Personal ritual certainly has its role in navigating life – a prayer in the bathtub can never hurt – but time is the only thing we can reliably count on to carry us forward, and it doesn't serve us to bargain or argue with its pace.
Read moreA special holiday greeting
Enjoy this short video holiday greeting wishing you bright lights and beautiful moments this holiday season, from the Sun & Moon family to yours.
Read moreShining light on the shortest day
The difference between succumbing to the darkness and lifting a hopeful gaze to the light is the quality of attention we pay to any given moment. It is light, after all, that creates shadow in the first place, and if we linger long enough in any moment, its shadows will point us to the beam shining at every tunnel's end.
Read moreGetting in tune
As our fall season winds to a close on Sunday Dec 19, take some time to TUNE IN between then and the new year. Our annual holiday tune-in schedule is back, with some fun and festive opportunities to get in just the right amount of yoga while the rest of holiday activity swirls around.
Read moreThank you for voting us Best Yoga Studio!
Thank you so very much to our wonderful community for once again voting us BEST YOGA STUDIO in Arlington Magazine's reader survey!
Read moreMaking friends with the cold
As we enter into Winter Number Two of Who Knows What, let us help you find support and inspiration from an accessible, refreshing, mindful practice.
Read moreHow do we know what we know?
Yoga offers insights into consciousness that help us sort our present world perceptions. With discernment and equanimity, we can avoid sliding into habitual negativity and misunderstanding.
Read moreA Tree Pose of Honest Grace
Bearing with wisdom all that we've seen over the year, standing like the autumn trees – tall, full, and colorful, we can give thanks for all the goodness, and we can also give thanks for the qualities of compassion, equanimity, and strength that allow us to meet the rest of it with honest grace.
Read moreGiving Thanks Through Yoga
In between festive meals, fire pit gatherings, or the beautiful quiet of solitude, treat yourself to a solo practice, or share your yoga with any friends or family present in your home.
Read moreGratitude
Heading into our second Covid-Times Thanksgiving, gratitude might seem abundant one moment and elusive the next.
Read moreMorning light
Early mornings can be sacred moments, wholly suspended in time, without the weight of technology, the volume of society, or the pressure of scheduled time.
Read moreLife is a balancing act
As we hone our skills to stand on one foot, to stretch for strength, to exhale at least as much as we inhale, we can keep our eyes and ears open for ways to live in balance during a time that seems anything but steady.
Read moreIt's easy to find a good teacher at Sun & Moon
A good yoga teacher nurtures a community of explorers, breathers, embodiers, and embracers of life, of self, of spirit.
Read moreCome Stretch With People Again
As caretakers of this diverse and storied tradition, 21st century yoga practitioners also have their hands full. We’re reckoning with social, economic, environmental, and political upheaval in the not-unrelated midst of a 20-month-old pandemic that has its fingerprints in all aspects of life.
Read moreShall We Dance?
Whether we feel it or not, we are always dancing. Next time the self-critical creep of laziness leaps to mind, get wise to its misinformed ways. Grant yourself permission to sit still, or lie on the ground, or wander aimlessly on a wooded path, and allow yourself to feel the inner dance of simple life
Read moreSharing the burden and the bounty
Though illness (and its remedies) is often treated as an individual experience, the pandemic's persistent interruption to our lives in 2021 is monumentally larger than any one person, and its shared collective burdens are significant.
Read moreWe're full of welcomes and gratitude this fall
Welcome to the taste of a cool, crisp morning. Gratitude for sunshine and breathable air. Welcome to new beginnings and hope for brighter seasons ahead. Gratitude for vaccines and masks to keep ourselves and each other safe and healthy.
Read moreSavoring the last bits of summer
Living in the mid-Atlantic region, we have the gift of defined seasons and their quarterly lessons in impermanence. A mainstay of this lesson is the reminder to appreciate what is, rather than wishing for what was or what's to come.
Read moreBreathing Through a Big Change
Like a chrysalis that quietly grows eyes, legs, and wings for its transformation, our vibrant Fairfax community is poised to make a graceful butterfly's landing in a new Fairfax City home in 2022. It is there that we will once again—safely and compassionately—come together in person to practice, celebrate, and honor the lessons of impermanence, non-attachment, and gratitude.
Read moreWe're Like Fireflies
The quiet space of contemplative ease is like a sturdy oak tree, standing in patient wait for us to land and soak in its magnificence.
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