Feb Update - Relaxed Strength and the Wisdom of Owls!
Relaxed Strength - Our theme for Online Yoga in February
Online Yoga continues 2/6 onwards…..inviting a courage amid chaos, warm heartedness amid grief, and *wisdom amid inanities (*our theme of Yoga Salon’s first month - see below)
In Person:
3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 3/24 1-2pm Welcoming Spring, Ukiah
4/8-12, Outdoor Meditation & Yoga Retreat - CA
5/1-8, Gray Bear Presence + Advanced Retreat - TN
7/2-7 Summer Retreat - CA Final payments due 1/31 - Fees go up after 1/31!
Discount for last 2 spaces by 1/31
Online:
2/6 - Regular weekly classes continue on Tues, Wed and Sat ams
Special Offer for Newbies! One FREE month….ends 1/31
2/8 YOGA SALON begins - 6 month program - Taking Flight! Bird Power….. Space still exists
IN-PERSON:
Welcoming Spring!
Tuesdays 1-2pm
3/3 - 3/24
Ukiah, CA
A special 4 week series of classes to move towards the Equinox suitable for a wide variety of levels and emphasizing the qualities of light, balance and harmony in our practice as we begin to move out of winter.
IN PERSON:
“Balancing”
at Spring Equinox!
A special workshop to celebrate the Spring and its regenerative energy and to also befriend our inner “wobbles”!
Boonville at SoBo 3/21 12-2.30pm - Registration opens 2/5
Oakland Nest Yoga 3/22, 12-3pm - Registration opens soon
IN-PERSON:
OUTDOOR at Pomo Tierra!
Meditation and Yoga Retreat
4/8-12/2026
One of my fave photos from the retreat on our collective land in 2024. What a joy it was to bless and be blessed by this land as we practiced together in silence. This is a camping retreat sponsored by Off Grid Retreats, and fellow residents will be practicing with us, and our meditation guide Kirsten Rudestam.
Info here
ONLINE: Yoga Salon 2026
Taking Flight! Bird Power -
These monthly gatherings on first Sundays with fellow yoga nutz are a highlight of my year. And clearly significant to past and continuing participants: See their comments
Our first session begins on Sunday February 8th exploring in asana, meditation, breath work and discussion, the wisdom of owls. The poem below will be part of our celebration of owls, as we look at the quality of waiting and watching, eyes, necks, imagery of the night and wise-ness!
Deposit and Final payments due now! - Info here
The Path of the Serpent Owl
It’'s okay not to have New Years resolutions
It's okay not to have big goals for your life
It's okay not to have plans you want to
Manifest
It's okay not to chase your dreams
That path is not for everyone
Some walk the path of
Unbecoming
They are traveling the road
Backwards
Seeking the core
What is basic and essential
What has been there all along
Though we may be headed the same direction
Our spirals are mirror opposites
Some walk the path of the visionary
Creating abundance and
Dancing inside a multiplicity of forms
And Some walk the path
of the serpent owl
Becoming more and more naked
Shedding layers of fantasy into the ash
Night sky
Sitting in the dark
And seeing the way the wind moves
They do not walk a line or
poise their arrow to the target
They sit at the bottom of the ocean
And wait
Letting the waves devour them
They are following the pulse
of listening
To silence
Like a tiger in the brush
Waiting for existence to strike lightening
Into the fire of the heart
For this kind
Nothing less will do
Some are opening the palms of their hands
And unraveling
To become
Less and less
Until they are
No-Thing
To become the still point
In the center of
All
You know who you are
Keep going
-Maya Luna
May we all find peace amid troubled waters………. M
