Soul & Steady live at Madhura Studios
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This class is held bi-monthly. Please check the schedule before sign up.
Sat, Dec 14, 10am-11:30am - fundraiser class to benefit Exhale to Inhale
PRACTITIONER: Kate Kuss
DESCRIPTION:
Power, classical hatha, yin, yoga philosophy and meditation all in one place. Join Kate Kuss live where you’ll be guided in your body, energy, mind, heart and soul. You’ll leave the class feeling inspired and ready for your next step in life.
Sound Meditation
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Wed, Oct 16, 6:30pm-7:30pm SIGN UP LINK
Wed, Nov 13, 6:30pm-7:30pm SIGN UP LINK
Weds, Dec 11, 6:30pm-7:30pm SIGN UP LINK
PRACTITIONER: Franck Raharinosy and Margot Langman
DESCRIPTION:
SOUND IS THE EASIEST FORM OF MEDITATION BECAUSE ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS FOLLOW THE SOUND.
Join Franck Raharinosy and Margot Langman for an evening seance of sound: starting with a series of light, gentle movements and a deep breathing exercise to relax your body and mind, the experience then proceeds to offer a deep meditation through sound that unlocks unique states of relaxation and mindfulness.
With the Sound Meditation at the core of our practice the main benefits of this work include reduction of tension and stress, increased ability to manage anxiety and depression, to recognize and release undesirable thought patterns and habits, improvement in sleep, increased self-awareness and an enhanced ability to listen, be present and reconnect with your heart.
About Margot Langman
Margot Langman is a dedicated student and instructor of yoga asana and philosophy, a Reiki and sound healing practitioner, and a multi-media visual artist from New York City. She is dedicated to crafting healing experiences that transcend barriers of identity and return us to the divine wisdom of Mother Earth. Her work is centered in the teachings of Karma Yoga, “the yoga of action”, focused on making holistic healthcare and healing accessible and Bhakti Yoga “the yoga of devotional love”, bringing heart-centered practices like mantra chanting and vocalisation into the space.
Wed, Oct 16, 6:30pm-7:30pm SIGN UP LINK
Wed, Nov 13, 6:30pm-7:30pm SIGN UP LINK
Weds, Dec 11, 6:30pm-7:30pm SIGN UP LINK
Flow for Flow
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Oct 19, 12:30pm-2:30pm SIGN UP LINK
Oct 26, 12:30pm-2:30pm SIGN UP LINK
Nov 2, 12:30pm-2:30pm SIGN UP LINK
Nov 9, 12:30pm-2:30pm SIGN UP LINK
PRACTITIONER: Abigail Stevenson
DESCRIPTION:
Life is an active, rhythmic, and happening thing, and although life feels chaotic a lot of the time, a good frame, technique, or pattern to reference can bring us back to center.
True agency lies in knowing and understanding the relationship between nature’s universal cycles and our personal patterns.
As womxn, we function on a lunar cycle, and are constantly in dialogue with the moon’s ever- shifting positions. Whether you’re struggling with PCOS, thyroid issues, PMS, you’re on the pill, getting off the pill, or hell, your period is perfect, understanding the frame of the lunar cycle can be incredibly empowering, and can allow us to see ourselves both personally and part of a larger universal cycle.
In this 4-week series, we’ll utilize the natural rhythms of the moon and explore how each phase corresponds to our menstrual cycle. Together, we can start to navigate our bodies’ transitions without resistance, reclaiming a sense of flow, and learn to embrace our lunacy.
Expect about 10-20 minutes of discussion and journaling per session, 1 hourish of practice (flow,restorative, and breathwork).
1. Week 1: Ovulatory Phase (Full Moon)
2. Week 2: Luteal Phase (Waning Moon)
3. Week 3: Menstrual Phase (New Moon)
4. Week 4: Follicular Phase (Waxing Moon)
SIGN UP HERE
Oct 19, 12:30pm-2:30pm SIGN UP LINK
Oct 26, 12:30pm-2:30pm SIGN UP LINK
Nov 2, 12:30pm-2:30pm SIGN UP LINK
Nov 9, 12:30pm-2:30pm SIGN UP LINK
Yuja Soul: Yoga for Black Women
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Friday, Oct 25, 6:30pm-8:30pm: ‘REMEMBERING’ - SIGN UP HERE
Friday, Nov 8, 6:30pm-8:30pm: ‘SOFT LANDING’ - SIGN UP HERE
Friday, Dec 13, 6:30pm-8:30pm: ‘WILDEST DREAMS’ - SIGN UP HERE
PRACTITIONER: Tonie Warner
DESCRIPTION:
‘Remembering’ Workshop - Friday, Oct 25, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Consider the gaze you turn inward: How do you see yourself?
What aspects of your being are you eager to connect with more deeply?
October’s Yuja Soul workshop is focused on accessing the energies of the back body—drawing from past events, ancestral wisdom, and the deep knowledge that resides within us to reconnect with our innate power.
