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Balanced Planet Yoga is a boutique yoga studio promoting balance mind, body + soul
https://linktr.ee/balancedplanetyoga Interested in our Fall Retreat?

Join us for A Weekend at the Ashram October 21-24, 2021. Get the deets at https://view.flodesk.com/pages/60a2d7f32c1a41063f4394d9

11/14/2025

A Beginner Yoga + Nutrition Workshop with Cheryl Van Sciver & Alaina Santacroce, MS, RDN — Vita Nutrition Services

Join Cheryl Van Sciver and Registered Dietitian Alaina Santacroce for an evening designed to help you rebuild trust in your body — through movement, mindfulness, and nourishment.
We’ll begin with a gentle beginner yoga practice to help you slow down, listen inward, and approach your body with curiosity instead of judgment. Then, Alaina will lead a mindful nutrition discussion and eating experience, sharing how learning to work with your body — not against it — creates more confidence, calm, and balance around food. The evening will close with a restorative Yoga Nidra guided by Cheryl to help integrate the body-mind connection and leave you feeling grounded and nourished.

Perfect for beginners or anyone ready to feel more connected, compassionate, and confident in their own skin.

This class is included in a regular drop in price or class card. No extra fees.

About Alaina:
Alaina Santacroce, MS, RDN, is a dietitian with Vita Nutrition Services who specializes in helping clients reconnect with their bodies and find confidence with food. Her work explores the intersection of nutrition and mental health, including disordered eating and overall well-being. Alaina believes that lasting change happens when we learn to work with ourselves, not against — offering care that’s safe, respectful, and truly focused on you.

11/13/2025

Kindness starts with you. Not because you need to be perfect, but because every act of kindness you offer someone else rewires something inside you.

Yoga teaches that we’re not separate — that what we extend outward eventually shapes our inner landscape. When you show up for someone with patience, compassion, or generosity, you’re also teaching your mind what it feels like to move from abundance instead of fear.

Kindness is a form of service. And service is a form of transformation.

When you help someone feel seen, you remember that you, too, are worthy of being seen.

When you soften toward another person’s struggle, you soften toward your own.

When you choose care over convenience, dignity over defensiveness — you become someone you trust.

On World Kindness Day, offer something small to someone else — a moment, a word, a gesture. Not to be heroic, but to remember who you are when your heart leads.
Because every time you practice kindness outwardly, you come home to a better version of yourself.

11/11/2025

Sun + Moon returns this week — a class designed to bring you back into balance.
Join Cheryl Wednesday night at 8 PM for a two-part experience that nourishes both body and being.

We begin with 15 minutes of infrared Sun Salutations — a moving meditation bathed in red light. The warmth supports circulation, softens resistance in the muscles, and helps you reconnect with your physical body — the vessel that carries you through it all. This first half is about tending to what the body needs: movement, breath, and vitality.

Then, we move into 30 minutes of Yoga Nidra, the yoga of rest — a guided journey that turns your awareness inward to meet the subtler layers of self. Here, we address the needs of the internal world: to quiet the noise, soothe the nervous system, and remember our own inner stillness.

Sun + Moon is where the outer practice meets the inner one — a chance to care for both the body that moves and the consciousness that observes.

11/03/2025

Please join us in welcoming two veteran teachers onto our Monday evening schedule! Sarah will be taking over the 530P slot and bringing you Vinyasa RED - a heated vinyasa yoga. Betsy will be hosting our 645P Slow Flow Vinyasa. Both of these teachers have hundreds of hours of training and teaching.

A big thank you to the incomparable Jen Nehring for her years of service to the studio. We will be missing her terribly but sending her so much love and light as she transitions into life's next great adventure. And Katie can still be found teaching at BPY on Tuesday mornings at 915A with her co-partner Spencer!

10/31/2025

🎃 Happy Halloween from BPY! 👻 We’ve got more than just yoga magic brewing — our BPY WhatsApp Community is live! 🪄

Join us to stay up to date on all our latest tricks and treats — from pop-up classes and event drops to last-minute schedule updates and special announcements.

Inside the chat, you can:
💬 Ask questions in our Q&A thread (no question is too spooky).
✨ Send or receive Well Wishes — because community care never goes out of season.
📣 Get real-time updates straight from the studio — no ghosting, we promise.

🕸️ Tap the link in bio to join the conversation and keep BPY in your pocket wherever you go.

And if you missed it — our digital newsletter dropped yesterday! 🗞️
Didn’t get it? Send us a DM and we’ll fly it over on our digital broomstick. 🧹✨

Move. Breathe. Belong. (and maybe a little BOO!) 🧡

10/28/2025

This program is for students and teachers.

If you’re someone interested in fostering safer, more compassionate spaces, this workshop offers valuable insight and practical tools. It’s an opportunity for you to become informed about trauma theory and about what is a level 1A evidence based care for trauma— Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY). At least 70% of our population has experienced trauma, so statistically, we are all in relationship with individuals who’ve had various experiences that have left them feeling overwhelmed. And if you teach, they are participants in your class.

As students of yoga, we engage with a philosophy of well-being that encompasses many teachings. The very first words written from these teachings in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali states: “Now the practice of yoga begins.” Each word is placed intentionally, emphasizing the importance of the word “now.” Considering that trauma often disrupts our ability to remain present, TCTSY emphasizes strategies that help bring awareness to the here and now in a manner that allows people to feel safe enough to explore embodiment with awareness.

A frequently studied section from the Sutras is the Eightfold Path because this is where Patanjali outlines a way to transcend suffering. Of the eight limbs, the very first is the Yamas, or “social ethics.” The first of these ethics is Ahimsa which translates to “non-violence” or “kindness.” Being more trauma informed could be equated with practicing Ahimsa, because we become aware of how we can do less harm to our students, as well as those we are in relationship with outside of the yoga space.

