Svalja Whole-Being

Svalja Whole-Being At Svälja Yoga (pronounced “svehl-yah”) all of our offerings are trauma-conscious. Yoga means to unite.

Svälja Whole-Being is a trauma-conscious organization offering opportunities to deepen your practice and understanding of yoga through classes, workshops, retreats, and a 250 hr Yoga Teacher Training Program. Through our Whole-Being Well-Being approach, we support people on their own unique healing journey. We share the wisdom and practice of yoga in a way that is accessible, inclusive, and honors

choice. Yoga is a pathway to well-being and to the realization of our innate wholeness. We guide participants to connect with their internal resources and potential for healing, transformation, and growth. Through this exploratory journey we rediscover home, deep within: our true selves. We offer classes, workshops, retreats, and a 250-hour Yoga Teacher Training program.

Wrap up your week with Sarah Mangan, Krista James & Sarah Gardner!Saturday 7/26 at 9:00amTrauma Conscious Yoga w/ Sarah ...
07/25/2025

Wrap up your week with Sarah Mangan, Krista James & Sarah Gardner!

Saturday 7/26 at 9:00am
Trauma Conscious Yoga w/ Sarah Mangan

Sunday 7/27 at 8:00am
Qigong w/ Krista James

Sunday 7/27 at 6:30pm
Restorative Yoga & Deep Relaxation w/ Sarah Gardner

Coming up in two weeks!Gentle Yoga and Writing in the Rosewith Melissa HepokoskiAugust 7th 5:00pm - 6:30pm1 creditThis g...
07/24/2025

Coming up in two weeks!

Gentle Yoga and Writing in the Rose
with Melissa Hepokoski

August 7th
5:00pm - 6:30pm
1 credit

This guided yoga and writing session is offered on the first Thursday of each month in Svälja Yoga's Rose Studio. The class will begin with Gentle Yoga where postures are practiced gently and slowly with a combination of moving and stillness accompanied by ambient music. In the second portion of the class, your guide will offer grounding exercises, short readings, and writing prompts followed by a time for free writing (approximately thirty minutes). At the end of the session, there will be time for a check-in and option to share writing and/or experiences. Please bring a journal and pen or other materials for the writing portion of the session.

The Rose Studio (street level) is located at 18 1st Ave West, the door just to the left of Svälja's main studio entrance. The space is roomy with two private bathrooms. There are mats and props available, but feel free to bring your own mat if you like.

One week away!Plants of the Thymesw/ Angela KrickThursday July 31 July Botanicals: Tinctures & Tea5:00 - 8:00 pm$75 per ...
07/24/2025

One week away!

Plants of the Thymes
w/ Angela Krick

Thursday July 31
July Botanicals: Tinctures & Tea

5:00 - 8:00 pm
$75 per session
This class will be held off-site in Angela's garden

July brings the fiery heart of the season—full of heat, sunshine, and vibrant productivity.

The air hums with life as birds sing and plants thrive in their fullest expression. This month, we’ll take a garden tour to observe, taste, and connect with the plants we pass and harvest. Together, we’ll experience a calming herbal remedy and decant a tincture to take home—crafted to soothe the nervous system.

While sipping tea and talking plants, we’ll explore the sensory qualities of each herb and continue creating remedies with a gentle, intuitive approach. Our focus this month is on tinctures—how to make and use them with care and intention.

Seated discussions will offer space to reflect, share, and explore how nature mirrors our health and well-being.

More info at: https://www.svalja.yoga/workshops

Join Anissa tomorrow, July 23rd at  at 4pm for Trauma-Conscious Yoga in Rose Studio!
07/23/2025

Join Anissa tomorrow, July 23rd at at 4pm for Trauma-Conscious Yoga in Rose Studio!

Join these guides this week for classes indoors & outdoors!Special notes:Thursday 7/24 at 7pmYin & Healing Cello w/ Kyle...
07/23/2025

Join these guides this week for classes indoors & outdoors!

Special notes:
Thursday 7/24 at 7pm
Yin & Healing Cello w/ Kyle Leia, Rebecca & Mark

Friday 7/25 at 6am
Park Point Sunrise Qigong w/ Seth (sub)

✨✨✨It happens, you know—the day opens itselflike a tulip in a warm room, and you meet someonewho amazes you with their w...
07/22/2025

✨✨✨
It happens, you know—the day opens itself
like a tulip in a warm room, and you meet someone
who amazes you with their willingness
to be a thousand percent alive, someone
who makes you feel grateful to be you.

— —

And it turns out life does have wonderful
secrets waiting for you. Even when the news
makes you cry. Even when some old pain returns,
that’s when you will meet this new friend.
Someone wholly themselves. Someone

who makes you smile in the kitchen, a smile so real
that when you go out, the whole world notices.
It’s enough to make you want to wake up in the morning.
To go into the day. To be unguarded as a tulip, petals
falling open. You never know who you might meet.