The challenges we face on both individual and collective journeys are continuous invitations to remember who we truly are, and meet ourselves with grace. This dedicated space is an opportunity to reconnect with ourselves through a lens of clarity and self-compassion, using movement, breath, and grounding practices to access the parts of ourselves that have always been there.
This workshop will incorporate mindfulness journaling and visualization, followed by somatic experiencing and movement. Our yoga asana practice will focus on strengthening the physicality and energetics backline of the body and shoulder complex to support a gentle progression to backbends and opening to deeper self-expansion. We'll close with restorative postures, a body scan, and a final rest to integrate the experience.
This dedicated, brave and tender space for all Black Women is open to all practice levels.
Please bring a journal and pen. Mats and props will be provided to support your practice and rest.
The pricing options to join are self-determined based on where you see yourself reflected. To join this dedicated space, select one of the tiers available (community, standard or supporter) that best suits you.
‘Soft Landing’ Workshop - Friday Nov 8, 6:30pm-8:30pm
A movement and self-inquiry workshop for all Black Women, for all practice levels.
Election season has been a whirlwind of information to process, pulls to leadership, choice, and dreaming for ourselves and the broader collective.
Welcome to a soft landing for ease, restoration, processing and community, especially for Black Women and Femmes who historically are called to the forefronts and foundations of liberation movements.
This workshop is designed to help restore and nourish your body and heart through journaling, Somatics, Yoga Asana to support grounding and centering, and rest in Yoga Nidra, while held by themes of community, belonging, and care.
Open to all practice levels and hearts, this offering invites everyone to find solace and connection.
This dedicated, brave and tender space for all Black Women is open to all practice levels.
Please bring a journal and pen. Mats and props will be provided to support your practice and rest.
The pricing options to join are self-determined based on where you see yourself reflected. To join this dedicated space, select one of the tiers available (community, standard or supporter) that best suits you.
‘Wildest Dreams’ Workshop - Friday Dec 13, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Welcome to your space to pause, reflect and be with the abundance you are seeking. And welcome to the lunation of 2024’s last Full Moon. This annual December Yoga for Black Women Workshop invites us to add clarity to the abundance we are seeking, and in turn see what our hopes are asking us to release. This workshop's invitation to manifestation will be supported by the Yoga Philosophy of Advaita Vedanta, non-duality.
This offering consists of Somatic Experiencing, journaling and Yoga Asana focused on a gentle build to backbends before winding down to rest. The revolved and releasing postures of twists will provide the reset from backbends before winding down to rest in a Yoga Nidra.
This workshop is open to all Black Women at all practice levels. Please bring a journal and pen. Mats and props will be provided to support your practice and rest.
The pricing options to join are self-determined based on where you see yourself reflected. To join this dedicated space, select one of the tiers available (community, standard or supporter) that best suits you.
This dedicated, brave and tender space for all Black Women is open to all practice levels.
All workshops take place in-person at Madhura Studios
Tiered pricing: $20 | $25 | $30 per person. Mats and props provided.
Non-refundable. Must be 18 years or older to participate.
Friday, Oct 25, 6:30pm-8:30pm: ‘REMEMBERING’ - SIGN UP HERE
Friday, Nov 8, 6:30pm-8:30pm: ‘SOFT LANDING’ - SIGN UP HERE
Friday, Dec 13, 6:30pm-8:30pm: ‘WILDEST DREAMS’ - SIGN UP HERE
Visioning For Your Life
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Saturday, Dec 7th, 12pm-2pm SIGN UP HERE
DESCRIPTION:
VISIONING FOR YOUR LIFE (A Vision Board Workshop)
This workshop is for those who want to know what direction to take in their lives. Essentially, wanting to have a refined intuition. In yoga, "Pratiba" means divine intuition which develops by refining your consciousness. So you are in tune with frequencies. Through active meditative creative process we elevate the senses, mind and intellect to a higher state to get in touch with unlimited possibilities, rather than whatever constraint and limited beliefs hold.
Mindful movement and vocalization to move the energies
Manifestation meditation & Breath-work to open the creative mind
Sharing Circle; Dharma and how it relates to our reality
Vision Board Creation
How to read the hidden messages in VB
What to Prepare:
Collect images, pictures, words that inspire you
A Foam board, scissor and a tape
Start dreaming (dream your future)
** Do not put anything on your board till we meet and bring more than you need incl magazines if available to share
Dance Chakra Alignment
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Thursday, November 7th, 6:30pm-8pm SIGN UP HERE
PRACTITIONER: Mona Esser
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Let’s move through the dark, delicious and abundant depths of scorpio season!!!
Time to entertain your shadow and replace fear with acceptance.
Join us for our spooky season dance chakra alignment.
Dance into higher frequencies! Eccentric. sensual. gentle. hot. wild. creative.
Shake off all your covers. Leave (self) judgment behind. Unfold the folded: Enter as yourself - purely. Discover the wisdom of your chakra system with the be-shen chakra dance.
