Join us Thanksgiving morning for an all-levels practice featuring movement, breath, and a little stillness in preparation for the holiday ahead. Class will feature a special meditation practice designed to cultivate gratitude. All proceeds will benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Sign up for practice as usual, and we'll take care of the rest. Class is available both in studio and online via zoom.

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Join us as we welcome guest performer Wade Fernandez for a live concert, featuring musical medicine through voice, guitar and Native American flute. 

Wade Fernandez / Wicīwen Apīs-Mahwaew (Black Wolf) is an award-winning international touring artist, composer, educator, and proud father from the Menominee Reservation.

Fernandez's diverse music, creative arts and teaching offerings have taken him on well over 80 international tours including: Woodstock 94, The Kennedy Center, and classrooms from pre-kindergarten through colleges and universities.

Staying firmly grounded to his roots, Wade reflects a deep love and respect for all of life serving the native to global community in work with the elderly, the mentally disabled, the incarcerated, and the youth. His compositions are featured in film, TV, radio, and theater. More info can be found at

www.WadeFernandez.com.

$40 if registered by 12:00pm 11/28. $45 thereafter. Read more and register here!

Join Wendy and Megan for one or both of their Yoga's Roots workshops to deepen and enhance your yoga practice.

11/30 1:30-3:00pm A History of Yoga & the 8 Limbs

12/7 1:30-3:00pm The Yoga Sutras

The ancient practice of yoga is tremendously transformational and has so much timeless wisdom that we can incorporate both on and off our mats. Learn the roots of yoga and discover how these ideas and guidelines are as relevant to us today as they were when they were when written and shared so long ago.

Each workshop will include yoga history and philosophy as well as a gentle practice to interweave these concepts. Let's integrate these rich teachings to not just understand, but to also experience within ourselves the roots of yoga.

Join us for one or both of these workshops. $35/class. Members receive 10% off.

Read more & register here! Please be sure to choose in studio or online accordingly.

Join us for two special Yoga Nidra classes this December, just in time for the rush of the holiday season! Yoga nidra, or yogic sleep as it is commonly known, is an immensely powerful yoga technique, and one of the easiest practices to develop and maintain. While the practitioner rests comfortably in savasana, this systematic practice takes you on a journey of the self, leaving you with a sense of wholeness. After the yoga nidra practice, students will have the opportunity to express themselves by journaling or drawing in their own journals.

$25 if registered at least 24 hours before event time. $30 thereafter. Members receive 10% off. Zoom links for online participants will be sent 30 minutes prior to event.

Read more and register here! Please ensure to choose in person or online accordingly.

Around the world and in many traditions the Winter Solstice is celebrated as the return of the light. It is both the shortest day as well as the longest night and is an opportunity to balance opposite energies in both ourselves and in the world around us such as darkness and light, masculine and feminine, yin and yang, old and the new, holding on and letting go, activity and rest.

As we officially move into the colder, darker winter on the Winter solstice, we are gifted with the space to draw in, hibernate, fortify, pause, and find stillness. In the fruitful winter season we can realign with ourselves and clarify where we’ve been and where we’d like to go, what’s been serving us, what we might be ready to release and let go.

The winter solstice is important because it marks the turning point of the year, the moment when the darkness begins to recede and the light begins to return. It’s a time of rebirth, renewal, and new beginnings. Our all level flow practice will help us reflect inward, embrace the darkness, and connect with the light.

Registration is required. Space is limited. Zoom links for online participants will be sent 30 minutes prior to event.

Regular class package, membership, & drop-in rates apply.

Read more and register here! Please ensure to choose in person or online accordingly.

Rumi says, “what you seek is seeking you"… perhaps it’s true. The evidence of the power of our minds is undeniable. The ancient texts of the Buddha tell us that no external condition can be the cause of our happiness; only the mind has that ability. When people clearly understand how they are influenced, the root causes of struggle and what we can do with our minds to make things better are revealed. The result is sustainable happiness and radiant joy.

My life as a Buddhist monk has given me a front row seat to the incredible transformations that have developed within so many people as I teach them how to empower their minds. Cultivating these qualities will help you too find strength and happiness, as well as nurture in you a burning desire to add more love to the world. When we understand our mind, we begin to re-shape our behavior and feelings about so many things. It’s the most loving act of service one can do for themselves and the world.

Benefits of this workshop include:

· Reduced stress, anxiety, worry and depression

· Healing and enhancing relationships with others

· Gaining a sense of empowerment over challenging issues in your life

· Insights into your life purpose

· Awakening to the blessings of the present moment

· Working towards an unshakable inner peace

Fee $40

Advanced registration required. Read more & register here. Please choose in studio or remote accordingly.

· Proceeds help support Bhante’s “Pregnant Mother's Program” and Incubator Project in Sri Lanka.

· Choose Loving-Kindness Items and Bhante’s publications will be available for purchase on site, and Bhante will be able to for book signing following the program.

About Bhante:

Bhante Sujatha, a 40+ years Buddhist Monk, is singularly focused on adding more love in the world. Bhante teaches loving-kindness meditation to people around the globe for all those seeking the art of happiness and contentment. His approach to meditation is deep and simple, bringing core Buddhist teachings to everyone in a way that is practical and easy to understand. A joyful, radiant, funny and wildly energetic monk, Bhante will help you obtain peace that can only be found in deep silence. Bhante believes his purpose is not only to teach meditation, but also, “teaching people how to be happy.” For more information visit Bhante’ s website www.bhantesujatha.org