Indigo Yoga Studio

This Friday night! Restore: Breathing Into Relaxation w/ Michele Gunnett

Friday, June 14th
7:00-8:30pm
Indigo Membership, class pass or $28 drop-in

Join Michele for a relaxing evening of passive healing. Together we will “restore” the body by tuning into the parasympathetic nervous system.

We will begin the evening with some light movement, vagal exercises, and breath work and ease into some restorative shapes. which helps the body rest, heal, and restore balance.

We still have a few spots left in Inez’s Sound Healing class tonight! 7pm 😍🎊

🎉Pilates Open House 🎉 If you or someone you know is interested in trying Pilates, be sure to come to our Pike & Plank Pilates Studio Open House!! We are hosting free 30-min Reformer Demo classes to give you a sample of a Reformer class & we'll have special promotions happening that day too! So stop by and check our Pilates studio out!

Saturday, June 29th!
Free classes are 11:15am, 12noon, 12:45pm & 1:15pm.

Reserve your spot online - space is limited and these classes fill up quickly! 💛 www.pikeandplank.com

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It’s Not the overall amount of time that we devote in practicing yoga and meditation that necessarily matters.

It’s the presence in which we attend to it when we do. I find this to be true for my own personal experience.

Perhaps you have to?

So don’t be afraid that you only have X amount of time to spend on it. If you have only 5 minutes be with yourself completely…. Whatever yoga shape, breathing exercises or sitting that you do.

If we let go of how we think it needs to look like, we may just find that we are not just doing our practices, but embodying them.

California friends be on the look out for a workshop coming soon at one of my favorite yoga studios.

Save the date💫 July 31st 7:30-8:45PM

Reserve your spot here ⬇️ 
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=20638&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000266&date=07/31/24

Indigo Yoga Studio
Embodied Connection; Practice & Workshop with Mellara

📸 Mali's Art taken at https://myindigoyoga.com last year!

We're excited to share this awesome fundraising event for a local cause right here in our community! Founded in 2012, The Sisterhood of Sobriety sought to fill several needs. The first and most obvious was the need for sober housing, exclusively for women. Next, it was to show women and mothers how to rebuild their lives, which had become centered around alcohol and drugs. Finally, the Sisterhood sought to help them find new purpose and meaning that could sustain them into a future without drugs and alcohol.

We are happy to host this fundraising event on Sunday, June 2nd! There'll be delicious food and giveaways as well as an opportunity to hear how your donation supports women. The ticket purchase is tax deductible! We hope you'll grab a friend and come join us!

Tickets can be purchased on The Sisterhood for Sobriety website (the link will be in the comments below). ✨

We've got a new class on Mondays! Kundalini Yoga + Yoga Nidra with Sosie @ 4:30pm! Each week, Sosie will lead you through a beautiful Yoga Nidra practice at the end of the Kundalini. 💜✨ Come experience this awesome class!

Mother’s Day jewelry sale starts today! 💐

Intuitive Writing Workshop! This Sunday! And it's included with your Indigo membership / class pass 🎉

Learn how to become more courageous, conscious, and creative — even if you don't have experience writing.

This workshop is perfect for anyone who enjoys or is curious about writing, self-expression, and self-discovery, interested in building confidence and clarity in their voice, nourishing emotional and spiritual health, and discovering connection, growth, and insight.

Each writer gets an intimate experience, knowing their stories offer value, connection, and freedom to be more of their true selves and encourage others to feel the same.

What is Intuitive Writing?
It is a relaxed writing practice where we use poetry as writing prompts and write for 15 minutes at a time. We write continuously to get past the perfectionist and the part of our mind that likes to do things well.

Intuitive Writing is a healing and transformative practice where we learn to create beautiful, spontaneous, innate, more honest, and less perfect writing without editing or judgment.

It is a safe space where we learn to listen to what's within with an open and curious mind and heart and practice sharing from the sincere place, opening the channels for connection—letting us feel less alone and fostering a sense of belonging.

What You'll Learn/Feel/Discover:

Self-care: Learn how intuitive flow writing can be a supportive self-care practice.

Uplifting: Feel supported, empowered, and inspired.

Creativity: Engage with your creative unconscious and unleash the body's wisdom.

Understanding: Feel seen and heard.

Flow: Practice uninterrupted, continuous flow writing without editing, getting beyond your conditioned and critical mind.
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How to prepare for class:
Please bring something to write with. This could be paper, a journal or notebook, and a pen.
Come as you are. Our writing practice is meant to meet us where we are as we are and will support each of us very uniquely.
Please review the Intuitive Writing Guidelines. (Will be emailed to you the week of this workshop)
Create an intention for yourself and our time together.

Sunday, May 5th
2:00-3:30pm
Indigo Membership or class pass ($28 drop-in)
(New student 1-week pass excluded)

This Friday, April 26th! Healing Sound Bath Sacred Journey w/ Tom Collins

Enjoy being in community at Indigo this Friday night with some easy energy-clearing Kundalini yoga exercises, some pranayam energy activation exercises, and Hands of Light Qigong movement before settling into a healing sound bath journey. This will be a very healing & relaxing way to end your week and head into the weekend!

