th Aparigraha
MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH RIA
Ease to Receive
This month, we will explore how to move into a place of ease —> gently receiving.
Live attendance is strongly encouraged for the rich community conversations!
3rd Settling into Stillness
10th Manipura and Deservingness
17th Fullness and Ease
24th Gently Receiving

EMBODIED REFLECTIONS, WITH RIA
Ease to Receive
This month, we will explore how to move into a place of ease —> gently receiving.
Live attendance is strongly encouraged for the rich community conversations!
3rd Settling into Stillness
10th Manipura and Deservingness
17th Fullness and Ease
24th Gently Receiving
MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH TEJAL
The Harmony of Rest
Wednesday 4/8: The Harmony of Rest
Join each month for a luxurious rest practice with Tejal.
You’re invited to bring pillows, blankets, chairs, or be in bed.

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantra for Being Present with Emotions
In this month's mantra practice, you'll be guided through a mantra practice that supports your capacity for being present with emotions. Throung sound, breath and reflection, you'll be encouraged to explore where there is resistance to feeling and holding emotions.
MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama to Support Being Present with Emotions
4/15 Pranayama to Support Being Present with Emotions
In this month's pranayama practice, you'll be guided through two breath practices that build your capacity to be present with your emotions. You'll be guided through reflections on what is showing up on Anandamaya (emotion dimension) and where they may be resistance to feeling.
MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH MELISSA
Spring Ayurveda: The Breath
In this month's Ayurveda workshop, Melissa offers ways to support The Breath: How to support with breath during the season. Can include pranayama, mantra, sound, repetition, japa, and more!
MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Rest for Each Other
Join Tejal to practice the April theme of “Rest for Each Other”

Join from bed, or grab pillows, towels, bolsters, or blankets to create a comforting space.
MONTHLY SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH GAUREE
The Gunas
Join Gauree for this 90-minute deep-dive of Spirituality discourse.
4/18: The Gunas

NEW! LIVE KĪRTAN WITH MX PUJA SINGH
a new world
NOTE DATE CHANGE FOR MARCH!
Sunday 3/29: Live Kirtan Workshop
Join mx puja singh + community for monthly online Kīrtan. We will sing Indian devotional songs in call and response. Open up your channels of communication and expression!
No experience necessary. Everyone welcome.
Share this link with your community: https://tejalyoga.as.me/monthlykirtan
MEDITIATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Understanding Equanimity or Upekṣā
The brahmavihārās (Buddhist virtues) are the four mindstates in which all enlightened ones reside. They provide a framework for us to practice cultivating positive behaviors and minimizing harmful ones. Also known as the "four limitless ones" because they represent love and goodwill to all sentient beings, without limit.
This is also tied closely to Yoga Sutra I.33, which addresses the brahmavihārās, as saying, “By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and disregard toward the wicked, the mind-stuff retains its undisturbed calmness.”
Cultivating these states of mind is a way of restraining what Patanjali calls vikshepa, the tendency of the mind to be distracted and outwardly focused. When we react haphazardly to what people do around us, inner disturbance is the result.
These four attitudes help combat that disturbance and bring us closer to a state of balanced equilibrium.
3/2 Understanding Equanimity
3/9 Exploring Equanimity
3/16 Practicing Equanimity
3/23 Embodying Equanimity

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Embracing Balance
As nature awakens, we root down to rise, harmonizing stability and growth to cultivate a graceful, vibrant sense of balance in every breath we take.
3/3 Tadasana
10/3 Vrksasana
17/03 Virabhadrasana
24/3 Eagle pose
31/3 Utthita Parsvakonasana

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Laying Down - 'Cause Why Not?
Rest is resistance + The world right now is exhausting = Let's lie together. All month will focus on Pranayama practices you can do on a bed, couch, floor, or lying flat. So cozy up with a blanket & find the connection to the Earth, you deserve it.
3/3 Full Yogic Breath
3/10 Full Yogic Breath
3/17 Viloma Pranayama
3/24 Viloma Pranayama
3/31 Viloma Pranayama

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH GAUREE
Maṇipūra (Solar Plexus Chakra)
Each week we will do a deep dive into the Maṇipūra (Solar Plexus Chakra).
3/4 What is the mainpura chakra?
3/11 Discipline
3/18 Self Worth
3/25 Clarity and Decisiveness
SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Exploring the Three Gunas
Explore the three gunas: Tamas, Rajas, and Sattva as natural energetic states rather than moral judgements.
The journey mirrors the yogic path: from heaviness to agitation to clarity to transcendence.
3/4 Meeting Tamas w Compassionate Awareness
3/11 Understanding Rajas and Working with Activation
3/18 Cultivating Sattva as Clarity & Steadiness
3/25 Beyond the Gunas for Equanimity & Liberation
SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION COVERED BY SUNAINA FOR MARCH
Emerging into Light
A month of Sun Salutations and meditation with Sunaina – aligned with the transition from winter to spring — honoring the return of energy, clarity, and inner radiance.
Mar 5th: Rekindling the Inner Spark
Theme: From Stillness to Subtle Awakening Energy: Gentle, grounding, mindful Peak
Focus: Slow, intentional Surya A Meditation Focus: Inner flame / heart light
Mar 12th: Awakening Energy
Theme: Building Heat + Momentum Energy: Warm, steady, uplifting Peak Focus: Surya A → Surya B integration Meditation
Focus: Solar plexus activation
Mar 19th: Expanding into Radiance
Theme: Confidence + Openness Energy: Strong, bright, heart-opening Peak Focus: Creative Sun Salute variations Meditation
Focus: Heart expansion
Mar 26th: Embodying the Light
Theme: Integration + Radiant Presence Energy: Empowered, fluid, joyful Peak
Focus: Strong flowing Surya sequence Meditation Focus: Full-body luminosity
MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH RIA
Integrity Amid Infinity
This month, we will explore how the concepts of energy management and boundaries can hold in a non-dual framework.
Live attendance is strongly encouraged for the rich community conversations!
3/6/2026 Svadhyaya: Knowing the Self
3/13/2026 Pratyahara: The Energy Body
3/20/2026 Pranayama: Energetic Callback
3/27/2026 Maya and the Ethics of Difference

EMBODIED REFLECTIONS, WITH RIA
Integrity Amid Infinity
This month, we will explore how the concepts of energy management and boundaries can hold in a non-dual framework.
Live attendance is strongly encouraged for the rich community conversations!
3/6/2026 Svadhyaya: Knowing the Self
3/13/2026 Pratyahara: The Energy Body
3/20/2026 Pranayama: Energetic Callback
3/27/2026 Maya and the Ethics of Difference
MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH TEJAL
Rest as the Path to Discernment
Wednesday 3/11: Rest as the Path to Discernment
Join each month for a luxurious rest practice with Tejal.
You’re invited to bring pillows, blankets, chairs, or be in bed.

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Holistic Mantra to Explore All Dimensions of Your Being
In this month's mantra practice, you'll be guided though sections of Panchamaya Shlokam, a mantra composed by TKV Desikachar to explore all five dimesnions of your physical being. You'll be invited to acknowledge what you are experiencing right now, whether it be, physical, breath, mental, behavioral, or emotional.
MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for a Holistic Check In With Yourself
In this month's pranayama practice, you'll be guided through several breath techniques to help you explore all five dimensions of your physical being (Panchamaya). You'll be be invited to reflect how you are experiencing your life right now from a holistic lens.
NEW! LIVE KĪRTAN WITH MX PUJA SINGH
a new world
NOTE DATE CHANGE FOR MARCH!
Sunday 3/29: Live Kirtan Workshop
Join mx puja singh + community for monthly online Kīrtan. We will sing Indian devotional songs in call and response. Open up your channels of communication and expression!
No experience necessary. Everyone welcome.
Share this link with your community: https://tejalyoga.as.me/monthlykirtan
MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH MELISSA
Ayurveda for Transitioning to Spring: The Body
In this month's Ayurveda workshop, Melissa offers ways to support the body during the season. Can include self massage, asana, marma points, oiling, and more.
MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH SPECIAL GUEST PAMELA STOKES EGGLESTON
Collective Rest and Resistsance
Join March Special Guest Pamela Stokes Eggleston (she/her) for BIPOC Community Restorative Yoga. Pamela is partnering with Tejal Yoga for this practice because she understands how critical it is for us to collectively rest and resist.

Pamela is a wellness & embodiment leader, yoga therapist & trainer, wellness consultant & coach, reiki master, grief doula, speaker, author, and poet.

Join from bed, or grab pillows, towels, bolsters, or blankets to create a comforting space.
MONTHLY SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH GAUREE
Mandukya Upanishad - OM - A
Join Gauree for this 90-minute deep-dive of Spirituality discourse.
3/28: Mandukya Upanishad - OM - A
MEDITIATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Connecting to Our Inner Light: Trataka Meditation
We will connect to our inner light and work with drishti through the practice of Trataka. In this class, we will practice a purification technique called Trataka by meditating on the flame of a candle. The Hatha Yoga Pradipika defines trataka as “looking intently with an unwavering gaze at a small point until tears are shed.” By practicing Trataka, we will aim to purify the mind and eyes so we can connect to the truth of who we are, improve concentration, boost willpower, and develop inner vision and intuition. Please bring a candle where the wick is visible for practice.

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Rooting Into Comfort
By consciously connecting with the Earth, grounding practices act as an anchor for the soul, transforming feelings of overwhelm into a steady sense of security.
3/2 Stability
10/2 Security
17/2 Anchoring
24/2 Grounding

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Exploding the Panchamaya Model
This month I'll be sharing about my thesis work with the Panchamaya model with the active Santuary. In light of this, our practices this month will be focused on the layers of self to embody this model.
2/3 Annamaya focused practice
2/10 Pranamaya focused practice
2/17 Manomaya focused practice
2/24 Vijnanamaya focused practice

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH GAUREE
Svadhisthana (Sacral Chakra)
The sacral chakra (Svādhiṣṭhāna) is the second energy center, located in the lower abdomen just below the navel. It governs creativity, emotions, pleasure, sensuality, and our ability to flow with change. This month we will explore it through the element of water, the beej mantra of VAM, and deity of Vishnu
2/4 What is the sacral chakra
2/11 Movement
2/18 Creativity
2/25 Desire
SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
The Process of Yiyoga
The process of yiyoga - seeing the seer and the seen; supported by Yoga Sutra commentary written by Swami Satyananada Saraswati
2/4 Yoga by design
2/11 Nature of the mind, modern view and yogic view
2/18 Mental states illuminated by yoga philosophy
2/25 The realization acheived through yoga
SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
Connecting with Our Chakras, Continued
The word “chakra” is Sanskrit for the word “wheel” or “disk.” The 7 major chakras in the body, these energetic centres, connect with our nerves, organs and areas of our energetic body that affect our emotional and physical well being. In the next few weeks, and to start the year, we will seek to connect with the attributes of each chakra, through sun salutations based movement, breath and mantra, to help us bring a flow of energy through each of these centres.
5th Feb Anahata: The Heart Chakra
12th Feb Vishuddha: The Throat Chakra
19th Feb Ajna: The Third Eye Chakra
26th Feb Sahasrara: The Crown Chakra + Integration Week
MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH RIA
Probing Anahata
This month we will explore the characterization of the heart chakra as anahata, or unstruck. We will explore this concept through meditation, mantra, and visualization.
Live attendance is strongly encouraged for the rich community conversations!
2/6/26 Untying the Heartspace (Katha Upanishad)
2/13/26 The Unstruck Sound (Nada Bindu Upanishad)
2/20/26 Vast Expanse of the Heart (Chandogya Upanishad)
2/27/26 Loving as Bhakti (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad)

EMBODIED REFLECTIONS, WITH RIA
Probing Anahata
This month we will explore the characterization of the heart chakra as anahata, or unstruck. We will explore this concept through gentle heart opening asana and closing meditations.
2/1/26 Soft Heart Opening (Katha Upanishad)
2/8/26 Hearing the Unstruck (Nada Bindu Upanishad)
2/15/26 Cultivating Vastness (Chandogya Upanishad)
2/22/26 Still Love (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad)
MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH TEJAL
Nature of the mind, modern view and yogic view
The process of yiyoga - seeing the seer and the seen; supported by Yoga Sutra commentary written by Swami Satyananada Saraswati

You’re invited to bring pillows, blankets, chairs, or be in bed.

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for Being Clear on Your Values
In this month's mantra practice, you'll be guided through a mantra that supports getting clear on your values. You'll be encouraged to explore what it feels like to make decisions in alignment with your values with the support of sound vibration.
MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Clarity In Your Values
In this month's pranayama practice, you'll be guided through Anuloma.Viloma with breath retention. You'll be invited to explore being clear in your values, and how connecting your breath can support that.
NEW! ONLINE KĪRTAN WITH MX PUJA SINGH
collective alchemy: rooted in shared, living practice
Sunday 2/22: Kirtan Workshop
Join mx puja singh + community for monthly online Kīrtan. We will sing Indian devotional songs in call and response. Open up your channels of communication and expression!
No experience necessary. Everyone welcome.
Share this link with your community: https://tejalyoga.as.me/monthlykirtan
MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH MELISSA
Ayurveda for Winter: The Mind
In this month's Ayurveda workshop, Melissa offers ways to support the Mind during the season. Can include meditation, journalling, visualisation, reflection, mantra, and more.
MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
The realization acheived through yoga
The process of yiyoga - seeing the seer and the seen; supported by Yoga Sutra commentary written by Swami Satyananada Saraswati
MONTHLY SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH GAUREE
The 4 Yogas
Join Gauree for this 90-minute deep-dive of Spirituality discourse.
2/28: Four Yogas by Swami Vivekananda: Raja Yoga
MEDITIATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Tuning In: Back to Basics
We will return to basics of mindfulness with anapana, silence, and concentration practices.

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
New Year, Same You
Begin again by grounding in who you are. Reject the pressure to change; this month, stand solid in your own identity and trust your intuition completely.
6th Awareness
13th Sunaina Covers Patience
20th Trust
27th Strength

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Back to Basics
Breath awareness techniques are the foundation for any pranayama and meditation practice. This month will focus on bringing it back to basics with techniques that bring awareness to the breath. Deepen your connection, focusing on the quality of the profound breath.
Jan 6th Full Yogic Breath
Jan 13th Sunaina Covers Sama Vritti
Jan 20th Vishama Vritti
Jan 27th Viloma Pranayama

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH GAUREE
The Chakras
Muladhara (Root)

01/07/2026 Introduction to Muladhara
01/14/2026 Stability in the Body
01/21/2026 Stability in the Breath
01/28/2026 Stability in the Mind

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Mindful Movement
Join this mindfulness-based practice where you can explore a place of gentle reminders and soft opening paired with philosophy readings.

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
Connecting with Our Chakras
The word “chakra” is Sanskrit for the word “wheel” or “disk.” The 7 major chakras in the body, these energetic centres, connect with our nerves, organs and areas of our energetic body that affect our emotional and physical well being. In the next few weeks, and to start the year, we will seek to connect with the attributes of each chakra, through sun salutations based movement, breath and mantra, to help us bring a flow of energy through each of these centres.
1st Jan Sunaina coversWrapping up last month's theme: Looking Back & Forwards: Closing the Year, Starting the Year
8th Jan Introduction to The Chakras
15th Jan Muladhara: The Root Chakra
22nd Jan Svadhisthana: The Sacral Chakra
29th Jan Manipura: The Naval Chakra

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH RIA
Full Presence
This month, we will be focusing on the basics of staying present in meditation and gently re-anchoring ourselves during the practice. Emphasis is placed not on avoiding “distraction,” thoughts, or emotions that surface, but leaning into them as opportunities to observe and sources of insight. Each week, we will utilize a different aspect of the physical and subtle body to anchor our awareness.
Live attendance is strongly encouraged for the rich community conversations!
2nd Rooting Attention (Root Chakra)
9th Grounding into the Gut (Solar Plexus and Sacral Chakras)
16th Anchoring into Anahata (Heart Chakra)
23rd Trusting Ajna (Third Eye Chakra)
30th Breath from Root to Crown

EMBODIED REFLECTIONS, WITH RIA
Experiencing Awareness
This month, we will explore the distinction between our “thoughts” or mental content and somatic awareness that lies below the level of language. As we reflect in various mediums and then move through our asana / pranayama practices, we will consider how that distinction shows up for each of us on the mat, and how we might make adjustments to follow our bodies primarily before the mind perhaps steps in.
4th Compassionate Redirection
11th Articulation and Presence
18th Allowing Surfacing
25th Breath as a Portal

MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH TEJAL

Join each month for a luxurious rest practice with Tejal (Jan 14, Feb 11, Mar 11).

You’re invited to bring pillows, blankets, chairs, or be in bed.

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for New Beginnings
1/21: Mantras for New Beginnings
In this month's mantra practice, you'll be guided through two mantras and a visualization practice that builds trust in embracing new beginnings. You'll be invited to reflect on where you have agency to remove obstacles for the year ahead.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for New Beginnings
1/21: Pranayama for New Beginnings
In this month's pranayama practice, you'll be guided through three breathing techniques that expand your capacity to embrace new beginnings. You'll be invited to practice a visualization that supports expanding the inhale and facilitate prana vayu.

NEW! ONLINE KĪRTAN WITH MX PUJA SINGH
Sunday 1/18: Kirtan Workshop
Join mx puja singh + community for monthly online Kīrtan. We will sing Indian devotional songs in call and response. Open up your channels of communication and expression!
No experience necessary. Everyone welcome.
Share this link with your community: https://tejalyoga.as.me/monthlykirtan
MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH MELISSA
Ayurveda for Winter: The Breath
*NOTE JAN. DATE CHANGE! Saturday 1/31: The Breath
In this month's Ayurveda workshop, Melissa offers ways to support with breath during the season. Can include pranayama, mantra, sound, repetition, japa, and more.

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
The Importance of Rest
1/28: The Importance of Rest
Join each month for a luxurious 60-min rest practice.
You’re invited to bring pillows, blankets, chairs, or be in bed.
MONTHLY SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH GAUREE
The 4 Yogas
Join Gauree for this 90-minute deep-dive of Spirituality discourse.
1/31: Four Yogas by Swami Vivekananda: Jnana Yoga
MEDITIATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Trusting Your Inner Knowing
We will learn to listen to the quiet inner wisdom. We will attune to intuition, the śraddhā (faith/confidence) that lives within the heart space, and the consciousness within. We aspire to reconnect to one’s inner guidance system.
12/1 What is inner knowing?
12/8 What is shraddha?
12/15 How to listen to inner knowing?
12/22 Reconnecting to one's inner guidance system
12/29 Listening to the inner knowing

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Warmth & Joyful Reflection
As we enter the final month of 2025, let's dedicate time to reflect on the year's joyful gifts. We will simultaneously spark inner heat and strengthen the core by incorporating a series of warming Yoga poses
2/12 Remember
9/12 Root
16/12 Rise
23/12 Release
30/12 Restore

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Stilling the Mind with Breath and Gentle Movements
As we move into December, and couch days, light movements can help restore the body and still the mind. This month will focus on how to use gentle movements with Pranayama to settle the mind and nourish the body.
12/2 Joint movements with breath
12/9 Breath with neck movements
12/16 Breath with shoulder movements
12/23 Breath with hand movements
12/30 All body breath with movements

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH GAUREE
Ishvara Pranidhana
Over the course of the next 10 months, we will be studying and meditating on the Yamas and Niyamas: Ahmisa, Satya, Asteya, Brahmacharya, Aparigraha, Shaucha, Santosha, Tapas, Svadhyaya, and Ishvarapranidhana.

