Bloom Together Yin and Yoga Nidra
Welcome Spring 2022 with a Gentle Yin Practice followed by Yoga Nidra with Kari Sims Anthon and Erin Collins. It has been so long since we were together in person— this event will look a bit different.
Held at the beautiful and cozy Five Pines Lodge in Sisters, Oregon, space is limited to 30 vaccinated participants. Mats will be distanced at 6 feet and proof of vaccination is required.
This intentional practice is a benefit for The Peaceful Presence Project, a 501 c(3) nonprofit with a mission to reimagine the way we talk about, plan for and experience serious illness and the end of life. Kari and Erin are both founding members of this project.
Midway Mindfulness
Midway through the week and midway through the day, enjoy a weekly pause with Erin.
As we approach the loosening of our stay at home time, we may be feeling uncertainty about what’s to come or how to react. The practice of mindfulness can help us to slow down, consider and respond rather than react to the circumstances around us.
We will gather on Zoom for three Wednesdays at 12pm PDT for discussion and expanding our mindfulness meditation practice. Sessions will be recorded and emailed to those who can’t join us live. Supplemental materials will be emailed weekly.
Class is offered on a sliding scale: $0-$30. Through the generosity of those who can pay, I am able to extend this offering to those in our community who can’t pay, but who may need the practice the most. Thank you for listening to your heart in considering where you are on the scale.
Pre-registration is required. Please visit the booking page to sign up by CLICKING HERE.
Mindfulness for this Moment in Time
We are feeling untethered, uncertain, and unsure of how to respond to this unprecedented time in our history. And it is just that— a moment in time that will one day be history.
Join Erin for a 4-week introduction to the foundation of mindfulness meditation for this moment. Learn techniques for use in a daily seated practice, tools for “mindful moments” throughout the workday and time-honored ways of building awareness while living in this time.
We will gather on Zoom each Wednesday at 12pm PST for discussion and meditation practice. The first and last session will be 45 minutes; the middle two will be 30 minutes. Sessions will be recorded and emailed to those who can’t join us live. Supplemental materials will be emailed weekly.
Class is offered on a sliding scale: $0-$40. Through the generosity of those who can pay, I am able to extend this offering to those in our community who can’t pay, but who may need the practice the most. Thank you for listening to your heart in considering where you are on the scale.
Pre-registration is required. Please visit the booking page to sign up by CLICKING HERE.
Loving, Dying and Letting Go
What does it mean to Love?
What does it mean to Die?
How do we learn to Let Go?
The three questions above are central to human life. Philosophers and spiritual leaders throughout time have reflected upon them. Wise ones across all ages and cultures have offered up their own insights into answering these perennial queries. And, of course, all of us ~ all who know birth, breath, and death ~ wrestle at times with what it all means. What does it mean to love, die, and “let go”?
The Loving, Dying, and Letting Go workshop is designed to create a safe space for heartfelt inquiry into these questions. People of all philosophies and faith traditions are warmly welcomed to gather together to listen and learn through lecture, discussion, meditation and experiential exercises, and most importantly, to personally reflect upon the questions above. Gentle yoga movement will keep us bright throughout the day.
For those who have experienced grief due to death or the loss of an important relationship, for those who are caregiving or working with the bereaved, or for anyone wondering what it means to face one’s own death, or the death of those we love ~ this workshop will be particularly moving/beneficial.
Loving, Dying, and Letting Go is based upon the work/writing of Amy Wright Glenn, founder of the Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death. The key themes of the workshop are present in Amy’s second book, Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go published by Parallax Press in 2017. Workshop participants are encouraged to read the book prior; however a few copies will also be available for purchase at the workshop.
Click here to register: www.thepeacefulpresenceproject.org
Yintention:: Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra for the New Year
Welcome to a new year, a new decade!
We will gather this new year at life.love.yoga. in Sisters, OR for a reflective afternoon of intention setting, inner focus and the beauty of stillness in a yin yoga practice.
After our 75-minute yoga practice, a guided meditation around our “Sankalpa” or resolve, will set the stage for what is coming next. Resolves are intentions, more powerful than resolution and more inwardly focused on your heart’s desire.
Saturday January 4th at 4pm. $25
Consider carpooling with your friends!
Register online through life.love.yoga HERE.
Wintering Within: Solstice Evening Retreat
Winter Solstice is the time of year when the "sun stands still". It is the longest night and the greatest opportunity for introspection, a time when we celebrate the returning of the light. Intention setting in this time of outward-moving energy and gifting can be a powerful way to invite in self care. Celebrate the darkness and use the heat of fire as a catalyst to manifest your heart's desires.
We will gather together to turn inward with the peace of Yin Yoga and guided meditation; bringing awareness to our heart's desire. Next, together we create a botanical mandala as we ponder personal and community intentions for the holiday season and winter ahead. Then, we will enjoy delicious food and handcrafted beverages made from the bounty of Sweet Posy Farm while we create individual natural fire fuel: bundles to bring fragrance to a Solstice or New Year fire, infused with your intention.
Invest in yourself and join us for creativity, connection and warmth on the longest night of the year at the Studio at Sweet Posy.
Click here to register at: www.sweetposyfloral.com
Space is limited to 12 for this intimate event— register soon!
$125 investment includes yoga, meditation, warm food and drinks and creation of a botanical bundle under the guidance of Jennifer Ladd.
Yoga of Death and Dying
We will come together amongst the mountains and trees of Sisters, Oregon to use the practices and philosophy of yoga and meditation to explore the topics of death, dying and deathlessness.
Our time together will be a combination of yoga asana, meditation, dharma talks and conversation to help us open our hearts to Savasana.