— excerpts from Darn Lucky
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Special Classes this week!Thursday 7/24 at 7:00pmYin & Healing Cello w/ Kyle Leia, Rebecca & MarkSunday 7/27 at 6:30pmRe...
07/21/2025

Special Classes this week!

Thursday 7/24 at 7:00pm
Yin & Healing Cello w/ Kyle Leia, Rebecca & Mark

Sunday 7/27 at 6:30pm
Restorative Yoga & Deep Relaxation w/ Sarah Gardner

Start your week off with these instructors and classes!!Special note:Tuesday 7/22Strength Flow w/ Yvonne (sub)
07/20/2025

Start your week off with these instructors and classes!!

Special note:
Tuesday 7/22
Strength Flow w/ Yvonne (sub)

Join us tomorrow these beautiful Sunday Classes✨✨Sunday July 20thConnect to yourself with these two meditative classes b...
07/19/2025

Join us tomorrow these beautiful Sunday Classes✨✨
Sunday July 20th

Connect to yourself with these two meditative classes before you start your week!

8:00am
Qigong w/ Krista
Rose Studio

6:30 pm
Sundown Sanctuary: Sound & Stillness w/ Pau Suárez Gomís
Lotus Studio
Soften into stillness as you are gently guided into a journey of meditation, sound bowls & presence.

Plants of the Thymesw/ Angela KrickThursday July 31 July Botanicals: Tinctures & Tea5:00 - 8:00 pm$75 per sessionThis cl...
07/18/2025

Plants of the Thymes
w/ Angela Krick

Thursday July 31
July Botanicals: Tinctures & Tea

5:00 - 8:00 pm
$75 per session
This class will be held off-site in Angela's garden

July brings the fiery heart of the season—full of heat, sunshine, and vibrant productivity.

The air hums with life as birds sing and plants thrive in their fullest expression. This month, we’ll take a garden tour to observe, taste, and connect with the plants we pass and harvest. Together, we’ll experience a calming herbal remedy and decant a tincture to take home—crafted to soothe the nervous system.

While sipping tea and talking plants, we’ll explore the sensory qualities of each herb and continue creating remedies with a gentle, intuitive approach. Our focus this month is on tinctures—how to make and use them with care and intention.

Seated discussions will offer space to reflect, share, and explore how nature mirrors our health and well-being.

More info at: https://www.svalja.yoga/workshops

Join us next week!Thursday July 24thYin & Healing Cellow/ Kyle Leia, Rebecca & Mark7:00pm-8:15pmLotus Studio
07/17/2025

Join us next week!

Thursday July 24th
Yin & Healing Cello
w/ Kyle Leia, Rebecca & Mark

7:00pm-8:15pm
Lotus Studio

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Monday 8am - 8pm
Tuesday 8am - 8pm
Wednesday 8am - 8pm
Thursday 8am - 8pm
Friday 8am - 8pm
Saturday 8am - 8pm
Sunday 8am - 8:45pm

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House of the Gathering Yoga School is Duluth’s only trauma conscious yoga school and offers a comprehensive 250 hour yoga teacher training program that integrates classical yoga, trauma conscious yoga, depth psychology, and sustainable practices. Together, these studies embody a practice that take a holistic, expansive look at the human experience-mind, body, psyche, spirit, and soul. Through classical yoga, we explore the Self, mind/body connection, develop flexibility and strength (mental and physical), and develop self-awareness through postures, meditation, and the study of ancient yogic philosophy. Our YTT curriculum is based on Patanjali’s ‘Eight Limbs’ of yoga which include ethics, self-discipline, yoga asana, breath work, meditation and more.

Through trauma conscious yoga we explore the root of trauma, as well as the way that trauma is stored and shows up in our bodies, patterning, relationships, culture, and lives. By informing our practice of yoga and meditation through a trauma conscious lens, we are better able to assist ourselves in healing, as well as to be able to see what might be unfolding for a student in a classroom setting. Through depth psychology, we learn about the psyche, both the conscious and unconscious aspects, and how to navigate the rich language of our unconscious self through dream tending, active imagination, and shadow work. Depth psychology gives a rich toolbox through which to experience the psychological, mythical, poetic, and soulful sides of life.

Through sustainable practices we learn how to bring yoga off of the mat and out into our homes, communities, and cities. We live in uncertain times in which the threats posed by unstable weather patterns are very real. By visiting farms and urban homesteads that are already engaged on the front lines of sustainable agriculture and herbalism, we can learn what we can do to live our values while making an impact on the whole. Join us on retreat, for a workshop, a private session, or one of our Yoga Teacher Training Programs!