RealJoy Yoga

03/09/2026

✨ Build Strength From the Inside Out ✨

Ready to start (or deepen) your Pilates practice? This structured **8-week Mat Pilates series** builds your practice step by step, making it a welcoming place for beginners while still supporting all fitness levels.

Each week you’ll learn new exercises while developing strength, control, and body awareness. We’ll focus on breath, alignment, and core activation as we gradually progress through the Classical Mat Pilates exercises—helping you move from the center of your body with confidence and stability.

By the end of the series, you’ll leave with a **stronger body, better mobility, and a deeper mind-body connection.**

✨ Perfect for beginners
✨ Progressive, supportive learning
✨ Strength, mobility, and coordination

Join us and experience the power of Pilates—one step at a time. 💫

https://momence.com/RealJoy-Yoga/8-Week-Mat-Pilates-Workshop/132666925

03/08/2026

And we're off!

Costa Rica, here we come!

03/04/2026

Join Candice and Joy for this Breathwork Ceremony.

EARLY BIRD PRICING Through March 8

We will begin with a guided meditation and then a group breathwork ceremony, which will be an immersive, trauma-informed experience designed to support deep emotional and energetic release through the power of your own breath. Held in a safe, intentional space, you’ll be guided through activated breath techniques that gently yet effectively access the nervous system and energy centers, allowing suppressed emotions and stored tension to surface and move. Supported by music, sound frequency, shamanic tools, and energy work, the breath becomes your medicine, working both energetically and physically.

This is not a quick fix, but an opening: a doorway into deeper self-awareness and healing. Throughout the journey, you’ll be guided to work consciously with your hands as an extension of the breath, helping to connect body, mind, and energy. The experience is intentionally paced, with a slow and supportive transition out of activation to encourage nervous system regulation and integration. Participants must arrive sober and open, ready to meet themselves with presence, curiosity, and care.

Simple healthy snacks will be provided (fruit and crackers) along with a nourishing tea.

Early Bird Price $111 until March 6, 2026. Regular price $143. Full Unlimited Members will receive 20% off the Regular price after March 6rd. There are no discounts on the Early Bird Price.

No refunds with less than 48 hours notice of cancellation.

03/04/2026

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03/01/2026

Hurry and sign up by March 3rd to get your Early Bird discount for this amazing group breathwork ceremony on May 3rd with Candice Lamarand.

02/24/2026

We leave for Costa Rica in 13 days. It will be so nice to have our feet in the warm sand.

When you come on retreat with me, it isn't just a trip someone else plans for you. I think of everything. Timing, transportation, food (I even make sure your food allergies are accounted for, which is a big deal if you have them!), yoga, accommodations.

But I do more than that. I curate a healing container where your nervous system can stand down and rest. This trip has so much space, protected space, where you get to decide if you want to take an excursion, or take a nap in your hammock. I've spend a lot of time mapping out the arc of the retreat, with well timed invitations to consider, to notice, to rest, to expand. I've even got some delightful surprises planned.

I'm looking at Portugal next. Drop a comment or send me a message to be on my waiting list to be one of the first to know before I open it to the public.

And for those who've asked, all classes will go on as usual at the studio with subs lined up to cover my classes while I'm gone.

02/24/2026

01/29/2026

Last year, on this day, I boarded a plane alone to Costa Rica getting ready to host my first retreat. My guests arrived 3 days later.

We had a life changing week.
It was magical. Friendships were made. We laughed. We cried. We ATE the most amazing food. We bonded. It was truly one of the best weeks of my life.

In 5 weeks, March 8-15, we go back to Costa Rica. This time to the Beach instead of the mountains. Out of the 9 people who went last year, 6 are coming again! That's how good it was. Plus 5 new folks.

There are a couple spots left, if you think you want to come but you're scared, come join us at the studio this Sunday, Feb 1st, at 1pm for our Info Session. All the paid participants will be there plus our beloved photographer and my right hand, Candice Lamarand Photography, Candice Lamarand, to go over our itinerary, share packing tips, and get organized.

Message me or comment here if you are ready to sign up for the trip, or if you want to come to the Info Session this Sunday.

You will make new friends, eat amazing food, see sloths, get to lay on the beach, go on a chocolate tour, get a massage, do lots of nourishing yoga, and meet a whole new version of yourself.

You belong on this trip.

01/28/2026

This photo shows the first time I ever really floated in Crow Pose. It was 2023 and I was determined. When I finally managed to float, I was ecstatic! I might have even cried a little.

3 years later.

I have so many things to say about my form, tips I'd like to offer, adjustments that would make this pose stronger and more comfortable. (All my helpful comments are listed in the photo caption.)

BUT... mad props to the younger me for doing Crow Pose!

I weigh more now and I'm not as strong because I'm coming off almost 6 months of debilitating plantar fasciitis. I can't quite float in Crow today. But my ability to TEACH Crow Pose now is 10x's better.

I'm just here to tell myself, "Good job, Cookie!"

For trying.
For being brave.
For learning.
For refining.
For accepting.
For non-self-judgement.
For improving my teaching.
For accepting my current body.
For loving both my 2023 self and my 2026 self.

Life lessons learned on the mat that translate off the mat.

*It's not about doing it "right."
There's no perfection, only progress. We learn through trying, even if we can't ever do things well.

*If you're not on the mat next to me, working on your own Crow, or standing beside me spotting and offering supportive encouragement, or mentoring me with real tips that will help me, I'm not interested in your feedback about my pose.

*I don't have to do Crow Pose. It means absolutely nothing to my everyday existence. There is nothing intrinsically important or useful about floating in Crow Pose. It's about the lessons I learned on the journey. The journey is the whole point. Not the pose.

*Cheering for myself in every phase of learning, all the way through my journey, irrespective of the outcome, is a non-negotiable for me now.

*I'm totally comfortable looking back on my previous failures, or imperfect tries, and celebrating those, too!

I am the real Joy behind RealJoy Yoga. Come study with me. Body. Mind. Spirit.
Journey...

PS: No AI was used for ANY part of this post.

01/27/2026

Conversely, if you could give your body to someone else for a year to take care of it, who would you give it to and why?

Many of us literally take better care of our PETS than we do of ourselves.

01/26/2026

LPS is closed due to snow so our 10am Monday Yoga Basics class is canceled today.

Evening classes will go on as scheduled. See you tonight!