Bhakti Yoga DC

11/16/2025

Sicily with Gopi Kinnicutt & Rob Hess – this summer! 🌊

Waves of Devotion in Motion, a summer retreat you’ll long for … helping to ease the cold winter months.

📆 June 21st - June28th, 2026.

Over the course of a week, Gopi and Robb will guide you through an exploration of the many layers of the self—surfing not only the waves of the sea but also the waves of life. Through carefully crafted yoga practices, meditation, and embodied movement, you’ll be invited to return to your most authentic state of well-being.

Join us in Sicily! https://www.wetravel.com/trips/gopi-and-rob-flows-in-sicily-gopi-kinnicutt-00570077

11/15/2025

2026 200 HR Yoga Teacher Training ✨ ❗️🦚

Welcome to Bhakti Yoga DC's one-of-a-kind 200-hour Teacher Training Program, where we offer a transformative curriculum designed to empower you on your yoga journey. Our comprehensive study encompasses yoga postures, philosophy, and lifestyle, providing you with the tools to deepen your personal practice and nurture your body and mind through breath and movement. Through this immersive experience, you'll also learn how to share this wisdom with others, becoming a compassionate and knowledgeable yoga teacher.

The training consists of intensive weekends, allowing you to fully immerse yourself in the practice, as well as BYDC philosophy nights to delve into the deeper spiritual/philosophical aspects of yoga. Throughout the program, you'll be challenged and inspired with homework requirements, including two essays, personal reading, creating class sequences, teaching practice and summaries, class observation, and assisting classes.

See the upcoming dates and further details below to take the first step towards your transformative journey as a certified yoga teacher. We can’t wait to have you! 🙏🏽

Sign up here - https://www.bhaktiyogadc.com/200-hr-ytt

11/14/2025

You may have heard the invitation to explore the quest within the question during one of our yoga classes Who are you? Who are you not? 💕🙏

A few words expressing our mission & wider commitment below ⬇

Our Mission : ✨🌟
Bhakti Yoga DC serves to empower individuals with conscious lifestyle practices that transform mind, body and heart. We provide our students an empowering spiritual experience and holistic health care/coaching through dynamic healing yoga, mantra, meditation, kirtan and philosophy delivered within an authentic spiritual community that serves to build deep and loving relationships.

Our Wider Commitment: 🌍
Bhakti Yoga DC is committed to creating a space rooted in dignity, inclusion, and reverence—for our students, our neighbors, and the sacred lineages of yoga itself.
Our building once served as a homeless women’s shelter, and we continue that legacy of service by working closely with individuals experiencing housing insecurity in our local community.

We also recognize that we teach and gather on the ancestral lands of the Nacotchtank (Anacostan) and Piscataway peoples, and that this city is shaped by histories of displacement and forced labor. Rather than offering a decontextualized or commodified version of yoga, we aim to honor its cultural origins and share it in a spirit of devotion and integrity.

11/14/2025

Curious about learning the art of Kirtan? Learn the foundations in just a few weeks at Bhakti Yoga DC with Ananda Murari das 🎶🎵🎼🎸🎹

Drawing from his years in monastic life and his evolution as a father and musician, Ananda Murari's offerings explore the tension between seeking and surrender, the heart’s struggles, and the beauty of faith through song. His grounded presence and intimate storytelling invite deep connection, inner stillness, and joyful expression through chanting.

Whether you're new to kirtan or a longtime practitioner, this immersive weekend is an opportunity to awaken your voice, soften your heart, and reconnect with what matters most.

All are welcome. No musical experience necessary.
Link here - https://www.wellnessliving.com/rs/event/bhaktiyogadc?k_class=801743&k_class_tab=58341
Counts as +20 hours RYS Credit for 300-Hr Teacher Training Certifications

11/12/2025

Come Rest & Restore this Winter Season ❄️

Join us for Deep Rest, an in-person restorative workshop at Bhakti Yoga DC in Washington DC, hosted by Path Wellbeing Founder Kirsten Ahern. This workshop blends nourishing and supportive postures with marma therapy (energetic vital point therapy) and aromatherapy to achieve a state of deep release and renewal. At the entrance to Vata Season, when erratic and busy energy can lead to excess stress and activity, intentional rest provides much needed equilibrium to the nervous system, the mind and the body.

Energetic alignment through marma point activation and guided marma nidra (a practice of yoga nidra through the marma points) promotes physiological equilibrium, cellular renewal & deep healing. Includes a customized aromatherapy massage oil to take home, an Ayurvedic adaptogenic snack, and a free marma point guide.

Book your spot here - https://www.wellnessliving.com/rs/event/bhaktiyogadc?k_class=734266&k_class_tab=58341

11/12/2025

SUNDAY! A SPECIAL MUSICAL OPPORTUNITY 💕

Sun., Nov. 16 at 7 pm, we'll host flutist John Wubbenhorst for a meditative presentation of Indian ragas. Come listen and enjoy.

Link here - https://www.wellnessliving.com/rs/event/bhaktiyogadc?k_class=859485&k_class_tab=58341

11/11/2025

JUST ANNOUNCED! OCTOBER 2026 INDIA RETREAT 🙏

Visit Mayapur in West Bengal, where a mantra revolution began centuries ago, and Vrindavan and Govardhan, the area where Krishna grew up, and pilgrims continue to gather. This India trip will focus on some of the holiest, most inspiring sites in the country.

