Cultivate Yoga MKE, Milwaukee, WI (2025)

11/09/2025

⭐ NEXT SUNDAY! ⭐
~ Space is limited, register today! ~
(and if you can, please share/help spread the word!)

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✨ New class!! ✨

Are you a parent or caregiver who needs a break? Maybe a little time to take care of your mind and body... and get some peace and quiet away from your tiny human? Do you wish you could go to yoga but it's hard to find childcare? Look no further!

Join Misa and Holly for this unique yoga offering - parents/caregivers will be led through a gentle restorative yoga class upstairs, designed to release some of the stress of parenting and refill your cup, while kids will be led through a kids yoga class combining poses and games/activities to practice mindfulness in a fun and engaging way. Both kids and grown-ups will get an hour to reconnect with their body, breath, and release some stress.

Suggested age range for kids is 3-12 years old. All abilities and levels of experience welcome (for kids and grown-ups!). Please bring one mat per participant. Mats also available to borrow. If you have any questions about whether this class is a good fit for your child, please email Holly at CultivateYogaMKE@gmail.com.

$35 for one adult + one child (additional child can join for an additional $15)
Space is limited! Register at https://www.healiumhotyoga.com/happenings/restorativeforbigsyogaforkids )

(Note: Neither kid nor adult class will be heated.)

Healium Hot Yoga Yogi Mama MKE

11/04/2025

Going back to basics with this month’s theme of: 💚 GRATITUDE 💚.

Since folks are often talking about gratitude around this time of year, I figure I’d lean into it. Not for the purpose of celebrating the white-washed colonist holiday, and not to promote toxic positivity (i.e. I’m not asking anyone to ignore the darkness around us and pretend only to see the positive). The reason to talk about gratitude is because I truly believe it is one of the simplest and most effective tools for both kids and adults to promote mental health and wellness. By noticing the basic needs we have met, the small moments of joy, the glimmers of magic all around us, we are (re-)orienting to the positive. It’s easy to focus our attention on all that needs to be “fixed”, worrying about the problems around us (though it’s an innate survival instinct and makes sense). AND we also have the option to take note of and give even just a little attention daily to all that’s “right” around us. Neuroscience confirms this as a useful skill - you’re literally rewiring your brain when you consistently practice gratitude - training your mind to more automatically see and focus on the “good”.

I’ll be the first to admit how important it is to not ignore the problems - I want to fix them too. And we can spend a huge chunk of our time and energy calling attention to, addressing, and working to remedy the problems. But we also need to refill our cups or we risk burnout. Attuning to that which you are grateful for is an easy way to do that, and a simple task to fit into your daily life. Noticing the good helps your mind/body/spirit feel safe and nourished, and more able to address the problems from a place of love, compassion, and integrity. (And by problems I’m talking anywhere from global warming to your toddler having a meltdown about what shoes they’re wearing). 😅💖

So this month let’s gift ourselves and our little ones the joy of gratitude. I invite you to:

💕 Build gratitude into your daily life - start your day noticing 5 things you’re grateful for, and/or let it be the last thing you think about before falling asleep. Maybe you do practice this with your kid(s) at bedtime.

💕 Consider building gratitude into your mealtime (even just dinner). When you start naming all the gifts of nature and human labor that it took to get the food on your plate, you really can’t help but be amazed by the miracle of the meal in front of you.

💕 When things get rough, remember you can see and feel all the challenges, *and* also notice the good. Hold space for that duality and complexity of life. Model it for your kids. When things didn’t go as planned or one of you is having big feelings, you might stop and notice 3 beautiful things around you. Or feel the miracle of your breath, with gratitude you’re alive. You can feel the support of the earth under your feet, and feel grateful for your safety and shelter.

💕 Remember that gratitude is not about comparing or feeling guilt due to comparative suffering. Rather, we practice gratitude so that we remember/see the abundance we have, feeling full enough of time, energy, money, objects, etc. that we then naturally want to share those resources with others.
This month you can find me at:
🍁Tippecanoe Library Family Yoga - Sat 11/8 at 10 am
🍁Healium - Restorative for Bigs and Yoga for Kids - Sun 11/16 at 3:30 pm

Save the dates for December:
🍁Next Kids Yoga session with MKE Rec starts 12/1
🍁Next Tippecanoe Library Family Yoga is Sat 12/6
🍁Next Healium Yoga Together is Sun 12/7

10/26/2025

Mark your calendar for these upcoming Tippecanoe Library Family Yoga dates!

