Ahmed offers an empowering workshop to explore the practice of arm balances as he guides you through a series of poses, drills, and techniques to help build strength, confidence, and control.  You'll explore the benefits and precautions of balancing on your arms, and by the end of the afternoon, you'll have practiced, refined, and applied what you've learned in a supportive environment. This workshop is intended for anyone looking to challenge themselves and expand their practice, and for teachers seeking to deepen their knowledge and skills. Beginners are welcome!

Join Joanna Barrett, psychotherapist and Emotional Wellness Yoga teacher, for a grounding two-hour masterclass designed to help you reconnect with your inner foundation and restore steadiness, clarity, and ease. Through gentle yoga, breathwork, mindfulness, restorative practices, journaling, and self-inquiry, you’ll explore practical tools for emotional balance and nervous system regulation. Appropriate for all levels, including beginners, this supportive class offers space to rest, reflect, and reconnect.

Whimsy in Yoga invites you to rediscover the joy of movement through playful, mindful exploration. This workshop blends coordination, balance, freeform movement, and simple props to keep the practice lighthearted and fun. Together, we’ll explore hand-eye coordination, arm, hand, and wrist movements, balance challenges, and creative ways to move with curiosity rather than perfection.

Participants are encouraged to listen to their bodies, move with awareness, and give themselves grace along the way. If something doesn’t go as expected, we’ll laugh it off and keep going. This workshop is about connection, play, presence, and the freedom to enjoy movement just as it is.

Transcend the real-life barriers to home practice with practical, doable solutions. Gayle will help you explore how to start (and return to) a personal practice that fits your schedule, your space, and your energy—without pressure or perfection.

You’ll leave with simple, flexible frameworks and printed 10-, 15-, and 20-minute sequences, along with concrete strategies to help you build consistency and confidence at home.

Devoted to those moving through stress, transition, or emotional overwhelm. You may arrive feeling scattered or tense and leave feeling more anchored, centered, and steady. Through gentle yoga and mindfulness practices, students will be guided toward emotional balance using slow, grounding movement, supportive breathwork, and intentional rest.

THIS WORKSHOP IS CANCELED - WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED THIS FALL! Learn to use a foam roller in a practice that provides challenge and relaxation in a safe environment. Reduce the stress of tight muscles and constricted connective tissue, improve circulation, and enjoy accessible self-massage. We will incorporate the moves into a slow, all-levels hatha yoga class and end with restorative poses, to reinvigorate the body.

Pause to honor a "sweet spot” between the opening lift of spring and the intensity  summer will soon bring. This half-day retreat helps you spring into summer with a balanced physical practice based on the principles of active (yang) shapes and more reflective (yin) poses, a full hour of supportive silence, a delicious period of somatic movement, and a springtime shower of sound immersion to finish.

Ahmed will lead you through a comprehensive exploration of how to safely and confidently practice any level of inversion without struggle. Learn drills to build strength, control, and confidence in skills such as assisted headstands, forearm stands and handstands. Leave the workshop feeling empowered, inspired, and ready to take your inversion practice to the next level!

Explore the pelvis through a series of simple tests, visual demonstrations, and therapeutic practices drawn from yoga therapy, somatics, and the Egoscue method. Using props like blocks, the wall, and the floor as teachers, learn to identify common pelvic misalignments and feel how they influence the spine, hips, and posture. Through gentle corrective movements and practical tools, we’ll rediscover how the pelvis can once again become a stable foundation rather than a source of strain, supporting the body to sit, stand, and move with greater ease.

Learn to use a foam roller in a practice that provides challenge and relaxation in a safe environment. Reduce the stress of tight muscles and constricted connective tissue, improve circulation, and enjoy accessible self-massage. We will incorporate the moves into a slow, all-levels hatha yoga class and end with restorative poses, to reinvigorate the body.

An empowering workshop to explore the practice of arm balances. Ahmed will guide you through a series of poses, drills, and techniques to help build strength, confidence, and control. This workshop is for anyone looking to challenge themselves and expand their practice, and for teachers seeking to deepen their knowledge and skills.

Learn practical yoga therapy techniques to strengthen, stabilize, and care for the knees for safer and more comfortable movement in yoga and in life.

