Yoga Tree Workshops and Retreats

Collective Grief ​
with Alyssa Pizarro
December 8, 1:00-5:00pm
$60 preregistered/$65 at the door

Objective: To create a container for grieving the collective pain (no counseling or resolutions) using the tools of breath, meditation and the movement of our bodies and our energy.


What we will do: We offer an honest space to speak about collective loss and grief; so where there are death cafes, and grief conversations taking place in our culture, this grief workshop will offer space and quiet meditation with energy work and yogic movement to process the collective human pain we are all experiencing. We will create a space where we can gather in community to embrace our human grief with the opportunity to show up as you are right now. In the world, the collective pain is creating a human culture of numbing, anger and/ or overwhelm. Much like individual grief, when faced with grief and loss we often feel that we need to either push feelings down, ignore or deny how we feel (sometimes for ourselves just to make it through the day), and sometimes for others. This space of acknowledging collective grief and loss is an offering to sit with yourself and others who although their grief or loss might look different, they “get” it.


What we are not: a therapy; I am not a therapist. If you are currently seeing a therapist or mental health provider regarding this grief/loss, please consult with them before attending. Triggering is real and while I want to offer a safe space, some topics might bring up feelings. I want YOU to feel you have all the support you need, so if there are any questions around this, feel free to reach out to me directly.


About Alyssa: I am an energy worker and yoga instructor with a social justice lens. I have volunteered in Respite and as a yoga instructor in spaces with grief and loss for 5+ years and have taken death doula courses with Ashley Benem and multiple trauma informed yoga teacher trainings. I have seen people stuck in grief throughout their lives and holding it in their bodies. I can see it, because I am too this person. For the past four years I have felt stuck in a state of suffering, I can’t watch the news and I have felt deep sadness. My yoga practice, energy worker and community continue to help support me. It is this experience that inspires me to invite people into this same space. This will be a place for people who are looking to show up unapologetically and be in support and in community. The intention behind this workshop comes from a place of acknowledging our humanity and as yoga teaches us, what effects one of us, affects all of us. How do we learn to hold this and to rather than react, move this energy so we can be healthier and make decisions from love, not reaction? This is our yoga, and this is what the Collective Grief workshop will face.

Foundations of Ayurveda ​
with Angela Glaz
December 14, 1:00-4:30 pm
$50 preregistered/$55 at the door

Looking for a new perspective on your health or health in general? Join Angela for an introduction into the wonderful world of Ayurveda!Described as the Vedic Science of Life, Ayurveda is a five thousand year old healing tradition originating in India. It is the sister science to yoga or the medical side of yoga. Ayurveda studies the harmony between humans and the environment and treats every individual as a whole, assessing body, mind and spirit to assist in maintaining overall health.

In this workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to learn the fundamental principles of Ayurveda and how you can use those principles in your own life to create optimal health.

​*Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Accredited (3.5 hours)

WHO’S THIS COURSE FOR
Anyone who is ready to take their health and well-being into their own hands.

WHAT'S INCLUDED
Workshop Packet with 5 learning modules
Traditional Kitchari Recipe with list of wellness benefits.
Detailed instructions for 7easy to incorporate Ayurvedic daily rituals.
Tri-Dosha Balancing Yoga Practice.

WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY
A new perspective on your body and your health.
How to start making small changes with a big impact
The tools you need to start living a life that caters to you and your unique qualities so that you can feel and be the best version of yourself!

Winter Solstice Celebration
90 Lunar Salutations​
with Jessica Jobaris
December 20, 6:00-9:00pm
$40 preregistered/$45 at the door

During the Winter Solstice, we are navigating the longest and darkest night of the year. It is the time when the earth has maximum tilt away from the sun. In these long dark nights, we have greater access to our unconscious, our inner deep waters.


In this workshop, we will take a deep dive within, through several Lunar Salutation flow sequences, to physically align with the darkness. We will find the inward gaze/pratyahara to navigate these inner waters, to honor and integrate them, through meditations peppered between the Lunar Salutations. Through reflective writing practices, we will create new goals and intentions. Intentions are the starting point of any dream; what makes the unconscious, conscious. Our intentions, born from our hearts desires, are the stepping stones that lead us like a compass toward our goals. By setting and refining our intentions and goals at the Winter Solstice, we can lay the framework for our plans, building a path that lights the way through the darkness and guides us towards our brightest future.


