It is easy to spot the conventionally beautiful: a stunning sunset, the film star on the red carpet, a grand and snow-capped mountain peak. More challenging, and possibly far more rewarding, is to be awakened and awed by wherever we cast our gaze: a scattering of pebbles catching the morning light on the driveway, the way the grocery employee carefully stacked the red peppers, the homemade protest poster proclaiming the dignity of all human beings, or the bright bold yellow dandelion in a field mix of grass and clover.
Read moreFinding kindness: One student's grateful story
My first class at Sun & Moon was Prenatal Yoga with Maureen in 2007 when I was new to Arlington and pregnant with my first daughter. This was my first taste of the community and support found here. I fully credit this class with giving me the confidence and mental skills that I needed to have my second baby without meds (due to complications with the first).
Read moreHow a Trip to Costco Healed My Hip Pain
Recently I woke up with sudden and severe hip pain. Maybe I had slept in a strange position, or maybe my body was trying to tell me something I hadn’t yet realized. The pain was sharp at certain angles, deep and hard to describe. It was intense enough that I knew I needed help
Read moreSpring Into Yoga: Renew, Rebalance, Reenergize
As we watch the buds push out of tree branches and blossom in all manner of pink, purple, and plum, it rings true that spring is the season of renewal, even with a sharp chill and the discomfort of uncertainty blowing in the remaining March breeze. With a refreshing yoga practice that awakens both body and mind, we can meet all of it – the chill, the unknown, and the blossoming of nature – with the intention and capacity to reconnect, rebalance, and reenergize.
Opening an Inner Gate
One of the most rewarding things about yoga is that it meets you where you are, like a GPS app whose only setting is the one that activates when you bring mindfulness to meet it.
I came into Melissa’s class on Saturday with lower back ache. Nothing new there as I age — sometimes it takes hours for the stiffness to wear off. I knew I would leave her class better than I came in. Melissa is calm and kind, her guidance is precise and her class is the perfect kickstart to the weekend.
Read moreSpringing free of expectations
This morning I noticed one small daffodil blooming in my backyard. It seems out of sync with its garden-mates, revealing its yellow sooner than the rest. It reminded me how capricious spring can be. One minute I'm bundling up in a wool hat and puffy coat, the next I'm pulling off layers and feeling a sweet breeze on bare arms. Even as we have notions of spring as the giver of new warmth and fresh starts, it can also be the taker-away of expectations and assumptions. This is a season full of prickly unpredictability.
Read moreIntroducing the Sun & Moon Community Bank
We want people to get to yoga during this stressful time, so if your ability to do so is hampered by current circumstances, this resource is for you. The values and commitments of the yoga tradition are unambiguous: in yoga, we avoid harm, repair it when it happens, seek and express truth, and share in abundance for the benefit of all beings. In this spirit, we are pleased to announce the Sun & Moon Community Yoga Bank, a repository of free yoga class passes for those with current financial needs.
Read moreShelter from the storm
We may not have crayons and story-time here at the studio, but we have the hallmarks of supportive and nurturing space: trained and caring teachers, the compassionate understanding of peers, and the warm embrace of community.
Read moreA warm winter welcome for yoga in Fairfax
Our Fairfax studio sparkles this winter with a new schedule full of classes sure to illuminate your inner being.
Read moreTune in during the winter holidays
Join us for hour-long pop-up classes while we're on break from our regular schedule. Choose the theme that will help you tune in to your best self during the holiday season, and set you up for a great new year to follow. $15 to drop-in, or use your current Flex or Bliss pass to attend. Bring a friend or the whole family. We can't wait to breathe, stretch, and connect with you.
Read morePolish your mind-sight
These mindful practices are like taking a soft cloth and wiping the smudges off the window of our busy brains. In this way, we polish our perspective, making room for extra wisdom, patience, and compassion.
Read moreFree morning yoga in the park
Join us this Friday July 12 at 8am in Old Town Square Park as Fox5DC features Sun & Moon for its weekly #Fox5ZipTrip series. Come out for breathing and stretching before the day gets too hot. Terry Strayer will be teaching an accessible, all-levels class, and we'd love for you to come along.
Read moreThanks for singing our praises!
"I've been attending Sun & Moon for over five years and worked with several instructors. When somebody asked me which was my favorite instructor, I thought about it for a moment and said, 'I don't know, which is your favorite Beatles song?"
Read moreJuly Fourth Pop-Up Class
While traditionally we associate gratitude with the Thanksgiving holiday, the Fourth of July presents another occasion to do so. We can pause and remember that freedom in a democracy depends on each one of us to exercise our voting rights in free and fair elections, which can't be taken for granted.
Read moreSacred Threads: The Story of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras
Join us for this six-week series of myth-busting, story-telling, meditation-inspiring, and sacred-text-decoding with Annie Moyer, Master of Divinity student and longtime fan of Patanjali’s 196 aphorisms on Yoga and all it means.
Read moreThe sun, the moon, and us mere mortals
I've often wondered what early humans must have thought during a solar eclipse. Were they terrified? Did they fall to their knees in awe and wonder, begging the universe for mercy? Or dance wildly in the fields, abandoning their toil in the majesty of the moment?
Read moreCast your vision for weekly well-being in 2024
In general, the time you carve out for yourself may be scarce; in yoga, this time can be sacred, especially when it's earmarked in your calendar each week.
Read moreSomething big is arising this winter
In addition to our standard variety of hatha and vinyasa, we're thrilled to include some new ways to warm up, build strength, and strenuously exert mind, body, and heart.
Read moreThanks and giving: free yoga and food drive on Thanksgiving morning
Join us on Thanksgiving morning and choose from three options of a 60-minute easy practice to put you in just the right state of mind/body/heart for a day of feasting on great food and gratitude. Donations of food or funds for AFAC and Britepaths.
Read moreCooking potatoes: Moving from grim to grace
Troubling emotions can be likened to raw potatoes, inedible in their current state, but subject to transformation when effort and intention are applied.
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