The Yamas and Niyamas are ethical principles from the eightfold path of yoga (Ashtanga Yoga) as outlined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. They serve as the foundation to yoga and the guidelines for living a disciplined, meaningful, and spiritual life. We will sit each for the entire month with the intention of exploring and integrating as we move from one to the next.
This month, we explore the final Niyama: Ishvara Pranidhana
12/3 What is Ishvara Pranidhana?
12/10 Surrender
12/17 Detachment
12/24 Devotion
12/31 TBD

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
The Veil of the Mind
Investigating the five-fold modifications of the mind from YS 1.6 through practice.
12/3 pramaana = right knowledge
12/10 viparyaya = wrong notion, false idea
12/17 vikalpa = imagination, fictitious perception
12/24 nidraa = sleep
12/31 smritayah = memory

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
Looking back and looking forward…
The final practices of the year will be based around these 4 words. Using our meditations and salutations to connect with the important parts of life, that we sometimes neglect. Let’s do it together.. What a year it has been!
4th Reflections
11th Rest
18th Celebrations
25th Pranayama special

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH RIA
A Journey Through the Upanishads
To close out 2025, this month we will revisit several themes from the past year through the lens of individual Upanishads. The Friday meditations will correspond to each Sunday Embodied Reflections practice, so it could be nice to supplement one with the other! We will go through 4 of the upanishads with guided visualization inspired by a key message from each.
Live attendance is strongly encouraged for the rich community conversations!
12/5 Isha Upanishad: Presence and Stillness
12/12 Katha Upanishad: Unforced Attention
12/19 Taittiriya Upanishad: Sheaths of Self
12/26 Chandogya: Into the Heart

EMBODIED REFLECTIONS, WITH RIA
A Journey Through the Upanishads
To close out 2025, this month we will revisit several themes from the past year through the lens of individual Upanishads. The Friday meditations will correspond to each Sunday Embodied Reflections practice, so it could be nice to supplement one with the other! We will go through 4 of the upanishads with guided visualization inspired by a key message from each.
12/7 Isha Upanishad: Presence and Stillness
12/14 Katha Upanishad: Unforced Attention
12/21 Taittiriya Upanishad: Sheaths of Self
12/28 Chandogya: Into the Heart

MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH TEJAL
Relaxing while Resting
12/10: Relaxing while Resting
How to work with the body (not against it) to find true rest; explore the true purpose of asana.

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for Digesting this Year
12/17: Mantras for Digesting this Year
In this month's mantra practice, you'll be guided through a short and powerful chant to support your mind, body and emotions in processing this past year. You'll be invited to reflect on what is still feeling unclear about this year, and what support you need in getting clarity.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Digesting this Year
12/17: Pranayama for Digesting this Year
In this month's pranayama practice, you'll be guided through two breathing techniques that upport your mind, body and emotions in processing this past year. You'll be invited to reflect on what is still feeling unclear about this year, and what support you need in getting clarity.

NEW! ONLINE KĪRTAN WITH MX PUJA SINGH
12/14: Kirtan Workshop
We will sing Indian devotional songs in call and response, in praise of the divine. This practice is a way to open up your channels of communication and expression and allow you to tune into yourself and the worlds around and within you.
No experience necessary. Everyone welcome!
MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH MELISSA
Ayurveda for Fall: The Body
*NOTE DEC. DATE CHANGE! Saturday 12/13: The Body
In this month's Ayurveda workshop, Melissa offers support on how to support the body during the season. Can include self massage, asana, marma points, oiling, and more.

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH SPECIAL GUEST PAMELA STOKES EGGLESTON
Collective Rest and Resistance
Pamela Stokes Eggleston
11/26: Collective Rest and Resistance
Join Pamela for this deeply restful practice. Gather any supports you like (blankets, pillows, bolsters, blocks), or even join from bed!
MONTHLY SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH GAUREE
The 4 Yogas
Join Gauree for this 90-minute deep-dive of Spirituality discourse.
12/27: Four Yogas by Swami Vivekananda: Bhakti Yoga
MEDITIATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Meditation on Om
We will chant and meditate on Om for protection, clearing, connecting to the Divine, and blessings.
11/3O Om to connect with the Divine
11/10 Om for protection
11/17 Om for blessings
11/14 Om for clearing

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Self Compassion
Using our time on the Yoga mat to nurture self-care and kindness towards ourselves - understanding ourselves and our needs through a gentle and nourishing Yoga practice.
4/11 Kindness
11/11 Nurturing
18/11 Gentleness
25/11 Tenderness

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Welcome Vata Season - Grounding with Pranayama
As we ground into fall, the season of Vata characterized by dryness, wind, and movement, our bodies and minds can feel ungrounded or scattered. This month will focus on grounding through Pranayama, using techniques to restore balance, warmth, and calm to the nervous system. Move into the holidays with steadiness and balance all month with Meera!
11/4 Breath Awareness of Vata in Fall
11/11 Establishing Steady Breath
11/18 Warming and Soothing Practices
11/25 Integration and Inner Grounding

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH GAUREE
Svadhyaya
Over the course of the next 10 months, we will be studying and meditating on the Yamas and Niyamas: Ahmisa, Satya, Asteya, Brahmacharya, Aparigraha, Shaucha, Santosha, Tapas, Svadhyaya, and Ishvarapranidhana.
The Yamas and Niyamas are ethical principles from the eightfold path of yoga (Ashtanga Yoga) as outlined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. They serve as the foundation to yoga and the guidelines for living a disciplined, meaningful, and spiritual life. We will sit each each for the entire month with the intention of exploring and integrating as we move from one to the next.
This month, we explore the 4th Niayama: Svadhyaya.
11/5 What is Svadhyaya?
11/12 Body as a teacher
11/29 Others / Texts as teachers
11/26 Nature as a teacher

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Embodying and Living Resistance
Slow Poses designed to embody the idea that "Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing." Supported by readings from Living Resistance by Kailtin B. Curtice

11/5 Resistance is a journey
11/12 What is Resistance?
11/19 Art as Resistance
11/26 Presence as Resistance

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
The Forgotten Limbs of Yoga
A lot of of yoga practice is based around the yamas, niamyas and asana, but what about the other 5? This month we will look at the final limbs of yoga and how they support us and bring quality to the mind through meditation.
6th Pranayama
13th Pratyahara
20th Dharana + Dhyana
27th Samadhi

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH RIA
Citta Bhumi
The five states of mind that appear in the Sutras as well as Buddhist philosophy illuminate varying degrees of restlessness. In this series, we will use pranayama and visualization to explore how practice can help us approach stillness.
Live attendance is strongly encouraged for the rich community conversations!
11/7 Kshipta and Vikshipta | Distraction
11/14 Mudha | Dullness
11/21 Ekagra | One-Pointed
11/28 Niruddha | Controlled

EMBODIED REFLECTIONS, WITH RIA
Movement to Stillness: Citta Bhumi
The five states of mind that appear in the Sutras as well as Buddhist philosophy illuminate varying degrees of restlessness. This month, we will explore our asana/pranayama practice as a descent into stillness using this framework of citta bhumi.
11/2 Kshipta | Distraction
11/9 Mudha | Dullness
11/16 Vikshipta | Scattered
11/23 Ekagra | One-Pointed
11/30 Niruddha | Controlled

MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH TEJAL
Deconstructing Rest
Restorative practice designed to embody the idea that "through deconstruction, we hold space for our own sacredness." Supported by readings from Living Resistance by Kailtin B. Curtice
11/12 Deconstructing Rest

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for Ancestral Connection
11/19 Mantras for Ancestral Connection
In this month's mantra practice, you'll be guided through a chant that strengthens connection to ancesters you call on for guidance. This practice invites you to reflect inward and receive the support your ancestors provide.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Ancestral Connection
11/19 Pranayama for Ancestral Connection
In this month's pranayama practice, you'll be guided through two breathing techniques that upport your mind, body and emotions in processing this past year. You'll be invited to reflect on what is still feeling unclear about this year, and what support you need in getting clarity.

NEW! ONLINE KĪRTAN WITH MX PUJA SINGH
11/16 Online Kīrtan Experience
We will sing some indian devotional songs in call and response, in praise of the divine. This practice is a way to open up your channels of communication and expression and allow you to tune into yourself and the worlds around and within you.
No experience necessary. Everyone welcome!
MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH MELISSA
Ayurveda for Fall: The Mind
11/22: The Mind
How to support your mind during the season. Can include meditation, journalling, visualisation, reflection, mantra, and more.

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH SPECIAL GUEST PAMELA STOKES EGGLESTON
Collective Rest and Resistance
Pamela Stokes Eggleston
11/26: Collective Rest and Resistance
Join Pamela for this deeply restful practice. Gather any supports you like (blankets, pillows, bolsters, blocks), or even join from bed!
MONTHLY SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH GAUREE
The 4 Yogas
11/22: Karma Yoga
Four Yogas by Swami Vivekananda
FREE LIBERATION THROUGH REST EVENT WITH TEJAL
Tuesday, October 7th, 4 PM - 6 PM PT
This is for the healer, the caretaker, the giver, the teacher and guide to take rest and recenter. Through specific guided practices designed for you to refill your energetic and spiritual houses, take this time to RECEIVE. Expect rest, intention setting, journaling, liberatory movement, and community vibes.

NEW! ONLINE KĪRTAN WITH MX PUJA SINGH
10/19 Online Kīrtan Experience
We will sing some indian devotional songs in call and response, in praise of the divine. This practice is a way to open up your channels of communication and expression and allow you to tune into yourself and the worlds around and within you.
No experience necessary. Everyone welcome!
QUARTERLY CREATIVE EXPRESSION WORKSHOP WITH JOTIKA
10/12 Creative Expression Workshop with Jotika
In this quarterly workshop, Jotika will guide you in a recap of the past season and invite you to connect and check in with your body. She will lead you in making expressive arts in the form of personal journalling and creating visual art (drawing, collaging, painting, pastels, etc!) to help process the past season.
No “art” experience necessary. Everyone welcome!
MEDITIATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Turning Inwards
Theme: October calls us inward. As the air cools and the days shorten, this month is an invitation to slow down, listen within, and find nourishment in stillness.
Journey: Meditate on the image of descending roots, how trees release their leaves and send energy inward, how the body asks for rest, how your own spirit might be seeking quiet replenishment. Notice the ways you are invited to simplify and turn toward what truly sustains you.
Closing: Anchor in the steadiness of your inner root system. Trust that rest and retreat are not absence, but powerful preparation for what is to come.
Weekly Mediation: Finding nourishment in stillness

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Emotional Release
To facilitate the release of pent up emotions by using Yoga as a tool for emotional healing and release.
7/10 Hips
14/10 Heart
21/10 Mudra - Bhu
28/10 Mudra - Hridaya

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Tools for Coping with Emotions in Triggering Times
The world is stressful and often takes us to doom, coping, and avoidance of the emotions moving through us. This month will be focused on concrete tools and a technique to work with emotions through breath.
10/7 Identifying Emotions with Breath Awareness
10/14 Naming Emotions with breath support
10/21 Accepting and Moving Though Emotion with breath
10/28 Externalizing Emotions with the Breath

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH GAUREE
Tapas
Over the course of the next 10 months, we will be studying and meditating on the Yamas and Niyamas: Ahmisa, Satya, Asteya, Brahmacharya, Aparigraha, Shaucha, Santosha, Tapas, Svadhyaya, and Ishvarapranidhana.
The Yamas and Niyamas are ethical principles from the eightfold path of yoga (Ashtanga Yoga) as outlined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. They serve as the foundation to yoga and the guidelines for living a disciplined, meaningful, and spiritual life. We will sit each each for the entire month with the intention of exploring and integrating as we move from one to the next.
This month, we explore the second Niayama: Tapas.
10/1 What is Tapas?
10/8 Tapas in the Body
10/15 Tapas of the Mind
10/22 Tapas and Transformation
10/29 Tapas and Spiritual Devotion

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Teaching Yoga in times of crisis for teachers and organizers
In this 13 week series, you're invited to dive into a new way of embodied practice through intentional themes built around the ideas of movement organizing, reciprocal care, and radicalization.
Teachings supported by yoga philosophy and Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba
Week 9: Oct 1: Rejecting Our Fear of Each Other
Week 10: Oct 8: Effective Organizing (and Teaching)
Week 11: Oct 15: Not Just Poking Holes (Offering New Ways)
Week 12: Oct 22: Refusing to Abandon (and Reciprocity)
Week 13*: Oct 29 Sometime We Save Each Other
*Final week for Thursday’s sessions

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
The Fundamentals of Yoga
A look at the first of the Yoga Sutras as set out by Patanjali. These relate to the teaching and understanding of yoga, which is applicable to those starting out on the yogic path, and timely reminder to the fundamentals of yoga.
2nd yoga here and now
9th why yoga?
16th in its true form part 1
23 rd in it's true form part 2
30th Recap and looking ahead to your journey

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH RIA
The Kleshas
In yoga, the kleshas are the afflictions or obstacles that cause suffering. This month, we will work through each klesha, discuss how each may show up in our own mental patterning, and practice pranayama and visualization tailored to acknowledging and deconstructing each.
Live attendance is strongly encouraged for the rich community conversations!
10/3 Avidya (Ignorance)
10/10 Asmita (Ego)
10/17 Raga (Attachment)
10/24 Dvesha (Aversion)
10/31 Abhinivesha (Clinging to Self-Preservation)

EMBODIED REFLECTIONS, WITH RIA
Anchoring in Your Center
This month, we will explore energy management through the lens of grounding, breath, and movement. We will discuss themes such as self-trust, independence and interdependence, cord-softening, and the unique role of our own bodies in offering presence and peace.
References include the Sutras and Upanishadic texts that explain inward practice in relation to the external world.
10/5 Compassionate Callback
10/12 Grounding Beneath the Soil
10/19 Ahamkara: Self to Non-Self
10/26 Trust in Selves

MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH TEJAL
Effective Teaching Includes Rest
New! Monthly Restorative class offered by Tejal and Guests on the 2nd Wednesday of every month!
10/8: Effective teaching includes rest

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for Supporting Your Continuous efforts
10/15 Mantras for Supporting Your Continuous Efforts
In this month's mantra practice, you'll be guided through a chant that supports the continuous efforts you are making - whether it be efforts you take to care for your self or efforts you take to dismantle harmful systems. You'll be invited to reflect on your relationship to continues effort and practice.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Supporting Your Continuous Efforts
10/15 Pranayama to Support Your Continuous Efforts
In this month's pranayama practice, you'll be guided through two breath techniques that support he continuous efforts you are making - whether it be efforts you take to care for your self or efforts you take to dismantle harmful systems. You'll be invited to reflect on your relationship to continues effort and practice.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH SUNAINA
Ayurveda for Fall: The Breath
NOTE THE DATE CHANGE! Saturday 10/18: The Breath
In this month's Ayurveda workshop, we’ll explore how to support your body during the fall. Can include pranayama, mantra, sound, repetition, japa, and more.

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Choosing Rest Daily
10/29: Choosing Rest Daily
Join Tejal for this deeply restful practice. Gather any supports you like (blankets, pillows, bolsters, blocks), or even join from bed!
MONTHLY SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH GAUREE
The 4 Yogas
10/25: Spirituality Satsang
Join Gauree for the return of our now-monthly Spirituality discourse, starting Saturday, October 25th!
SO YOU WANT TO CHANT OM AND NAMASTE? WORKSHOP WITH TEJAL
Sunday, September 28th 9 AM - 1 PM PT
Learn about the roots and uses of these two words, and the issues and concerns about their use in Yoga and wellness spaces. Explore chanting Om, learn alternative phrases to share what you really mean and ideate your own authentic messages.

NEW! ONLINE KĪRTAN WITH MX PUJA SINGH
9/14 Online Kīrtan - A Practice of Bhakti Yoga
We will sing some indian devotional songs in call and response, in praise of the divine. This practice is a way to open up your channels of communication and expression and allow you to tune into yourself and the worlds around and within you.
No experience necessary. Everyone welcome!

MEDITIATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Cycles of Change, Seeds of Stillness
* Theme: Since September marks transition (summer to autumn in many places), use this as a reflection on impermanence and the quiet wisdom of change.
* Journey: Meditate on the falling leaf, the turning seasons, and the truth that all beings are embraced by this eternal rhythm.
* Closing: Anchor in the inner stillness that remains unchanged amidst cycles.
September: Weekly Meditation on Impermanence and Wisdom of Change

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Embracing Change
This month we notice the way the world changes around us as the season changes. Leaves change colour, the day shortens, the weather cools. Embracing this change and allowing it to be a mirror for ourselves.
2/9 Awareness
9/9 Noticing
16/9 Embracing
23/9 Holding
30/9 Changing

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Connecting with the Cosmos
Inspired by my trip to Peru and the wisdom of the Incas, this month will focus on connecting to the world around us through our breath. The process of honoring the cycles of nature reminds us that we are never truly alone, and how intertwined we are with all that surrounds us.
9/2 Connecting to Sun: Surya Bhedana Pranayama
9/9 Connecting to the Moon: Chandra Bhedana Pranayama
9/16 Connecting to the Cosmos: Prana Vayu
9/23 Rooting to the Earth: Apana Vayu
9/30 From out to in: Feeling the nature within

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH GAUREE
Santosha
Over the course of the next 10 months, we will be studying and meditating on the Yamas and Niyamas: Ahmisa, Satya, Asteya, Brahmacharya, Aparigraha, Shaucha, Santosha, Tapas, Svadhyaya, and Ishvarapranidhana.
The Yamas and Niyamas are ethical principles from the eightfold path of yoga (Ashtanga Yoga) as outlined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. They serve as the foundation to yoga and the guidelines for living a disciplined, meaningful, and spiritual life. We will sit each each for the entire month with the intention of exploring and integrating as we move from one to the next.
This month, we explore the second Niayama: Santosha.
9/3 What is Santosha?
9/10 Santosha & the Body
9/17 Santosha & the Mind
9/24 Santosha in Action

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Teaching Yoga in times of crisis for teachers and organizers
In this 13 week series, you're invited to dive into a new way of embodied practice through intentional themes built around the ideas of movement organizing, reciprocal care, and radicalization.
Teachings supported by yoga philosophy and Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba
Week 5: Sep 3: Organizing is a Creative Act
?: What are you in the midst of creating?
Week 6: Sep 10: The Beauty of Community
?: How are you being held in community at this time?
Week 7: Sep 17: Different ways of Activism
?: What is your often traveled path of activism?
Week 8: Sep 24: Beyond Alarm, Toward Action
?: What are you in the midst of reconciling now?

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
The Five Vayus
The Sanskrit word Vayu translates as “wind,” and the root ‘va’ translates to “that which flows.” There are 5 in the body and each goven a specific area that affects and influences our physical, emotional and mental health and wellness. We will use our practice this month to learn about and experience each vayu, through breath and movement.
4th Prana-Vayu
11th Apana-Vayu
18th Vyana-Vayu
25th Udana-Vayu

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH RIA
Bhakti
This month, we will focus in particular on pranayama as a vehicle to access and cultivate bhakti - the yoga of loving devotion. We will explore what bhakti might mean for each of us in personal-political textures, and travel through some of its various strands including faith/trust, separation, surrender, and union.
9/5 Faith | Sraddha
9/12 Surrender | Isvara Pranidhana
9/19 Separation | Viraha
9/26 Union | Prem

EMBODIED REFLECTIONS, WITH RIA
Balance and Duality (Equinox + Libra season)!
In this new weekly class we will explore ideas of balance and duality, particularly as they manifest in the form of apparent contradiction.
Can faith or surrender exist without the internal war of doubt? Can we understand contentment and equanimity as the byproduct of struggle rather than independently “enlightened” states?
9/21 Between Effort and Ease
9/28 Surrender and Doubt

MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH TEJAL
The Beauty of Community
New! Monthly Restorative class offered by Tejal and Guests on the 2nd Wednesday of every month!
9/10 The Beauty of Community
?: How has community been holding you?

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for Practicing Relinquishing
9/17 Mantras for Practicing Relinquishing
In this month's mantra practice, you'll be guided through chanting Yoga Sutras 1.15, which describes the experience of vairagyam, or relinquishing control over the fruits of your actions. You'll be invited to explore what it means to place your attention on your efforts versus the outcome.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Practicing Relinquishing
9/17 Pranayama for Practicing Relinquishing
In this month's pranayama practice, you'll be guided through two breath techniques that foster your capacity for relinquishing control over the outcome. You'll be guided in exploring how you can focus on your efforts rather than the fruits of your actions.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH MELISSA
Ayurveda for Fall: The Body
Saturday 9/27 with Melissa: Body
In this month's Ayurveda workshop, we’ll explore how to support your Body during the season. Can include self massage, asana, marma points, oiling, and more.

