Joy of Yoga

Joy of Yoga Joy of Yoga is an inviting space that merges the sacred rivers of Yoga, Ayurveda and Energy Medicine. Joy Of Yoga is a warm and welcoming studio.
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Our mission is to provide a peaceful, safe, and calming space where students can develop their own personal yoga journey. Our staff supports students by offering a variety of healing modalities; Yoga, Ayurveda, Reiki, & Coaching. Students and clients leave this space feeling rejuvenated and inspired.

🌙 Mellow Motion is your invitation to soften the edges of the week and land gently back into yourself.Beginning Sunday, ...
04/19/2026

🌙 Mellow Motion is your invitation to soften the edges of the week and land gently back into yourself.

Beginning Sunday, May 3 from 6:00–7:00 PM, join us for this NEW weekly class designed to soothe the nervous system, unwind the body, and create space for deep restoration before the week ahead.

🧘‍♀️ Settle into slow, floor-based movement that keeps you grounded and supported
🌿 Enjoy soft stretching and prop-rich postures that invite ease rather than effort
🌬️ Explore gentle breath techniques to calm the mind and regulate the body
✨ Melt into a long, nourishing savasana for full-body renewal

This is a space where the Sunday Scaries dissolve, the body is cared for with tenderness, and the heart has room to open and reset.

Leave feeling relaxed, replenished, and quietly supported as you move into your week. 🤍

🌟 Facilitator: Alicia Delaney
📍 Location: Joy of Yoga | Main Studio & Online
📅 When: Sundays beginning May 3 | 6:00–7:00 PM
💸 Cost: $16 In Studio Drop In | $11 Online Drop In | All Class Cards, Unlimited, Monthly

Reserve your spot: ⬇️
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🌿 Reiki Share invites you into a circle of connection, healing, and quiet support.Join us Friday, May 15 from 7:00–8:30 ...
04/17/2026

🌿 Reiki Share invites you into a circle of connection, healing, and quiet support.

Join us Friday, May 15 from 7:00–8:30 PM for Reiki Share — a monthly gathering where we come together to give and receive Reiki, deepen our practice, and learn from one another in community.

✨ Exchange Reiki in a supportive, heart-centered circle
🤲 Practice techniques to ease stress and support healing for yourself and others
🌙 Rest, receive, and reconnect with the steady presence of this work
🤍 Learn, share, and grow alongside others on the path

These circles are a space to be both practitioner and recipient, to remember that healing flows in all directions, and that we are supported when we come together.

All are welcome—whether you’re experienced with Reiki or simply curious. Bring a friend, or come as you are.

🌟 Facilitator: Matt Healey
📍 Location: Joy of Yoga | Downstairs Studio
📅 When: Friday, May 15 | 7:00–8:30 PM
💸 Cost: $22

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🌿 Song & Soul invites you into the healing rhythm of your own voice.Join us Tuesday, May 12 from 6:00–7:00 PM for Song &...
04/16/2026

🌿 Song & Soul invites you into the healing rhythm of your own voice.

Join us Tuesday, May 12 from 6:00–7:00 PM for Song & Soul — an evening of connection through song, chant, and sound, designed to soothe the nervous system, uplift the spirit, and bring us into harmony together.

🎶 Explore simple chants and songs that awaken and open the voice
🌬️ Use breath and sound to regulate the nervous system and soften the body
💫 Experience the power of collective sound as we harmonize as one shared field
🤍 Close with space for reflection and gentle integration

The voice is both instrument and medicine. Across cultures and generations, people have gathered to sing for healing, storytelling, and connection. This is a space to return to that tradition—simple, human, and deeply nourishing.

No singing experience is needed—just a willingness to listen, breathe, and let your voice be heard.

🌟 Facilitators: Claire Birchenough & Kathleen Davis
📍 Location: Joy of Yoga | Downstairs Studio
📅 When: Tuesday, May 12 | 6:00–7:00 PM
💸 Cost: $20

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🌿 Wild Stillness invites you into a space where movement, rest, and energy come together to help you return to yourself....
04/15/2026

🌿 Wild Stillness invites you into a space where movement, rest, and energy come together to help you return to yourself.