We will tap the unlimited reservoir of our creative power in this workshop through the asanas, writing and drawing practices. Let's take a deep dive together, and cultivate our heart's desire in welcoming environment and community!

Restore and Reconnect
A Practice for the Holiday Season​
with Jess Jarris
December 21, 1:00-3:00pm
$25 preregistered/$30 at the door

Restore and Reconnect to the roots of your practice during the holiday season!
 
As we transition into the winter season, the New Year marks a wonderful opportunity to turn inward and reflect on the intentions we bring to our yoga practice. In Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, it is said that committed practice (abhyasa) and surrender (vairagya) are two wings of a bird, each necessary to keep ourselves flying. The practice of yoga can help us cultivate persistent and committed effort, while learning how to surrender attachments we hold but which no longer serve us. Through exploring how to balance these two companion practices, we learn how to take flight and navigate the shifting winds of our lives. Join Jess for this all-levels practice to welcome the winter season, to turn inward and reflect, and to reconnect and enliven what calls you to your practice.Throughout this workshop, there will be moments of reflection, both silent journal writing and brief group discussion. During the first half of this workshop, we will work on reviving the deeper connection between our breath and body through a gentle flow of both seated and reclined postures, aimed at releasing any holding patterns that have built up in the body during the holiday season. The second half of the workshop will focus on restorative poses that allow our minds to rest and rejuvenate, and will conclude with guided pranayama and meditation.

New Year, New Intentions
with Susanne Hutchinson
January 1, 10:00am-Noon
$25

Welcome in 2020 with renewed commitment to well-being and living your life fully. Yoga is the perfect practice for setting your intentions through movement and mindfulness to prepare for a brand new year.

We’ll begin with dynamic pranayama (breath work) designed to balance your energy, center the mind, and promote clarity for your intentions. There will be time for a short writing exercise followed by gentle warm-up movements then a mindful flow to build heat and vitality. We’ll close with restful, supported restorative postures and a short yoga nidra (guided meditation) practice to leave you feeling refreshed and inspired for the new year.

Suitable for all levels!

Friday Night Gong Restorative
with Amanda Mitchell
January 17, 6:30-8:30pm
$25

Now Friday Night Gong Restorative, once a month!
Jan 17, Feb 21, March 20, April 17, May 22
 
Gong Restorative is a deeply relaxing and nourishing class, combining the release available through a Restorative practice with the soothing vibrations of the gong. We'll start with a brief introduction to the history of the gong, the transformative properties of sound healing, and experience vibration in the form of chanting. From there, we'll transition to a light warmup, and relax into poses held for several minutes. Amanda will play the gong while you are supported on your mat, allowing you to fully experience the powerful effect of vibration.

Not only will your body and nervous system relax and replenish, but by adding the gong to this practice, your energy field and cells will also be affected. This is an excellent and welcoming introduction to the benefits of sound, with time for asking questions and sharing your experience (if you wish).


If you're worried about volume, bring earplugs along - it is the resonance, not the sound, which matters. Come bliss out, let go, and vibrate with the gong.

Ayurveda for the Season:
Kapha
with Angela Glaz
January 18, 1:00-3:00pm
$30 preregistered/$35 at the door

Winter is a great time to hunker down, plan, and reflect. Naturally, you'll find that you want gravitate toward things and activities that are warmer and more passive in nature. This eb and flow of our body and mind with the shift of the seasons is what Ayurveda encourages us to recognize.

In the Northern hemisphere, Winter is referred to as kapha season, as we tend to see more kapha qualities in our environment. The increase of these qualities within our environment then tends to increase these qualities within our bodies and minds, causing imbalances. While we do need kapha and the qualities that allow us this more reflective state, it’s imperative to ensure we are never swinging too far in any one direction to maintain optimal health and happiness.