Yoga invites us to be fully present in the moment. While yoga is often associated with asana (physical postures), its teachings offer many more valuable tools for navigating life with greater steadiness and ease. In this last class of a four-part series, Asya invites you to the practice of mudra – using hand gestures to regulate and direct energy in the body and regulate our mood is a practice that, once learned, can be done anywhere and anytime

Demystify fascia with Catha! Learn what it is; its relationship to our nervous system; factors that impact how the fascia ages; and how yoga and other techniques can slow down the fascial aging process, improve mobility and increase overall well-being. After a brief discussion, move through a fun and enlivening practice that embodies all of this information.

Grab a buddy – couples, friends, family pairs all welcome – and join Annie and Amir to learn to give and receive an easy sequence of Thai Yoga Massage. In this unique system, the "giver" guides the "receiver" through a series of relaxed yoga postures, while palming and thumbing along the body’s energy lines and pressure points. The experience can relieve muscular tension, improve circulation, boost the immune system, and balance the body energetically. For bonus community time, join us at a local Fairfax City restaurant for dinner afterwards!

Join us for an afternoon of serenity, creativity and community. Begin with Catha Pavloff leading a 45-minute heart opening yoga practice intended to relax, rejuvenate, and spark creativity. Yoga practice will be followed by a serenity wreath-making experience led by guest artist Patty Moloney Figliola. During this workshop, you'll create one 6-inch and one 4-inch personalized "serenity" wreath with elements such as lavender for relaxation and stress relief; rose for calm and comfort; amethyst to soothe the mind and bring spiritual protection; and rose quartz to promote self-acceptance and emotional healing. Essential oils will be available to add optional fragrance. These wreaths make lovely personalized heartwarming holiday gifts for yourself or for others.

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.

A workshop to examine the vibrational energy centers in the body might, and consider how they may be influencing your feelings and behaviors. Enjoy a simple grounding practice followed by an accessible, full-body yoga experience that touches on each of the chakras, helping you notice where energy feels open and where it might need a little extra care. 

Gain insights into the Ashtanga Yoga lineage and the principles of Mysore-style practice, and learn the tools to establish a daily routine that supports continuous personal development.

Working from the principle that a yoga inversion is any pose when your head is below your heart, Ahmed will lead you through a comprehensive exploration of how to safely and confidently practice any level of inversion without struggle. In this workshop, you will learn drills to build strength, control, and confidence in skills such as assisted headstands, forearm stands and handstands. The intention is for everyone to leave the workshop feeling empowered, inspired, and ready to take their inversion practice to the next level! 

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.

Ahmed offers an empowering workshop to explore the practice of arm balances as he guides you through a series of poses, drills, and techniques to help build strength, confidence, and control.  You'll explore the benefits and precautions of balancing on your arms, and by the end of the afternoon, you'll have practiced, refined, and applied what you've learned in a supportive environment. This workshop is intended for anyone looking to challenge themselves and expand their practice, and for teachers seeking to deepen their knowledge and skills. Beginners are welcome!

Explore the art of conscious breathing with guided breathwork practices alongside a variety of meditation styles. As you tune into how you experience each of them, the goal is to help you develop a personalized breathing and meditation routine that supports your overall wellbeing. Bring your notebook: we’ll be clearing the mind, closing the apps, and recharging the mind, body, and spirit. Let’s come together to create healthy habits and sustainable routines for daily balance and clarity.

Restorative yoga is a practice that is focused on slowing down and opening your body through passive, supported stretching. During the long holds of restorative yoga, muscles and connective tissues are allowed to relax and elongate deeply as props, rather than muscles, are doing the work. This workshop will be recorded and available for one month following the event.

A free hour to learn, modify, or refine your sun salutation practice! Go through several adaptations, modifications, and lineages, and learn tips and tools for incorporating this timeless flow of postures into your day-to-day life. 

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.

RE-SCHEDULED FROM SUNDAY JUNE 8

Age-appropriate instruction for classic poses, yoga-based games, partner/teamwork. Featuring easy-to-remember techniques for calming and relaxation, which you can continue practicing at home. Use yoga’s wisdom to help your family flow and grow together! Ideal for kids aged 2-11 with at least one adult present.