Downtown Yoga & Healing Arts

02/15/2026

Day Four. Valentine’s Day.

This is how we practice love on retreat.

Not roses.
Not grand gestures.

Nourishment.

Fresh local fruit.
Real food.
Unhurried mornings.
Movement that meets the body where it is.
Breath that steadies the nervous system.

We feed ourselves well here.
Inside and out.

We eat food grown in this soil.
We move under open air.
We slow down enough to actually taste, feel, and digest our lives.

Love isn’t just something you give away.
It’s how you care for the system you live in — your body, your mind, your attention.

Happy Valentine’s Day from Costa Rica.
May you feed yourself with intention today. 🌿✨

02/12/2026

Retreat Day ✌🏼
The retreat is fully underway.

Last night we arrived.
This morning we practiced.

There’s something different about a first full morning together.

The nervous systems begin to trust the space.

This is where the work begins.

02/10/2026

Growth is different when it’s witnessed.

Yoga Teacher Training is not something you move through alone.
It unfolds in relationship — through shared practice, shared language, and the steady presence of others walking the same path.

In YTT, we learn from the teachings, yes.
But we also learn from one another.
From being seen.
From being supported.
From practicing side by side, again and again.

This is what it looks like to practice together.
This is what it looks like to be— in community.

02/05/2026

A lot can happen in a year ✨

This work is never just about the certificate.
It’s about who you become along the way.

Yoga is a practice of learning how to live—
navigating this modern world with the support of ancient wisdom that still understands the human heart.

Over time, something shifts.
The body becomes a place you can live in.
The breath becomes something you trust.
The practice becomes a way of meeting life with more steadiness, clarity, and care.

This moment marks a threshold.
Not an ending—but a deepening.

A lot can happen in a year ✨🙏🏼

02/03/2026

✨ Meet Claire Guy ✨

We are delighted to welcome Claire Guy to the teaching staff at Downtown Yoga & Healing Arts School of Massage.

Claire is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Reflexologist, and Healing Facilitator, and the owner of SoleWise School of Reflexology. She brings decades of experience supporting people in managing stress, reducing pain, and reconnecting with their bodies through skillful, grounded touch.

Students consistently describe Claire as knowledgeable, grounded, and generous in her teaching—someone who creates a calm, supportive space while delivering real, practical education.

We are thrilled to have Claire bringing her Reflexology training to DTY and grateful to be working directly with her again. Welcome, Claire—we’re so glad you’re here. 🙏🏼

02/01/2026

✨ Help us celebrate Ashley ✨

This Tuesday, we get to witness something meaningful.

Ashley is completing her Yoga Teacher Training with us at Downtown Yoga & Healing Arts, and her Teacher Practicum marks the final step of this chapter—and the very beginning of another.

Yoga Teacher Training isn’t just about learning how to sequence a class or cue a pose. It’s a discipline of showing up, again and again, with sincerity, humility, and willingness. Ashley has done that. Steadily. Quietly. With heart.

Her path into yoga began during a time of deep anxiety, when a single moment of stillness revealed something true and healing. That moment became a practice. That practice became devotion. And now, it becomes service.

In the spirit of Swami Sivananda’s teachings:
Serve. Love. Give. Purify. Meditate. Realize.

Teaching yoga is an act of offering—placing what we’ve received back into the hands of the community. Ashley’s practicum is exactly that: a heartfelt offering, rooted in breath, presence, and care.

🗓 Tuesday, Feb 3
⏰ 5:30–6:30 PM by Donation
📍 Downtown Yoga & Healing Arts

Come practice. Come support. Come witness the beginning. 🙏🏼

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01/31/2026

✨ February at Downtown Yoga & Healing Arts ✨

February is a full month here in the best way — not busy for the sake of busy, but rich with chances to gather, rest, learn, and feel connected.

Alongside our regular weekly classes, we’re offering several special moments to practice together, deepen in, and simply be in community.

February Events & Gatherings:

🤍 Feb 3 — Baby Massage Workshop
A gentle, supportive space for caregivers and little ones.

🌿 Feb 11 — Costa Rica Retreat | Open for 2027!
The doors are open for The Sacred Thread | Costa Rica 2027! Details: https://www.downtownyogame.com/costa-rica-retreat-2027.html

💗 Feb 12 — Yoga Nidra: Resting Into Self-Love
A deeply nourishing evening practice to support the nervous system and the heart.

🔥 Feb 22 — Sangha | A Community Gathering
Come sit together, share space, and reconnect with what matters.