Registration details are HERE.
Winter Solstice: Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra for the Holidays
On the longest night of the year, and on the eve of the holiday season and winter break for families, join Erin for this 2-hour restorative yoga and yoga nidra evening. Give yourself the opportunity to live with the pace of nature: Slow down, embrace the darkness, take time for self-care and fill your cup so that you may share with others.
A 75-minute Yin Yoga practice will be followed by Yoga Nidra, the yoga of sleep. 45 Minutes of Yoga Nidra relaxation is said to be equal to 4 hours of deep sleep. Restore your nervous system and enter the Winter replenished.
$20-40 Sliding Scale
Register online by clicking here. You will be able to pay $30. If you’d like to pay elsewhere on the scale, please call 541-322-9642 to register.
Autumn Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra
Autumn is an especially appropriate time for self-care and reflection as we harvest summer's last bounty and "put away" some energy while letting go of what we no longer need.
Yoga Nidra, or yogic sleep, is a practice of complete physical, mental and emotional relaxation. 30 minutes of yoga nidra is the equivalent of a 4-hour sleep!
This 2-hour special event will provide the space to reflect, relax and renew for the longer nights of Autumn.
$20-40 Sliding Scale
register online at www.bendcommunityhealing.com
or call 541-322-9642
Summer Solstice: Restorative Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra
On the longest day of the year, we embrace the fire of the season and tune into our own need for cooling down and chilling out.
Join us for Summer Solstice and allow yourself the time and space to tend internally to your Yin energy so that you are balanced with the Yang energy of summer's activity and the long days. We will pay special attention to our heart's joy in a restorative/yin class followed by the blissful rest of yoga Nidra. This nurturing and introspective two-hour class will be co-taught by Trish Ivie and Erin Collins.
Sliding Scale for this evening is $20-$40. Enroll here for $30 or call 541-322-9642 to register at a different rate on the scale.
Is Yoga for Me?
This new FREE lecture series at Bend Community Healing is designed to answer questions in a small-group, non-threatening atmosphere. The second Tuesday of the month will be a lecture about yoga; the fourth Tuesday of the month will be a lecture with Mark Montgomery, Lic.Ac., answering similar questions about acupuncture, Chinese medicine and Zero Balancing.
Please come! And share with anyone who may be thinking about yoga, but not sure if it is for them. I will do a brief overview, a short experiential practice and offer time for Q&A.
Contact me for more details!
Mothers Day Yin Yoga
Join me for a yummy Yin Yoga class at Bend Community Healing on Sunday May 13th to celebrate your own mom (bring her along!) or to celebrate being a mom (leave your kids at home and enjoy the quiet!)
Regular class rates apply. Register in advance to save a spot:
Nurture:: A One-Day Retreat to Nature for Mamas
Momming is hard work- whether you have a newborn, a toddler, a teenager or an adult child, you deserve some Mama Time!
If you are anything like me, Mothers Day never quite ends up like you want it-- so join me for this day-long retreat designed especially for us.
We will enjoy a morning of hiking along the Deschutes River interspersed with yoga and meditation in the beauty and quiet of nature. At our midpoint, we will enjoy a Mother's Day Brunch in the woods. After returning to the trailhead, we will carpool back to Bend for an afternoon Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra session to send you home balanced, relaxed and centered.
Come connect with nature, with other mamas, with the energy of the season and nurture yourself as a mother.
$75 investment in YOU! Whether you invest for yourself or request this day as a gift, you will be treated to hiking, yoga, meditation, brunch and relaxation.
Registration closes Friday May 4th! Minimum 6, Maximum 12 participants.
Spring Restorative and Yoga Nidra
In April, we welcome Spring with vibrancy and fresh eyes, ready for new growth and the lengthening of days. This nurturing two-hour workshop will be co-taught with Trish Ivie at Bend Community Healing.
Sliding Scale $20-40. Register online at the link below for $30-- to pay another rate on the scale, please call BCH at 541-322-9642
Experiencing the Energy Body
Join Erin and Mark Montgomery, L.Ac. at Bend Community Healing for this workshop exploration of our energy body. In Yoga and Chinese medical traditions, the flow of energy is an essential facet of health and healing. We will discuss different theories and descriptions of energy channels and meridians in the body, as well as feeling energy in our bodies with yoga, Qigong, meditation and acupuncture. This amazing workshop will conclude with an extended yoga Nidra during a community acupuncture session.
Sliding Scale $30-60.
Register online here you'll be able to pay $45. To pay another amount on the sliding scale, please call Bend Community Healing to register at 541-322-9642.
This workshop will be incredible! Please let me know if you have any questions, and register early, as it will likely sell out.
Yin and Yang Partner Yoga Workshop
Grab your friend, your lover, your sister or brother and join Trish Ivie and I at Bend Community Healing for an all-levels workshop exploring partner play in yoga. We will use breath work, meditation, and partner poses to support each other, challenge ourselves and observe the dynamic between Yin and Yang in all of us, especially as we partner. Come with or without a mate, we will find plenty of ways to work together.
Sunday, February 11th 4:30-6:30pm
Sliding Scale $20-40 Single, $30-60 Pairs
Call Bend Community Healing to register: 541-322-9642
Christmas Eve Yin Yoga
Join me for a quiet, nourishing Yin Yoga practice to keep calm, centered and receiving amidst the buzz of the holiday season.
Regular class rates apply. Register online or at the door.
Settling into Solstice
This 2-hour restorative yoga and yoga nidra event will prepare you for the upcoming holidays. Slow down, take time for self-care and fill your cup so that you may share with others.
Held at Bend Community Healing. Call to register 541-322-9642.