>>✨ Saturday November 8 at 10 am ✨

10/16/2025

✨ New class!! ✨

Are you a parent or caregiver who needs a break? Maybe a little time to take care of your mind and body... and get some peace and quiet away from your tiny human? Do you wish you could go to yoga but it's hard to find childcare? Look no further!

Join Misa and Holly for this unique yoga offering - parents/caregivers will be led through a gentle restorative yoga class upstairs, designed to release some of the stress of parenting and refill your cup, while kids will be led through a kids yoga class combining poses and games/activities to practice mindfulness in a fun and engaging way. Both kids and grown-ups will get an hour to reconnect with their body, breath, and release some stress.

Suggested age range for kids is 3-12 years old. All abilities and levels of experience welcome (for kids and grown-ups!). Please bring one mat per participant. Mats also available to borrow. If you have any questions about whether this class is a good fit for your child, please email Holly at CultivateYogaMKE@gmail.com.

$35 for one adult + one child (additional child can join for an additional $15)
Space is limited! Register at https://www.healiumhotyoga.com/happenings/restorativeforbigsyogaforkids

(Note: Neither kid nor adult class will be heated.)

Healium Hot Yoga Yogi Mama MKE

10/09/2025

Two opportunities to join me with your little one this weekend!🥰:

🍂Tippecanoe Library Family Yoga: Sat. 10/11 at 10 am

🍂 Healium Yoga Together: Sun. 10/12 at 3:30 pm

We'll be practicing strategies for how to shift your mood when you're feeling stuck or frustrated. Or how to pivot when things didn't go as you planned/hoped. I think most of our kids AND us grown-ups could use this practice! 💗 Of course, all while getting to move our bodies, learn the tools of yoga, and having fun via games, stories, and a craft!

10/02/2025

After a little pause for breath in September, I’m back! This month’s theme is: SHIFT.

Does this sound familiar?: Your little one is happily playing, but then the tower they’re building keeps collapsing. You can see how they had a vision that they just don’t want to let go of, but the plan they had in mind simply isn’t going to work out…

Maybe you have a school age kid and they were really looking forward to this school year - they planned to join a certain team/club or hoped to have a certain teacher or friend in their class, but then things didn’t go as they hoped. The big plan they built up in their minds didn’t come to fruition, and now they’re distraught, not sure how to move forward since reality didn’t align with their vision.

Or maybe you had an expectation of how this year (or month, or day) was going to go. But then life threw a curveball at you (or multiple). Maybe you had a certain way of being that felt comfortable and was working well, but some loss came your way and now you’re finding that you have to adjust - finding a new way of moving through life, one day at a time.

Whether it’s a seemingly minor (to us) setback like the tower of blocks falling, or you’ve suffered a bigger life-changing loss this year - all these situations are calling us to shift. To practice aparigraha (non-grasping) and let go of the plan that we sometimes are clinging so tightly to. To unclench your fist, fingers outstretched palm-up, open and willing to accept whatever comes next. It requires a shift in our perspective, to see that the problem is not the curveball that life threw at us; the problem is actually the wanting of life to be a certain way. How can we cultivate an attitude of open-hearted acceptance to whatever the universe has in store for us?

In class this month we’ll practice letting go. Finding a groove and then switching it up when we have to pivot. We’ll practice what to do if something goes “wrong” and big feelings surface, how we might shift our mood. Instead of getting stuck in our feelings, ruminating on the past, or feeling down wishing things were a different way, we’ll practice strategies to shift our mood using the breath and the body.