You will gain clarity about trauma in this workshop and about the ways in which we can play a part in our collective healing. We will cover:

🪐Trauma theory and associated neuroscience
🪐A TCTSY practice
🪐TCTSY methodology and supporting research
🪐[4 Continuing Education credits available for Yoga Alliance Members]

10/27/2025

Step into the magic of Halloween night, when the veil is said to be thinnest and reflection comes naturally. Tracy will guide you through a soul-nourishing practice blending movement, ritual, and sound to honor both light and shadow:

✨ 20 minutes of heat to bid farewell to our brighter sun.
🌙 20 minutes of moon salutations & meditative movement to welcome the quiet season ahead.
🔔 15 minutes of gong bath & final meditation to set an intention for healing and gratitude as we enter the long night of winter.

Seasonal flowers, crystals, and oracle cards will be part of the evening, weaving beauty and reflection into your practice. Costumes are welcome if you’d like to join in the spirit of the night. Come move, reflect, and rest as we honor the journey that brought us here and ground ourselves in the comfort of gratitude.

10/24/2025

Looking to teach yin yoga? Passionate about yin and want to deepen your practice? Join Cat November 7-9 for her deeply informative program to learn all things yin. Yin yoga is not just about the poses - it is rich in philosophy and science of the entire human experience and its subtle energy system. Learn a practice that helps you tap into your body's own intuitive healing system!

And this weekend, you can sign up and SAVE! We are extending our early bird pricing for this weekend only! Use PROMO code SOCIALYIN [all caps!] and save $50.

10/23/2025

Thursdays at BPY carry their own kind of energetic current — the kind that pulses through from movement to stillness, strength to surrender.

🧘‍♀️ 9:15A Vinyasa with Heather – breath-led flow that sets the tone for your day.
💪 5:30P YBarre with Jenna – precision, pulse, and a little bit of fire.
🌙 6:45P Movement + Meditation with Kait – a practice that slows the spin and steadies the mind.
💫 8:00P Restorative + Reiki with Carly – every other week, the ultimate downshift for your nervous system.

Each class is its own experience — together, they create a rhythm that carries you from sunrise to stillness.

This is what balance looks like when you stop chasing it and start living it. ✨

10/22/2025

We have a special time slot this week for Trauma-Informed Yoga. Join Anna this Friday at 645P for this gentle practice of embodiment and personal choice. Each one of us has experienced trauma in some measure, and most, if not all, carry the pain from that trauma within our physical bodies. As emotions surface during the yoga experience, trauma-informed yoga encourages people to stay present, feel their feelings, and not dissociate from their body, which is a common trauma response. This approach helps to regulate one's nervous system, particularly the fight-or-flight response. This practice is designed to help one heal through connection, movement, and meditation.

The class will begin with an exercise in grounding, bringing one's connection to the present moment in the safe space of Balanced Planet Yoga, the home to which we are already connected. This grounding practice will move into a slow, gentle flow targeting different parts of the physical form where the scars of our traumas may be held. The practice will end with a guided meditation.

This practice is designed to help one release sadness, guilt, and shame, allowing one to openly accept love and compassion for oneself.

DISCLAIMER: This practice should not replace traditional therapy methods in any way. Instead, it is an additional tool to help you on your healing journey.

10/21/2025

Yoga isn’t always easy — especially when your body feels unfamiliar, uncooperative, or worn out from everything else you’ve asked it to do. Starting something new can feel as hard as learning to stop.

For some, it’s the challenge of slowing down after years of pushing — miles run, weights lifted, calendars packed. For others, it’s the hesitation that comes when strength or mobility doesn’t feel like it used to.

Both deserve compassion. Both are brave.

Yoga meets you exactly in that space — the crossroads between effort and ease. It teaches you to listen instead of force, to trust that change begins not with intensity, but with awareness.

You don’t have to fix your body.
You have to remember it’s already yours — capable, wise, and waiting for you to come back home to it. ✨

10/20/2025

If you’re someone interested in fostering safer, more compassionate spaces, this workshop offers valuable insight and practical tools. It’s an opportunity for you to become informed about trauma theory and about what is a level 1A evidence based care for trauma— Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY). At least 70% of our population has experienced trauma, so statistically, we are all in relationship with individuals who’ve had various experiences that have left them feeling overwhelmed. And if you teach, they are participants in your class.

As students of yoga, we engage with a philosophy of well-being that encompasses many teachings. The very first words written from these teachings in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali states: “Now the practice of yoga begins.” Each word is placed intentionally, emphasizing the importance of the word “now.” Considering that trauma often disrupts our ability to remain present, TCTSY emphasizes strategies that help bring awareness to the here and now in a manner that allows people to feel safe enough to explore embodiment with awareness.

A frequently studied section from the Sutras is the Eightfold Path because this is where Patanjali outlines a way to transcend suffering. Of the eight limbs, the very first is the Yamas, or “social ethics.” The first of these ethics is Ahimsa which translates to “non-violence” or “kindness.” Being more trauma informed could be equated with practicing Ahimsa, because we become aware of how we can do less harm to our students, as well as those we are in relationship with outside of the yoga space.

We will cover:
Trauma theory and associated neuroscience
A TCTSY practice
TCTSY methodology and supporting research
Continuing education options

By understanding trauma, you’ll be better equipped to support others—and yourself—with greater empathy, presence and skill. Engage in the conversation with us as we contribute meaningfully to a culture of healing.

Address

795 E Route 70, Ste F
Marlton, NJ
08053

Website

http://www.balancedplanetyoga.com/

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