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07/28/2025

CHRISTINA’S BACK ✨🎉

Catch her for Monday 6pm Kripalu at Burlington Surf Club:

July 28 (tonight!)
August 11
August 18

07/24/2025

Pause. Pause before your next action. Slow down your reaction time. See what happens. What seeds can be planted in the space of the pause?

07/22/2025

A meeting of the minds at our quarterly leadership meeting.

The project offers BIPOC affinity classes every Tuesday 5:45 pm and Friday 6 pm !

Spread the word. 😊

07/21/2025

Here’s Devin and Quinn modeling our new hats 🧢 🩵

Lightweight and waterproof, they’re the perfect accessory for Summer! Thanks to our friends at for making it happen.

Available for purchase in-studio, come check them out.

07/18/2025

Wrapped up a week of Yin Yoga training this morning! A powerful practice and powerful group. Can’t wait to see how the yin practices manifest, integrate and spread through each one of these courageous beings!!
☯️☀️🌑

07/17/2025

At the grossest level, violence takes form as harmful action. Violence shows up in more subtle ways too, including our words and thoughts. All harmful action and negative speech is preceded by a thought. If we can cultivate compassion at the level of our thoughts, we can uproot our own violent tendencies and reduce our harm in the world. We all cause harm. Meditation is a great way to first become aware of our thoughts to then consciously plant seeds of AHIMSA — love unconditional, care and oneness with all beings.

07/14/2025

Sharing an invitation from the Burlington Dharma Collective 🧘🏽‍♂️☮️

“Dear Meditators,

During the first Trump administration before Covid, Jabari Jones/Radical Dharma organized a weekly meditation sit in front of the ICE building at Taft Corners. We sat as silent witnesses to the activities being conducted inside the building. We didn’t engage with the employees or people passing by in cars, but we hoped that our presence and the messages on our signs might provoke some questions in their minds. Maybe our willingness to sit on the ground in rain and snow added some weight to our words and witness. In any case it felt good to sit together in a challenging time.

We three recently resumed a vigil there and will continue to sit Wednesdays from 4:30-5:30 PM across the street from the ICE Building at 188 Harvest Lane. We invite you to join us for the hour or any portion thereof. Bring a bench, chair or cushion—whatever enables you to sit comfortably. If you choose to bring a sign, we hope that our messages will respectfully raise questions about ICE’s policies and actions, and convey our appreciation of migrants, and their right to fair and legal treatment. Our intention is not to judge the people who work in the building, but to change attitudes and policies.

We hope you will join us!

‘In every situation of darkness, there is always light.’ Mohsen Mahdawi

In peace,

Anne, Nelli and Donna Of the Burlington Dharma Collective”

07/10/2025

Own your power! The commitment to your liberation is valuable and important. ✨💜

07/03/2025

The more we connect with ourselves, the more we know ourselves. Through knowing, we can unlearn programmed beliefs and habitual reactions.

In order to practice AHIMSA (non-harming) we must learn to discern when our actions are causing or have caused harm.

Sometimes, we think we have caused harm because we make people uncomfortable when in fact our actions are aligned with truth and love.

Other times, we may be completely unaware of ways in which we have caused harm because they are habitual and socially acceptable.

Do you have the courage to look at yourself through the eyes of love and understanding and discern?

How do you offer forgiveness to yourself when you have caused harm?

How do you stay aligned with the goal of non-harming?

Allow time and space for self inquiry in order to know.

Have conversations with others along the path so that you can support and guide each other toward a more peaceful existence.

May all beings be free. ✨

07/02/2025

Swipe for our 🌊☀️ holiday schedule ☀️🌊

Make time for practice amidst the high Summer fun! Outside, indoors, and at home. Register online or via the Mindbody app.

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Winooski, VT
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Our Four Tenets

Your essence is unconditional love.

Peel away the layers of stress and tension that your body carries, and connect with your true nature, or atman. This true nature is one of unconditional love. Unconditional love is the most powerful force in the universe. It is free from judgment and beyond fear. Through yoga and meditation practice we untangle ourselves from the web of our egos and begin to recognize that we are love.

We believe in the power of yoga to heal.

Do you suffer from high blood pressure, body aches, low back pain, indigestion, constipation, stress, headaches, depression, anxiety or general confusion? Yoga has been proven to help you heal from these and many other ailments. Physically, yoga keeps our bodies strong and limber. Mentally, yoga helps us maintain a clear and relaxed mind. Emotionally, it allows us to feel and work with our emotions, including our strong emotional reactions. Energetically and spiritually, yoga keeps our energy flowing and reminds us that we are all connected.

Yoga changes the world through transforming individual lives.

The goal of yoga is to know our selves. Erich Shiffman wrote in his book, The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness, “if you want to know who you truly are you must let go of everything you think you know about yourself”. When, as individuals, we begin to take responsibility for ourselves, to take care of our minds and bodies, and to recognize that we are responsible for our actions, it becomes no longer possible to blame or condemn others for our situation. We start to realize that we are the only ones who can uplift ourselves and an informed confidence guides our actions, leaving us less dependent on others and more in control of our lives.

No one is free until we are all free.

It can takes a lot of energy to simply care for ourselves. Yet we gain more energy when we remember that our practice is not only for us. The world is full of suffering and full of beauty. Until we realize our part in both, we remain disconnected from the web that is our shared human experience. The tenant “no one is free until we are all free”, originally written by Fannie Lou Hamer, acknowledges our inter-dependence. When we use the tools of yoga and meditation to explore who we are, we recognize our connection with others and that our well-being depends on their well-being. All people deserve access to the tools of yoga and meditation in an effort to promote self knowledge, understanding and conscious action.