Union Yoga

03/18/2022

Classes end April 23rd.
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It is time for me to acknowledge that what we had was beautiful and rich and captured a rare and special moment in time. It is now time to move on. As I have returned to school and returned to employment in the tech industry, I need to draw inward. It feels best to protect and hone my yoga - to fill my own cup while I am challenged & grow in new ways. I find my life is lived in spirals rather than linearly: learning, engaging, drawing in, revisiting and around again. It is my hope that you’ll continue your own practice in the art of subtle.

Yoga is a powerful tool to help us see beyond what our mind views as reality - to connect more deeply and better understand ourselves and the outer world - to see that we are more alike than Other. Rather than Tune In, Turn On and Drop Out (Timothy Leary), I hope we can Tune In, Turn On and Engage more fully - with compassion, playfulness and awe.

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Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver

01/21/2022

This is the week when I understood that I had not outgrown my yoga. It was not tired and listless as I imagined it to be. It has been waiting for me to go deeper into my own practice.
This photo is a moment before the North Shore wave sloshed into me and soaked my shorts. The waves in Hawaii don’t look too different from the waves in California until you get perspective - step back, draw in and see, the dots in the distance are surfers riding waves. I have been looking too closely at my yoga practice and expecting it to be something safe as it was in the past. This is not how yoga works. Yoga reveals just enough of what we need to see, not just what we want to see. That big difference has given me a new perspective once again.

01/01/2022

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Jan 1st Flow 9am Beannacht (New Year Blessing) – John O’Donohue On the day when The weight deadens On your shoulders And you stumble, May the clay dance To balance you. And when your eyes Freeze behin

12/20/2021

Rebekah Finn

Mantra is a tool for the mind. But in Rebekah Finn's hands, it’s an art.

12/07/2021

Yoga Curious? If you are new to yoga, your doctor or golf partner suggested you take up yoga, or you have taken a few classes and want to better understand the practice, this is for you. This Saturday, 10:30-12:30 a small group of us will meet at in Seaside to talk about the different approaches and styles, what yoga is and is not, how & when to use props, how to find your teachers and we will move and practice throughout. $40, sign up link in bio.

12/06/2021

There seems to be two types of people in winter: Those who say they can’t get motivated to come to yoga because it is chilly and dark outside and then there are those who dive into the routine of evening yoga because they know if they stay home, they’ll just lay on the couch. Honestly, I’m a bit of a dabbler but this time of year, I look forward to Friday 6pm yin all week long and it never dissappoints. Hope to see you for a warming flow, stretch or yin class soon.

Gift cards are available on Arketa, link in bio to make a purchase or contact me directly via DM.

Saturday, December 11, 10:30am-1:30pm: INTRO TO YOGA WORKSHOP
This workshop covers the basics in what yoga is and what it is not, styles of yoga from Bikram to restorative and how to find your style, prop usage, key poses and sampler practice. Modifications offered.

IN PERSON:
Union Yoga @ Elektren Studio
1572 Del Monte Blvd, Seaside, CA
Elektrenstudio.com

Thursday: 6-7P The Stretch
Friday: 9-10A Level 2-3 Flow
Friday: 6-7:15P Yin & Restore
Saturday: 8:30-9:30 Level 2 Flow

Can’t decide between home or yoga? Voila!
STREAMING:
Tuesday: 7-8AM Foundations
Friday: 7-8AM Foundations
Sunday: 8-9AM Foundations

11/29/2021

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11/29/2021

It really is this simple. You may regularly join The Stretch, yoga classes online or in person and I want to support your practice. I am here for it. Class packs don’t expire so today is the day to stock up. Class packs rarely go on sale.
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Use code MONDAY20
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Gift certificates are also available.

11/24/2021

Sunday, Nov 28th at 11am! Sign up through Scratch.

Looking for something to do after thanksgiving dinner? Come out to our next Yoga and Bubbles event! We will be featuring for a relaxing and grounding yoga session, followed by some Blanc de Balnc! In compliance with our partnership, we will require everyone participating to bring in proof of vaccination. Come on by with your family after the holiday and do some Yoga! See you all November 28th at 11am!

11/23/2021

Happy Thanksgiving! Sign up now: https://conta.cc/3oTS9Wk Donation based Live music Thanksgiving Yoga - Proceeds going to the FoodBank of Monterey County. Classes offered throughout the weekend.

10/26/2021

Thank you for providing the space for me to stream my Sunday morning Foundations class. I look forward to offering a yin/restorative workshop with you in the next few months.

For those of you on the eastside of Seattle, check out this hidden sanctuary in Redmond. 💕