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Resting in Community
9/24: Resting in Community with Tejal
MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Open Awareness Meditation
Open Awareness Meditation is a practice where you allow your attention to be open and receptive to whatever arises in the present moment, thoughts, sensations, sounds, or emotions, without focusing on any one thing. This form of meditation encourages you to observe your experiences without judgment, fostering a state of relaxed alertness and clarity. "Pure awareness is like space, boundless and open. It’s always here. You don’t have to make it up. All you have to do is rest in that.”
August: Weekly Open Awareness Meditation

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Loving Kindness
Using our physical practise to cultivate moments of loving kindness towards ourselves and those around us.
5/8 May I be safe
12/8 May I be happy
19/8 May I trust myself
26/8 May I treat myself with kindness

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Back to Basics; Learning Pranayama Techniques for Regulation
This month will explore and revisit different Pranayama techniques to build techniques from the foundation. Great series for beginners to tune into, or those with lots of experience who want to revisit their technique as well.
8/5 Nadi Shodhana Pranayama
8/12 Bhramari pranayama
8/19 Guest Guide: Harpinder
8/26 Kaki + Sheetali/Sheetkari Pranayama

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH GAUREE
Shaucha
Over the course of the next 10 months, we will be studying and meditating on the Yamas and Niyamas: Ahmisa, Satya, Asteya, Brahmacharya, Aparigraha, Shaucha, Santosha, Tapas, Svadhyaya, and Ishvarapranidhana.
The Yamas and Niyamas are ethical principles from the eightfold path of yoga (Ashtanga Yoga) as outlined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. They serve as the foundation to yoga and the guidelines for living a disciplined, meaningful, and spiritual life. We will sit each each for the entire month with the intention of exploring and integrating as we move from one to the next.
This month, we explore the first Niayama: Shaucha.
8/6 Shaucha of Surroundings
8/13 Shaucha of the Body
8/20 Shaucha of the Mind
8/27 Shaucha of the Soul

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Teaching Yoga in times of crisis for teachers and organizers
In this 13 week series, you're invited to dive into a new way of embodied practice through intentional themes built around the ideas of movement organizing, reciprocal care, and radicalization.
Teachings supported by yoga philosophy and Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba
Week 1: Aug 6: Angela Davis says Radical is...
Week 2: Aug 13: Radicalization is Vital
Week 3: Aug 20: What is a Win?
Week 4: Aug 27: The Power of Investigation

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
Wisdom of the Deities
Spending the month learning about the key deities from Hinduism and hearing their stories. We will meditate upon them and relate the teaching to our own lives and practice.
7th Ganesha
14th Vishnu
21st with Guest Guide: Lakshmi
28th Hanuman

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH RIA
Uncovering Atman
Following last month's exploration of the panchakosha framework, we will delve more closely into the philosophical concept of Atman through a few different lenses. Meditations will include pranayama and visualization. Live attendance is strongly encouraged for the rich community conversations!
8/1 Witness Beyond Ahamkara (Ego)
8/8 Atman in Advaita (Non-Dualism)
8/15 Atman and Ahimsa
8/22 Atman/Anatta
8/29 Atman and Brahman in the Upanishads

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG, WITH ABHA
Bhāgavad Gitā, Chapter 4
We begin chapter 4 of Bhagavad Gitā which is focused on Jnān and Karma yoga.
8/2 Gitā 4.1-4.3 (The ancient knowledge of Yogā)
8/9 Gitā 4.4 (Time and Yogā)
8/16 Gitā 4.5 (Births and Memory)
8/23 Gitā 4.6 and 4.7 (Unmanifested as Manifested)
8/30 Gitā 4.8 and 4.9 (Understanding the beyond time, space and matter)

MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH TEJAL
Radicalizing Rest
New! Monthly Restorative class offered by Tejal and Guests on the 2nd Wednesday of every month!
8/13 Radicalizing Rest (When to say yes to rest)

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for Steadfastness and Conviction
8/20Mantras for Steadfastness and Conviction
In this month's mantra practice, you'll be guided through one chant that strengthens conviction and steadfastness in your values and taking right action.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Steadfastness and Conviction
8/20Pranayama for Steadfastness and Conviction
In this month's pranayama practice, you'll be guided through two breath techniques that energize the mind and strengthen conviction and steadfastness in your values. You'll be invited to reflect on what being steadfast in your actions look like for you right now.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH MELISSA
Ayurveda for Summer: The Mind
Saturday 8/23 with Melissa: Mind
In this month's Ayurveda workshop, we’ll explore how to support your mind during the season. Can include meditation, journalling, visualisation, reflection, mantra, and more.

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH SPECIAL GUEST LINDA LOPES
In Ceremony with Rest: A Portal to Spirit + Self, with Special Guest Linda Lopes
7/30: In Ceremony with Rest: A Portal to Spirit + Self, with Special Guest Linda Lopes
I believe that rest is more than stillness. It is a sacred practice. When we surrender into true rest, we enter ceremony, a space where our spirit softens, our senses awaken, and we remember what is ancient and true within us. Rest becomes a portal and an invitation to be held by our breath, by the Earth, and by the unseen forces that surround us with love, care, and protection.
In this practice, we’ll slow down together and listen deeply to ourselves, to our guides, and to the wisdom that lives in the quiet. You are invited to arrive just as you are and be supported in a space of care, connection, and collective restoration.
MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Learning from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika: Verse 1:15
We will continue our exploration of the six causes that destroy yoga: overeating, exertion, talkativeness, adhering to rules, being in the company of common people and unsteadiness (wavering mind).
7/7 Exploring adhering to rules
7/14 Exploring being in the company of common people
7/21 Exploring unsteadiness (wavering mind)
7/28 With Meera: Exploring steadiness with Trataka

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Opposites Attract
Slowing down our practise this month with Yin yoga postures to counteract and complement our bodies for this busy season. Yin yoga can help provide the cooling our body needs this summer.
1/7 Supta Badha Konasana
8/7 Lizard
15/07 Sleeping swan
22/07 Sphinx
29/07 Melting heart

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Healing Justice - The Breath as a Force of Change
Rooted in the framework of Healing Justice (Pyles, 2020), this months theme invites us to move beyond using the breath as an individual pursuit to see it as a way to reconnect with self and collective resilience. We will first focus on using practices to reconnect with self, and then channel them towards reconnecting and reimagining the world we want to co-create.
7/1 Introduction to Healing Justice Concepts
7/8 Starting from Within - Reconnecting with Yourself
7/15 Visioning the world we want to create
7/22 From Self to World
7/29 Integrating the Breath as a Force of Change

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH GAUREE
Aparigraha
Over the course of the next 10 months, we will be studying and meditating on the Yamas and Niyamas: Ahmisa, Satya, Asteya, Brahmacharya, Aparigraha, Shaucha, Santosha, Tapas, Svadhyaya, and Ishvarapranidhana.
The Yamas and Niyamas are ethical principles from the eightfold path of yoga (Ashtanga Yoga) as outlined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. They serve as the foundation to yoga and the guidelines for living a disciplined, meaningful, and spiritual life. We will sit each each for the entire month with the intention of exploring and integrating as we move from one to the next.
This month, we explore Aparigraha.
7/2 What is Aparigraha?
7/9 Aparigraha as material non-hoarding
7/16 Aparigraga as non-attachment to results, plans, or control
7/23 Aparigraha as letting go of resentments
7/30 Aparigraha as releasing identification with the ego and identities

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Yoga Sutras for Real-Time: 1.1-1.5
7/2 Yoga Sutra 1.1 the beginning
7/9 Yoga Sutra 1.2. understanding obstacles
7/16 Yoga Sutra 1.3 defining yoga
7/23 Yoga Sutra 1.4 defining yourself
covered by Sunaina
7/30 Yoga Sutra 1.5 understanding misery

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
The Four Brahma Viharas
In the yoga sutras of patanjali, there are 4 brahma viharas, sublime attitudes to cultivate which speaks to the heart of yoga in the community. Building a clear and tranquil mind is key to building a life in society away from our mats, which is fulfilling and one of service.
3rd Friendliness towards those who are unhappy
10th Compassion to those who suffer
17th Joy towards the virtuous
24th Impartiality toward wrong-doers
31st Integrating the four Brahma Viharas

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH RIA
Descent Through the Koshas
This month, we will use the framework of the koshas to continue our exploration of relationship to (and through) self. Themes explored will include visualization through the subtle/energy body, discerning thought from emotion, barriers to accessing intuition, and touching our true, blissful nature beyond the ego.
7/4 Physical Currents of Breath: Pranamaya Kosha
7/11 Thought or Emotion? Manomaya Kosha
7/18 Wisdom and Intuition: Vijnanamaya Kosha
7/25 Bliss and True Nature: Anandamaya Kosha

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG, WITH ABHA
Bhāgavad Gitā, Chapter 4
We begin chapter 4 of Bhagavad Gita which is focused on Jnan and Karma yoga.
7/5Gitā 3.38-3.39 (Knowledge Versus Desire)7/12Gitā 3.40 (Senses, Mind and Intellect)7/19Gitā 3.41 (The Mind )7/26Gitā 3.42-3.43 (ātman over mind)

MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH TEJAL
Yoga Sutra 1:1 - The Beginning
New! Monthly Restorative class offered by Tejal and Guests on the 2nd Wednesday of every month!
7/9 Yoga Sutra 1.1, The Beginning. Revisiting the purpose of yoga.

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantra Practice for Cultivating Hope
7/16: In this month's mantra practice, you'll be guided through mantras that cultivate a sense of hope from within. You'll be guided to reflect on what hope feels like in each dimension of your physical being.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Cultivating Hope
7/16: In this month's pranayama class, you'll be guided through two breath techniques bring spaciousness into the body and support the mind in cultivating hope. You'll be invited to reflect on what hope feels like on a physical, mental, and emotional level.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH MELISSA
Breath-Based Practices for Summer
7/12/2025: with Melissa: In this month's Ayurveda workshop, you’ll explore how to support with breath during the season. Can include pranayama, mantra, sound, repetition, japa, and more.

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH SPECIAL GUEST MICHELLE C. JOHNSON
The Sound of Rest
7/30/2025 with Michelle C Johnson: The Sound of Rest: A Yoga Nidra and Sound Healing Practice. The intention of this practice is to invite in deep rest and a reconnection to your internal vibration.
MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Learning from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika: Verse 1:15 and 1:16
We will explore the six causes that bring success in yoga as laid out in the HYP: enthusiasm, perseverance, discrimination, unshakeable faith, courage, and avoiding the company of common people. We will also explore the six causes that destroy yoga: overeating, exertion, talkativeness, adhering to rules, being in the company of common people and unsteadiness (wavering mind).
6/2 Exploring courage
6/9 Exploring avoiding the company of common people
6/16 Exploring overeating
6/23 Exploring exertion
6/30 Exploring talkativeness

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Duality of Life
Both/and - Yoga has many forms and many lessons for us, especially in noticing that life is more than two opposite concrete ideals - there is a middle ground. In June, we will apply this to our practise, how can we move in ways that nourish our bodies, but also strengthen us mentally and physically.
3/6 Noticing
10/6 Bringing in
17/06 Holding
24/06 Practising

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Nature as a Force Of Resilience
In the Upanishads, we are reminded that yatha pinde tatha brahmande — as is the individual, so is the cosmos. So often our modern life asks us to forget how everything is interwoven in a web - our nature impacts us, we impact it & each other. This month invites you to reconnect with the elements Earth, Water, Fire, Air as living forces within you. Through intentional breath, we remember that what surrounds us is also what sustains us and use it as a tool for resilience amongst the great suffering in the world.
6/3 Week 1: Earth — Rooted Breath
Grounding through breath. Focus on dirgha pranayama (three-part breath), breath retention, and lengthening the exhale to establish stability, presence, and calm
6/10 Week 2: Water — Flowing Breath
Breathing into fluidity. Explore gentle nadi shodhana to connect with emotional release, creativity, and the rhythm of letting go.
6/17 Week 3: Air — Expansive Breath
Creating space. Explore light, spacious breaths like ujjayi and sama vritti to move energy freely and invite clarity and inspiration.
6/24 Week 4: Fire — Vital Breath as part of Yoga4Pal
Igniting inner fire. Use kapalabhati and bhastrika to build energy, confidence, and transformation, connecting to the sun and our inner spark.

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH GAUREE
Brahmacharya
Over the course of the next 10 months, we will be studying and meditating on the Yamas and Niyamas: Ahmisa, Satya, Asteya, Brahmacharya, Aparigraha, Shaucha, Santosha, Tapas, Svadhyaya, and Ishvarapranidhana.
The Yamas and Niyamas are ethical principles from the eightfold path of yoga (Ashtanga Yoga) as outlined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. They serve as the foundation to yoga and the guidelines for living a disciplined, meaningful, and spiritual life. We will sit each each for the entire month with the intention of exploring and integrating as we move from one to the next.
This month, we explore Brahmacharya.
6/4 What is Brahmacharya?
6/11 Energy Leaks
6/18 Energy Redirection
6/25 Energy Integration

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Exploring Slowness as a state of mind, body, and breath
6/4 The idea of slow in yoga
6/11 How can slow be a support
6/18 Slow in times of crisis
6/25 Slow to investigate sleep

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
The Four Noble Truths
One of the first and core teachings of the Buddha was the Four Noble Truths. These are teachings that can be applied to many different aspects of our life. They allow us space and a way to understand the problems of our life and the solutions. We will relate this approach to our yoga practice this month and grow from there…
5th Suffering exists
12th A cause for our suffering
18th There is a cure for our suffering
25th The practice can free ourselves

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH RIA
Going Inward with the Niyamas
Last month, we worked with the yamas, which are invoked when talking about right action in the world. This month, we will discuss the niyamas - duties toward the self. In each meditation, we will consider how the niyamas might apply from the most gross layers of our system (physical body) to more subtle sheaths (energy body, emotional body, inner consciousness).
6/6 Saucha
6/13 Santosha
6/20 Svadhyaya (and Tapas)
6/27 Isvara Pranidhana

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG, WITH ABHA
Bhāgavad Gitā, Chapter 3
We are continuing investigating different aspects of Karma and its association with aspects like desires and lust.
6/7 Gitā Shlok 3.33-3.34 (Harnessing mind in action)
6/14 Gitā Shlok 3.35 (Own duty)
6/21 Gitā Shlok 3.36 (Sin and action)
6/28 Gitā Shlok 3.37 (Lust and action)

MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH TEJAL
Care is Fundamental
New! Monthly Restorative class offered by Tejal and Guests on the 2nd Wednesday of every month!
6/11 with Tejal: How can slow be a support?

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH GUEST MANOJ
Mantras for Being Present with Discomfort
6/18/2025 with Manoj: In this month's mantra practice, you'll be guided through 1-2 mantras that support your ability to be present with discomfort. You'll be invited to explore how discomfort is showing up for you right now, and where there is opportunity to be with what is.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH GUEST MANOJ
Pranayama for Being Present with Discomfort
6/18/2025 with Manoj: In this month's pranayama practice, you'll be guided through breath practices that support your ability to be present with discomfort. You'll be invited to explore samavrtti (equal inhale and exhale) breathing as a way to focus your attention and be with what is.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH MELISSA
Body-Based Practices for Summer
6/282025 with Melissa: In this month's Ayurveda workshop, you'll be guided through 3 body-based techniques to pacify excess pitta (heat) as the season transitions. You'll be invited to try self-massage with oils, restorative asana, and eye gazing.

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH SPECIAL GUEST RAINA LAGRAND
Being Held
Jun 25 with Raina LaGrand: Being Held: BIPOC bodies deserve to feel HELD, and we can find that by practicing restorative yoga and practicing it together.
MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Learning from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika: Verse 1:16
We will explore the six causes that bring success in yoga as laid out in the HYP: enthusiasm, perseverance, discrimination, unshakeable faith, courage, and avoiding the company of common people.
5/5: Exploring enthusiasm
5/12: Exploring perserverance
5/19: Exploring discrimination
5/26: Exploring unshakable faith

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Accessibility
Yoga is more than physical - the poses can be adapted. What is the shape we are in trying to achieve, and how could we access it another way? Turn it around, think outside the box, turn yourself around, how can this be kinder to your body and access needs?
6/5 What is a Yoga pose?1
3/5 What is the pose or shape trying to be?
20/5 Can we access the sensation a different way?
27/5 How can we take this lesson from the mat?

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Shadow Work
A 5-part Pranayama series to explore the parts of ourselves we’ve been taught to hide—rage, grief, desire, even joy. Shadow work is the process of exploring and integrating the repressed or unacknowledged aspects of ourselves—often called the “shadow self”—to gain a more complete and balanced understanding of who we are. Through breath, we’ll move stuck energy, acknowledge parts of ourselves to return to wholeness.

🌘 Session 1: Witnessing the Shadow
🌘 Session 2 & 3: Giving space for walled-off self-expression
🌘 Session 2 & 3: Giving space for walled-off self-expression
🌘 Session 4: Integration of Opposites
🌘 Session 5: Embracing Wholeness (Purna)

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS, COVERED BY GAUREE
Asteya
Over the course of the next 10 months, we will be studying and meditating on the Yamas and Niyamas: Ahmisa, Satya, Asteya, Brahmacharya, Aparigraha, Shaucha, Santosha, Tapas, Svadhyaya, and Ishvarapranidhana.
The Yamas and Niyamas are ethical principles from the eightfold path of yoga (Ashtanga Yoga) as outlined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. They serve as the foundation to yoga and the guidelines for living a disciplined, meaningful, and spiritual life. We will sit each each for the entire month with the intention of exploring and integrating as we move from one to the next.
This month, we explore Asteya.
5/7 What is asteya?
5/14 Asteya x self respect
5/21 Asetya x abudance mindset
5/28 Asetya x social justice

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba
Learning Why Radicalization is Vital
5/7 Beyond Alarm, Toward Action
5/14 Refusing to Abandon
5/21 Care is Fundamental
5/28 Rejecting Cynicism

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH RIA AND MANOJ
Yama continued then Niyamas
The Niyamas are the next step as laid out by Patanjali in the eight limbs of Ashtanga. These observances are personal practices that expand our inner world that help to support our mind, body and spirit through the path of Yoga.
1st May Aparigraha
8th May with Ria: Shaucha (purity or cleanliness)
15th May with Ria: Tapas (self discipline)
22nd May Svadhyaya (self study)
29th May Ishvara-pranidhana (dedication to Ishvara)

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH GUEST GUIDE RIA
Going Inward with the Yamas
The five yamas are often invoked when talking about right action in the world. This month, we will discuss how they each relate to our relationship to ourselves, in what ways different parts of self may be involved in the application of each yama, and how an internally focused lens might offer us a new way to approach these often-discussed terms.
5/2/2025 with Sunaina: Ahimsa
5/9 Satya
5/16 Asteya
5/23 Brahmacharya
5/30 Aparigraha

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG, WITH ABHA
Bhāgavad Gitā, Chapter 3
We are continuing investigating different aspects of Karma in Chapter 3 of Bhagavad Gita at a deeper level.
5/3 Gitā Shlok 3.22-3.24 (Divine duties)
5/10 Gitā Shlok 3.25-3.26 (Ignorant and Wise Duties)
5/17 Gitā Shlok 3.27-3.29 (Guna and Karma)
5/24 Gitā Shlok 3.30-3.32 (Cycle of Life and Death)
5/31 Gitā Shlok 3.33-3.34 (Harnessing mind in action)

MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH TEJAL
Care is Fundamental
New! Monthly Restorative class offered by Tejal and Guests on the 2nd Wednesday of every month!
5/14 Care is Fundamental from Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for Perceiving Clearly
5/21 In this month's mantra class, you'll be guided through chanting yoga sutras that emphasize the importance of perceiving clearly - whether that's ourselves or people in our lives. You'll be invited to reflect on how your internal state can impact your experience of each moment.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Clearing Your Perception
5/21 In this month's pranayama class, you'll be guided through two breath technniques to support clear perception of yourself and your relationships. You'll be invited to notice what your tendencies are when your perception is clouded vs clearer, and how that can impact actions you take.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Spring Practices: Mind
24/05 Mind: The heart, Japa and Gratitude - Beej mantra practice
Tap into practices that support your heart and offering gratitude to all we have in this life as we build on brighter days!

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Grounding & Growth
5/28 Grounding & Growth Focus
MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Authenticity and Self-Acceptance
In our time together, we will explore what self-acceptance looks like and celebrate ourselves to move towards authenticity.
4/7: Honoring all parts of ourselves
4/14: Making an heart agreement to love ourselves
4/21: Celebrating our quirks
4/28: Awakening to authenticity

BODY POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Noticing the Little Things
Practicing gratitude, involves intentionally recognizing and appreciating the small details that can positively influence one's mental well-being. Aparigraha, the fifth Yama teaches us non-coveting, instead appreciation for what we have.
1/04 One thing
8/04 Gratitude
15/04 A little more
22/04 Appreciation
29/04 Three things

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Exploring & Adventuring Out of Stuckness
As Spring rolls around, we will focus on cultivating more adventure and exploration in our day-to-day lives. Finding quick moments of joy through meeting someone new, exploring a new coffee store, or simply being outside can have such significant impact on our mental health.
Together we will tap into the breath with reflection questions and check-ins focused on cultivating more joy with an adventurous spirit to move out of stuckness each week.

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS, COVERED BY GAUREE
Satya (Truth)
Over the course of the next 10 months, we will be studying and meditating on the Yamas and Niyamas: Ahmisa, Satya, Asteya, Brahmacharya, Aparigraha, Shaucha, Santosha, Tapas, Svadhyaya, and Ishvarapranidhana.
The Yamas and Niyamas are ethical principles from the eightfold path of yoga (Ashtanga Yoga) as outlined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. They serve as the foundation to yoga and the guidelines for living a disciplined, meaningful, and spiritual life. We will sit each each for the entire month with the intention of exploring and integrating as we move from one to the next.
This month, we explore Satya.
4/2 What is Satya?
4/9 Satya in thoughts
4/16 Satya in words/speech
4/23 Satya in action
4/30 Ultimate truth, Satya

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH GUEST MAISHA
Growth Through Challenge
Each week we will build on identifying obstacles as invitations for growth - discerning when lessons are meant for us.