Visit Mayapur in West Bengal, where a mantra revolution began centuries ago, and Vrindavan and Govardhan, the area where Krishna grew up and pilgrims continue to gather.

Traveling to India with Gopi is a spiritual, intense, transformative experience! Join her for this heart-opening journey in October.

Link here - https://www.wetravel.com/trips/uncovering-the-mysticism-of-india-gopi-kinnicutt-10640604

11/09/2025

BYDC Sound Bath | Relax & Refresh with Soothing Sound Vibrations 💕

Join us tonight! Treat yourself to this deeply relaxing experience.
Sunday, November 9th | 7 – 8:30 PM @ Bhakti Yoga DC

Immerse yourself in the soothing vibrations of a Sound Bath at Bhakti Yoga DC, now with rotating guest artists to make each session unique. This deeply restorative experience invites you to relax into gentle waves of sound created by crystal singing bowls, gongs, live music, poetry, and other creative healing arts.

As harmonic frequencies and artistic expression wash over you, they support a state of deep relaxation, calming the mind, releasing tension, and restoring balance to your energetic body. Some weeks may feature live musicians, spoken word, or astrology-inspired themes, each offering a fresh journey inward. No prior experience is needed, just bring your curiosity and an open heart.

Link here to sign up, join us - https://www.bhaktiyogadc.com/workshops-events

11/08/2025

A Mantra Kirtan Immersion to the heart of Kirtan

Across the land, temple bells ring and sacred chanting echoes through the streets. Cymbals and drums resound in the distance, calling the soul toward its quest for life and the exploration of love. Gopi will not be taking you on a tourist’s journey, but that of a pilgrim. This time, she will be taking those deep spiritual seekers into the villages, where the secrets of sacred sound and mantra were revealed and given form in Mayapur, West Bengal—the birthplace of Sri Chaitanya, the divine Avatar of Love. He revived and made accessible the most powerful love mantra, a vibration now heard in yoga studios and whispered in private meditation across the world. These mantras awaken the deep, forgotten love that every heart yearns to remember.

A Mantra Kirtan Immersion to the heart of Kirtan Across the land, temple bells ring and sacred chanting echoes through the streets. Cymbals and drums resound in the distance, calling the soul toward its quest for life and the exploration of love. Gopi will not be taking you on a tourist’s journey,...

11/08/2025

Kirtan with Ananda Murari Das
📆 November 22nd | 7 - 9 PM

Join us for a special evening of kirtan with Ananda Murari das — songwriter, former monk, and devotional artist known for his deeply moving, heart-centered music.

Through soulful melodies and sacred mantra, Ananda Murari weaves together stories of devotion, vulnerability, and the beauty of faith. His grounded presence and luminous voice create a space for both reflection and release — where the heart opens and the spirit feels free to sing.

This evening gathering is part of our Kirtan Immersion Weekend, but is also open to the public as a standalone event. Whether you’re new to chanting or an experienced practitioner, come as you are and let the power of sacred sound carry you inward.

Link here to join us, and reserve your spot! 🙏🏻https://www.wellnessliving.com/rs/event/bhaktiyogadc?k_business=145144&k_class_tab=58341&uid=0&id_class_tab=2

11/07/2025

Come As You Are 💕

At Bhakti Yoga DC, yoga is more than movement — it is a path of connection, transformation, and devotion. Whether you are stepping onto the mat for the first time or continuing a lifelong journey, you’ll find a community that welcomes you exactly where you are.

We believe true yoga unites the physical and the spiritual. Our classes are designed to strengthen the body, steady the mind, and open the heart — offering both challenge and support along the way. Here, practice becomes a way to grow not just in postures, but in awareness, compassion, and joy.

We hold six core pillars of practice, each offering its own doorway into transformation:
• Yoga Asana — movement, strength, balance, and creativity in the body.
• Pranayama — breathwork to calm, energize, and center the mind.
• Meditation — cultivating inner stillness and clarity.
• Kirtan — the joyful practice of sacred chanting in community.
• Satsang — gathering in truth for wisdom, conversation, and connection.
• Spiritual Education — study and reflection on yoga philosophy and tradition.

Together, these practices form a holistic path: grounding in the physical, expanding through the spiritual, and uniting in the heart.

11/06/2025

Waves of Devotion in Motion 🌊
with Gopi Kinnicutt And Rob Hess.

Another amazing yoga adventure awaits with Master Yoga Teacher Gopi and Robb Hess in Sicily. Join us for another unforgettable yoga adventure in the heart of Sicily. Nestled at Floripa, a unique yoga and kite-surfing retreat center just steps away from the Mediterranean Sea, this retreat blends the power of practice with the playful spirit of the ocean.

📆 June 21st - June28th, 2026.

Over the course of a week, Gopi and Robb will guide you through an exploration of the many layers of the self—surfing not only the waves of the sea but also the waves of life. Through carefully crafted yoga practices, meditation, and embodied movement, you’ll be invited to return to your most authentic state of well-being.

Join us in Sicily! https://www.wetravel.com/trips/gopi-and-rob-flows-in-sicily-gopi-kinnicutt-00570077