✨ Feb 23 — A Journey Into Reiki | Level 1 (Holy Fire® Reiki)
An introduction to Reiki as a personal practice rooted in lineage and self-study.

📸 Feb 28 — Yoga & Aerial Arts Photoshoot — For You!
Celebrate your practice and let yourself be seen.

🧘🏽 Feb 28 — Posture Clinic | 26+2 Standing Series
A focused workshop exploring alignment, anatomy, and refinement.

Whether you’re coming to move, rest, learn, or simply sit in good company — there’s a place for you here.

Come as you are. We’re glad you’re part of this community. 🤍

👉 Full schedule & registration: https://www.downtownyogame.com/schedule.html

01/28/2026

✨ We are thrilled to announce that Swami Prem Sadasivananda is returning ✨

📅 March 19–22, 2026

Registration is now open — and we invite you to save the dates in your calendar. Details on the specific content will be shared soon, but we know the container.

Empower Your Life: A Positive Thinking Teaching Series
Empower Your Life is a four-day, in-person teaching rooted in the classical yogic practice of Positive Thinking as taught by Swami Sivananda, and transmitted through the Sivananda lineage by Swami Prem Sadasivananda, a direct disciple of Swami Vishnudevananda.

This teaching series explores how the quality of our thoughts shapes not only our inner life, but also our relationships, choices, habits, and our capacity to meet life with steadiness and clarity. Rather than focusing on affirmation or emotional bypass, Positive Thinking is approached here as a training of the mind—practical, compassionate, and grounded in daily experience.

Over the course of four days, participants are invited to examine the subtle patterns that influence how they respond to life, how resistance forms, and how clarity and inner authority can be cultivated over time. The teachings are simple, accessible, and meant to be applied—not just understood.

This is a series designed to be returned to again and again. Each visit within the Empower Your Life arc offers a distinct doorway into the practice, while remaining rooted in the same steady foundation of the Sivananda tradition, carried forward through lived study, devotion, and direct transmission.

🔗 Register now: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=701314&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000082&date=03/19/26
📌 Save the dates: March 19–22, 2026
https://www.downtownyogame.com/prem2026.html

Save the Date -- Swami Prem Sadasivananda returns to Downtown Yoga & Healing Arts (Augusta, Maine) March 19-22, 2026. Empower Your Life: A Positive Thinking Teaching Series. Details coming soon.

01/27/2026

🌺2027 Costa Rica Retreat (Now Open) 🌺
The Sacred Thread · Costa Rica Retreat 2027
February 10–17, 2027
Yoga • Meditation • Surf

We’re officially opening the thread for our 2027 Costa Rica Retreat — a sacred week of yoga, meditation, surf, and shared practice in a place that has held us year after year, situated on the Cerro Fresco Mountain above the coastline of Playa Hermosa located in the Central Pacific of Costa Rica.

The Sacred Thread is an invitation into continuity—between practice and daily life, breath and body, land and lineage. Set once again in Costa Rica, this week-long retreat weaves together yoga, meditation, surf, and spacious time to reconnect with what matters most.

If you feel the pull to step away from the noise, practice in community, and spend intentional time in a place that truly holds you — we’d love to have you join us.

Join the International Retreat Interest List — and for those who feel ready, you may also choose to make a $500 deposit today to hold your place. Deposits secure priority placement and priority room selection.

p.s. Ask about returning rates!
👉 Learn more, join the interest list, or make a deposit here:

Costa Rica Yoga & Surf Retreat | Feb 10–17, 2027. A week of yoga, ocean, and jungle immersion. Details unfolding. Join us in Costa Rica for rest, rhythm, and reconnection.

01/27/2026

We started the week with a little weather pause, but there’s still plenty of time to practice with us.

Here’s what’s happening at Downtown Yoga & Healing Arts this week:

Tuesday
• 5:30p — Sivananda Beginner Class | 60m
• 5:45p — Hot Yoga | 26+2

Wednesday
• 9:00a — Mat Pilates
• 5:30p — All Levels Yoga Flow

Thursday
• 9:00a — Morning Power Flow
• 4:30p — Kids Open Aerial Play
• 5:30p — Classical Hatha Yoga
• 5:45p — Hot Yoga | 26+2

Friday
• 4:00p — Power Pilates
• 5:30p — Relax · Renew · Restore

Saturday
• 8:00a — Kundalini Inspired Flow
• 9:15a — Hot Yoga 26+2 | Full 90m
• 11:30a — Intro to Lyra

Sunday
• 9:00a — Sivananda Classic | 90m

https://www.downtownyogame.com/schedule.html