Join us Saturday, May 9 from 6:00–8:00 PM for Wild Stillness: Embodied Dance, Yin Yoga, and Reiki — an evening designed to help you release what you’ve been holding, reconnect with your intuition, and soften back into your body.

🧘‍♀️ Begin with grounding meditation and intention setting to settle the nervous system
💃 Move through embodied, intuitive dance to express, release, and let the body lead
🌙 Melt into yin yoga postures that create space and openness
✨ Receive Reiki-infused rest to integrate and restore

This is a heart-centered sanctuary where you are invited to show up exactly as you are—no expectations, no performance, just presence. A space to be witnessed, to move what’s ready to move, and to reconnect with the part of you that knows how to feel, trust, and be.

You don’t need any experience—just a willingness to arrive and allow. 🤍

🌟 Facilitator: Krista Kathleen
📍 Location: Joy of Yoga | Main Studio
📅 When: Saturday, May 9 | 6:00–8:00 PM
💸 Cost: $30

Reserve your spot: ⬇️
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"I am not your expectations. I am my own wildest dreams." I came across this quote by Mahogany L. Browne today that feel...
04/14/2026

"I am not your expectations. I am my own wildest dreams." I came across this quote by Mahogany L. Browne today that feels just so Aries to me! And with our 10 orbiting bodies pile up in Aries happening this week, we're all going to feel and experience this energy.

Aries does not come here to live inside the shape someone else made for it. It does not ask for permission to become. It does not wait until it is fully understood, fully approved of, or fully guaranteed. Aries is the first spark. The primal life force that says I am here. I am becoming. I am moving.

It is the part of us that is willing to step out of inherited expectations, old roles, outdated identities, and the weight of who we have been told to be, and take one honest step toward the life that is calling us now.

And with so much gathering in Aries this month, it feels like that invitation is everywhere.

There is a wildness to Aries, but I do not mean chaos for the sake of chaos. I mean the kind of wildness that is alive. Untamed in the best sense. Not disconnected, but uncolonized. Not reckless, but real.

The part of you that remembers you were not born to spend your life abandoning yourself in order to be digestible to the world.

The part of you that knows that becoming more fully yourself will ask for courage, and that courage is not always loud, but it is always alive.

This is one of the things I keep feeling with this Aries pileup. Not simply momentum, though there is plenty of that. Not simply intensity, though there is certainly that too. But a profound invitation to remember who you are beneath expectation. Beneath performance. Beneath conditioning. Beneath the many ways we learn to shape ourselves around what others need, want, or understand.

Aries reminds us that life wants to move.
It wants expression.
It wants honesty.
It wants embodiment.
It wants the truth of who we are to come forward with a little more fire, a little more clarity, a little more willingness to begin.

Of course, this kind of becoming asks something of us. Aries energy can be catalytic, but it can also be impatient, reactive, and quick to push. So the work is not only to move, but to move in a way that stays connected to the heart. To let this fire clarify us rather than consume us. To let it awaken what is most true without losing our center.

And maybe that is part of the deeper wisdom here. "I am not your expectations. I am my own wildest dreams."

What if this moment is asking us to listen more closely to the part of ourselves that knows?
The part that has not forgotten.

The part that can feel the difference between a life that is merely acceptable and a life that is truly ours?

This is the courage of Aries.
Not just to act.
But to become.

May this season help you remember that your life is not asking you to become what is expected, but what is true. May it give you the courage to listen more closely to the part of you that knows, the part that is ready to live with more honesty, more fire, and more devotion to what is calling you forward. And may this Aries sky awaken in you the willingness to begin, again, as the one you were always becoming.

🌿 There is a map within you—quiet, intelligent, and always guiding you back to balance.Join us Wednesdays, May 6–June 24...
04/13/2026

🌿 There is a map within you—quiet, intelligent, and always guiding you back to balance.

Join us Wednesdays, May 6–June 24 from 7:30–8:30 PM for The Inner Roadmap: A Journey Through the Chakras — a progressive series designed to help you understand, feel, and work with your own energy in a grounded and practical way.