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH RIA AND MANOJ
The Yamas
The yamas are the first limb of yoga in the Ashtanga yoga system—also called the eight-limbed path. Translating as "restraint" in sanskrit, the guidence offered gives as a set of tools and boundaries to live our lives more ethically. Throughout the next few weeks, we will reflect upon our words, thoughts and actions.
3rd Ahimsa
10th Satya
17th Asteya
24th Brahmacharya

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH GUEST GUIDE RIA
Holding the Unseen
This month, we will explore themes of the unseen including intuition and subconscious processes. What happens when a subtle process is underway? How can we trust what we have no direct evidence of?
4/4 Intuitive Nudges
4/11 Subtle Movement
4/18 Barriers to Shraddha
4/25 Tapas and Time

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG, WITH ABHA
Bhāgavad Gitā, Chapter 3
We are continuing Chapter 3 in Bhagavad Gita exploring Karma and Karma Yoga.
4/5 Gitā Shlok 3.15-3.16 (Vedic description of Duty)
4/12 Gitā Shlok 3.17-3.18 (Unbound Duty)
4/19 Gitā Shlok 3.19 (Unattachment to results)
4/26 Gitā Shlok 3.20-3.21 (Lead by action)

MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH GUEST GUIDE MAISHA
Growth Through Challenge
New! Monthly Restorative class offered by Tejal and Guests on the 2nd Wednesday of every month!
Wednesday April 9th: Maisha guides us in identifying obstacles as an invitation for growth, discerning which lessons are meant for us.

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for Inner Stability
Wednesday 4/16: Mantra for Inner Stability
In this month's mantra practice, you'll learn mantras that cultivate stability and grounded-ness in your mind and perception of yourself and others.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Inner Stability
Wednesday 4/16: Pranayama for Inner Stability
In this month's pranayama class, you'll be guided through three breath techniques that increase stability in the body, mind and emotions. You'll be invited to explore how your breath is responding to the world around you, and how to adapt these tools to your state in this moment.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Spring Practices: Body
Saturday 19/04: Body - Nasya as a Daily Practice
Discover how to manage allergies, congestion and support focus and health longevity all with Nasya and Jal neti.
Special Note: Everyone will need to source plain sesame oil. Any plain sesame oil will do, but here's a specific nasya oil you can get!

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH SPECIAL GUEST LINDA LOPES
The Beauty of Rest
4/30: Join us as Special Guest Linda Lopes guides us in The Beauty of Rest
“I’m honored to share a deeply restorative practice at Tejal Yoga. I wholeheartedly believe that in moments of true rest and surrender, we awaken to a profound remembrance of our wholeness—our innate connection to ourselves, to one another, and to the Earth.
In sacred spaces, we are held, supported, and deeply cared for, allowing us to receive the nourishment and healing we need at the moment.
I invite you to join me in this practice, where together, we can experience the beauty of rest as a path to renewal and connection.”
— Linda Lopes

FREE! EMBODIED REFLECTIONS WITH RIA
Loosening and Softening
4/13: FREE Embodied Reflections: Loosening and Softening
This class will be an exploration of softening control and breathing into the relation between self and collective.
With a combination of journaling, asana, and pranayama, the goal is to explore the nuances of Vairagya or non-attachment through slow, process oriented practice that opens up space for complexity, grief, and non-linearity rather than bypassing or forcing an outcome.
Tips are appreciated.
MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
A series to… finding inner refuges of calm especially in times of great stress.
Traditionally, Buddhists take refuge in the Buddha, in dharma (the teachings), and in sangha (the community of practitioners). Taking refuge is to awaken from confusion and align oneself with wakefulness. By taking refuge, we vow to commit ourselves to freedom and following the truth.
In this meditation series, we will be seeking our inner refuges of peace and calm that are always within us. This is a skillful practice to reorient ourselves to our path and reaffirm our sacred connection to the world. Seeking refuge in this way is a simple way to make our trust conscious and connect to our faith.
Zen ancestor Huang Po said, “Your true nature is something never lost to you, even in moments of delusion, nor is it gained at the moment of enlightenment. It is the nature of your own mind, the source of all things, your original luminous brilliance. You, the richest person in the world, have been going around laboring and begging, when all the while the treasure you seek is within you. It is who you are.”
3/3: Understanding the Buddhist idea of refuge and connecting to our inner refuges of calm.
3/10: Building a practice to quiet our mind, relax our bodies, and rest in a calm, steady presence.
3/17: Continuing the practice of resting in our calm and steady presence.
3/24: Reaffirming our sacred connection to the world through taking refuge.

BODY POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Embracing Ease
As the light continues to increase, and the day gets longer, these sessions are a gentle reminder that you are a human that deserves ease and joy
4/3 What can you put down?
11/3 How can the next moment be easeful?
18/3 Slowing it down
25/3 Taking it easy

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Breathing Through the Gunas
This month we will explore how to use the Gunas to find balance. The 3 Gunas, Tamas, Rajas, and Sattva, give us a framework to regulate the nervous system. When working with Pranayama, each technique can be carefully selected to balance the Gunas
3/4 Overview of the Gunas
3/11 Balancing Rajas through Tranquilizing Pranayama
3/8 Balancing Tamas through Vitalizing Pranayama
3/25 Cultivating Sattva

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS, COVERED BY GAUREE
Ahimsa (Non-Harm)
Over the course of the next 10 months, we will be studying and meditating on the Yamas and Niyamas: Ahmisa, Satya, Asteya, Brahmacharya, Aparigraha, Shaucha, Santosha, Tapas, Svadhyaya, and Ishvarapranidhana.The Yamas and Niyamas are ethical principles from the eightfold path of yoga (Ashtanga Yoga) as outlined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras. They serve as the foundation to yoga and the guidelines for living a disciplined, meaningful, and spiritual life. We will sit each each for the entire month with the intention of exploring and integrating as we move from one to the next. This month, we start with Ahmisa.
3/5 What is Ahimsa or non-violence?
3/12 Ahimsa in thought - self compassion
3/19 Ahimsa in speech - mindful communication
3/26 Ahimsa in action - active resistance

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH GUEST MAISHA
All or Nothing or Sometimes Something
We will explore some ways having an "all or nothing" attitude can limit our practice and our experiences. We'll explore some ways doing "something" can still make us stronger.
3/5 To do nothing
3/12 To do something
3/19 To do it all
3/26 To choose

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH RIA AND MANOJ
Journey through Chakras, Continued
This month we will continue our Journey through the CHakras. The word “chakra” is Sanskrit for the word “wheel” or “disk.” The 7 major chakras in the body, these energetic centres, connect with our nerves, organs and areas of our energetic body that affect our emotional and physical well being. In the next 7 weeks, and to start the year, we will seek to connect with the attributes of each chakra, through sun salutations based movement, breath and mantra, to help us bring a flow of energy through each of these centres.
6th Revisiting the Anahata Chakra, with Ria
13th Third Eye Chakra and Intuition, with Ria
20th Vishuddha chakra The Throat
27th Ajna The Third Eye + Sahasrara The Crown

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH GUEST GUIDE RIA
Relinquishing Control as a Process
This month, we will explore the surrender not as an action or outcome, but a nonlinear process of "loosening the grip" rather than forcing detachment.
7th Honor the Hold
14th Loosening with Compassion
21st Relief and Grief'
28th Wholeness amid Release

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG, WITH ABHA
Bhāgavad Gitā, Chapter 3
This month we are delving further into Chapter 3 and differences and importance of Karma and Karma Yoga!
3/1 Gitā Shlok 3.5 (Action and Gunas)
3/8 Gitā Shlok 3.6-3.7 (Working Senses)
3/15 Gitā Shlok 3.8-3.9 (How to Karma?)
3/22 Gitā Shlok 3.10-3.12 (Karma as sacrifice)
3/29 Gitā Shlok 3.13-3.14 (Cycle of Karma)

MONTHLY ALL-BEINGS RESTORATIVE YOGA WITH GUEST GUIDE MAISHA
When to choose All and when to choose Nothing
New! Monthly Restorative class offered by Tejal and Guests on the 2nd Wednesday of every month!
12/3: Maisha guides to explore some ways having an "all or nothing" attitude can limit our practice and our experiences. We'll explore some ways doing "something" can still make us stronger.

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantra for Uplifting The Spirit
Wednesday 3/19: Mantra Practices for Uplifting the Spirit
In this month's mantra class, you'll be guided through chanting and sound healing that uplifts the spirit and the mind during these heavy times. You'll be invited to explore a deeper connection to a sense of hope and possibility.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Uplifting the Mind & Spirit
Wednesday 3/19: Pranayama for Uplifting the Mind & Spirit
In this month's pranayama practice, you'll be guided through two expansive breath techniquest that deepens your connection to your spirit and a sense of hope. You'l be invited to explore what maintaining a connection to yourself amidst the chaos means to you.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Spring Practices: Breath
Saturday 22/03: Breath - Stimulating Kapha, Kapalabhati and Ujjayi Pranayama
Enter into Spring by awakening the senses via multiple pranayama practices!

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH GUEST MAISHA
All or Nothing (or Sometimes Something)
3/26: Maisha will guide us as we explore some ways having an "all or nothing" attitude can limit our practice and our experiences. We'll get curious about how doing "something" can still make us stronger.
MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Embracing the Flow of Life
Each week we will explore surrendering to life's uncertainty, inviting an unfolding and leaning into trust, while simultaneously being present with what is.
This week, I found myself returning to an old Buddhist teaching that’s always brought me comfort in times like these:
'The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is… there’s no ground.'
1. “Looking deeper, we could say that the real cause of suffering is not being able to tolerate uncertainty—and thinking that it’s perfectly sane, perfectly normal, to deny the fundamental groundlessness of being human.” — Pema Chödrön
8. "Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path.” — Pema Chödrön
2/3 Surrender and Trust (with Ria)
2/10 Wholeness and Presence (with Ria)
2/17 Embracing the Flow Meditation
2/24 Embracing the Flow Meditation

BODY POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Noticing the Light
As the days start to gently get longer, and more sunshine appears, let's move with the awareness of the little moments that fill our hearts
4/2 Slowing it down
11/2 Standing tall
18/2 Feeling
25/2 Integrating

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Breathing into Connection: Navigating The Loneliness Epidemic
In a world where loneliness is increasingly recognized as a public health crisis, this month's pranayama series invites us to explore how we can cultivate deeper connections. Through intentional breath, we will deepen self-compassion and honor our collectivism. Let's combat this loneliness epidemic together.
2/4 Reconnecting with Self
2/11 Reconnecting with Those That Nourish Us
2/18 Reconnecting with Our Roots & Ancestors
2/25 Reconnecting with the Universal Breath

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS, COVERED BY GAUREE
Archery and the Spiritual Path
This class will explore the stages of the spiritual path through the metaphor of archery, drawing from the teachings of the Mundaka Upanishad. Each step- sharpening the arrow, placing it on the bow string, pulling back the bow string, releasing the arrow, and hitting the target—is compared to the process of spiritual growth and realization.
2/5 Sharpening the arrow (picking up ancient teachings, discipline, focusing the mind)
2/12 Placing the arrow on the bow string (find what works for you / settling into your practice)
2/19 Pulling back the bow string (taking a step back, dettaching from the world, and turning inwards)
2/26 Letting go (faith) and hitting the target (realization, moksha, nirvana)

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH GUEST MEERA
The Layers of Self
This month, we explore the Pancha Kosha model, which teaches us that our true essence is veiled by five layers: the physical body (Annamaya Kosha), the energy/breath body (Pranamaya Kosha), the mental body (Manomaya Kosha), the wisdom body (Vijnanamaya Kosha), and the bliss body (Anandamaya Kosha). Through our practice, we will move from the gross to the subtle, using breath, movement, and mindfulness to peel back these layers and reconnect with our innermost self (Atman)
2/5 Annamaya Kosha - The physical body
2/12 Pranayama Kosha - The breath & energetic layer
2/19 Manomaya Kosha - Our emotional layer
2/26 Vijnanamaya Kosha - Our beliefs & wisdom

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH GUEST RIA
Presence in the Process
This month, we will focus on the now as an opportunity for full presence, even as things are in constant flux and process. We will explore what barriers may make this difficult (distraction, fear, anxiety, overthinking) and honor the existence of these challenges with compassion. Other focuses may include: compassion for the inner child, breath as a vehicle for presence, mindfulness amid repetition.
6th Somatic Presence
13th Trust in Self
20th Trust in Guidance
27th Surrender as Outcome

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH GUEST GUIDE RIA
Subtle Body and Intuition
This month we will look at some of the chakras from the perspective of the subtle / energy body. In addition to meditating on the themes of each chakra, we will focus on opening ourselves to the energetic and ineffable experiences that may be associated with each chakra, combining this with a short discussion to align the mind with multiple layers, or koshas, of the self.
7th Root Chakra: Grounding into Earth
14th Heart Chakra: Openness to Receive
21st Throat Chakra: Expression, Honesty, Vulnerability
28th Third Eye and Crown Chakras: Messages and Guidance

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG, WITH ABHA
Bhāgavad Gitā, Completing Chapter 2
This month we end Chapter 2 of Bhagavad Gita which was Sankhya Yoga philosophy and move to Chapter 3 which emphasizes Karma.
2/1 Gitā Shlok 2.70-2.71 (State of Enlightened one)
2/8 Gitā Shlok 2.72 (Liberation from Māya)
2/15 Gitā Shlok 3.1-3.2 (What is highest good?)
2/22 Gitā Shlok 3.3-3.4 (Karma and renunciation)

NEW MONTHLY RESTORATIVE YOGA FOR ALL BEINGS WITH GUEST GUIDE MELISSA
Resting and Digesting
2/12 Melissa will guide us in resting and digesting

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantra Practices for Inner Stillnesst
In this month's mantra practice, you'll be guided through two chants that help you develop inner stillness, especially right now when there is so much movement and chaos around us. You'll be invited to explore the function of coming back to stillness to understand your role in creating change in our world.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Inner Stillness
In this month's pranayama class, you'll be guided through two breath practices that create stillness in the body and mind. You'll be invited to explore the function of stillness in helping you understand your role in creating lasting change, especially in this current moment where fear, anger, and chaos are so present.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Winter Practices
Time to start melting away the Winter layers and prepare for Spring with vitality!
22/02 Feb: Body - Energising asana, surya namaskar and garshana or dry body brushing.

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH SPECIAL GUEST MICHELLE C. JOHNSON
2/26 Michelle will guide our practice focused on digesting individual and collective grief
MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Concentration Practice - Tuning Within
Concentration Practice - Tuning Within
We will return to basics of mindfulness practice with anapana, silence, and concentration practices.

BODY POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
New year, same you
This month we reject society's attitudes to creating a new persona and body, instead standing firm in our own identity, feeling solid in who we are and trusting in our intuition
1/7/25 Awareness
14/01/25 Patience
21/01/25 Strength
28/01/25 Trust

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Grounding in the Present: Finding Stability Amidst Chaos
Each week we will explore the ideas of:
The Power of Impermanence
Reducing Suffering in Chaos

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS, COVERED BY GAUREE
Exploring opposites to discover oneness through yoga nidra.
This month, we invite in dualistic qualities and experiences to cultivate contentment for both, moving towards oneness or non-duality. Each week, we will explore a qualities corresponding to a kosha gradually progressing from gross to subtle. Weekly sessions will include gentle pranayam practice, body scan meditation, visualization, and closing prayer.
1/1 Annamaya Kosha; movement and stillness
1/8 Pranayama Kosha; hot and cold / dark and light
1/15 Manomaya Kosha; happy and sad
1/22 Vijnanamaya Kosha; faith and fear
1/29 Anandamaya Kosha; separateness and oneness

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Hatha Yoga Pradipika Teachings
Going deeper with HYP 1.16i: Enthusiasm, perseverance, discrimination, unshakeable faith, courage, avoiding the company of common people
1/1 Guest Guide: Gauree - Patience
1/8 Enthusiasm
1/15 Perseverance
1/22 Discrimination
1/29 Unshakeable Faith

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
Journey through chakras
The word “chakra” is Sanskrit for the word “wheel” or “disk.” The 7 major chakras in the body, these energetic centres, connect with our nerves, organs and areas of our energetic body that affect our emotional and physical well being. In the next 7 weeks, and to start the year, we will seek to connect with the attributes of each chakra, through sun salutations based movement, breath and mantra, to help us bring a flow of energy through each of these centres.
2nd Muladhara The Root Chakra
9th Svadhisthana The Sacral Chakra
16th Manipura The Navel Chakra
23rd (Nirja covering)Anahata The Heart Chakra
30th Anahata The Heart Chakra

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Beej Mantra Series
Focus on Japa Mala with different Beej Mantra
1/3 Integrating So Ham mantra with Aisha (wrapping up December's theme)
1/10 Beej Mantra Series, Learning the practice with Tejal
1/17 Drawing focus inward
1/24 Activating the mental state
1/31 Deepening practice

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG, WITH ABHA
Bhāgavad Gitā, Chapter 2
In these Shloks in Bhāgavad Gitā, Krishna tells Arjun about turning the mind toward higher Self or God.
1/4 Gitā Shlok 2.64-2.65 (Grace)
1/11 Gitā Shlok 2.66 (Contemplation on God)
1/20 Gitā Shlok 2.67-2.68 (Transcedental knowledge)
1/25 Gitā Shlok 2.69 (Beyond sense enjoyment)

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for Drawing Inward and Embracing Slowness
In our first mantra practice of the year, you'll be guided through a mantra and sound practices that allow your attention to draw inward and be in harmony with the winter season. You'll be invited to explore how even though the new year has begun, you are allowed to move slowly.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Embracing Slowness in Winter
In this month's pranayama class, you'll be guided through two pranayama practices to embrace the winter season of drawing inward, reflecting, and slowing down. You'll be invited to explore how even as the new year begins, there is still space to honor moving at your own pace.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Winter Practices
Using meditation to support the mind whilst still in the depth of Winter, where light is limited and the darkness can have us feeling weighed down. Using the support of visualisation to bring a lift during this time.
25/01 Jan: Mind - The Ayurvedic Approach & the Gunas in Meditation

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Community & Relationships
Raising Your Vibration per Hatha Yoga Pradipika 1.16i
MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Freeing Ourselves from the Inner Bully
The inner bully is often a voice you've internalized from past authority figures, rooted in survival and fear of change. It resists growth, manifesting as self-doubt, judgment, procrastination, or anxiety. This practice invites you to meet this part of yourself with compassion, presence, and curiosity, transforming its resistance into a pathway for growth. A supportive tool for moments when you're ready to step boldly into your future.
12/2 Becoming Aware
12/9 Creating Space
12/16 Tending to Self
12/23 Affirming One Self
12/30 Acknowledging Yourself

BODY POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Embracing the Season
As nature slows down, and our bodies inevitably want to slow down with the season, we will invite a softness and kindness into our movements and flow.
3rd Noticing
10th Slowing
17th Taking stock
24th Assimilating
31st Reflecting

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Externalizing Emotions
From the wisdom of ancient Eastern philosophies to modern therapeutic approaches like Narrative Therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS), the concept of externalizing emotions offers a transformative path to self-awareness and healing. In yoga, this aligns with the practice of vairagya (non-attachment), which teaches us to engage fully with life while letting go of excessive identification with transient emotions or outcomes. This and next month, as we navigate the emotional tides that often accompany the holiday season, our weekly pranayama classes will focus on identifying, naming, and externalizing these emotions with the guiding power of the breath.
12/3 Introducing the concept of Externalization
12/10 Guest Guide
12/18 Guest Guide
12/24 Externalizing Stress
12/31 Externalizing Anxiety

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS, COVERED BY MAISHA
Mindful Boundaries
A time of year has arrived where a lot of the people around us may feel entitled to parts of us - our company, time, gifts, etc. We'll take some time to explore where we would like to place our boundaries this year.
12/04/2024 Where are my existing boundaries?
12/11/24 What feels right, now?
12/18/24 Boundaries for outside of me
12/25/24 Mindful boundaries

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH MELISSA
Inner Knowing
Each week will feature an intuitive flow, as we turn to the Sutras for inner wisdom.

