Raven's Wing Yoga & Love Tribe Center

Freely offered Soul Chill Yoga tonight with guest teacher Chloé Hummel!
6-7:15pm
Begin your weekend off with a grounded, calm and soul chilled vibe❤️

Happy Hump Day.
May your innate beauty medicine be known to you. May you move through your day lightly.
May kindness shine within and throughout.
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9:30a yin yang w Sally
5:30p meditative flow w Rachel
7pm restorative w Janice
A’HO!

Suffering comes when attachment to expectation occurs and abates when succinct events happen to help wake us up.
The Buddha and other wisdom teachers have expressed similarly that taking human form is uniquely structured to give way to insight into awakening-to become increasingly aware of the profound, grotesque beauty life holds and expresses. I’ve often heard stories and perhaps you too or have lived through being entrenched in darkness through pain despair, loneliness, hatred, sickness, to find their way back to see and feel unfolding light relief, love…

Your life is exactly what you need to wake up, with whatever circumstances you’re in.
Or else we may fall into the rhetoric of othering, which can be a divisive tool in rooting delusion. No matter how far off the map we may feel there is someone at sometime in the exact same place that I am - desiring love.

Thank You Girish for traveling to visit and sing with us!
Thank you Mark and Kalia for amplifying the music!
Thank you beloved Kirtan Community for coming out on a summer Tuesday night!
Such a beautiful evening of Bhakti Yoga❤️
And thanks for those who supported the Walsh Dance team🥰 Cookies, tea, and music oh my!!

We are OPEN!
Friday classes:
9:30a Meditative Flow w Sally
12p Community Yoga w Sal

If you cannot access our registration through our site: www.ravenswingyoga.com/schedule/

Simply come in🩵
Cash/check and Venmo will be good to go!

Let’s do old school.
We are OPEN for classes!
Friday:
9:30p Meditative Flow with Sally
12p Community Yoga w Sal

If you cannot register through the site, simply come in. Cash/check/venmo accepted or use your class card.

Schedule Schedule Schedule Monday Deep Gentle Yoga with Sally 10-11:15am livestream Yin Yoga with Liza 5:30-6:45pm livestream READ FULL DESCRIPTIONS Tuesday Soul Chill Yoga with Steph 8:30-9:45am livestream + in studio Deep Gentle Yoga with Sally 5:30-6:45pm livestream Life Recovery Yoga with Sal 7pm in stud...

There must be stillness to manifest focus
There must be focus to allow consciousness
There must be consciousness to notice insight
What is insight?
Our sixth sense, our intuitive hits, our sensing of something that resonates on a deeper level.

Back to stillness. In the dynamics of a pose whether it’s resting or activating, a level of strength is needed. Physical strength, at times yes, strength of awareness, also yes.

So much brews and composts below the surface. So many gems to discover inside. May we all physically or mentally cultivate some stillness
To add
To our life
For pure benefit
For not only ourselves
But to all .

Upcoming!
Tuesday
5:30 Yin Flow w Dana
7pm Life Recovery Yoga

Wednesday
10am Yin Yang Yoga w Sally
5:30p Meditative Flow w Rachel
7pm Restorative Yoga w Janice

Celebrating the Dad’s out there⚡️❤️
June 17-21 morning soul flow yoga challenge begins! 6-7am BEAT THE HEAT☀️
Sign up for the week 💪
Or drop in any day.
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Center, awaken, and clear your mind and body each morning. Yes the practice is physical, stretching, strengthening, elongating and balancing in yoga asanas (poses), but the practice is really what’s going on inside. Much more important than these outer manifestations is the way we feel the postures and the breath.
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If you’d like an experience with your soul self, join us!

☀️happy summer☀️

Happy Weekend!!
Happy Graduation!!
Happy Father's Day Weekend!!
Happy Branford Fest!!
Happy Pride!!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
6/14 No Friday Soul Chill tonight, we will gather NEXT Friday for our Special Full Moon Solstice Yoga with Live Music provided by Neal Fitzpatrick. 6pm Not to Miss!

SATURDAY 6/15
9am Gentle Yoga with Sally
10:30am Meditative Flow with Rachel

**SUNDAY 6/16
8am Yin Yang Yoga with Sally
10am Meditative Flow with Steph
12p Community Yoga with Sam

**please note the Branford Road Race is happening so be strategic about your path to the studio. Coming from the north and west is best. Here's the route map FYI:
https://branfordroadrace.net/course-map

What a gift this class is for me Noon Community Yoga

After 14 years I am so happy to offer the 6am MORNING CHALLENGE ☀️
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My own practice begins by 5:30am most mornings and has proven to be a deep need. Limbering my body mindfully, focusing my mind quietly, regulating my nervous system - all to set me up for greater success in whatever I’m tending to that day.
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Through the week each day will be similar but different. Whether you light a candle and stretch out your mat at home or arrive at the sanctuary of the studio, we will cycle through.:
☀️breath-work
☀️A strong and sweet asana flow
☀️intentional focus
☀️calming integration
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I hope you join us a memorable experience to carry you on into summer -our last day is on the SOLSTICE!!!