7:00-8:30pm
Included with your membership or Indigo class pass, or $28 class pass

This Friday Night! ✨EFT Tapping for Stress Relief + Relaxing Sound Bath w/ Kim Stevens

Friday, April 19th
7:00-8:30pm
Indigo Membership, class pass or $28 drop-in

Immerse yourself in a restorative evening of EFT (emotional freedom technique) tapping for stress release and self-love, followed by a delicious healing sound bath.

Be nourished by the transformative experience of this healing sound bath, where you'll not only bask in the soothing frequencies and soundscapes but also depart with your own personal elixir of sound bath-supercharged healing water.

Kim Stevens is a holistic licensed therapist, specializing in somatic and mindfulness-based modalities, dance & movement therapy, and trauma healing.

She is also a speaker, teacher, and healer who empowers people to embody the most empowered, harmonious, and fulfilled version of themselves.

Visit her website and watch her TEDx talk on how to feel your feelings here:www.KimStevensTherapy.com

This Friday night!! Sound Healing Rhythms of the Heart w/ Inez

Friday, April 12th
7:00-8:30pm
Indigo Membership, class pass or $28 drop-in

Indigenous energy healer Inez returns with her traditional healing practices!

The rhythm of the Shamanic drum can induce ecstatic trance states which may transport participants into a spiritual dimension of reality and open hidden worlds of consciousness. Inez will gently guide you through this portal.

Come with an open heart and an intention to find your ancestral medicine power. 🔥

Early Bird registration ends today, April 10th, for our 50-hour Prenatal YTT: The Foundations w/ Roxanna Kopp Smith! Don't miss out on this amazing training if you are feeling called to learn more about prenatal yoga and how to work with prenatal students and clients.

Our Yoga Nidra trainees collaborated to create a beautiful Yoga Nidra script read by Destiny Eurkus! Check out this blissful Nidra meditation from the comfort of your home. 💜

Yoga Nidra For Connection Yoga Nidra, rest, pain, self helf, heal, tired, sleep, insomnia, love, chronic pain, illness, dream, integration

Early bird pricing ends in two days!! April 10th.

If you feel called to teach prenatal yoga, please join us!

If you want to know more about the pregnant body and the different trimesters, join us!

If you are a certified yoga teacher and feel inadequately prepared to assist, modify, and collaborate with your pregnant clients then this training is for you!

If you are already a certified prenatal yoga teacher but feel nervous to teach (very common!) join us!

When you become a prenatal yoga teacher, you are supporting people at a very important time in students' lives and your presence is meaningful. It is both an honor and a privilege to work with this population. It is my belief that each of you have a unique gift you bring to your students and this training will help you discover (or fine tune) your exact offering. ~ Roxanna

Link is below in the comments 💜

This Friday, April 5th: Deep Rest & Expansion: Meditation, Yoga Nidra & Gong Sound Bath Healing w/ Sosie Sagherian

We will start with some gentle movement (which can be done seated) and practice a very accessible meditation in the Kundalini tradition that will bring you clarity and focus, clearing the mind. We'll move into a Yoga Nidra to reset the nervous system and provide deep rest. A Gong sound relaxation will follow to allow a beautiful vibrant expansion and close out the evening.

Come join us!

4/5/24
7:00-8:30pm
Included with your Indigo class pass, membership, or $28 drop in!

We have two amazing BREEMA events coming up!

March 29th is an introduction to BREEMA and you'll get a sample of this bodywork in our 90-minute Friday Night Healing Series class that is included with your class pass or membership. Be sure to register in advance to reserve your spot!

On Saturday, April 6th, we are hosting a 4-hour workshop with Alexis and Birthe from the Breema Center in Oakland! This will be an in-depth workshop where we will explore how the nurturing and dynamic movements of Self-Breema exercises and Breema bodywork support the body, mind, and feelings to work together.

Breema relates to the body as a vehicle to enter into the present moment. Through presence, when we experience the innate intelligence and instinctive wisdom of the body, anything we do is Breema and can connect us to our deeper nature.

Birthe Kaarsholm RSMT, CMT is a staff instructor at the Breema Center in Oakland, California where she has taught and practiced Breema since 2000. Alexis Mulhauser, CMT is also an instructor at the Breema Center and has over 20 years of experience studying and teaching movement, including Breema, Yoga, martial arts, and dance.

✨ Check the comments for the direct links! ✨

This week, Paul Bogle returns to lead another fabulous Friday Night Healing Series class:
The Spring Equinox and Equilibrium Energy 🌷✨

Friday, March 22nd
7:00-8:30pm
Indigo Membership, class pass or $28 drop-in

As we approach the Spring Equinox, the day when the northern & southern hemispheres have equal amounts of daylight, we often read and hear about the importance of balance. Equilibrium, however, in a living system such as our human bodyminds doesn't sustain static balance. Rather, we perform a continual "balancing act". In order to grow and evolve, we must move away from maintaining balance.

At the cusp of spring, in this Friday Night Healing class, we work with the various forces within and without, moving from wintery slowing to spring-y quickening, allowing for just enough imbalance to act intentionally and responsively in our lives. Dynamic, continuous balancing and rebalancing is our nature, so let's explore that with our bodyminds in a fun, supportive, gentle way all together.