🧘‍♀️ Move through targeted yoga practices that bring awareness to each chakra
🌬️ Explore breathwork techniques that regulate your nervous system and refine your focus
🌀 Drop into meditation to sense and clear the subtle patterns shaping your energy

Each week, we’ll focus on a different chakra, using the body as a doorway into deeper awareness. When these energy centers are supported and flowing, we feel more steady, clear, and connected. When they’re not, life can feel heavier than it needs to be.

This is not about becoming someone different—it’s about understanding the system already within you, and learning how to work with it in a way that supports your real life.

You’ll leave each class with a deeper sense of clarity, and over time, a toolkit you can return to again and again. ✨

🌟 Facilitator: Minakshi Deepak
📍 Location: Joy of Yoga | Main Studio & Online
📅 When: Wednesdays, May 6–June 24 | 7:30–8:30 PM
💸 Cost: $16 In Studio Drop In | $11 Online Drop In | All Class Cards, Unlimited, Monthly

Reserve your spot: ⬇️
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🔥 A powerful Aries lineup is building...This week in practice we have been placing a little extra attention on the knees...
04/10/2026

🔥 A powerful Aries lineup is building...
This week in practice we have been placing a little extra attention on the knees, not only their structure and mechanics, but what they teach us symbolically and spiritually as well.

The knees help us meet the ground with humility and steadiness. They teach us how to soften, receive support, and root more deeply into who we are. Think of taking a bended knee in reverence. Kneeling in prayer. Bowing at an altar. Lowering yourself before something sacred.

And perhaps most importantly right now, they teach us how to bend and yield without collapsing or breaking.

I keep thinking about how much wisdom there is in that as we move through this moment.

By the midpoint of this month, we will have ten orbiting bodies moving through Aries, all of them direct, none of them retrograde. Aries is never subtle. It is fire, momentum, initiation, and the force that pushes life forward. It is the sacred spark. The blank canvas. The threshold where something entirely new can begin.

But Aries also asks something of us. While it carries courage, momentum, and pure potential, it can also bring impatience, impulsiveness, and reactivity. Like all powerful moments, this one offers a choice.

This is where the wisdom of practice matters.

As we anticipate certain cosmic signatures, we prepare. We anchor. We return to center. We remember that the state we live from matters.

Love matters.
Peace matters.
A coherent inner life matters.

Every time you slow down enough to breathe, pay attention, move energy, heal, soften, regulate, reflect, and come back into deeper alignment with yourself, you are not only caring for your own body, mind, and heart. You are helping keep a steadier signal alive in this world.

This is the quiet power of practice.

It raises our vibration, and in doing so, it helps raise the vibration of the world.
You know that feeling you get when you walk through the studio door? The sense of peace and calm? That is part of what I mean. The quality of presence matters. There are certain spaces that feel different because they have been tended to, prayed into, breathed into, practiced in.

And with what is building in the sky right now, I can’t think of anything more important than that.

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8918 Manchester Road
Brentwood, MO
63144

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 9pm
Tuesday 6am - 9pm
Wednesday 7am - 9pm
Thursday 7am - 9:30pm
Friday 7am - 8pm
Saturday 8am - 7pm
Sunday 9am - 9:30pm

Telephone

+13145370671

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Joy Of Yoga is a warm and welcoming center. We offer all types of Hatha Yoga classes including Mindful Movement, Vinyasa, Basics, Yoga Virgins, Meditation, Yoga Nidra, Restorative Yoga, Myofascial Release, Yoga for Neuro-health, Yoga for Mental and Emotional Health, Gentle Yoga, Chair Yoga, yoga classes for every body.

We also offer many alternative solutions to healing such as Energy Healing, Reiki, Theta Healing, Sound Healing, Nutritional Coaching, Life Coaching, Consciousness Coaching, Private Yoga Therapy, Astrology Chart Readings, Essential Oil Classes and so many other programs to help support stress reduction and mindfulness in our busy lives.

Joy of Yoga also provides 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Trainings and Reiki Master Trainings.

We offer a Free Yoga Class the first Friday of every month at 12noon and a Donation Based class every Friday night at 6:30.