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
Powerful Words of 2024
The final practices of the year will be based around these 3 words. Using our meditations and salutations to connect with the three important parts of life, that we sometimes neglect. Let’s do it together. What a year it has been!
5th December: Reflections
12th December: Rest
19th December: Pranayama special
26th December: Celebrations

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH GUEST GUIDE AISHA
Staying Steady Using Mantra
Each week we’ll focus on So'ham mantra to bring steadiness and ease into your week

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG, WITH ABHA
Bhāgavad Gitā, Chapter 2
In these Shloks in Bhāgavad Gitā, Krishna tells Arjun about the senses and inappropriate focus on them can lead to anger and clouding of judgements.
12/07/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.60 (Beyond the senses)
12/14/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.61 (Redirecting the senses)
12/21/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.62 (Senses and Desires)
12/28/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.63 (Anger and Intellect)

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for Developing Inner Trust
12/18: Mantras for Developing Inner Trust
In this month's mantra class, you'll be guided through two mantras that help cultivate a deeper sense of trust within. You'll be invited to explore how trust and conviction can support looking back on this year to see with clarity.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Developing Inner Trust
12/18: Pranayama for Developing Inner Trust
In this month's pranayama class, you'll be guided through three breath practices that cultivate trust within. You'll be invited to explore inhale-focused breath with gentle movement to help connect to a deeper sense of conviction within yourself.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Winter Practices: Body: Winter Foods + Energising Asana
Sat 12/28: Body: Winter Foods + Energising Asana
As Winter pulls us deeper into its depths, find the light and keep feeling energised with practices to bring warmth and keep your agni settled.

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH Maisha
12/25: Luxurious Rest with Maisha
SPECIAL EVENT: Free Workshop to organize after the vote
Join Tejal to gather in community and reignite our organizing efforts.

November Community Hour with Abha: Sacred Mt. Kailash Trek
Understanding the perseverance and spiritual discipline for this sacred trek.

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Connecting to Our Inner Light: Trataka Meditation
As it begins to get darker, we will connect to our inner light through the practice of Trataka. In this class, we will practice a purification technique called Trataka by meditating on the flame of a candle. The Hatha Yoga Pradipika defines trataka as “looking intently with an unwavering gaze at a small point until tears are shed.” By practicing Trataka, we will aim to purify the mind and eyes so we can connect to the truth of who we are, improve concentration, boost willpower, and develop inner vision and intuition. Please bring a candle for practice.
11/4 Trataka Practice
11/11 Trataka Practice > "The eyes become clear and bright, able to see the reality beyond appearances."
11/18 Trataka Practice
11/25 Trataka Practice

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH RIA AND AISHA
Grounding
We will continue where we left off last month, exploring the body as a place of refuge, and being open to the slowing that occurs during the winter months. Recognising when life pulls us here and there, and noticing with curiosity what is necessity and what is superfluous.
11/5/24 Recentering with Ria
11/12/24 Gratitude with Ria
11/19/24 Creating space with Aisha
11/26/24 Finding joy with Aisha

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Breaking Through Absorbed Beliefs
From the Pancha Kosha model to Cognitive Behavioral Theory (CBT), the impact of our beliefs on our mental health has been emphasized through ancient texts and modern science. Sadly, these beliefs are often not even our own and trickle down from our society. This month, we will be playing with the breath to explore unconscious beliefs that impact your existence from time, perfection, body, and individualism conditioning. Explore the power of your beliefs.
11/5 Quality vs. Quantity
11/12 How Body Conditioning Impacts our Breath
11/19 Letting the Breath be Messy
11/26 Collectivism vs. Individualism

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS, COVERED BY MANOJ
The Four Noble Truths, with Guest Guide Manoj for all of November
One of the first and core teachings of the Buddha was the Four Noble Truths. These are teachings that can be applied to many different aspects of our life. They allow us space and a way to understand the problems of our life and the solutions. We will relate this approach to our yoga practice this month and grow from there…
11/6/24 Suffering exists
11/13/24 A cause for our suffering
11/20/24 There is a cure for our suffering
11/27/24 The practice can free ourselves

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Grounding Practices
As we enter longer and darker days, we'll explore a variety of yoga practices for grounding
11/6/24 Relearning Rest
11/13/24 Giving Way for Grief
11/20/24 Breathing into Change
11/27/24 Cultivating Inner Stability

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
Wisdom from the Deities
Spending the month learning about the key deites from Hinduism and hearing their stories. We will meditate upon them and relate the teaching to our own lives and practice.
7th Ganesha
14th Hanuman
21st Lakshmi
28th (covered by Harpinder)Vishnu

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Resistance Practices for the Revolution
Explore what Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba share in Let This Radicalize You about creating and sustaining activism with the tools of contemplation and inquiry
11/1/24 Rejecting Cynicism
11/8/24 On Violence and Nonviolence
11/15/24 Resisting Frameworks of the Powerful
11/22/24 Removing Pedestals from Others
11/29/24 Hope and Grief Can Coexist

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG, WITH ABHA
Bhāgavad Gita, Chapter 2
In these Shloks in Bhāgavad Gita, Krishna answers Arjun's inquiry on what it is to be a sage.
11/02/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.52-2.53 (Beyond material pleasure)
11/9/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.54 (How does an enlightened one behave?)
11/16/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.55 (Selfish desires)
11/23/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.56-2.58 (What is a sage?)
11/30/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.59 (Devotion)

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for Remembering Our Interconnectedness
11/20/2024 Mantras for Remembering our Interconnectedness
In this month's mantra practice, you'll be guided through two mantras that tap into our interconnectedness with one another and nature. You'll be invited to explore the immense healing power of being in relationship through sound, mantra, and calming breath techniques.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama to Tap Into Our Interconnectedness
11/20/2024 Pranayama to Tap Into Our Interconnectedness
In this month's pranayama practice, you'll be guided through two pranayama techniques that can give space to feel supported by our interconnectedness with one another and nature. This season is ripe with so many moments to get caught up in binary thinking, yet tapping into the breath can teach us nuance, and that we are always in relationship with ourselves and one another.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Winter Practices: Mind: Tamas + Kapha Season
Sat 11/23 Mind: Tamas + Kapha Season
Tamas and the mind coupled with Kapha in the season can be a heavy time. Ayurveda can help us understand what it means and how to counteract it. Mantra to lift us up and into light.

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH MELISSA
11/27: Resting In Our Interconnectedness
SPECIAL EVENT: IG LIVE DISCUSSION
Black & Brown Solidarity in Yoga with Wambui
0/21: Black & Brown Solidarity in Yoga
Join Wambui (she/her) and Tejal (she/they) to learn more about Wambui, and explore deep conversation around:
- Honoring South Asian roots of yoga
- Honoring African roots of yoga
- Nuances of cultural appropriation in historically underserved communities
Wambui will be hosting a Special Monthly BIPOC Community Restorative Yoga event on Wed, October 30th at 330p PT.

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Loving-Kindness Meditation
Loving-kindness (Pali: mettā). “It isn’t gooey and sentimental, nor is it possessive and clingy; it’s a gentle, loyal acceptance with a deep sense of appreciation and regard.”
10/7 Understanding equanimity (to complete the Paramis)
10/14 Practicing loving-kindness
10/21 Practicing loving-kindness
10/28 Practicing loving-kindness

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH GUEST GUIDE RIA
Inner Quiet
We will explore the body as refuge, coming to moments of inner silence and greeting mental activity, emotions, and discomfort with compassion and curiosity. What does self-regulation really feel like? What can we do when it feels difficult to access?
10/1 Grounding from the Root
10/8 Compassion and Release: Hip Opening
10/15 Witnessing the Heart
10/22 Space for Breath
10/29 Openness to Receive

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Nurturing Your Inner Child
With the elections on the horizon, devastating realities abroad, and simply the demands that comes from being human, this month we all need some extra nurturing. This month will focus on caring for your inner child and the various parts of you that need love and compassion. Through the use of Pranayama we will release pent up emotion, tension and find love in the midst of the day.
10/1/24 Connecting with your Inner Child through Breath
10/8/24 Nurturing your Inner Child through Tranquilizing Pranayama
10/15/24 Finding Inner Joy: Playing using Movement & Breath
10/22/24 Releasing Pent Up Emotions through Activating Pranayama
10/30/24Let Your Inner Child Play with Sound: Tapping into the breath & mantra

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS, COVERED BY MEERA
Nurturing Your Inner Child
With the elections on the horizon, devastating realities abroad, and simply the demands that comes from being human, this month we all need some extra nurturing. This month will focus on caring for your inner child and the various parts of you that need love and compassion. Through the use of Meditation we will release pent up emotion, tension and find hope in the midst of the realities of our world.
10/2 Cultivating Safety for Your Inner Child: Bija Mantra Meditation
10/9 Nuturing Your Vunerable Inner Child Through Compassion: Bija Mantra Meditation
10/16 Finding your Inner Childs Power: Bija Mantra Meditation
10/23 Moving to Liberation: Bija Mantra Meditation
10/30 Let Your Inner Child Play with Sound: Tapping into the breath & mantra

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Movement and Stillness
Explore a pose along with its restorative pose sibling
10/2/24 supine poses
10/9/24 twisting poses
10/16/24 prone poses
10/23/24 folding poses
10/30/24 side-lying poses

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
The Five Vayus
The Sanskrit word Vayu translates as “wind,” and the root ‘va’ translates to “that which flows.” There are 5 in the body and each goven a specific area that affects and influences our physical, emotional and mental health and wellness. We will use our practice this month to learn about and experience each vayu, through breath and movement.
3rd Prana-Vayu
10th Apana-Vayu
17th Vyana-Vayu
24th Udana-Vayu
31st Samana-Vayu

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Yoga Sutra Chapter 2: Sadhana Pada
What arises during practice
10/4/24 Sutra 2.7 Raga
10/11/24 Sutra 2.8 Dwesha
10/18/24 Sutra 2.9 Abhinivesha
10/25/24 Sutra 2.10-11 Kleshas can be reduced

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG, WITH ABHA
Bhāgavad Gita, Chapter 2
In these Shloks in Bhāgavad Gita, Krishna describes correct actions and duty without attachment.
10/05/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.48 (True Yog)
10/12/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.49 (True service)
10/19/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.50 (Conscious work)
10/26/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.51 (Cycle of Life)

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras for Trusting in Your Values
10/16/24 Mantras for Trusting in Your Values
In this month's mantra practice, you'll be invited to explore two mantras that support you in cultivating trust in your values, and what it feels like to be take action from this place. This practice will be energizing, clarifying, and grounding.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Cultivating Trust in Your Values
9/18/24: Pranayama for the Anxious Mind
10/16/24 Pranayama for Cultivating Trust in Your Values
In this month's pranayama and breath practice, you'll be guided through three techniques that help you develop a sense of deeper clarity and strength in your values and how they guide your life. This practice is focusing, supportive, and grounding.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Fall Practices:
Breath: Balance + Nadi Shodhana
Sat 10/26 Breath: Balance + Nadi Shodhana
In much of the times we find ourselves in now, balance in our bodies is something that is constantly needed. Breath is a key place to cultivate it and pranayama provides a lifelong foundation to support that.

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH WAMBUI
Stillness During Collapse: Expression of Sacred Activism
10/30: Special BIPOC Community Restorative Yoga: Stillness During Collapse: Expression of Sacred Activism, with Wambui
Wambui Njuguna-Räisänen (she/her) is a Kenyan-American based in rural Portugal, passionate about slow healing through trauma-informed yoga. She is the co-founder of Yoga Roots Odeceixe, a healing space which is home to Ashtanga Intersections: Emergent Healing Spaces. Here, one is invited tothe practice of Ashtanga Yoga, through a trauma-informed, decolonized, social-justice lens.
Wambui is deeply inspired by spiritual teachers and communities that seek ways to apply the insights from our various practices and teachings to situations of social, racial, political, environmental and economic suffering and injustice.
SPECIAL CLASS: LIBERATORY SENSUAL DANCE WITH PARISA
Sensual Dance, Part 2
Learn even more here.
9/16: Sensual Dance, pt. 2
Join Parisa for this all-levels, introductory dance class exploring sensuality through movement and other creative prompts.
You will learn the basics of sensual dance (tempo, gaze, body accentuation, props) in an inclusive, non-judgmental environment.

SPECIAL CLASS: MAT PILATES WITH SONJA
Mat Pilates, Part 2
9/22: Mat Pilates
A challenging, fun, pilates mat experience to help bring awareness, strength and stretch to your body. Class led by Sonja @thesonjarpriceherbert, an Antiracism Educator/Consultant for Pilates/Fitness, Activist, Pilates Instructor, social worker, writer and the founder/creator of Black Girl Pilates®️, a platform highlighting/supporting Black women identifying Pilates instructors globally.

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
The Ten Paramis, continued
From the early days of Theravada Buddhism, the paramis were viewed as the essential elements of the path to buddhahood and closely identified with the bodhisattva path. The paramis are known as the "perfections" of the heart and mind or the ten wholesome qualities, and it requires dedication and resolve to develop them. Qualities like generosity, virtue, patience, and truthfulness can be developed strongly in daily life, while aspects like energy, wisdom, and equanimity may develop more fully through formal meditation.
9/2 Understanding energy
9/9 Understanding patience
9/16 Understanding truthfulness
9/23 Understanding resolve
9/30 Understanding loving kindness

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Joy as a Practice
Reclaiming joy as a daily practise. Oftentimes, especially as we move through and witness so much grief and sadness in the world, we can fall into hopelessness and apathy. This month, let's take the time to feel/see/experience joy, and remind ourselves they win if we feel hopeless.
03/09 Noticing the glad in the practice
10/09 Bringing the joy into practice
17/09 Breathing and coming back to intention
24/09 Witnessing this practice

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Managing Pain and Discomfort Using the Breath
Having personally struggled with chronic pain for over two years, I empathize deeply with those managing life in pain. From physical pain, to mental suffering, the breath is a powerful for redirecting awareness. Join me this month as we explore ways to manage discomfort through the breath.
9/5/24 The Power of Awareness: Breath Awareness
9/12/24 Awareness is Prana: Ujjayi Pranayama
9/19/24 Training Awareness: From Discomfort to Ujjayi
9/26/24 The Power of Consistency: Practice & Discussion on how To Bring Tools Into Your Life

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS, COVERED BY AISHA
All Beings Meditation
Ground in meditation & reflection with the support of mudra, mantra, and more to explore your own experience.
Aisha will be covering classes for the month of September.

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Pawanmuktasana Group of Asana and Therapeutic Benefits
Practice Asana focused on strengthening the digestive system and eliminating energy blockages in the abdominal areas.
9/4/24 Covered by Meera
9/11/24 Awareness: Series of 8 Supine postures
9/18/24 Sustaining: Series of 8 Supine postures
9/25/24 Strengthening: Series of 8 Supine postures

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
Mind and Breath
Start your day in a meaningful way with meditation, readings & mantra, traditional Surya Namaskara, and pranayama.

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Working with Racial and other Distress
Practices guided by Ruth King and the RAIN framework of Michele Mcdonald
9/6/24 Recognize: What's Happening?
9/13/24 Allow: Can I Be With What's Happening?
9/20/24 Investigate: How Am I Relating To What's Happening?
9/27/24 Nurture: How Do I Care For This Distress?

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG, COVERED BY GAUREE
Bhāgavad Gita, Chapter 2
In these Shloks in Bhāgavad Gita, Krishna moves from describing duty to now use of the intellect for correct actions. Guided by Gauree for the month of September!
09/07/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.44 (Wordly pursuits)
09/14/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.45 (Gunas)
09/21/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.46 (Absolute Truth)
09/28/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.47 (Fruits of actions)

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Healing Mantras to Ground the Mind
9/18/24: Healing Mantras to Ground the Mind
In this month's mantra class, you'll be guided through two mantras that pacify the nervous system and ground the mind. You'll be invited to explore how the feeling and vibration of sound can allow your mind to settle and bring clarity.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for the Anxious Mind
9/18/24: Pranayama for the Anxious Mind
In this month's pranayama class, you'll be guided through three breath techniques that can soothe anxiety and settle nervous energy. You'll be invited to explore how the qualities of your breath change as your mood and state shift.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Fall Practices
9/28: Body : Self-Massage + Nutrition for Vata Season
Deep dive into Vata and all about how it plays a huge role in our world and lives, with Fall being a key season for it.

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Working with Racial and other Distress
9/25/24: Working with Racial Distress: RAIN Practice, offered from Mindful of Race by Ruth King
MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
The Ten Paramis
From the early days of Theravada Buddhism, the paramis were viewed as the essential elements of the path to buddhahood and closely identified with the bodhisattva path. The paramis are known as the "perfections" of the heart and mind or the ten wholesome qualities, and it requires dedication and resolve to develop them. Qualities like generosity, virtue, patience, and truthfulness can be developed strongly in daily life, while aspects like energy, wisdom, and equanimity may develop more fully through formal meditation.
8/5 Understanding generosity
8/12 Understanding virtue
8/19 Understanding renunciation
8/26 Understanding wisdom

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Letting Go of the Inner Critic
That inner voice a lot of us have, can sometimes be harsh or spout untruths, so this month we bring in practises to change that internal voice.
06/08/24 Reflection
13/08/24 Self-love
20/08/24 Compassion
27/08/24 Non-judgement

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Practices to Regulate the Nervous System
We will focus on pranayama practices to soothe and regulate the nervous system to feel grounded and calm.
8/5 Bhramari pranayama
8/12 Dirgha pranayama
8/19 Resonance breathing: 5/7 ratio
8/26Nadi shodhana

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH RABIA
Continuing the Journey: Processing Grief and Holding Solidarity in Practice
As we continue to witness and hold space for the many atrocities taking place around the world, this space and practice will continue to be a container to grieve, feel hope and most importantly sustain allyship.
8/7 Expressing Solidarity through Practice
8/14 Holding Space for and Processing Difficult Emotions
8/21 Take Inventory of How You’ve Been Showing Up: what’s working and what isn’t
8/28 Reconnect with the Breath and Your Intention, and Sustainable Allyship: filling your cup to continue showing up for others

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
The Perfection of Yoga
Arjuna understands the meaning and we embody our own approach
8/7/24 The Fate of the Unsuccessful Yogi
8/14/24 Yoga as Reestablishing Relations with supreme love
8/21/24 The Perfection of Yoga
8/28/24 The Perfection of a yoga student

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
The Five Niyamas, continued
The Niyamas are the next step as laid out by Patanjali in the eight limbs of Ashtanga. These observances are personal practices that expand our inner world that help to support our mind, body and spirit through the path of Yoga.
1/8/2024 Svadhyaya
8/8/2024 Ishvara Pranidhana
15/8/2024 Integration of the Niyamas
22/8/2024 Integration of the Niyamas
29/8/2024 The Relationship Between the Yamas and Niyamas

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Yoga Sutra Chapter 2: Sadhana Pada
Understanding the foundation for practice
8/2/24 Sutra 2.2 Why the discipline of Kriya Yoga
8/9/24 Sutra 2.3 Causes of Pain
8/16/24 Sutra 2.4 Avidya is the root cause
8/23/24 Sutra 2.5 Avidya - ignorance
8/30/24 Sutra 2.6 Asmita - the "I-feeling"

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG WITH ABHA
Sankhya Yog in Bhāgavad Gita
In these Shloks in Bhāgavad Gita, Krishna moves from describing duty to now use of the intellect for correct actions.
08/03/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.38 (Equanimity in Duality)
08/10/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.39 (Yoga of Intellect)
08/17/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.40 (Consciousness)
08/24/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.41 (Intellect of choice)
08/31/22024 Gitā Shlok 2.42-2.43 (True Intellect)

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras For Honoring + Channeling Anger
8/21/24: Mantras to Soothe Jaw and Facial Tension
In this month's mantra practice, we'll focus on two mantras that help release facial and jaw tension. This practice will invite you to notice the relationship between physical tension in the body, breath, and tension in the mind.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Releasing Jaw Tension
8/21/24: Pranayama for Releasing Jaw Tension
In this month's pranayama practice, you'll be guided through three breath techniques to support tension release from the jaw, face, and neck. You'll be invited to explore the relationship between the qualities of your breath when you're carrying tension, and the qualities of your breath when you feel at ease.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Fall Practices
8/17: Mind : Journalling
The mind plays an important part in how we show up in the world and how we move through life. Ayurveda knows the importance of supporting the mind and journalling is a key

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Rest to Resist
8/28/24: Rest to Resist
Featuring a reading from Tricia Hershey

SPECIAL CLASS: LIBERATORY SENSUAL DANCE WITH PARISA
Focus on Hips
Join Parisa for this all-levels, introductory dance class exploring sensuality through movement and other creative prompts.
You will learn the basics of sensual dance (tempo, gaze, body accentuation, props) in an inclusive, non-judgmental environment.