During our time together we will use the three pillars of Ayurveda: lifestyle, diet, and use of energy, to view what the changing season brings and how we can adjust to find ease in health and happiness during this transition.

Workshop will Include:
- Discussion on daily and seasonal routines, seasonal eating, yoga and movement
- 60 minute seasonal yoga practice.

What is a Healthy Breath?
with Linda Oshins
January 25, 1:00-5:00pm
$75 preregistered/$80 at the door

This workshop is included in the first module for those enrolled in the 200 hour Hatha Yoga Studies Teacher Training Program.
 
Yoga has a whole limb devoted to breath practices alone—called pranayama. Some pranayama practices are suitable for beginning students, and others require a steady asana practice and a regular beginning pranayama practice. But no pranayama practice should be layered on top of a dysfunctional breathing pattern.
 
Yogic work with the breath assumes a healthy, every-day breath. Well, what is that? In this workshop you will go through a series of exercises that take a healthy breath apart and let you experience it anatomically and energetically. It will give you information about what medical research studies show about healthy breathing patterns and what the yogis through the ages have said. You will notice your own breath patterns and walk away with techniques you can use to either retrain your breathing pattern or reinforce a healthy breath. You will also learn to use the breath to relax deeply or energize.
 
This workshop involves some gentle movement. It is designed for students of all levels of ability and for yoga teachers. For Yoga Alliance registered teachers, it grants 4 hours of continuing education credit.
 
Linda Oshins, ERYT-500 since 2002, dates her every-day practice of yoga back to 1987, and she has been teaching yoga since 1997. She is also a Reiki Master who studied under Katherine Dufrane and other energy healers, and teaches energy practices as a way self-revelation. Linda has made the practice and study of pranayama her particular focus for many years, wrote the manual Pranayama: A Compendium of Practices, and teaches a 6-month web-based course on pranayama using the manual as its foundation. She is currently writing a book on healthy breathing.

iRest® Immersion ​
with Jennifer Cabanero
January 31-February 2, 2020
$295 Early Bird by November 30/$350 after November 30

At SpiritView Retreat Center
14505 264th St. E, Graham, WA 98338*
*Please note this is a day-use retreat center. If needing accommodations, there are a number of hotels available in nearby Puyallup. 
 
Friday, Jan 31-Sunday, Feb 2
Friday, 11-6 (Registration begins at 10)
Saturday, 9-6
Sunday, 9-5
 
Come join us for this iRest® Yoga Nidra Immersion event where you will learn the principles and practice of iRest Yoga Nidra meditation and experience the variety of ways iRest can be used on and off the mat to foster a greater sense of freedom, synchronicity, authenticity, and creativity in your daily life.

About iRest Yoga Nidra
iRest Yoga Nidra is a research-based meditation, relaxation and healing protocol. The practice of iRest enables you to deeply calm your nervous system, integrate difficult thoughts & emotions, and offers a portal for awakening to your essential nature. iRest meditation is both an excellent personal practice as well as adjunctive practice for healthcare & healing professionals.
Developed over 48 years by Richard Miller, iRest promotes health, healing, and awakening by recovering and nourishing your innate ground of indestructible wholeness and well-being. iRest is endorsed by the US Army Surgeon General and Defense Centers of Excellence as a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

Through experiential practice and dynamic dialogue you will:
  • Learn the 10-Step iRest Protocol to enhance your personal meditation practice
  • Explore how to integrate the practices of iRest into daily life
  • Foster well-being and resiliency from stress & anxiety
  • Experience BodySensing in movement
  • Practice BreathSensing for resiliency, increased energy and relaxation
  • Learn to skilfully meet difficult emotions and beliefs in daily life
  • Access an inner resource of well-being, ease, security and peace
  • Awaken to your essential wholeness

This iRest immersion workshop is open to newcomers, experienced meditators, and iRest practitioners who wish to experience the fullness that iRest has to offer for health, healing, resiliency, well-being, awakening, and the wholeness of being.
This iRest Yoga Nidra Immersion fulfills the short retreat requirement of the iRest Certification Program.

