Yoga Labs – Yoga for Your Now & Future Self

December's Yoga Lab

Sunday December 14th 9 - 10:30 am CT

Online

$37

This month's focus:

A Yoga Lab Mini-Retreat

When you let go of striving, the way appears.

5 reasons December's Yoga Lab practice would be good for you:

1. Deep rest can help the body recover from stress-related conditions. This approach creates a parasympathetic response that allows the whole system to downshift.

2. Restorative poses are not about stretching; they are about supporting the body so tension can release.

3. Helps develop presence, equanimity, and a clearer relationship with yourself.

4. Builds resiliency across body, mind, and spirit.

5. Students often report walking away from Restorative practice feeling “settled,” “pain free as much as possible,” and “happy in their body,”

In our December Yoga Lab mini-retreat, we’ll practice thoughtful inquiry, supported resting poses, breath-work, and silence, so you don’t lose yourself in the noise of the season.

Our nervous systems need this - Especially now, but always.

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*Free as a gift to our community*

We're continuing our FREE CommUNITY Yoga Series called:

12 Benefits of Yoga That Are Supported by Science.

Each Saturday we are focusing on one of the benefits yoga has to offer backed by science and then have a practice that demonstrates that focus.

In this way you’ll become aware of some of the ways your daily or weekly yoga sessions are providing value and you’ll be able to feel that value within the CommUNITY Yoga classes!

This 12-week FREE CommUNITY Yoga series would be a great one to share with family and friends who might be thinking of giving yoga a try or getting back to it.

The yoga benefit we will focus on this week...

Yoga for Heart Health

Here are the primary yoga-related benefits for heart health:

1. Stress Reduction Supports the Cardiovascular System

2. Improved Breath Awareness Helps Regulate Heart Rhythm

3. Gentle Movement Supports Circulation

4. Reducing Muscular Tension Reduces Cardiac Load

5. Mindfulness and Yoga Philosophy Decrease Emotional Reactivity

6. Restorative Practice Can Support Healing in Times of Illness or Fatigue

Yoga’s therapeutic value is grounded in one simple truth: when we reduce unnecessary tension and invite the nervous system to settle, the whole body functions with more ease. Heart health is no exception.

Please join me!

Join your online community for a FREE 45-minute yoga + meditation class!

Perfect for beginners and experienced yogis.

If you missed registering and would still like to purchase the recording(s) you are in the right place!

Click HERE to purchase the recording. $37 for the 1 1/2 module.

Get Lit!

Ignite Your Heart & Mind

**Now updated from this summer's retreats!

During our summer Yoga & Wellness Retreats each year, everyone gathers around the fire with a list of 3 or more books that they had read recently and loved.

Each person talks about their 3 books and why they enjoyed them so much.

Here they all are...for your reading pleasure...

Summer 2025

Bright Remarkably Creatures – Shewlby Van Pelt

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

The Authenticity Project - Claire Pooley

You are Stronger than You Think - Joel Osteen

Stolen Pride - Arlie Russell Hochschild

Say You’ll Remember Me - Abby Jimenez

The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson

The Last American Road Trip - Sarah Kendzior

The Light We Carry – Michelle Obama

The Day the World Came to Town - Jim DeFede

Let them – Mel Robbins

The Grief Recover Method - John James

The Yoga of Self Love - Ramaa Krishnan

Caste – Isabel Wilkerson

The 5 People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

Skin- Ted Dekker

So Gay for You - Leisha hailey and Katherine Moennig

How to Retire and Not Die - Gary Sirak and Max Sirak

Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief – David Kessler

All the books by Frieda McFadden

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease - Caldwell B. Esselstyn

The Whole 30 - Dallas Hartwig and Melissa Hartwig Urban

Life Force – Jeffrey S. McCombs

First Lie Wins – Ashley Elston

The Wheel of Time – Robert Jordan

“In Death” book series - J.D. Robb (the pseudonym used by Nora Roberts for this series)

Foundation trilogy – Issac Asimov

LaRose – Louise Erdrich

Tom Lake – Ann Pachett *the audio book is read by Meryl Streep!

Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama – Nathan Thrall

How to Stand up to a Dictator – Marie Reesa

Master Slave Husband Wife - Ilyon Woo

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Summer 2024

The Measure – Nikki Erlick

The Women – Kristin Hannah

Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus

Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt

Braving the Wilderness – Brene Brown

The Imperfections – Sam Mariano

The Gift of Imperfection – Brene Brown

Stop Being Lonely - Kira Asatryan

Expiration Dates – Rebecca Serle

The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Alma Cuervo

The Storytellers Secret - Sejal Badani

Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens

Good Material – Dolly Alderton

Verity – Colleen Hoover

The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides

Caleb’s Crossing – Geraldine Brooks

In the Heart of the Sea – Nathaniel Philbrick

Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson

Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman

Falling – T.J. Newman

The Measure – Nikki Erlick

The Other Boleyn Girl – Phillipa Gregory

Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follet

Devil in The White City – Erik Larson

Aging with Grace – Sharon Betters & Susan Hunt

Sacred Self Care -Dr. Walker Barnes

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Summer 2023

For you Mom, Finally – Ruth Reichl

Getting in Touch with Your Guardian Angels – Jill Kempner

Awareness – Anthony DeMelle

The Color of Water – James McBride

The Art of Racing in The Rain - Garth Stein

Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell

Right Brain and Left brain – Daniel Pink, Patrick Linconi

The Next Big Idea Club - https://nextbigideaclub.com/?fbclid=IwAR0atPUiP9jcbu0mqKzbNF-9yxhmRVFd0a_tMZa_OnCR_2wo76Qrf8KDNDE

*and a Facebook group

Daisy Jones & the 6th - Jenkins Reid

The Seed Keeper – Diane Wilson

The Island of Missing Trees – Elif Shafak

She Said - Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neal

Horse – Jeralidine Brooks

The Measure – Mickey Eirlich

Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolve

Crying in H-Mart – Michelle Zauner

The Artists Way – Julia Cameron

Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens

The 5 People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Album

With The Fire on High – Elizabeth Acevedo

This is How it Always Is – Laurie Frankel

The Great Alone – Kristen Hannah

Willow Rose (author) a series of books

Enlightenment For Idiots – Anne Cushman

Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

Nightingale – Kristen Hannah

The Advocate (series) – Theresa Burrell

Noble Beginnings – L.T. Ryan

My Grandmother Told me to Tell You “I’m Sorry” – Frederick Bachman

The Women in Black – Susan Hill

Mutant Message Down Under – Marlo Morgan

The Positive Dog – Jon Gordon

The Eight Dates – The Gotmans

Speeches (?) – David McCullough

Being Mortal – Atul Gawande

Learning to Pray – A Guide for Everyone – James Martin

Sacred Self Care – Dr Chanequa Walker-Barnes

The Sociopath Next Door – Dr. Martha Stout

Shadow Divers – Robert Kurson

Such A Fun Age – Kiley Reed

The Whole Thirty – Dallas Hartwig

Food Freedom Forever – Melissa Hartwig

Eric’s Story – Carol Hill

Proof of Heaven – Eben Alexander

How to Change Your Mind – Michael Pollan

House of Sand & Fog – Andre Dubus

The Bible Code – Michael Drosnin

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Fall 2022

You Before Me – JoJo Moyes

The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho

Picnic with Picasso – Anthony E. Thorogood

The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah

Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

River of Doubt – Candice Millard

Destiny of the Republic - Candice Millard

Ordinary Grace – William Kent Krueger

Breath – James Nestor

What Happened to You – Bruce perry and Oprah Winfrey

Me & White Supremacy – Layla Saad

The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk

The Death of Josseline – Margaret Regan

American Dirt – Jeanine Cummins

The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

This is How it Always Is – Laurie Frankel

The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz

Metta Human – Deepak Chopra

Total Meditation – Deepak Chopra

Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens

Becoming – Michelle Obama

The Soul of America – Jon Meacham

The Righteous Mind – Jonathan Haidt

The Girl on The Train - Paula Hawkins