Perception: the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses. OR: the state of being our process of becoming aware of something through the senses.
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it can get a little loud in there . I’ve got to calm my nerves, regulate my breathing, feel the earth present.
Inhale hold, let it go.
Change. From chasing to pausing.
From running, fretting, stressing, worry, tired, navigating all these demands to…
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inhale pause exhale blow it out .
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What am I grieving?
Where in my life is ripe to detach?
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Om Tryambakam Yajamahe Sugandhim Pishtivardhanam
Urvarukamiva Bhandhanan Mrithyor Mukshiya Mamritat
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O the Lord with Three eyes (God Shiva), I bow to you, who bestows us prosperity and nourishes us
Just like ripe fruit, which falls easily from the tree. Just like that, free me from death and give me liberation but not immortality from divine nectar Amrita.
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What is ready to abandon?
What no longer serves?
What obstacle is in my way?
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Perception. What am I aware of that causes suffering? That facilitates growth❤️❤️❤️

BIG GRATITUDE for all the love, participation, and inspiration from our benefit class and our studio Satsang!
We are a crazy group with lots of heart❤️

Restorative Yoga with Janice is BACK!
Wednesdays 7-8:15pm beginning summertime June 26☀️

Restorative Yoga utilizes different props such as blankets, bolsters, blocks and straps to completely support the body without strain or pain. This support allows the body to release tension gently to achieve physical, mental and emotional relaxation.

Restorative yoga classes are very relaxing and slow paced. The yoga poses are held for an extended period of time helping to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system helping to reduce stress. The parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for slowing your heart rate and breath and increasing blood flow to your vital organs, among other things.

This practice is great for those that benefit from a less vigorous, movement based practice; or to balance an active yoga schedule or to simply give yourself a break!

A little snippet of memories!! More photos😍
Because of MANY Raven's Wing Yoga happened. My Native Gram telling me to keep going with my yoga studies because wisdom from many traditions is to be shared and celebrated. Yoganand, a teacher, mentor and friend for so many years told me do it when your young as you'll need lots of energy!! To Aaron my hubby telling me to go for it. And so many others that illuminated the path - past, present and future. Generations of spiritual teaching offers me so much hope, even when things get very dark.

We've held countless classes, teacher trainings, workshops, kirtans, even festivals!! I have been blessed by amazing humans that have both wanted to practice with me and who have wanted to teach with me and offer this light to our community.

Humbling this path is, but I trust all is unfolding beautifully - gently and intensely depending on the day.

20 years and so very grateful❤️

Slide 1 first promo card 2004
2- Sudha &
3- Sally in the newest space 2021
4- Victor❤️, Rudy, Yoganand &Powerful Mike
5- ❤️ RIP & Mira 2010
6- Apres kids yoga karma clean up
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8 -
9- kids yoga
10- The Hanumen:

So many memories to reflect and have smiles over. So grateful to the many who have supported the practice, the space, the teachers, myself - words do not suffice. From the days of the recipe box full of cards, to now our 4th studio space on South Main St. success is measured by all my relations and RWY existence, for as long as we are around people still want to delve into meditative yoga! PLUS enjoy spirited community events and music, and show up as their most authentic selves, to put in the work from darkness to light. My it be so. ❤️

Full moons represent culminations. They correspond to revelations, heightened energy, or insight. When we come into intentional practice, we have the opportunity to quiet the chatter and go within.

This may be a time to connect with our intuition, ground ourselves, or welcome manifestation. This Full moon practice will be a Soul Chill Flow - enhancing our energy and strength, balanced with ample space to rest and meditate.

Drop ins welcome! Or use your RW class card🌕

Saucha is the first of the 5 niyamas (observations) in yoga. It’s described as cleanliness, clearing away things that no longer have a place, both in body and mind.

right now is a perfect time to practice saucha as we wrap up spring and plunge into summer.

Join Halley Gradus for this four week vasa series design to spring clean. We will practice various tools of yoga, such as pranayama, tapas, and meditation.

Register and save! Early bird pricing ends May 29. Link in bio☀️

We are here for you and your mind-body workout. Whether you need powering down or uplifting chi, or perhaps both, stop in🌊
Friday
9:30a meditative flow
12p open community
6p soul chill

Saturday
9a deep gentle
10:30a yin yang

Sunday
10a meditative flow
12p open community

Monday
8a deep gentle
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A deep bow of remembrance to those who have sacrificed, served and mourned. Offering heartfelt space.

Mother’s Day Love and Blessings (a day late bc I’m a mom too and it was busy lol)
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May the divine Ma be celebrated and all who nurture life .
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May the goddess be known within.
Gentle enough to raise energy and be known .
Fierce enough to evoke change when needed .
Steady enough to mirror reality and pour love.

New Class for May🌷
TONIGHT
Wednesdays 7-8:15pm
Yin Flow
w Sally
Relaxation station with a bit of energy to stretch, breathe deeper and let go.