Tides and Cycles
Yoga for Hormonal Balance​
with Deborah King
February 22, 1:00-3:30 pm
$40 preregister/$45 at the door

​In this workshop, we will focus on learning to use yoga to bring balance to the hormonal system. Adjusting the practices to address challenges from PMS to hot Flashes to joint stiffness that can arise from hormonal changes within a single estrogen-based cycle or through a lifetime’s journey will be addressed, with an emphasis on turning inward to hear the body’s wisdom.
 
There will be an overview of active practice, but we will emphasize the use of restorative poses, breath work, and supported inversions to balance the hormonal and nervous systems and uncover the benefits of deep relaxation.
 
Using different modalities in different parts of our cycles and using the practice as a way to attune into rather than ignore the rich communication of the changes in the estrogen-based body’s internal initiations month to month as well as through the major phases of hormonal life can dramatically ease discomfort with transitional symptoms, as well as overall hormonal health including energy regulation, metabolism, and the process of discovering a healthy relationship with body weight.
 
Students will leave with a deeper connection with the inner workings of their body, and an understanding of how to use both gentle and active practice to bring balance into hormonal transitions.
 
All people experiencing hormonal cycles are welcome! All levels, all bodies are invited, no experience necessary.

The Path of Meditation​
with Jennifer Cabanero
March 14-15, 1:00-4:00 pm both days

Open to all who have a meditation practice.
More information coming soon!

Intro to Shoulderstands and Headstands
with Kate Collins
April 19, 1:00-3:30 pm
$40 preregister/$45 at the door

More information coming soon!

The Alchemy of Emotions:
The Yogic Practice of Rasa
with Anne Douglas
May 15-17, 2020
$225 Early Bird by April 15/$250 after April 15

The Alchemy of Emotions 
​The Yogic Practice of “Rasa”
Friday, 6:30-8:30
Saturday, 1:00-4:00
Sunday, 1:00-4:00
 
Whole weekend - $225 Early Bird by April 15/$250 after April 15
Friday Night only - $65

Emotions are your SUPERPOWER!  Learn how to harness the alchemical power of your emotions by mastering the subtle yet powerful energetics of the emotional body.  The ancient teachings of Yoga inform us of the 9 rasas, or essential emotional energies, that also correlate with the 5 elements and the 3 gunas that are the fundamental building blocks to creation.  

Modern neuroscience informs us that emotions are like "rocket fuel" for building new neural pathways in our brain for healthy behaviour.  Emotional energies can be positively influenced to establish radiant health and well being, in body, mind and spirit.  

During this workshop you will learn and experience:

  • How to practice Yoga Asana with positive, health inducing emotions
  • Pranayama designed to quickly release negative emotions
  • iRest® Yoga Nidra for building new neural pathways in your brain that create the life of your dreams
  • A profound yogic model for integrating emotions daily
  • The bliss inducing yoga practice of Tandava

Anne Douglas is a master teacher, with 30 years of teaching yoga and meditation behind her.  She has been teaching yogic philosophy, teacher trainings, workshops and retreats since 1989, and is a certified IAYT yoga therapist.  She is the creator of the “iRest Daily” meditation program, has over 3 million listens to her meditations on the “Simple Habit” app and is the past Director of Trainers for the iRest Institute.  Anne’s boundless enthusiasm, depth of wisdom and gentle humour create fertile ground for inspired learning.

Yoga at the Wall​
with Jenny Rhodes
May 23, 1:00-3:00 pm
$30 preregister/$35 at the door

Refine your alignment while discovering your strengths & weaknesses in familiar poses as we use the wall to guide & support us in this informative 2-hour workshop.
 
With each pose at the wall, you’ll enhance body awareness tuning into the muscles we over and underuse in familiar poses. In balancing postures the wall can help us truly “know where you are in space.” We’ll play with balance, inversions, opening, lengthening and strength-building with plenty of encouragement and feedback.
 
Plan to work, and love what you learn about your body and your yoga practice. After hard work comes rest and restoration. Enjoy a blissful savasana and leave the studio feeling refreshed, stronger, wiser and fully alive!
 
Not suitable for beginners. Space is limited!