SPECIAL CLASS: MAT PILATES WITH SONJA
A challenging, fun, pilates mat experience to help bring awareness, strength and stretch to your body. Class led by Sonja @thesonjarpriceherbert, an Antiracism Educator/Consultant for Pilates/Fitness, Activist, Pilates Instructor, social worker, writer and the founder/creator of Black Girl Pilates®️, a platform highlighting/supporting Black women identifying Pilates instructors globally.
WORKSHOP ON DELVING INTO DETACHMENT WITH RIA
7/20: Delving into Detachment
With textual / philosophy discussion, journaling, and asana / pranayama practice, Ria guides you to explore the concept of detachment as it relates to your life.
Sometimes related notions can feel like impossible abstractions. Let's understand what we need for the process of letting go.

FREE: TRAUMA & YOGA WITH TEJAL
7/26: Trauma & Yoga 101
This workshop offers an introduction of the Secondary/Visceral Trauma with a light introduction of Race-Based and Ethnic-Based Stress and Trauma, as well as the various methods of utilizing yoga and meditation for healing and harm-reduction. There will be time for questions and possibly a short practice.

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Being Our Own Best Parent
Explore the qualities of a caring parent and seek to care for ourselves and our inner child in this way.
7/1 Abha covers
7/8 Ria covers
7/15 Manoj covers
7/22 Exploring the quality of: Compassion
7/29 Exploring the quality of: Setting and enforcing boundaries

EMBODIED REFLECTIONS WITH RIA
Presence
Cultivating an understanding of how we can experience the present moment and exploring resistance in doing so.
7/8 Inhale
7/15 Exhale
7/22 The pause between
7/29 Energy flow

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
You Are Precious
This month we look at bringing kindness and care in our flow practises, and learning to feel safe within our own self.
02/07/24 Bearing witness
09/07/24 Releasing guilt
16/07/24 Massage as a form of meditation
23/07/24 Noticing inner cues and requests
30/07/24 Moving with kindness

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
The Gunas & Nadi Shodhana
This month we will unpack the Gunas alongside Nadi Shodhana. The Gunas is a framework that is used to regulate the mind. When working with Nadi Shodhana, we can look at different stages of the practice and how it aligns with the Gunas.
7/2 Nadi Shodhana, Basic Alternation: Cultivating Sattva
7/9 Nadi Shodhana, Deepening Exhales: Balancing Rajas
7/16 Nadi Shodhana, Introducing Holds: Balancing Tamas
7/23 Harpinder Covers: Nadi Shodhana
7/30 Harpinder Covers: Nadi Shodhana

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH RABIA
The Journey Home
Join me as we continue to you strengthen the relationship of our mind, body and breath. Each week we will continue to deepen our relationship with the present moment.
7/3 Connecting with the body
7/10 Connecting with the thoughts
7/17 Being with the breath
7/24 Anchoring in the present moment
7/31 Refuge in community

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
The Perfection of Yoga
Practice along with Arjuna as he understands the meaning of perfection in yoga
7/3/24 Yoga as Rejected by Arjuna
7/10/24 Yoga as Work in Devotion
7/17/24 Yoga as Meditation on supreme love
7/24/24 Yoga as Body and Mind Control
7/31/24 Yoga as Freedom from Duality and Designation

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
The Five Niyamas
The Niyamas are the next step as laid out by Patanjali in the eight limbs of Ashtanga. These observances are personal practices that expand our inner world that help to support our mind, body and spirit through the path of Yoga.
4/7/2024 Impartiality toward wrong-doers (wrapping up June’s theme)
11/7/2024 Shaucha (purity or cleanliness)
18/7/2024 Santosha (contentment)
25/7/2024 Tapas (self discipline)

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Yoga Sutra Chapter 2: Sadhana Pada
Understanding the foundation for practice
7/5/24 Sutra 2.1 Discipline for Sadhana
7/12/24 Sutra 2.1 Tapas: considerations for this energy
7/19/24 Sutra 2.1 Svadhyaya: consideration for multi-perspective perception of self
7/26/24 Sutra 2.1 Ishwara Pranidhana: consideration for innermost awareness

SUMMER BOOK CLUB WITH RABIA
The Beauty of Your Face
Beginning July 12th:
We’re reading The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah, with weekly group discussion facilitated by Rabia.
Join Fridays, July 12th - August 30th at 8:30-9:15A PT as we gather virtually to read, discuss, engage, and explore.

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG WITH ABHA
Sankhya Yog in Bhāgavad Gita
This month we continue Chapter 2 or Sankhya Yog in Bhāgavad Gita.
We continue Chapter 2 or Sankhya Yog in Bhāgavad Gitā.
07/06/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.33-2.34 (Honor and Dishonor)
07/13/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.35 (Respect)
07/20/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.36 (Humiliation)
07/27/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.37 (Duty)

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras For Honoring + Channeling Anger
7/17: Mantras for Honoring + Channeling Anger
In this month's mantra practice you'll be guided through chants that give space and reverence for anger, and provide support to let anger move through you.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Soothing + Channeling Anger
7/17: Pranayama for Soothing + Channeling Anger
In this month's pranayama class, you'll be guided through two breath techniques to nurture the process of anger moving through your system. Through reflections and connecting with breath, you'll be invite to explore your relationship to anger and how to channel it.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Summer Practices
7/27: Breath: Shitali & Shitkari Pranayama
Understand Pitta & keep cool in the heat with these key Pranayama practices to bring the temperature down from within.

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Understanding the Kleshas
7/31: Understanding the Kleshas (afflictions)
Reading from Illuminating Our True Nature by Michelle Cassandra Johnson
MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Concentration Practice - Tuning Within
We will return to basics of mindfulness practice with anapana, silence, and concentration practices.

EMBODIED REFLECTIONS WITH RIA
Discernment and Clarity
This month's practice will focus on cultivating self-trust and connection to one's inner clarity, desires, values, and goals.
6/3 Inner Compass
6/10 Releasing Resistance
6/17 Centralizing Focus
6/24 Visioning Forward

BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Grounding and Balancing
Join me as we explore the concept of grounding during our physical practise, re-envisioning what balancing poses are, and bringing kindness in how we treat our bodies.
04/06/24 What does grounding mean to you?
11/06/24 How can we bring grounding into our practise?
17/06/24 Can we ground when we are further away from the earth?
25/06/24 Playing with balances
02/07/24 Grounding within meditation practise

PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
The Five Vayus
Through their exploration of the body and breath, the ancient yogis discovered that prana (life force energy) could be further subdivided into energetic components they called Vayus (winds). The five Vayus of prana all have very subtle yet distinct energetic qualities, including specific functions and directions of flow.
6/4/24 Prana Vayu: Nadi Shodhana
6/11/24 Apana & Vyana Vayu: Nadi Shodhana with Kumbhaka
6/18/24 Samana Vayu: Kapalabhati
6/25/24 Udana Vayu: Bhramari Pranayama with Jalandhara Bandha

MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH RABIA
The Journey Home
Join me as we continue to you strengthen the relationship of our mind, body and breath. Each week we will continue to deepen our relationship with the present moment.
6/5 Connecting with the body
6/12 Connecting with the thoughts
6/19 Being with the breath
6/26 Anchoring in the present moment

SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Let This Radicalize You
Practices for Clarity and Solidarity guided by Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
6/5/24 What does Radical mean?
6/12/24 Grounding and Imagination
6/19/24 Acceptance in Action
6/26/24 Capacity Building

SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
The Four Brahma Viharas
In the yoga sutras of patanjali, there are 4 brahma viharas, sublime attitudes to cultivate which speaks to the heart of yoga in the community. Building a clear and tranquil mind is key to building a life in society away from our mats, which is fulfilling and one of service.
6/6/2024 Friendliness towards those who are unhappy
13/6/2024 Compassion to those who suffer
20/6/2024 Joy towards the virtuous
27/6/2024 Impartiality toward wrong-doers

MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Let This Radicalize You
Practices for Clarity and Solidarity guided by Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
6/7/24 What does Radical mean? In daily practice
6/14/24 Grounding and Imagination
6/21/24 Acceptance in Action
6/28/24 Capacity Building

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG WITH ABHA
Sankhya Yog in Bhāgavad Gita
This month we continue Chapter 2 or Sankhya Yog in Bhāgavad Gita.
06/01/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.29 (Science of ātman)
06/08/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.30 (Not the body)
06/15/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.31-2.32 (Duty)
06/22/2024 cancelled
06/29/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.33 (Duty)

MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras to Sustain Being Present
In this month's mantra class, you'll be guided through two mantras that support your ability to be present with what is. Through sound, you'll be invited to explore the challenges and beauty of bearing witness to the world around you.

MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Breath Techniques to Practice Presence
In this month's pranayama class, you'll be guided through practices that refine your ability to practice presence that starts from within. You'll be invited to explore how the breath can support your ability to direct the mind and be present with the world around you.

MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Summer Practices
Mind: Rajas + Mantra // As Summer starts to bubble, we can start to understand the energy of Rajas. Through mantra and visualisation we can regulate and modulate our mind and breath as one to bring balance once more.

MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Pay It No Mind and other useful sayings for Pride
Fundraiser for The Marsha P. Johnson Institute, responding to unjust violence systemically, physically, and structurally as it happens to Black transgender people.
MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH HARPINDER
Authenticity and Self-Acceptance
In our time together, we will explore what self-acceptance looks like and celebrate ourselves to move towards authenticity.
5/6 Honoring all parts of ourselves
5/13 Making an heart agreement to love ourselves
5/20 Celebrating our quirks
5/27 Awakening to authenticity
EMBODIED REFLECTIONS WITH RIA
Compassionate Expression (Throat Chakra)
5/6/2024 Witnessing Breath
5/13/2024 Meeting Capacity
5/20/2024 Express Truthfully
5/27/2024 Voice in Movement
BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Thinking About the Future
Often times, we are told to think about holding space for our inner child, for our past self, and in these sessions, can you start to think about 'future you'? Practises to bring in kindness and care towards yourself.
07/05/24 Why an accessible practice?
14/05/24 What is accessible to your body?
21/05/24 Can it become more accessible?
28/05/24 Embracing changing ability.
PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
The Deconditioning Process
We operate in a society that has many systems that impact our well-being through conditioning, let's get into them! The first step to combat these is to gain self-awareness of how they impact our day-to-day. This month we will reflect on some of the limiting mental conditionings that impact our self-growth through Pranayama.
5/7/24 Time Unconditioning - Nadi Shodhana without the Counts
5/14/24 Quality vs. Quantity - What is Pranayama Progression?
5/21/24 Productivity Unconditioning - Practice slowing down in a fast world through Bhastrika Pranayama
5/28/24 Fear Unconditioning - Pranayama with Bija Mantras
MEDITATION FOR ALL BEINGS WITH RABIA
Processing Grief & Holding Solidarity in Practice
The current state of this world has felt heavy and quite frankly disappointing to many. In this month, we will explore how to practice solidarity and pacifying the nervous system while meditating in community.
5/1 Expressing Solidarity through Practice
5/8 Holding Space for and Processing Difficult Emotions
5/15 Take Inventory of How You’ve Been Showing Up: what’s working and what isn’t
5/22 Reconnect with the Breath and Your Intention
5/29 Sustainable Allyship: filling your cup to continue showing up for others
SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Resilience Practices for Stability
Pulling inspiration from poetry and text, try an embodied practice to build more support within
SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION COVERED BY AISHA
Apargraha
MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Working On It: Mental Health Wellbeing
Supported by readings from Love & Rage by Lama Rod Owens
5/3/24 What is the work?
5/10/24 Anger and the body
5/17/24 Love & Rage SNOELL Framework (Embodiment)
5/24/24 Love & Rage SNOELL Framework (Acceptance)
5/31/24 Love & Rage SNOELL Framework (Happiness)
SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY OF YOGA SATSANG WITH ABHA
Bhāgavad Gitā
This month we continue delving into Bhāgavad Gitā shloks on separating material aspects from ātman
05/04/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.25 (ātman Vichar)
05/11/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.26 (Grief)
05/18/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.27 (Inevitability)
05/25/2024 Gitā Shlok 2.28 (Gross, Subtle and Causal bodies)
MONTHLY RESTORATIVE SOUND SESSION COVERED BY MAISHA
Rest in the eternal frequency of OM
MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras to Stay Connected to Your True Self
In May's mantra class, you'll be guided through two mantras that offer connection to your truest self, or in yoga what we refer to as Purusha (spirit). You'll be invited to explore how connecting to your spirit can support your capacity more deeply with the world.
MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Building Self-Awareness Through Breath
In May's pranayama class, you'll be guided through 3 simple and powerful techniques to build self-awareness through awareness of your breath. You will be invited to explore your perceptions and relationship to your breath, and thus your state in each moment.
MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Spring Practices
Breath: Heart Japa + Gratitude // Nurturing the blooming heart with beej mantras and cultivating gratitude for all that we have and are as part of the nature that we make up. These kinds of practices are also part of Ayurveda in that the vibrations we create and emanate are as important as the ones we take in through food and experience.
MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Understanding impacts of Race-base and ethnic-based stress and trauma
Utilizing the work of Dr. Carter and Dr. Gail Parker for grounding.
5/29/24 Are you in your skin? An inquiry on belonging.
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH HARPINDER
Finding inner refuges of calm, especially in times of great stress
Traditionally, Buddhists take refuge in the Buddha, in dharma (the teachings), and in sangha (the community of practitioners)....(click for more)
Traditionally, Buddhists take refuge in the Buddha, in dharma (the teachings), and in sangha (the community of practitioners). Taking refuge is to awaken from confusion and align oneself with wakefulness. By taking refuge, we vow to commit ourselves to freedom and following the truth.
In this meditation series, we will be seeking our inner refuges of peace and calm that are always within us. This is a skillful practice to reorient ourselves to our path and reaffirm our sacred connection to the world. Seeking refuge in this way is a simple way to make our trust conscious and connect to our faith.
Zen ancestor Huang Po said, “Your true nature is something never lost to you, even in moments of delusion, nor is it gained at the moment of enlightenment. It is the nature of your own mind, the source of all things, your original luminous brilliance. You, the richest person in the world, have been going around laboring and begging, when all the while the treasure you seek is within you. It is who you are.”

4/8 Understanding the Buddhist idea of refuge and connecting to our inner refuges of calm.
4/15 Building a practice to quiet our mind, relax our bodies, and rest in a calm, steady presence.
4/22 Continuing the practice of resting in our calm and steady presence.
4/29 Reaffirming our sacred connection to the world through taking refuge.
EMBODIED REFLECTIONS WITH RIA
Rooting and Grounding
This month, we will focus on what grounding may mean to us in a given moment with an emphasis on the root chakra and cultivating safety for the nervous system.
4/1 Contact with Earth
4/8 Root and Spine
4/15 Finding Balance
4/22 Grounding with Water
4/29 Rooted and Rising
BODY-POSITIVE FLOW WITH AISHA
Pratyahara and Dharana - Focus and Concentration
Where does your attention go when you move on your mat? When you move your attention, how long does it stay where you place it? What does intention have to do with your attention? Bringing mindfulness into a physical practise.
2/4 What are our external sensations during asana?
9/4 Moving from external to internal awareness
16/4 Where does your attention go, moment to moment
23/4 The 'monkey mind'
30/4 Yoga chitta vritti nirodha
PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Components of the Mind According to Yoga
In yoga, the mind is seen as an instrument that facilitates interaction with the external or internal world. The mind is called "antahkarana', which means, the inner instrument or inner cause. We will explore the four functional components of the mind this month manas, Chitta, Ahamkara and Buddhi.
4/2 Manas: The 5 senses
4/9 Manas: Tunning in To External Stimuli
4/16 Chitta: Memory
4/23 Ahamkara: "Ego" or "I" sense
4/30 Buddhi: Intellect
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH RABIA
Peace through Practice
Join me as we continue to journey through the month of Ramadan to explore different ways of inviting peace into practice. Each week we'll explore different ways we can access peace through practice in community.
4/3 Peace in emotions
4/10 Peace in the mind
4/17 Peace in the body
4/24 Peace in community
SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Zen and the art of saving the planet
Teachings from the book by Thich Nhat Hanh
4/3 Waking up to the world
4/10 You are more than you think
4/17 No mud, no lotus
4/24 To engage or to meditate?
SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDTATION WITH MANOJ
The Yamas - Covered by Aisha
Carrying on from the study of the 4 noble truths and what they teach us about suffering - moving towards the Yamas and how they can be beautiful boundaries on how we walk through the outside world and how we act on our mat
4/4 Ahimsa
11/4 Satya
18/4 Asteya
25/4 Brahmacharya
2/5 Aparigraha
MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Meditations on identity and wholeness
Guided by The Trauma of Caste by Thenmozhi Soundarajan
4/5 The existence of caste and learning to ground
4/12 Understanding fragility and imagining news way of being
4/19 Caste and genocide and touching caste grief
4/26 Caste and environment and dreaming new ways
SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH ABHA
Digging deeper into the aspects of our true Self
This month in chapter 2 of Bhāgavad Gitā shloks dig deeper into the aspects of our true Self
4/06 Gitā Shlok 2.21 (Justice)
4/13 Gitā Shlok 2.22 (Change)
4/20 Gitā Shlok 2.23-2.24 (Illusion)
4/27 Gitā Shlok 2.25 (Subtle energy)
MONTHLY: RESTORATIVE SOUND SESSIONS WITH MANOJ
Resonating on the shared frequency for deep exploration (Covered by Tejal)
4/7 Exploring Om Chant, singing bowls, and deep rest
MONTHLY: MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Mantras to support capacity for communication
Wed 4/17 In this month's mantra class, you'll be invited to explore creating sound in various ways to support your capacity to communicate with yourself and the world around you. Through several mantra practices, you'll be guided into the power of expressing yourself and speaking up.
MONTHLY: PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama to support expression
Wed 4/17 In this month's pranayama class, you will be guided through two breathing techniques that support your ability to communicate and express yourself fully. Through using sound, breath, and gentle movement, you'll have an opportunity to notice connections between your breath and capacity to show up as you are.
MONTHLY: SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Spring Practices: Body
Sat 4/27 Body: Nasya as a daily practice [Everyone will need to source plain sesame oil]
Check out themes and details for
Weekly classes here
Special events here.
Month Focus: Allyship & Depth
Let's look at resourcing ourselves in order to take action in the world. We are considering the depths of our compassion for self and others, and how to resolve barriers from energy blocks and unsupportive mindsets like Perfectionism and lack of trust.We're excited to do this work in community with you!
BIPOC CENTERED REST
Honorng Black History & Heritage with Tejal and Michelle Cassandra Johnson
February’s Monthly BIPOC Centered Rest will feature Guest Teacher Michelle Cassandra Johnson, she/her.
Students say: “It felt nourishing for me to be in affinity with other folks of color, especially as we were prioritizing rest collectively.” and “This class was so great. I was surprised by the emotions and subtle energies that rose to the surface.”
Sound like just what you need? Bring pillows, blankets, a chair, or rest in bed.
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH HARPINDER
Cultivating Karuna
Karuṇā is connecting with suffering, our own as well as others', and awakening the compassion that is inherent in all of us to make a positive difference
In this series, we will develop this compassion through deep listening, mindful breathing, and deep looking.
Weekly: Karuṇā Meditation
EMBODIED REFLECTIONS WITH RIA
Intentions & Outcomes
Join our newest class, filled with philosophy reading, journaling, accessible movement, & optional sharing.
Week 1: Reframing Goals
Week 2: Gratitude for Self
Week 3: Process and Result
Week 4: Covered by Melissa
PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Pranayama as a Segway for Meditation
Pranayama helps us to still the mind before meditation. When done with complete focus, it leads itself to a deep practice of Dharana, concentrating the mind. This month we will explore the connection of the two.
Week 1: Movement with Breath Control
Week 2: The Power of Vibration
Week 3: Om Chanting
Week 4: Pairing Pranayama & Meditation
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH RABIA
Continuing the Journey: Processing Grief & Holding Solidarity in Practice
As we continue to witness and hold space for the many atrocities taking place around the world, this space and practice will continue to be a container to grieve, feel hope and most importantly sustain allyship.
Week 1: Expressing solidarity through practice
Week 2: Holding space for and processing difficult emotions
Week 3: Taking inventory of how you’ve been showing up: what’s working and what’s not?
Week 4: Reconnecting with the breath and your intention
Week 5: Sustaining allyship: filling your cup to continue showing up for others
SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Taking Action
Resolving barriers in body, mind, & spirit.
Week 1: Revisiting Perfectionist Tendencies
Week 2: Reviewing Paternalistic Patterns
Week 3: The True Disguise of Objectivity
Week 4: Offering Ourselves Antidotes
SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
Continuing Our Journey through the Chakras
The word “chakra” is sanskrit for the word “wheel” or “disk.” The 7 major chakras in the body, these energetic centres, connect with our nerves, organs and areas of our energetic body that affect our emotional and physical well being.
Over the next 5 weeks we will seek to connect with the attributes of each chakra, through sun salutations-based movement, breath, and mantra, to help us bring a flow of energy through each of these centres.
Week 1: Vishuddha: throat chakra
Week 2: Ajna: third eye chakra
Week 3: Sahasrara: crown chakra
Week 4: Integration week of all 7 chakras
Week 5: Integration week of all 7 chakras
MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Taking Action
Resolving barriers in body, mind, & spirit.
Week 1: Revisiting Perfectionist Tendencies
Week 2: Reviewing Paternalistic Patterns
Week 3: The True Disguise of Objectivity
Week 4: Offering Ourselves Antidotes
SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH ABHA
The Bhagavad Gita: Continuing Chapter 2
his month we continue delving into the Bhāgavad Gitā shloks on many questions we have arising in our minds about lasting happiness. Krishna starts sharing about reality, permanence and impermanence.
Week 1: Gitā shlok 2.12 (The Big “I”)
Week 2: Gitā shlok 2.13 (What dies?)
Week 3: Gitā shlok 2.14 (Senses 2)
Week 4: Gitā shlok 2.15 (What is eternal?)
MONTHLY RESTORATIVE SOUND SESSIONS WITH MANOJ
The Three Granthis in Yoga: Brahma, Vishnu, and Rudra

