Set a peaceful tone of gratitude for the season as you join Reggie for gentle movement, breathing practice, and guided sound meditation designed to prepare your body and mind for truly sound sleep. Through movement, meditation, and the calming tones of sound bowls, this practice can help you release tension, quiet mental chatter, and shift into a state of deep rest.

This afternoon community gathering is designed for support during difficult times by providing a local, low cost half day "retreat" as an opportunity to step away from house-holding commitments and the noise of everyday life in the D.C. area, and devote four hours to self care in the form of meditative and gentle movement practices, a sound experience, and silence.

Meet your desk, chair, car, and couch with skill and attention as you build the skills to sit gracefully, with strength and ease.  Join Amir for The Art of Sitting, a workshop designed to transform your relationship with your chair. Learn the practical mechanics of correct posture, discovering how to properly align your spine and pelvis to turn a detrimental habit into a therapeutic practice.

Embark on a journey of light movement, breathing, meditation, all immersed in the serene sounds of  singing bowls, healing drums, bells, chimes, rain stick, and human voice. Together we'll explore the beautiful dance between movement and stillness, the magic of this week's full moon, and the harmony between silence and sound, both within yourself and in the world around you. 

The stress of our current times can eat away at – or outright undermine – our access to joy.  Some of us may even feel guilty for having joy in hard times.  This workshop is meant to amplify being joyful, just because, for no other reason than we can and we should.  Hard times are not the end of the story, and when we hold onto joy in hard times it creates conditions for the transformation of what is weighing us down.  Reggie will offer an asana practice with soulful music, emphasize personal expression, and conclude with sound meditation.

Amir will teach you how to create a customized routine to address your specific low back dysfunctions and related pains.  He'll review the anatomy of the lower back and sacroiliac joint, as well as common misalignments, muscles spasms, compression, and disc issues. Using yoga therapeutics, as well as techniques from Egoscue, Somatics, and Thai Yoga Massage, Amir will offer tools to self-evaluate and find ease from both chronic and acute conditions.

Regularly re-setting and re-calibrating the nervous system is essential to our physical and mental health and overall wellbeing.  This session will feature chimes, Tibetan singing bowls, gongs and other instruments all offered in service to dialing down distress and amplifying ambience, ease and tranquility.

As we transition from summer into the energy of autumn, we are being called to turn inward and release things that are weighing us down. Taking cues from the season, we will experience deep rest and meditation together, re-setting our nervous system and allowing extra stress and worry to fall away. This session will feature chimes, Tibetan singing bowls, gongs and other instruments.

Compassion practices are needed now more than ever if we're to stay connected, hopeful, and resolute. When the going gets rough, even really rough, an open-hearted presence will keep us engaged for the long haul. This workshop will combine embodied movement, mindfulness meditation, contemplation, and inquiry for developing compassionate presence.

Celebrate the season of the sun with a serenade of sound. Reggie will share his meditative sonic techniques on a set of large gongs, bowls, and assorted sonic instruments, generating a profoundly healing depth of sound. 

Yoga Arose Amid Societal Turbulence: What It Can Teach Us Today. Around 2500 years ago, people living in societal stress and governmental disarray developed some of the foundational assumptions that underlie yoga practice. This workshop will explain how those precepts can assist us today in determining how to respond to the challenges of our time and place. Our discussion will be informed by the historical themes described in Timothy Snyder’s short book On Tyranny, and animated by corresponding yoga concepts and practices to support appropriate civic engagement and action. 

A thoughtfully structured afternoon of gentle, guided movement combined with extended periods of meditation and mindfulness. A sound healing session wraps up the day, using the bright resonance of gong, chimes, and crystal bowls to help us access the fullness of spring’s renewal. 

Amir's workshop is an innovative and therapeutic experience that can challenge your perceptions of the body and its ability to move with ease. Join him as he guides you through a series of specially designed yoga poses and techniques that target the knee joint and surrounding muscles, helping alleviate pain and improve flexibility.

Join Chynna and Jarrick for a deeply relaxing sound bath session to create space for exploration of the duality between movement and stillness, and between silence and sound both internally and externally. With the breath, tap into the nervous systems to settle the MindSpace and the body to facilitate a deeper state of clarity, focus and relaxation in the midst of gongs, crystal bowls, and singing bowls. 