108 Sun Salutations
with Jessica Jobaris
June 20, 1:00-3:30 pm
$40 preregister/$45 at the door

$40 pre-register/$45 at the door
 
Celebrate the Summer Solstice with us during this special edition of 108 Sun Salutations! 
 
108 has long been considered a sacred number in yoga meaning “Great Joy”. Traditionally, garlands of prayer beads, come as a string of 108 beads, mantras are repeated 108 times, and the average distance of the Sun and the Moon to Earth is 108 times their respective diameters. Let's add to the world-wide ritual of adventuring into the Sun Salutation.... 108 times of course!
 The Sun Salutation is a series of 12 yoga postures energizing the solar plexus region, an important center in the body, connected to many energy channels including digestion, circulation and respiration. This solar plexus chakra, Manipura, is the seat of our will power, our practical intelligence, our individuality, and self-control. This is a practice that connects us to our center, building focus, discipline and determination. Not to mention physical strength, mental strength and flexibility!


What will happen in the body/mind during this rigorous ritual of 108 Surya Namaskar? Repetition can create a relaxed, trance-like state, which leaves us more open to deeper insight.


Don't fret! This isn't “extreme yoga,” and there will be breaks and modifications, of course. Please be familiar with basic sun salutations.

iRest® Yoga Nidra Silent Retreat
at Aldermarsh on Whidbey Island
with Jennifer Cabanero
June 26-28, 2020
$600 Early Bird by June 5/$625 after June 5

Aldermarsh Retreat Center on Whidbey Island
6436 Maxwelton Rd.
Clinton, WA 98236
 
*Price includes shared lodging and delicious, vegetarian meals. No refunds after June 12. Refunds prior to June 12 are subject to a $50 administrative fee.
  
Silent retreat is a chance to connect with ourselves at a deeper level. With fewer distractions we become tuned in to our inner life, our hopes, and our dreams. We also become aware of the beliefs that we have about ourselves and the world around us.
With time, as the stream of thoughts begin to slow down, we experience mini-moments of true calm and peace. In this way, silent retreat can yield fresh perspective, and bring clarity to our state of mind. Coming out of silence, there is often a renewed sense of gratitude for ourselves and for life just as it is.


The ancient non-dual teachings behind iRest Yoga Nidra help us to reconnect with our essential nature; the part of ourselves that is grounded, whole and unchanging no matter what occurs in our lives. Retreat is a precious time that we can set aside to dedicate our selves to nourishing our inherent wholeness.


This retreat offers the perfect combination of guided iRest meditation, body-sensing movement, breath-sensing, sitting, walking, and co-meditation. It is through practicing meditation in movement, stillness, and with others that we experience first hand how these teachings come alive for us as a practice of life.


This retreat is open to students of all levels who wish to sample the fullness iRest offers for health, healing, and wholeness of being. Come prepared to explore stillness, movement, laughter, and delight.
 

Samskara: Yoga and Ayurveda Immersion Course
with Angela Glaz
June 26-28, 2020
$225 by June 19/$250 after June 19
This workshop is included in the YTT 200hr Training Program

Friday, 6:30-8:30
Saturday, 1:00-7:00
Sunday, 1:00-5:00
 
Ayurveda, described as the science of life, is a five thousand year old healing tradition originating in India. It is the sister science to yoga and emphasizes the importance of creating and maintaining positive health.
 
In this 12-hour immersion course, participants will have the opportunity to learn the basic principles of Ayurveda and how to incorporate those principles into their lives and Yoga practice so that they can connect to their inherent health and happiness within.
*Yoga Alliance accredited for 12 hours of continuing education*

Who’s this course for:
Yoga students and teachers wanting to dive deeper into the sister sciences of Yoga & Ayurveda.


Topics Covered:
The building blocks of Ayurveda: The Pancha Mahabutas.
Your Ayurvedic Body/Mind type: Prakruti and Vrikruti .
Bringing Ayurveda to your mat: Meditation, pranayama, and asana.
Bringing Ayurveda into your every day life: Lifestyle, diet, and routine.


What’s Included:
Detailed manual
5 hours of lecture, 3.5 hours of group work, 3.5 hours active participation

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