This month I invite you to:
💫 Literally shake things up when you’re feeling stuck, or having a hard time letting something go. Shake your hands, shake your head, shake your hips. Bounce on the trampoline, or jump up and down a few times if you don't have one. Invite your little ones to do the same.
💫 Try shifting your environment to shift your mood. Maybe stepping outside just for a moment is all you need. Perhaps allowing the wind to blow away that which is no longer serving you. Or maybe try just carrying those blocks your kid is building with (or the laptop you’ve been working on) to a different room of the house. Or probably better yet, set the block or laptop down, try a different activity for a bit, and see how things go when you come back to your project later (maybe you find you don’t even want/need to pick it back up).
💫 Try to notice your thoughts. Notice the plans and visions and expectations in your head, and remind yourself that not all thoughts are true and not all plans become reality. Allow the thoughts to come and go. Trust that if the idea or plan was a really good one that was meant to be, it’ll come back to you.
💫 Give yourself some grace (and model this for your kids). Many folks have had big changes and losses in their lives this year. On a national and global scale we know this is true as well. Remember you’re not alone, and having to shift and change is neither comfortable nor easy. I think we’re all just learning and practicing how to shift with grace, just as yoga is practice.

This month you can find me at:
🌚 Tippecanoe Library Family Yoga - Sat. Oct 11 at 10 am
🌚 Healium Yoga Together - Sun. Oct 12 at 3:30 pm
🌚*New class* Adventure Rock Kids Yoga (6 week series) - Weds 4:30 pm (Oct 8 - Nov 12), ages 6-11

And in the background I’m also:
🦋 Teaching MKE Rec Kids Yoga (all year, Mons 4:45 pm, ages 7-11)
🦋 Teaching Emoji Yogi to kindergarteners in schools through Danceworks

09/26/2025

Family Yoga is back next month at Tippecanoe Library! 🍂

🍁 Saturday October 11 at 10 am 🍁

✨This class is free, no registration needed. ✨

Please bring one mat per person if you have them; I will have a handful to borrow as well. Class is a total of 1 hour long, with the last 15 minutes as time for a craft so folks can mingle and chat. 🥰

This class is my usual parent/caregiver + child type of class:
Children 2-7 years old (ish!) and their caregivers are invited to practice mindfulness through a variety of physical yoga poses, breath practices, stories, games, and activities to cultivate connection with the body, breath, emotions and each other. All experiences and levels are welcome.

Hope to see you there!

09/18/2025

✨New class! ✨ Join me for:

KIDS YOGA (6 week series)
WEDNESDAYS MKE
4:30-5:30 PM
🌟 *Kids and parent/guardian climb for free each week!* 🌟

Class Dates:
10/8, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12

In this 6-week program, kids ages 6-11 will practice using the tools of yoga to release some after-school energy while also learning about mindfulness. Each week we’ll build physical skills like stretching, strengthening, flexibility, and balance, while also building social emotional skills like confidence, creativity, and self-regulation. Fun games, activities, and team-building challenges are woven throughout each sequence of yoga poses.

Each kid will receive a day pass to climb before or after class, as well as a day pass for their parent/guardian to climb before/during/after class as well!

Register at AdventureRock.com! Space is limited.

09/13/2025

Join me at Healium Hot Yoga on Sunday, October 12th from 3:30 -4:30 pm!

In this class for little ones ages 2 to 6, kids and their grown-ups will use physical poses, mindfulness practices, and games and activities to practice connecting with their bodies, breath, and with each other.

Each child must attend with at least one adult. $18 per child. Adults are welcome to attend with multiple children - please email info@healiumhotyoga.com to arrange for additional child sign-up and payment.

All abilities and levels of experience welcome (for kids and grown-ups!). Please bring one mat per participant. Mats also available to borrow. If you have any questions about whether this class is a good fit for your child, please email Holly at CultivateYogaMKE@gmail.com.

This class usually fills up - register soon at: https://www.healiumhotyoga.com/happenings/yogatogetheroct2025

***Class will not be heated***

Healium Hot Yoga

08/28/2025

In honor of this month's theme of gratitude for nature, I wanted to share about some of the cool plants I have chosen to "cultivate" in my yard by welcoming them to stay after they invited themselves to the party:

(Pictured in order. Please know am I not a trained herbalist, this is just info I've learned.)

1. Goosefoot - this friend goes by many names because it grows all over the world. A member of the amaranth family, it's related to "superfoods" like quinoa. The leaves can be eaten in the same way as spinach, and the seeds can be used as a wild grain. Instead of struggling to grow spinach, I can get the same nutritional value from allowing this to grow instead!