Paul Bogle is an esteemed astrologer who lives here in the East Bay. He has a beautiful way of helping one to understand what is happening in the celestial realms to harness the energy and use it practically in our daily lives.

Please wear comfortable clothing to move around in. 💜

Spring Equinox Dance Wave with Krystal this Wednesday night 3/20! 🌷🎉✨

Come Dance into Spring with Dance Wave this week! Join Krystal as we flow into New Beginnings, Bloom like Flowers, and Celebrate the Sun to Honor the Equinox! 🩵🌸☀️🌸🩵

Included with your class pass or membership ($28 drop in).

Wednesday, March 20
7:00-8:15pm

Dance Wave is every Wednesday night!

Intuitive Group Reading & Energy Healing w/ Caleb Neeper this Friday night! March 15th @ 7:00-8:30pm

Join Caleb for a night of sweet healing as he will guide the group towards an inner journey with the use of his voice, ability to read energy, and weave a story together. We will drop into a space of letting go of the mainstream day-to-day, as well as shed 'the old stuff' like trauma, wounds, and feelings of lack or unworthiness.

While that clearing is taking place we will also reorient ourselves and tap into our personal power of Spirituality and the spring of abundance that is YOU! And lastly, overall encourage a natural transformation into the ease of Being, promoting deep nourishment of the body and purposeful movement or "action steps" towards your Dreams.

No prior experience is needed. All are welcome. Dress comfortably, bring water if you like, and optional: extra blanket(s), eye pillow.

One important thing to note is that when Caleb reads energy during these group experiences, he doesn’t read individual people but the energy of the group. However, it is just as potent as working individually with someone, the difference being the approach of the reading. Group readings are a powerful way to access the deep divine mystery from within and around us, while also connecting and reaching many people at the same time. Holding space for the group journey while at the same time also allowing the individual person to receive exactly what they need.

What you can expect:

Introduction, share, and grounding meditation
Intuitive Group Reading and Energy Healing
Extended gong shower and integration

We're so excited to announce our new 50-Hour Yoga Teacher Training program that starts in May! Early bird discount ends April 10th!

Indigo’s Prenatal Teacher Training program invites students to utilize the practice of yoga to support pregnant mamas and new parents physically, mentally, and emotionally. By training teachers, it is our hope to grow our community and increase awareness that prenatal yoga can be an integral part of the pregnancy experience.

You will learn how to teach yoga to students in all stages of pregnancy and throughout the early stages of postpartum. We believe this is a sacred time in people's lives and, as their teacher, you have the opportunity to intimately support them across this threshold.

This 50-hour comprehensive prenatal yoga teacher training is for yoga teachers, students with 2 years of practice, midwives, doulas, and other health professionals who have a desire to teach prenatal yoga!

If you know someone who'd be interested in this training, please share! 💜

To learn more & sign up, visit: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=20638&stype=-107&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000238

Friday, March 8th: Restorative Tarot Yoga w/ Jess Jones!
Release the clutter in your mind and body through restorative yoga and tarot. After a nurturing yoga flow, students will rest in savasana while receiving a collective tarot reading based on the energy of the class.

Jess Jones is a gifted intuitive tarot reader who has helped hundreds of students and clients connect with their inner wisdom and knowing. She leads a beautiful class where students can find relaxation and healing in their bodies as well as their spirits.
A yoga mat and journal are encouraged.

March 8th
7:00-8:30pm
Included with your Indigo class pass or membership($28 drop in)

Our Friday Night Healing Series classes are one of our most popular classes as many of you know! We have a different teacher each week leading a class designed to help you relax & restore your nervous system, guide you inward, or teach you something new & inspiring that can be used in your everyday life.

We're excited about our upcoming March classes so be sure to check them out & register in advance on our yoga schedule page to reserve your spot! These classes are included with your yoga pass & Indigo membership, or just do a drop-in class.

✨March 8th: Restorative Tarot Yoga with Jess Jones
✨March 15th: Intuitive Group Reading & Energy Healing with Caleb Neeper
✨March 22nd: Spring Equinox & Equilibrium Energy w/ Astrologer Paul Bogle
✨March 29th: Moving In Harmony With Existence: An Introduction to Breema and the Nine Principles of Harmony w/ Birthe Kaarsholm and Alexis Mulhauser

Join us for this awesome training this Feb! ✨

Join us this Friday Night for a Winter Solstice Kundalini Journey w/ Sosie Sagherian! 🕯

Step into a winter solstice Kundalini journey of movement, meditation, gong relaxation, and journaling. In the glowing candlelight on this longest day of the year, we will begin with gentle movements syncing with your breath, guiding you to inner balance. We'll dive deep into meditation followed by the Healing Vibration of the gong, bringing deep relaxation.

Conclude your journey with reflective journaling, capturing possible newfound insights as we set our sights on the New Year. You'll emerge feeling grounded and empowered, ready to embrace the upcoming new year and its transformative energy!

Friday, Dec 22nd
7:00-8:30pm
Included with all Indigo memberships and class passes!