Dearly Beloved, we will gather together this April for our Second getting-through-this-thing-called-life celebration of eclectic, weird life, that can be beautiful at times. Join Reggie Hubbard and the Sun & Moon community for a yoga class (and a quasi-dance party!) followed by a sound bath in honor of health, life, and PRINCE. Come dressed to express your creativity, ready to flow intuitively, and open to celebrating life in glorious fellowship. Plus a bonus B Side! After a sweaty party of ecstasy and awesome, Reggie will bathe us in sound, featuring gongs, crystal bowls, and antique bowls as we rest in spacious community.

Resonate with the sounds of spring as Reggie joins us once again for a nature-inspired soundscape to resonate with what is happening in the environment. Chimes, sound bowls, and other instruments will help us unwind, recharge, and get in tune and engage authentically with the April vibe that is this moment. Leave feeling rejuvenated, refreshed, and renewed.

A mindful, gentle approach to movement and stillness, fostering a deep connection between mind and body. Explore intentional stretching and contracting movements, ease into restorative and yin-inspired yoga poses, and during times of stillness, receive hands-on Reiki energy to enhance your healing experience and encourage the flow of fresh, revived energy. 

Shake loose from the slumber of winter and prepare for the energy of spring. Meet the season of clearing space, rooting, and blossoming toward a fuller expression of yourself, just like flowers, trees and wildlife will be doing all around us. Using sound bowls, gongs and other instruments, we will rest our nerves to prepare to receive and engage with spring more authentically. Leave feeling rejuvenated, refreshed, and renewed, ready for the new beginnings that spring offers. 

The shoulders are the most mobile joint in the human body, but when joint function is overly focused on mobility, stability is sacrificed as a result, and if weight bearing through the arms outside of yoga practice is not part of a yoga practitioner's repertoire, it's quite common to develop shoulder issues over time. Join Dr. C to learn more about your shoulder structure, strengths, and weaknesses, and learn to sustain a regular yoga practice for years to come. 

This workshop event is cancelled. We hope to offer it again in the Spring quarter

Auricular acupuncture involves the stimulation of specific points on the ear, which can help unblock qi (energy) in the body's meridians (energy channels) and may help with an array of conditions, including orthopedic pain, insomnia, depression and anxiety, indigestion, and more. Join the communal space, cozy with quiet voices and relaxing music, to receive a 30-minute auricular acupuncture treatment of your choice,  which will include 6-12 sterile hair-thin needles inserted into various points in your ear. One of the oldest specialized medical therapies, acupuncture dates back over 3,000 years, and is widely regarded as a wonderful tool for healing. 

As we settle into winter, this practice will allow for deep rest for mind, body and spirit - individually and collectively.  Using sound bowls, gongs, other instruments and silence, this class will be the best gift you can give yourself - a long winter's nap.  Or at least a deep meditation session....

Mindfulness, or mind-training, is the practice of being awake. By training up our ability to closely watch our mind, we become intimate with our suffering, our habitual patterns of grasping and avoiding, all the while opening a doorway to personal insight. Only when we know ourselves deeply can we relax reactive habits and live with a more open-heart. In this 4-week series, you'll practice a variety of traditional mindfulness meditation methods that calm the mind and relax the body, improve focus and concentration, develop an accepting and resilient orientation towards life's challenges, and cultivate an open-hearted and friendly attitude towards yourself and others. 

During this community clinic patients will choose from one of two treatments: one to reduce stress, or one to boost energy. In community acupuncture, many people are treated simultaneously in one large room, thus making this type of medicine more accessible to more people. Slots begin on the half hour.

Throughout human history, people have gathered together for contemplative mindfulness in times of jubilation and sorrow. Now is no different. Each monthly meditation session will include centering, presentation of the day's focus, guided meditation, silence or journaling, group discussion, and a "Zen in Ten" movement/breath practice. Attend a la carte or all four - your choice!  

During this community clinic patients will choose from one of two treatments: one to reduce stress, or one to boost energy. In community acupuncture, many people are treated simultaneously in one large room, thus making this type of medicine more accessible to more people. Slots begin on the half hour.

Ideal for anyone with tight hamstrings, sciatica, or back pain. The focus will be on isolating the backs of the legs and using yoga therapeutic techniques to bring about a greater range of motion and flexibility to the hamstrings, which can decrease any overcompensation made by the spine – often the culprit of hip strain and chronic low back pain.

During this community clinic patients will choose from one of two treatments: one to reduce stress, or one to boost energy. In community acupuncture, many people are treated simultaneously in one large room, thus making this type of medicine more accessible to more people.