2. Purslane - Used as food and medicine in many cultures, across all continents (except Antarctica), purslane is super nutritious. Another substitute for spinach, you can eat the leaves and stems (and flowers) fresh in salads, or toss it into soups and stews (great for thickening your soup, since it's mucilaginous). It's cool, gooey insides can be used kind of like aloe for burns and cuts too. Even if I don't eat it often, I keep it in my veggie garden as a living mulch/groundcover!

3. Wood sorrel - this friend looks a bit like clover in the leaves, but if you know what a clover flower looks like you'll know these bright yellow flowers are telling you it's a different plant. It adds a fun tart, lemony flavor to a salad. I've read that it has been used medicinally for things like fever, nausea, and sore throat.

4. I don't know this one as well, but it's definitely interested in making itself known in my yard, so I'm going to start paying attention! Looks like catnip to me (definitely a member of the mint family), in which case I could be using it as a calming, soothing tea for the nervous system and the gut.

Friends, in case you haven't thought about it, this is a decolonized, anti-capitalist way to eat and relate to the land.

Comment below what "w**ds" you eat/use as medicine in your yard, or ones you're interested in learning more about! Or tell us if you've noticed any plants that keep coming up - maybe they're trying to tell you something/help you!

08/27/2025

Pssst - hey you! Yeah, you! What's growing in your yard / on the land where you live? Some folks believe that the native plants ("w**ds") that grow in your yard are plants that you need right now and can benefit from.

I've gotten in the habit of learning about every plant that starts to grow in my yard. When some new "w**d" pops up, I research it and learn about what it has to offer - what nutritional or medicinal purposes have indigenous people used it for? What energetic properties do herbalists say it has? What ecological benefits does it provide to the native mammals, insects, birds, and other plants in my yard?

Then with that knowledge, I make a conscious choice to keep it or remove it so that other plants can grow in that spot. This is why I chose the name "Cultivate" -- so much of our lives is about choosing what we allow to grow, and pruning back or removing that which doesn't serve us. The challenging part is the being aware, the learning, and the discerning which choice to make.

So here is a video to normalize "wild" yards. One example of what it looks like to choose not to cultivate more grass (the US's largest irrigated "crop"). It took a lot of work and time, and it's definitely not perfect, but bringing native plants back to our yard has brought us so much joy. It's a space filled with sparrows, goldfinches, our new hummingbird friend, near constant monarch visits, swallowtail butterflies, tons of helpful insects, birds, and other small mammals I'm sure are helping control "pests" that otherwise may be detrimental to our vegetable garden. It's a small act of love for the land and the plants and animals we share it with - a tiny haven where bees and butterflies can eat, chipmunks and birds can feel safe while they snack, and where native plants are replenishing and repairing the barren soil from the years of grass.

Check out my next post for a few of the native plants (AKA "w**ds") that I have learned to appreciate and use in my yard!

08/25/2025

Join me for another family yoga class at Margie's Garden (in Boerner Botanical Gardens)!

🌷 Monday September 1 at 10:30 am 🌷

Margie’s Summer Bloom events are special days at Boerner Botanical Garden's where all ticket sales support Margie's Smile, the nonprofit that created and maintains the lovely children's area at Boerner.

⭐**Please be sure to purchase tickets at https://givebutter.com/MargiesGardenSeptBloom ⭐ (instead of the regular Boerner admission) - this will get you the special discount of only *$1 admission* for children 3-12 (free for ages 2 and under) and allows all proceeds to benefit Margie's Smile.

I suggest bringing a picnic blanket or mat for you and your kiddo(s) to practice on. 😊

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Margie’s September Bloom also includes:
🌼9am - 12 pm: Highline Espresso + Tea will be serving specialty coffee drinks for purchase
🌼10:30 am -11:30 am: Family yoga and a craft with me!
🌼10 am - 12 pm: Calypso lemonade samples
🌼9 am - 12 pm: Sidewalk chalk and scavenger hunts available

Tickets must be purchased at https://givebutter.com/MargiesGardenSeptBloom to receive discounted admission. Ticket sales are nonrefundable. Margie’s Summer Bloom events are outdoor, and while they will happen rain or shine, if Boerner Botanical Gardens closes for weather, so will Margie’s Garden.

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