Granthi is a Sanskrit word that translated to a “knot”. The three granthis – Brahma Granthi, Vishnu Granthi, and Rudra Granthi – are three psychic knots situated in the body. They block the chakras and obstruct the flow of Kundalini energy.
February: Vishnu Granthi
Students say: “Manoj created a really peaceful environment.”
MONTHLY MANTRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Cultivating Confidence to Move Forward
In February’s NEW mantra class, you'll be invited through two mantras that invoke a feeling of confidence, trust and faith. We will explore the necessity of developing confidence to move forward and take action.
MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Strengthening Trust from Within
In February’s pranayama class, you will guided through several breathing techniques that help you connect to a feeling of trust and faith from within. You will be invited to explore expanding the breath and upper body, and encouraged to explore what trust means to you.
Students say: "I was resisting practicing on my own but I knew I could do it with the support of the incredible Tejal yoga community."
MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Winter Practices: Body
Come discover how Ayurveda can support your mind, body, and breath during the season!
In February’s NEW Ayurveda Workshop, we will focus on the Body. Together we’ll explore energising asana, surya namaskar, and garshana or dry body brushing.
“Ayurveda in today’s context disrupts cultural norms. It asks us to go back to our wholeness and inherent nature; to be aligned with the rhythms of nature around us.” –Indie
JANUARY COMPLIMENTARY CLASS
Embodied Reflections with Ria
Explore connection to the self, showing self compassion and how that can travel and translate outwards to your community.
Come preview the newest class from our newest teacher, Ria (she/her)!
MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST
Fundraiser for Palestine Aid
Featuring Guest Teacher Ro (Europa) Grace, they/them
Students say: “It felt nourishing for me to be in affinity with other folks of color, especially as we were prioritizing rest collectively.” and “This class was so great. I was surprised by the emotions and subtle energies that rose to the surface.”
Sound like just what you need? Bring pillows, blankets, a chair, or rest in bed.
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH HARPINDER
Tuning into Inner Divinity
"With your whole being surrender to that divine presence that is the center of your being, and by the grace of that divine presence you experience the ultimate peace, the timeless abode." - Bhagavad Gita, 18.62.
In this series, we will tune into our true nature of divinity.
Week 1: Complete awareness, attention, and presence to being with our self
Week 2: Our true nature
Week 3: Tuning into divinity
Week 4: The inner sacred world
Week 5: Divine presence
BIPOC CENTERED MEDITATION WITH INDIE AND GUESTS
Gentle Awakening
Inviting in light and energy to all aspects of our life as we venture slowly but surely out of Winter and look ahead to Spring.
January is the final month for this class, so catch it while you can!
Week 1: What does it mean to be awake? (with Trishna)
Week 2: Awakening the body (with Maisha)
Week 3: Awakening the mind (with Indie)
Week 4: Awakening the breath (with Indie)
Week 5: What are we waking up to as a collective? (with Indie)
PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH HARPINDER (COVERING FOR MEERA FOR JANUARY)
Nadi Shodhana: Alternate Nostril Breathing
Some classical texts say that Nadi Shodhana was one of the first pranayamas ever taught in practice. Since we work on both the right and left nostril (the left and right channels) - we also balance the left and right hemispheres of the brain, inviting a clean energy.
Over the month we will build on Nadi Shodhana week by week. Discover what Nadi Shodhana invites for you!
Weekly: Beginning and building upon our Nadi Shodhana practice
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH RABIA
Processing Grief: Holding Solidarity In Practice
The current state of this world has felt heavy and quite frankly disappointing to many. In December, we will again explore how to practice solidarity and pacify the nervous system while meditating in community.
Week 1: Expressing solidarity through practice
Week 2: Holding space for and processing difficult emotions
Week 3: Taking inventory of how you’ve been showing up: what’s working and what’s not?
Week 4: Reconnecting with the breath and your intention
Week 5: Sustaining allyship: filling your cup to continue showing up for others
SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Yoga Sutras: The Bliss Chapter
Explore what we can learn from our practice and ourself.
Week 1: Sutras 1.1-4 Resilience, Bypassing, and Ego
Week 2: Understanding Bliss
Week 3: Working with Bliss
Week 4: Sutras 1.5-7: Roleplaying, Identity, and the Sources of Right Knowledge
Week 5: Sutra 1.7: Inference & Testimony and their Roles in Our Minds
SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
Starting the Year with Journey through Chakras
The word “chakra” is sanskrit for the word “wheel” or “disk.” The 7 major chakras in the body, these energetic centres, connect with our nerves, organs and areas of our energetic body that affect our emotional and physical well being. In the next 7 weeks, and to start the year, we will seek to connect with the attributes of each chakra, through sun salutations based movement, breath and mantra, to help us bring a flow of energy through each of these centres.
Week 1: :Muladhara The Root Chakra
Week 2: Svadhisthana: The Sacral Chakra
Week 3: Manipura: The Naval Chakra
Week 4: Anahata: The Heart Chakra
MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Yoga Sutras: The Bliss Chapter
Explore what we can learn from our practice and ourself.
Week 1: Sutras 1.1-4 Resilience, Bypassing, and Ego
Week 2: Understanding Bliss
Week 3: Working with Bliss
Week 4: Sutras 1.5-7: Roleplaying, Identity, and the Sources of Right Knowledge
SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH ABHA
The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2
This month the conversation between Arjun and Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita opens many contemplations of life and duty.
Week 1: Gitā shlok: 2.7 (Role of a Guru)
Week 2: Gitā shlok: 2.8 (Source of misery)
Week 3: Gitā shlok: 2.9 (Senses)
Week 4: Gitā shlok: 2.10-2.11 (Ignorance)
MONTHLY RESTORATIVE SOUND SESSIONS WITH MANOJ
The Three Granthis in Yoga: Brahma, Vishnu, and Rudra
Granthi is a Sanskrit word that translated to a “knot”. The three granthis – Brahma Granthi, Vishnu Granthi, and Rudra Granthi – are three psychic knots situated in the body. They block the chakras and obstruct the flow of Kundalini energy.
Students say: “Manoj created a really peaceful environment.”
NEW! MONTHLY MANRA & CHANTING WITH MELISSA
Exploring Contentment
In January’s NEW mantra (chanting) practice, you will be guided through a simple but powerful mantra that invokes feelings of contentment and gratitude. You will be invited to reflect on your relationship with contentment for the year ahead.
MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MELISSA
Developing Clarity for the Year Ahead
In January’s pranayama class, you will be guided through practices that help you develop clarity. You will be invited to reflect on where clarity is needed in your life as you prepare for the year ahead.
Students say: "I was resisting practicing on my own but I knew I could do it with the support of the incredible Tejal yoga community."
NEW! MONTHLY SEASONAL AYURVEDA WORKSHOP WITH INDIE
Winter Practices: Mind
Come discover how Ayurveda can support your mind, body, and breath during the season!
In January’s NEW Ayurveda Workshop, we will focus on the Mind. Together we’ll explore Tamas and Sattva in meditation.
“Ayurveda in today’s context disrupts cultural norms. It asks us to go back to our wholeness and inherent nature; to be aligned with the rhythms of nature around us.” –Indie
MONTHLY FREE CLASS: ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH TEJAL
Explore connection to the self, showing self compassion and how that can travel and translate outwards to your community.
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH HARPINDER
Tuning Into Support
We are all supported – whether by seen or unseen forces, by known or unknown guides, and by the natural world – by Mother Earth.
In this series, we will create spaciousness within us to tune into this abundance of support. To know that we are not alone and to start to notice this support around us – especially in a time of great upheaval, violence, and separation.
Weekly: Tuning Into Support Meditation
BIPOC CENTERED MEDITATION WITH INDIE
Soothe through Surrender
Each week we will invite surrender in the following ways:
Week 1: Surrender: an exploration
Week 2: Surrender and the body
Week 3: Surrender and the mind
Week 4: Surrender and the breath
PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Cozy Up this Winter with Ujjayi Pranayama
Ujjayi, a commonly practiced technique in Yoga spaces, is a deeply soothy and tranquilizing practice. As we go into the sharp cold and stress of the winter season, cozy up with this heating and calming practice.
Week 1: Ujjayi basics
Week 2: Ujjayi with Anatara Kumbaka
Week 3: Alternating Ujjayi with Kumbaka
Week 4: Alternating Ujjayi with Kumbaka
GO BEYOND THE ASANAS
Featuring Guest Teachers!
Go beyond the asana & take in aspects of yoga on & off the mat. This is a strong, heat-building class, incorporating stories & embodiment.
Week 1: Trishna (Malasana)
Week 2: Maisha (Intuitive Flow)
Week 3: Trishna (Vrikshasana)
Week 4: Harpinder (Intuitive Flow)
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH RABIA
Processing Grief: Holding Solidarity in Practice
The current state of this world has felt heavy and quite frankly disappointing to many. In December, we will again explore how to practice solidarity and pacify the nervous system while meditating in community.
Week 1: Expressing solidarity through practice
Week 2: Holding space for and processing difficult emotions
Week 3: Taking inventory of how you’ve been showing up: what’s working and what’s not?
Week 4: Reconnecting with the breath and your intention
Week 5: Sustaining allyship: filling your cup to continue showing up for others
SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Sutras 1.48-1.51: What Lies Beyond
Explore a place of gentle reminders & soft opening, paired with readings from the Yoga Sutra.
Week 1: Sutra 1.48: Cosmic Experience
Sensible Existence and Beyond
Week 2: Sutra 1.49: Characteristics of this experience
Differences of our knowledge base
Week 3: Sutra 1.50: Dynamic form of consciousness in samadhi
Means and ends
Week 4: Sutra 1.51: Then one attains samadhi without seed
The peaceful ultimate state
SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
Reflection, Rest, Celebrations of 2023
The final practices of the year will be based around these 3 words. Using our meditations and salutations to connect with the three important parts of life, that we sometimes neglect. Let’s do it together... What a year it has been!
Week 1: Reflections
Week 2: Rest
Week 3: Celebrations
Week 4: Pranayama special
MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Sutras 1.47-1.51: Peace-Building Practices
Dive into guided meditation & questions on readings from the Yoga Sutra.
Week 1: Sutra 1.47: Then spiritual light dawns
Practicing subtlety
Week 2: Sutra 1.48: Cosmic Experience
Sensible Existence and Beyond
Week 3: Sutra 1.49: Characteristics of this experience
Differences of our knowledge base
Week 4: Sutra 1.50: Dynamic form of consciousness in samadhi
Means and ends
Week 5: Sutra 1.51: Then one attains samadhi without seed
The peaceful ultimate state
SCIENCE & SPRITUALITY SATSANG WITH ABHA
The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2
This month is special as it is the first time Krishna starts speaking, and the real Gitā begins. This month, we dive into divine compassion, discontentment, duty, morality, and honor!
Week 1: Gitā shlok: 2.1 (Divine Compassion)
Week 2: Gitā shlok: 2.2-2.3 (Discontentment)
Week 3: Gitā shlok: 2.4 (Duty)
Week 4: Gitā shlok: 2.5 (Morality)
Week 5: Gitā shlok: 2.6 (Honor)
MONTHLY RESTORATIVE SOUND SESSIONS WITH MANOJ
2023 Reflections
The final session of the year is a time to pause and reflect on the year that has been. We will use our session this month to sit with and acknowledge all we have experienced this year, through meditation and our restorative shapes in our supportive community. Take some time to rest at the start of the month before we head into the holidays.
Students say: “The way Manoj used mantra, harmonium & the tanpura created a really peaceful environment.”
MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Presence
In December’s pranayama class, we will focus on releasing heaviness in the body and mind through gentle movement and exhale focused pranayama.
You will be guided to be present with any grief, heavy emotions and/or worry that you are carrying and tap into tools to meet you where you are.
Students say: "I was resisting practicing on my own but I knew I could do it with the support of the incredible Tejal yoga community."
MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Examining Wellness Culture: Gratitude Complex
Intentional rest supported by excerpts from BIPOC authors.
Students say: “It felt nourishing for me to be in affinity with other folks of color, especially as we were prioritizing rest collectively.” and “This class was so great. I was surprised by the emotions and subtle energies that rose to the surface.”
Sound like just what you need? Bring pillows, blankets, a chair, or rest in bed.
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH HARPINDER
Anchoring Back into Love: A Practice of Deep Listening
If we see ourselves as separate from others and the world around us, this separation is created within us as well. It creates a story of us against them. In this series, we will be awaken our heart’s capacity to see others as ourselves and to love deeply.
Weekly: Deep Listening Meditation
BIPOC CENTERED MEDITATION WITH INDIE
Finding Solace Within
Allowing ourselves to feel and be seen as we find refuge within ourselves and with one another.
Week 1: Presence with the body
Week 2: Room for the breath
Week 3: Space for the mind
Week 4: Offering the collective
PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Pranayama for Focus
Today our attention has become the new currency and it is making focus seem impossible.
This month I’ll be sharing techniques you can do in the morning to clear your mind and reclaim your focus for the day.
Week 1: Beginner Bhastrika & Bhramari Pranayama
Week 2: Bhastrika & Bhramari Pranayama
Week 3: Bhastrika with Alternate Nostril Breathing
Week 4: Bhastrika with Alternate Nostril Breathing & Bhramari Pranayama
GO BEYOND THE ASANAS WITH NIRJA
Relax and Reset
As Diwali approaches (Hindu New year based on the Lunar Calendar), and as the year winds down to an end - let’s take the time this month to explore resting asanas in which we can learn the story behind them and take the time to introspect.
Diwali marks the new year in which we as humans have the opportunity to redefine ourselves, recreate ourselves, and “re-birth.”
Week 1: Kapotasana: pigeon pose
Week 2: Savasana: corpse pose
Week 3: Ananda Balasana: happy baby pose
Week 4: Supta Baddha Konasana: reclined bound angle pose
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH RABIA
Solidarity In Practice
The current state of this world has felt heavy and quite frankly disappointing to many. In this month, we will explore how to practice solidarity and pacifying the nervous system while meditating in community.
Week 1: Expressing solidarity through practice
Week 2: Holding space for and processing difficult emotions
Week 3: Taking inventory of how you’ve been showing up: what’s working and what’s not?
Week 4: Reconnecting with the breath and your intention
Week 5: Sustaining allyship: filling your cup to continue showing up for others
SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Sutras 1:43-1.47: Evolution of Bliss
Explore a place of gentle reminders & soft opening, paired with readings from the Yoga Sutra.
Week 1: Sutra 1.43 Nirvitarka Samadhi (Memory-less, Bliss-full)
Week 2: Sutra 1.44 Other forms of Samadhi (Poet vs scientist)
Week 3: Sutra 1.45 Extent of Samadhi (Balance through process)
Week 4: Sutra 1.46 Samadhi with Seed (Recognizing division)
Week 5: Sutra 1.47 Then spiritual light dawns (Practicing subtlety)
SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
The Yamas and Niyamas
We’ll finish studying the Yamas and move onto the Niyamas! The Niyamas are the next step as laid out by Patanjali in the eight limbs of Ashtanga. These observances are personal practices that expand our inner world and help to support our mind, body and spirit through the path of Yoga.
Week 1: Finishing the Yamas: Aparigraha (non-grasping)
Week 2: Beginning the Niyamas: Shaucha (purity or cleanliness)
Week 3: Tapas (self-discipline)
Week 4: Svadhyaya (self-study)
Week 5: Ishvara-Pranidhana (dedication to Ishvara)
MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Sutras 1.43-1.47: Evolution of Bliss
Dive into guided meditation & questions on readings from the Yoga Sutra.
Week 1: Sutra 1.43 Nirvitarka Samadhi (Memory-less, Bliss-full)
Week 2: Sutra 1.44 Other forms of Samadhi (Poet vs scientist)
Week 3: Sutra 1.45 Extent of Samadhi (Balance through process)
Week 4: Sutra 1.46 Samadhi with Seed (Recognizing division)
SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH ABHA
The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 1
This month, we will delve into aspects of family values, traditions, progeny, desire, and grief through the lens of science and spirituality!
Week 1: Gita shlok: 1.40 (traditions)
Week 2: Gita shlok: 1.41-1.43 (progeny)
Week 3: Gita shlok: 1.44-1.46 (desire)
Week 4: Gita shlok: 1.47 (grief)
MONTHLY RESTORATIVE SOUND SESSIONS WITH MANOJ
60 Minutes of Sound
Connecting to the sound and vibrations of our own voice, as we meet with one another from across the world.
We will notice what happens when we bring our voice into certain restorative shapes and how this deepens our experience.
Students say: “The way Manoj used mantra, harmonium & the tanpura created a really peaceful environment.”
MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Back Relief
In November, we will focus on breathing practices that help relieve back tension
You will be guided through extended exhales and gentle movement to unwind stress in the whole spine
Students say: "I was resisting practicing on my own but I knew I could do it with the support of the incredible Tejal yoga community."
MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED RESTORATIVE WITH TEJAL
Examining Wellness Culture: Building Up
Intentional rest supported by excerpts from BIPOC authors.
Students say: “It felt nourishing for me to be in affinity with other folks of color, especially as we were prioritizing rest collectively.” and “This class was so great. I was surprised by the emotions and subtle energies that rose to the surface.”
Sound like just what you need? Bring pillows, blankets, a chair, or rest in bed.
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION W. HARPINDER
The Path to Self-Forgiveness
In this series, we will explore what it means to live with a forgiving heart - towards ourselves and others. Without this practice of forgiveness and compassion, we remain locked to the past, with hurt and pain in our history. We will seek to extend grace to parts of ourselves that have been shunned or exiled, in order to reduce suffering and attain greater wisdom.
Weekly: Forgiveness and Compassion Meditation
BIPOC CENTERED MEDITATION W. INDIE
Finding Your Voice with Bhramari
Learn about the different facets of your voice, communication and energy with Bhramari. We’ll take some time to learn, followed by a steady practice of Bhramari (Humming Bee breath).
Week 1: Bhramari and the nervous system
Week 2: Bhramari and the throat chakra
Week 3: Bhramari and the vibration of sound
Week 4: Bhramari and the ears
Week 5: Bhramari - an extended practice
PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL W. MEERA
The Balancing Breath
This month will be focused on balancing the mind through the classical pranayama technique, Nadi Shodhana (alternate nostril breathing).
According to Yogic tradition, this technique is shown to help with concentration, relieves anxiety, balances the brain hemispheres, is good for the nerves and heart and improves respiration.
Week 1: Nadi Shodhana: Laying the Foundation
Week 2: Nadi Shodhana with alternating nostrils
Week 3: Nadi Shodhana with extended exhales
Week 4: Nadi Shodhana with Kumbakka (breath holds)
Week 5: Nadi Shodhana: Putting it all together
GO BEYOND THE ASANAS W. NIRJA
Dive Deep Into Your Divine Feminine Power: The Hindu Celebration of Navratri
As the Hindu celebration Navratri rolls around the corner, learn about the various Goddesses this festival is associated with and their related asanas. Learn how we can take the symbolism behind each of the goddesses into creating a more enriching life for ourselves.
Week 1: Ida & Pingala
Week 2: Lakshmi Maa
Week 3: Durga Maa
Week 4: Kali Maa
Week 5: Saraswati Maa
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION W. RABIA
Embracing Impermanence
In this month, we will explore the concept of impermanence and how the act of letting go can strengthen the ability to be present in the moment. Each week will be exploring how the application of impermanence can lead to meaningful experiences.
Week 1: Embracing impermanence: This week we will play with the concept of impermanence and begin to notice where we can apply it in our own lives.
Week 2: Understanding attachment: This week we will explore the places we hold on to and begin to soften our attachments by deepening the breath.
Week 3: Letting go: Learning to let go of what no longer serves us and accepting the present moment through contemplative meditation and gentle movement.
Week 4: Becoming present: Resting our attention on the breath as we practice mindfulness and the acceptance of the present moment.
SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY W. TEJAL
Beyond Material World
Week 1: Sutra 1.39: Or by meditation as desired; Full accessibility
Week 2: 1.40 Fruits of meditation; Journeying on the path
Week 3: 1.41 Oneness of chitta with object; Understanding absorption
Week 4: 1.42 Savitarka Samadhi; Necessary first stage
SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION W. MANOJ
The Yamas
The Yamas are laid out by Patanjali as the first step in the eight limbs of Ashtanga. Yamas are the moral, ethical and societal guidelines for the practicing yogi and give us guidelines to live on and off the mat. These can be practiced on all levels to support our thoughts, words and actions.
Week 1: Ahimsa (non-harming)
Week 2: Satha (truthfulness)
Week 3: Asteya (non-stealing)
Week 4: Brahmacharya (containment)
MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY W. TEJAL
Beyond Material World
Week 1: Sutra 1.39: Or by meditation as desired; Full accessibility
Week 2: 1.40 Fruits of meditation; Journeying on the path
Week 3: 1.41 Oneness of chitta with object; Understanding absorption
Week 4: 1.42 Savitarka Samadhi; Necessary first stage
SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY SATSANG W. ABHA
The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 1
This month we unpack more of the conversation between Krishna and Arjun that is about to begin. The real Gita is just about to begin!
Week 1: Gita Chapter 1 Verse 32-33: Attachment 1
Week 2: Gita Chapter 1 Verse 34-35: Attachment 2
Week 3: Gita Chapter 1 Verse 36-37: Violence
Week 4: Gita Chapter 1 Verse 38-39: Greed
MONTHLY RESTORATIVE SOUND SESSIONS W. MANOJ
60 Minutes of Sound: The Yamas
A restorative blend of mantra, sound, meditation, & supportive asana.
MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH W. MELISSA
Pranayama for Focusing the Mind
In this month’s pranayama class, we will explore practices that help focus the mind. You will be guided through two types of nostril breathing practices that will encourage the whole body to be in the present moment.
MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST W. TEJAL
Examining Wellness Culture: Back to Basics
Luxurious rest supported by excerpts from BIPOC authors.
Sound like just what you need? Bring pillows, blankets, a chair, or rest in bed.
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH HARPINDER
Being With What Is
We often find ourselves in resistance to reality - whether that’s unexpected or unwanted change, news, or something else. What would it look like to expand your awareness with gentle presence to be with what is? To move from resistance to acceptance?
In this series, we will awaken from the trance of virtual reality, from being lost in thoughts, to relaxing more fully into the spaciousness of now. Into the aliveness that is the present moment.
This will also include a look into the practice and niyama of ishvara pranidhana.
Weekly: Being With What Is
BIPOC CENTERED MEDITATION WITH INDIE
Collective Care & So Hum
We are all part of a whole universe - experience this with So Hum japa meditation and the words of authors that talk about collective care.
Week 1: So Hum & Bell Hooks
Week 2: So Hum & adrienne maree brown
Week 3: So Hum & Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Week 4: So Hum & Michelle Cassandra Johnson
PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Transitioning from Pitta to Vata Season
Autumn is characterized by qualities shared by Vata Dosha - dry, rough, windy, erratic, cool, subtle, and clear. Because like increases and opposites balance, this month we will be exploring pranayama techniques to balance Vata Dosha.
Week 1: Vishama Vritti Pranayama
Week 2: Viloma Pranayama on the Exhales
Week 3: Ujayii Pranayama with Full Yogic Breath
Week 4: Bhramari Pranayama
GO BEYOND THE ASANAS WITH NIRJA
Let’s Find Our Balance
As the season starts to change, we often notice our mental and physical balance is off – our natural equilibrium. Let’s work on our balance this month and learn the stories behind each of the asanas! Please feel free to position your mat towards a wall or chair for additional stability.
Week 1: viparita virabhadrasana: peaceful warrior
Week 2: Garudasana: Eagle pose
Week 3: Ardha Baddha Padmottanasana: half lotus standing forward fold
Week 4: Natarajasana: Dancers Pose
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH RABIA
Reconnecting with Rest
Throughout this month we will be exploring rest through the breath, body and mind. Each week we will move through different ways of resting as well as reestablishing our relationship with rest.
Week 1: Resting with the breath
Week 2: Exploring rest through movement
Week 3: Finding rest in the present moment
Week 4: Reestablishing our connection to rest
SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Deepening Personal Practices
Deepening personal practices for overcoming obstacles to concentration
Week 1: Sutra 1.35: Observing sense experience; Using sight and feel
Week 2: Sutra 1.36: By inner illumination; Eyebrow centering practices
Week 3: Sutra 1.37: Detachment from matter; Keeping Adiyogi in mind
Week 4: Sutra 1.38: By knowledge of dream and sleep; Relaxation Asanas
SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
Meditations From the Yoga Sutras on Mind & Breath: Yoga Sutras 1:32-1:40
Continuing to investigate ways to help build a tranquil mind and regularity in our breath.
Week 1: Or by depending on insights from an ecstatic state or by the experience of deep sleep
Week 2: Or by meditating on the longing of the heart
Week 3: For one whose mind is clear, mastery extending from the most minute particle to the largest expanse
Week 4: Integration week
MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY, WITH TEJAL
Deepening Personal Practices
Deepening personal practices for overcoming obstacles to concentration
Week 1: Sutra 1.34 iii: Or by controlling prana; Practicing Harmony
Week 2: Sutra 1.35 iv: Or by observing sense experience; Using sight and sound
Week 3: Sutra 1.36 v: Or by inner illumination; Eyebrow centering practices
Week 4: Sutra 1.37: detachment from matter; Keeping Adiyogi in mind
Week 5: Sutra 1.38: vii Or by knowledge of dream and sleep; Bhoochari Mudra
SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH ABHA
The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 1
This month’s Satsang revolves around human aspects of injustice, compassion, and family, weaving neuroscience and Bhagavad Gita shloka.
Week 1: Shloka 1.21-1.22 - Confidence
Week 2: Shlokas 1.23-1.24 - Injustice
Week 3: Shloka 1.25-1.26 - Familial connection
Week 4: Shloka 1.27 - Compassion
Week 5: Shloka 1.28-1.31 - Confusion
SUMMER SOUND SESSIONS WITH MANOJ
The Voice & The Breath
Exploring longer mantras, combining breath & voice.
Week 1: Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudeva
Week 2: Lokah
Week 3: Maha
Week 4: Sound bath/nidra
MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MEISSA
Pranayama for Settling
In preparation for Autumn, we will focus on breathing practices that help settle nervous and scattered energy
You will be guided through gentle breath retention and sound to lengthen breath
Students say: "I was resisting practicing on my own but I knew I could do it with the support of the incredible Tejal yoga community."
MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Inviting Rest and Centering Connection to Self
Luxurious rest supported by excerpts from BIPOC authors.
Students say: “It felt nourishing for me to be in affinity with other folks of color, especially as we were prioritizing rest collectively.” and “This class was so great. I was surprised by the emotions and subtle energies that rose to the surface.”
Sound like just what you need? Bring pillows, blankets, a chair, or rest in bed.
Can't wait, let's go!
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH HARPINDER
Devotion to Om: Chanting the mantra AUM
This month we will be chanting the mantra AUM as a way to fix our mind on Ishvara, bring about calmness of mind, and realize our innate divinity.
Weekly: Chanting Aum
BIPOC CENTERED MEDITATION WITH INDIE
The Space To Be in the Present
Using our time together to be absolutely present in the moment, to notice what is going on there and then without judgment, with plenty of space for silence to be able to listen within.
Week 1: Presence now: Stop, take a breath, listen, listen some more. Notice the now. Not yesterday or tomorrow. Now.
Week 2: Present in the Body: What does the body feel like now? What are you aware of now?
Week 3: Present in the Mind: What is there in the mind now? How does it talk to you?
Week 4 (guest teacher): Present with Breath: Notice the breath without changing it. What does it feel like? How does it change? What does it reflect?
Week 5 (guest teacher): Present with Community: We’re here together now, what are you aware of? What can you feel? What is the reality for us practicing in community like this? What threads of connection are there?
PRANAYAMA & BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Unpacking the Progression to Pratyahara
Pratyahara means to withdraw the senses and is a natural progression after pranayama. This month we will unpack how to start incorporating Pratyahara into and after your pranayama practice to lead towards meditation.
Week 1: Sitting in the stillness of breath
Week 2: Bhramari pranayama and shanmukhi mudra
Week 3: Bhramari pranayama and yoni mudra
Week 4: Shambhavi mudra with pranayama
Week 5: Shambhavi mudra with pranayama, continued
GO BEYOND THE ASANAS WITH NIRJA
Poses of the Yogi
Simply put, yogis embody the world. Using their bodies as tools, yogis put themselves into certain positions in order to understand the workings of the world around them. By doing so, they gain chitta prasadanam which is an elevated state of mind. Let us discover the poses of the yogi this month!
Week 1: Padmasana - lotus pose
Week 2: Chakrasana - wheel pose
Week 3: Trikonasana - triangle pose
Week 4: Anjali and Namaste mudras
Week 5: Dandasana - staff pose
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH RABIA
Meditation Through the Senses
This month we’ll move through practice by exploring the senses. Each week we’ll explore a different sense to ground through and connect with the present moment.
Week 1: Visual
Week 2: Auditory
Week 3: Gustatory
Week 4: Olfactory
Week 5: Tactile
SLOW POSES & PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Understanding Chittaviksepah: Obstacles on the Path
Deeper understanding of the obstacles on the path to peacefulness.
Week 1: Sutra 1.30 - Obstacles in the path of yoga; Acceptance of doubt
Week 2: Sutra 1.31 - Other obstructions; Developing awareness of obstacles
Week 3: Sutra 1.32 - Removal of obstacles by one-pointedness; Understanding ekatattvabhyasa
Week 4: Sutra 1.33 - Or by cultivating opposite virtues; Practicing with opposition
Week 5: Sutra 1.34 - Or by controlling prana; Practicing harmony
SUN SALUTATIONS & MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
Meditations from the yoga sutras on mind and breath: Yoga Sutras 1:32-1:40
Building on last month's look at sutra 1.33, we will investigate ways to help build a tranquil mind and regularity in our breath.
Week 1: Dispersion is prevented by the practice of focusing on one truth
Week 2: Or from attention to the outward and inward flow of breath
Week 3: Or from the steady attention to subtler levels of sensation
Week 4: Or by experiencing inner radiance free from sorrow
Week 5: Or by turning to those things which do not create attachment
MEDITATION: ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Understanding Chittaviksepah: Obstacles on the Path
Deeper understanding of the obstacles on the path to peacefulness.
Week 1: Sutra 1.30 - Obstacles in the path of yoga; Acceptance of doubt
Week 2: Sutra 1.31 - Other obstructions; Developing awareness of obstacles
Week 3: Sutra 1.32 - Removal of obstacles by one-pointedness; Understanding ekatattvabhyasa
Week 4: Sutra 1.33 - Or by cultivating opposite virtues; Practicing with opposition
SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH ABHA
The Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 1
This month we continue delving into Chapter 1 of the Bhagavad Gita. We will discuss themes of calmness and courage.
Week 1: Shlokas 1.14 and 1.15 - Prosperity
Week 2: Shlokas 1.16, 1.17 and 1.18 - Warrior mindset
Week 3: Shloka 1.19 - Right decision when in power
Week 4: Shloka 1.20 - Hanuman’s lesson
SUMMER SOUND SESSIONS WITH MANOJ
The Breath
As we approach the warmest weeks of the year and our pitta is high, pranayama and mantra are excellent ways to bring the temperature down; to self soothe. We will explore and practice specific techniques as a community.
Week 1 (guest teacher): Sitali/Sitkari Pranayama
Week 2: So Hum
Week 3: Nadi Shodhana
Week 4 (guest teacher): Chandra Bhedana
MONTHLY PRANAYAMA & BREATH WITH MELISSA
Exhale-Focused Breath
In this August’s pranayama class, Melissa will guide you through exhale focused breath practices that soothe excess heat and tension in the mind.
You will be invited to reflect on ways you may be putting a lot of pressure on yourself, and how to tap into the breath to be more gentle on your whole system.
Students say: "I was resisting practicing on my own but I knew I could do it with the support of the incredible Tejal yoga community."
MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Rest to Support States of Calm, Cool, Centered
Luxurious rest supported by excerpts from BIPOC authors.
Students are saying: “It felt nourishing for me to be in affinity with other folks of color, especially as we were prioritizing rest collectively.” and “This class was so great. I was surprised by the emotions and subtle energies that rose to the surface.”
Sound like just what you need? Bring pillows, blankets, a chair, or rest in bed.
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH HARPINDER
Surrendering into Spaciousness: a series for tapping into our innate stillness and silence where there is peace.
Yogaś-citta-vr̥tti-nirodhaḥ - Sutra 1.2 that translates to yoga is the restraint of the activities of the mind.
In this series, we will explore what it means to restrain the activities of our mind and to access the space between our breaths, our thoughts, and words. This space where there is peace.
Week 1: Understanding Sutra 1.2
Week 2: Tapping into innate stillness and silence
Week 3: Surrendering to the space within
Week 4: Understanding the concept of Purusha or pure consciousness
BIPOC MEDITATION WITH INDIE
Big Magic: Creativity & Courage
We’re all creative beings, in different ways. Let’s take a look at how we bring it to life and move beyond the feelings and beliefs that keep us stuck.
Week 1: Creativity in the Body: How ideas feel in the body, how stuck-ness and fear can manifest here.
Week 2: Creativity in the Mind: Is there where it all starts? Is this where it all makes sense?
Week 3: Creativity and breath: Cleanse and inspire with Kapalabhati and Nadi Shodhana
Week 4: Creativity and community: How others interact with our ideas, art and more. What can we give?
PRANAYAMA AND BREATH CONTROL WITH MEERA
Pranayama for Moments of Dysregulation
Certain pranayama techniques are safe and effective to add in your life during moments of dysregulation. Whether you get nervous during flight and car rides, stressful meetings, or social events, this month we will focus on how you can safely bring breath regulation during moments you most need them.
Week 1: Breath Awareness with Full Yogic Breath
Week 2: Sama & Vishama-Vritti Pranayama with Full Yogic Breath
Week 3: Ujjayi Pranayama with Full Yogic Breath
Week 4: Ujjayi Pranayama with Full Yogic Breath
GO BEYOND THE ASANAS WITH NIRJA
Five Elements or Pancha Mahabhoota
According to yogic philosophy, we are all made of five elements and these five elements follow an order: Space, Air, Fire, Water and Earth. This July, let us discover these elements and their related Asanas and stories.
Week 1: Space and Air
Week 2: Fire
Week 3: Water
Week 4: Earth
ALL BEINGS MEDITATION WITH RABIA
All About Pitta
This month the invitation is to sit with and understand the many ways the Ayurvedic dosha Pitta is manifesting in your mind, body and breath. How can we tap into the energy of Pitta to serve our purpose?
Week 1: Noticing, Acknowledging and Accepting the Presence of Pitta
Week 2: Pacifying Pitta Through Pranayama
Week 3: Identifying Purpose and Passion
Week 4: Tapping into Pitta to Serve our Purpose
MEDITATION ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Ishvara Pranidhana Sadhana | Superior Spiritual Consciousness Devotion and Realization
Learning practices to obtain higher intelligence and keenness of mind.
Week 1: Sutra 1.26 Ishwara is the Jagatguru | Learning parts of the whole
Week 2: Sutra 1.27 Pranava is verily Ishwara | Practice for Deep Listening
Week 3: Sutra 1.28 Sadhana for Ishwara | Preparation for complete connection
Week 4: Sutra 1.29 Result of this sadhana | Checking in with Self
SUN SALUTATIONS AND MEDITATION WITH MANOJ
The 4 Brahma Viharas
In the yoga sutras of patanjali, there are 4 brahma viharas, sublime attitudes to cultivate which speaks to the heart of yoga in the community. Building a clear and tranquil mind is key to building a life in society away from our mats, which is fulfilling and one of service.
Week 1: Friendliness towards those who are unhappy
Week 2: Compassion to those who suffer
Week 3: Joy towards the virtuous
Week 4: Impartiality toward wrong-doers
MEDITATION ON PHILOSOPHY WITH TEJAL
Ishvara Pranidhana Sadhana | Superior Spiritual Consciousness Devotion and Realization
Learning practices to obtain higher intelligence and keenness of mind.
Week 1: Sutra 1.26 Ishwara is the Jagatguru | Learning parts of the whole
Week 2: Sutra 1.27 Pranava is verily Ishwara | Practice for Deep Listening
Week 3: Sutra 1.28 Sadhana for Ishwara | Preparation for complete connection
Week 4: Sutra 1.29 Result of this sadhana | Checking in with Self
SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY SATSANG WITH ABHA
Bhagavad Gita: Exploring discussions on fear, anxiety, and ego
This month we are going through shloka 4-10 and go through discussion of fear, anxiety and ego.
Week 1: Bhagavad Gita Shloka 4-6
Week 2: Bhagavad Gita Shloka 7
Week 3: Bhagavad Gita Shloka 8
Week 4: Bhagavad Gita Shloka 9
Week 5: Bhagavad Gita Shloka 10
SUMMER SOUND SESSIONS WITH MANOJ
The Sounds of Om
During the first month of practice, we will be connecting to the sound and vibrations of our own voice, as we meet with one another from across the world. By blending mantra and sound together, we will be able to create a feeling of inner harmony, through the use of popular and simple one line mantras used in devotional and yoga practice. Using om as our anchor and the fundamental sound for all of our mantra.
Week 1: The three sounds of Om - Starting our series in the very beginning with the primordial sound of creation, Om. We will break down this sound in 3 parts and complete practice with the accompaniment of harmonium to enhance the feeling of wholeness and unity that this sound provides.

