Yoga Underground

28/08/2025

Building a personal yoga practice is not just about understanding the asanas—but it is the asana that gives us a place to wrestle with the journey of self-discovery and inner acceptance. Building a Home For Spirit is a program that gives you a step wise approach to learning how to build a relationship with yourself and your body through the practice of Yoga. The steps go like this:
1. Be in Your Body. Foundations of Asana and Breath teach us how.
2. Clear and Create Space. The practice of linking movement to breath is the vehicle for clearing.
3. Reading the Road Map of the Body. With clearing and creating space comes room for new awareness of the symbolic language.
4. Foundation of Journaling. With reflection comes the ability to see patterns, how things are connected, how you are connected.
5. Rebuilding the Home. When we see differently, we can do differently shifting patterns from doubt to trust, fear to courage, silence to expression, lost to found.
6. Foundations of Surrender. Learn practices that help us to have a relationship with the Unknown, however you call it. We change what we are able and we leave the outcome and the rest to God. Practices, like meditations, setting up an alter, and seasonal traditions foster a conversation with the Unknown.

The last course of the series, Foundations of Surrender, is coming up Saturday Sept 13th, 12pm. We will practice and learn about what kind of rituals and traditions support us in surrendering the outcome. You may already be doing some of them, but bringing them into more intentional practices may provide just a little more presence with life.

Link in bio for more.

30/07/2025

Moving Out!

It's time to incorporate more ease!
Enlist the wisdom of water, emotion, and creativity to give a movement towards compassionate, humble expression. Let your Yoga Practice support the shifts you need in your life.

For more info on how we can support you with Building a Personal Yoga Practice that grows with you and for you, look for our courses, classes, and private study at:
www.yogaundergroundlove.com

29/04/2025

Breath is a moving, flowing interface between
opposites that exist in life.
Breath travels between body/material and
spirit/invisible/energetic.
Breath is like a messenger that passes wisdom, ideals,
needs, desires, and emotions between the human
aspect of self and the eternal aspect of Self.

Join us May 17th 12-4pm for the Foundations of Breathwork

Learn:
Anatomy of breath
Steps to building breath foundations
Setting up the practice and the body
How to start a breath practice
What principals are important
Practice a variety of breath techniques
Which practices & When to use them

22/07/2024

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11/07/2024

Join us Friday, July 26th, 5pm for a 1 hr Sound bath and guided breath practice to cultivate connection, vitality, and resilience with Melissa.

Find her .the.brain.coach and teaching slow vinyasa every other Saturday

Registration open at:

https://www.yogaundergroundlove.com/book-online

05/06/2024

Every New moon has a different story to tell in your life and some may be felt more strongly than others depending on the Natal arrangement of your birth chart. This new moon is in Gemini! The Home of Mercury, Hermes, the guide of souls. Mercury the host, is also there as the moon and Sun (New Moon) arrive together. Interestingly, Venus is also present with moon and sun all in the same place. This arrangement of Venus and Sun at the same place is like a New moon for Venus, called a Cazemi. Venus is dieing and being reborn into the night sky by the of July and the same time the moon is being reborn. So the Moon cycle of Gemini over the next 6 months until it is full in Sagittarius will be playing out the story of a new Venus in some area of your life, depending on the whole sign house of Gemini & Sagittarius. A New venus might be reflected in new ideas new speech, new communication, new games, new technology, new commerce (all mercury things and wants) that upholds the story of Venus, beauty, relationships, sensuality, Aesthetics, music, art, harmony, bringing unlikely things together for beautiful arrangement of the whole (all things and wants for venus). The story will play out somewhere in the whole sign house of Gemini.

New Moon Yin Class with the voice of the Harp is very much Venus communicating to us her wishes in our life. Join us to listen to your heart the messages that arise during Your meditative YiN practice and let your practice of connection to your inner voice guide you to living in
flow and harmony with your unfolding story. .

This Friday June 7th, 6pm!

Letting go of darkness and embracing the transition to greater light!

29/05/2024

In one of my favorite books, Ashtanga Yoga: The Practice Manual by David Swenson,
he says,

"In standing sequence our balance is challenged and the understanding of how to work with the forces of gravity is developed....Be aware that the over emphasis upon the lifting qualities of an asana will weaken the foundation and stability will become diminished. With an overcompensation of the rooting quality we will find it increasingly difficult to keep the body erect and lightness will be hindered.....Ideally we must seek a balance between these two forces in order to feel free in our expression of Yoga,"

Check out my blog post!

Join us for Intro to Ashtanga and anyone may learn how to Build a Home for Spirit with the Foundations for Personal Yoga Practice!

02/05/2024

Two don’t want to miss events in May!

1. Friday May 10th 6pm end you week with a beautiful Yin Yoga class by Heather lulled into meditation with the tranquil voice of the harp played by Tiffany.

2. Don’t miss out on the chance to learn the Fundamentals of Herbalism with Jacque from Prana House, West Chester. You will learn how to start bringing herbal medicine wisdom into your diet in support of your well being and balance.

01/02/2024

Last day for 10% off!

Mukti will be here soon! Come spend the weekend with us!

Need a retreat! This is better than a retreat! VedicThai Bodywork all weekend! You will leave feeling restored, blissful, connected, and inspired to share this beautiful practice!

30/01/2024

Thanks Nora for sharing your love of plants friends with us! Nature is a big aspect of our foundation and do much of our Yoga practices is about understanding that we are nature and therefore our relationship with nature builds a relationship with self with the body. And what I love about Nora is that she reminds us that nature is beautiful, in all seasons!

19/01/2024

Missing the studio today!

Instead, will be on Zoom at 8am!

17/01/2024

3 Reasons it is advantageous to have a Personal Yoga Practice in this Modern Living!

1. The more virtual we are, the more mental we are, the more our attention and therefore our prana, our life force lives in our heads. This disrupts our natural movement patterns. We need to create deliberate time to be in and feel our bodies. What I mean by that is we need deliberate time to feel the body breathing and moving in the way that feels freeing, strong, and mobile. Therefore, our awareness needs to reside some time during our day paying attention to how it feels to live in our body, to move our arms and legs, to breathe deeply into our belly. The body is like a House that our spirit lives in or the vehicle that our spirit uses to experience the world.

2. We live in a consumeristic culture. As a result, our body has to remove and eliminate much more than it ever has before. Anything and everything our senses and body takes in, must be sorted, processed, integrated, and eliminated to remain well. As human beings in a modern world we do not take enough time to sort, process, integrate, and eliminate. As you might expect the body, mind, and energetic field get clogged up, dirty, unorganized. The elements of the Yoga practice aid us in the process of living and not just consuming.

3. There are many people practicing Yoga in our world, which is wonderful, but it's time to transition to being led to understanding how the practice is your ally and will change as we grow and change. Because of reason number 2, for this to be a sustainable practice, you have to know how to build the practice form the philosophy and from the Earth to allow the efficiency of the process to do it's magic.

Grab a seat, a mat, a few hours this Saturday 11a-5p and/or this Sunday 1-5p, as we discuss and practice the Foundations of Asana and Foundations of Breath to start you on your way to having a relationship with and ownership for your body, mind, and energy as you practice, alone or together in community!

Peace and Blessings this Year and Always! D

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