Pluto is about to move into Aquarius on November 19th. This is a HUGE AND SUPER TRANSFORMATIVE society and self shifter!!! Our dance will open up the flow to further release the last leftovers that need to go, before moving into a new age. The age of community, unity, hyper genius and change!
We are in an evolutionary portal where we have the chance to
rise up into unknown spheres this life experience gifts us
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connect to the roots of our own self-sovereignty and who we are in all of our being.
This community practice is for us to celebrate our shadow self (Scorpio) and release from all the old and outdated versions of self!
It’s the time to rise up, to dance yourself into self actualized liberation!
During this ceremony we create more space within AND around ourselves. we feel that forward motion is possible through stepping out of what we thought we would be - self expansion in its full glory! We also tune into listening deeper into our temple aka our body, our emotions, our story and let it flow. Truly stepping into inner and outer self expansion = self actualization!
movement creates chi and this expressive dance ceremony lets you explode into higher realms of your body + mind and soul consciousness.
The purpose of this dance chakra alignment class is to be in balance with the pulse rather than acting out of the impulse. being in rhythm with your entire being.
Doors opens at 6:10
We start on time at 6:30
Please wear comfortable sports clothes that you can move in super freely. Bring some layers for you to reduce down or up according to our movement.
Please bring a journal and pen, some water and a small piece that presents your secrets.
About be-shen
be-shen is your transformative guide to understanding your true nature and activating more of your spirit and inner glow: your shen. The purpose of your life is to be undeniably yourself, by combining your unique abilities and divine talents with the wisdom from your life’s experience.
be-shen uses mystical healing techniques like face reading, astrology, human design, numerology and intuitive channeling to tune into your being as a whole. By applying these ancient yet modern esoteric practices be-shen offers 1:1 work and group sessions with healing guidance that deliver a clear roadmap to transformation.
Together you and I are co-channeling your golden keys to owning more of your individual energy signature. This can be in various different ways:
The rashida weekly journey stands as the pulse of all offerings. It is a 1:1 therapy + mystic advisory space that helps you hone into your most powerful self. This longterm journey mentors you into designing your individual spiritual cocktail while focusing on healing the relationship to your inner child, your personal abundance, your authentic self-expression and creative vision work. Become part of the rashida journey!
The be-shen immersions are both seasonal and all year-around deep dives that work like unique readings, boosting you into heightened self alignment. All be-shen offerings focus on energy temple expansion as well as the alignment to nature’s shifts and flows. be-shen creates electric + radiant space for ceremonies, rituals, retreats, workshops, conversations and movement classes that open new ways of connection and community. be-shen’s work seals in deeper self-knowing, ways + practices to self-actualize and a connection to your being’s biggest treasure: your heart.
Read more about be-shen word creations like spiritual cocktail, energy temples, treasures beings here.
be the light. be the truth. be-shen
Please wear comfortable sports clothes that you can move in super freely. Bring some layers for you to reduce down or up according to our movement.
Please bring a journal and pen, some water and a small piece that presents the essence of you.
Slowing Down for Self-Care
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Friday, November 22nd, 6pm-8pm SIGN UP HERE
PRACTITIONER: Jenny Chao
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Hit your pause button before the upcoming holiday season with an evening of self-care and slowing down. The term “self-care” has become a trendy term in the wellness world so let’s redefine it for ourselves, in community.
We live in a world where our nervous systems are constantly taxed with various types of stress in our daily routines and throughout our environments. Restorative yoga is a gentle, prop-supported practice that is about intentional relaxation. By practicing rest to help reduce cortisol levels, we promote the rest and digest functions of our parasympathetic nervous system, which is essential for our overall well being.
Join Jenny for some intentional journaling to help redefine what self-care means to you, some light movement and pranayama before diving into a soothing restorative practice. Rest will be amplified with sound meditation via bells, singing bowls and other instruments. We will explore a series of supported postures designed to encourage an opening of the chakras and soften your entire being into a soothing state of calm. Meditation will round out your practice and send you home with a renewed sense of what it means to take care of you, the most important person you can take care of.
This workshop is for all levels and no prior yoga experience is necessary.
Friday, November 22nd, 6pm-8pm
Sound and Spirit Meditation Moments with ArinMaya
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Saturday, November 23nd, 6:30 pm SIGN UP HERE
PRACTITIONER: ArinMaya Lawrence
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ArinMaya's Sound/Spirit Meditation Moments are a combination of energy opening exercises and a grounding sound bath, intended to uplift and inspire, welcome ease and restfulness, and support the release of toxins, anxiety and stress for participants.
Before the sound bath, participants will be guided through supportive breathing and vocal exercises and intention-setting that will attune them to the sound bath by helping them achieve a deeper connection to sound, thus giving them a fully embodied experience.
Participants will learn grounding sound practices that they can use in their personal or professional practices at home and everywhere, and will have access to increased levels of peace and joyfulness.