Week 2: Om shanti
Week 3: Om Namah Shivaya
Week 4: Om namo narayana
Week 5: Om gam ganapataye namaha
MONTHLY PRANAYAMA WITH MELISSA
Pranayama for Moving Through Anger
In this month’s pranayama class, Melissa will guide through pranayama tools that cool down the system, particularly when you are moving through anger. Through gentle movement and breath, you will be guided through practices that allow you to move through the sharp, heating, quickness of anger without letting it overcome you.
MONTHLY BIPOC CENTERED REST WITH TEJAL
Practices for Living in Uncertainty
Luxurious rest practice supported by readings from "Love & Rage" by Lama Rod Owens

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JULY 2026 - Wisdom & Storytelling

JUNE 2026 - Pitta & Body-Neutrality

MAY 2026 - Elements & Attention

APRIL 2026 - Both/And

MARCH 2026 - Energy & Rest

FEBRUARY 2026 - Centering Community

JANUARY 2026 - Back to Basics

DECEMBER 2025 - Endings & Beginnings

NOVEMBER 2025 - Karma & Embodiment

OCTOBER 2025 - Satsang & Support

SEPTEMBER 2025 - Bhakti & The Cosmos

AUGUST 2025 - Yoga for Now

JULY 2025 - Art & Exploration

JUNE 2025 - Slowness & Solidarity

MAY 2025 - Rest & Regulation

APRIL 2025 - Growth & Truth

MARCH 2025 - Ahimsa & Release

FEBRUARY 2025 - Stillness & Noticing

JANUARY 2025 - Presence & Slowness

DECEMBER 2024 - Rest & Restore

NOVEMBER 2024 - Grounding & Connection

OCTOBER 2024 - Inner Quiet, Inner Child

SEPTEMBER 2024 - Sensuality & Breath

AUGUST 2024 - Liberation & Resistance

JULY 2024 - Precious Presence

JUNE 2024 - Radical Pride

MAY 2024 - Mental Health & Self Acceptance

APRIL 2024 - Expression & Connection

MARCH 2024 - Here & Now

FEBRUARY 2024 - Allyship & Depth

JANUARY 2024 - Solidarity & Clarity

DECEMBER 2023 - Compassion & Support

NOVEMBER 2023 - Deep Listening & Solidarity

OCTOBER 2023 - Focus & Impermanence

SEPTEMBER 2023 - Shift & Balance

AUGUST 2023 - Calm & Presence

JULY 2023 - Ease & Courage

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