Inner Space Yoga

community movement & healing arts
daily classes, workshops & events
yoga, meditation, dance, martial arts
all bodies welcome! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🖖🏿🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏼🖖🏻

www.innerspacekc.com

Ready for a reset? 🌺 Sound Bath with Laura Frank Tonight! -
08/16/2025

Ready for a reset? 🌺 Sound Bath with Laura Frank Tonight! -

Saturday 8/16, 6:30-8p Sound Bath w/ Laura Frank $27 $7 discount available for BIPOC / impacted folks use code 'SB777' at check-out Register Here

New Ongoing Beginners Tai Chi Class - Wednesdays @ 6pm -
08/13/2025

New Ongoing Beginners Tai Chi Class - Wednesdays @ 6pm -

*New Ongoing Class* Beginnning Tai Chi & Qi Gong   Wednesdays @ 6-7pm (Studio B) standard drop-ins $10-30, class pack or memberships  Register Here Tai chi is an internal or soft style martial art intended for self defense. Yet, at its core, it is a slow, moving study in meditation. Practicing ta...

Saturday 8/16, 6:30-8pSound Bath w/ Laura Frank$27$7 discount available for BIPOC / impacted folksuse code ‘SB777’ at ch...
08/05/2025

Saturday 8/16, 6:30-8p
Sound Bath w/ Laura Frank
$27
$7 discount available for BIPOC / impacted folks
use code ‘SB777’ at check-out
🪬 innerspacekc.com/events to register 🪬

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Laura is a ceremonialist and initiated healer in the Shipibo-Konibo lineage of the Peruvian Amazon. She has been a dedicated patient, student and apprentice in this beautiful medicinal tradition for over a decade. Her sound bath is a unique healing experience which weaves together the doctoring chants of the Shipibo-Konibo, uplifting medicine songs, expansive mantra and sound healing to guide the passenger into a deep yet protected space for introspection, relaxation, healing and transmutation.

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Participants will lie on the floor for most of the experience but there may be some light stretching and qigong in the beginning, so dress comfortably. We provide mats, blocks, bolsters, eye pillows and blankets for use but you may want to bring your own or anything else that would ensure your optimal comfort.

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hope to see you there!

*New Ongoing Class*
Beginnning Tai Chi & Qi Gong  with Master Yao Li
Wednesdays @ 6-7pm (Studio B)
standard drop-ins $10...
08/05/2025

*New Ongoing Class*
Beginnning Tai Chi & Qi Gong  
with Master Yao Li
Wednesdays @ 6-7pm (Studio B)
standard drop-ins $10-30, class pack or memberships 
innerspacekc.com/schedule to register 

Tai chi is an internal or soft style martial art intended for self defense. Yet, at its core, it is a slow, moving study in meditation. Practicing tai chi over time, you will cultivate and learn to maintain an alert, yet relaxed, body and mind. In this class, the basics such as breathing, postures, hand and footwork of Yang Style Tai Chi will be taught.

Qi gong means “breath work” and refers to methods of breathing and body movements designed to promote well being and health. Qi gong enhances the flow of energy, or “qi,” in the body which in turn invigorates the internal organs, supports bone strength, and maintains resilient muscles. In this class, qi gong techniques warm up and prepare you for tai chi training.
Beginning Tai Chi And Qi Gong is a low-impact exercise program. Special clothing is not necessary, but soft-soled athletic shoes and loose fitting pants are recommended.

PS - Have you checked out our fundraiser yet?! Link in bio!

As Yao and Dorri share,
“Dorri and I were martial arts teachers in Boston for 35 years. After we moved to Kansas City in 2015, we found a new home at Inner Space - a welcoming, inclusive community that brings healing and support to the people of Kansas City. We are happy and grateful to call Inner Space home. Please consider supporting this wonderful community.”

let’s keep it moving! slowly, and with great care it was such a joy to get to share from the qi gong and energy cultivat...
08/05/2025

let’s keep it moving! slowly, and with great care

it was such a joy to get to share from the qi gong and energy cultivation practices which support my work with the fabulous folks who came through for Energy Embodied last month. i plan to keep these seminars going ~monthly through the fall, so i hope to see you next Sunday, 8/10, for Energy Embodied. we’ll be working with grounding, cooling, consolidating and clearing forms to wind down from peak summer and prepare to enter autumn. hope to see you there!

folks who were with us last month, share a bit from your experience in the comments??? xx

Sunday, 8/10 - 12-2p
Energy Embodied w/ Briar Rose Penney
standard drop-ins $10-30, class pack or memberships 
innerspacekc.com to register!

We continue with some restful and unwinding forms to help us transition from the peak fire of late summer into the grounding of earth to stabilize us for the metal season of coming fall.

these open-level, 2-hour practice seminars will focus on cultivating grounding, clarity and inner connection through qi gong, holistic movement and meditation. working from the maxim that “energy follows attention,” we’ll explore an accessible, embodied framework for working with our own energy, connecting in a supportive way with the energy of nature and the movement of the elements through the seasons. expect to breathe, move, exercise the imagination and explore your own symbolic language and felt sense. no experience is necessary, just your willingness to show up and move at your own pace.
bring your questions and curiosities, comfortable clothes and a journal and writing or drawing implements.

Briar Rose (they/them) is an artist, teacher, spirit worker and the steward and lead care-taker of Inner Space. A lifelong student of the body, they have been teaching movement since 2013. Rooted in animism, land-based traditions and radical politics, their work draws from deep reverence and ongoing study of qi gong, yoga, drag performance, community ritual and folk magic.

“Joy is the mostly invisible, the underground union between us, you and me, which is, among other things, the great fact...
08/05/2025

“Joy is the mostly invisible, the underground union between us, you and me, which is, among other things, the great fact of our life and the lives of everyone and thing we love going away. If we sink a spoon into that fact, into the duff between us, we will find it teeming. It will look like all the books ever written. It will look like all the nerves in a body. We might call it sorrow, but we might call it a union, one that, once we notice it, once we bring it into the light, might become flower and food. Might be joy.” - Ross Gay

lately, i’ve been noticing how tricky it feels to make simple small talk. “how are you?” i always find myself laughing in response, like, where to even start?!

but when i feel into it, the answer for us is: good. really. things might be nuts, + very dynamic, to say the least. but we feel held + supported by this community, moreso every month. we are deeply grateful for the privilege, blessing + gift that is tending to this building, community, land + sacred work.

i’m tracking this as a sincere vulnerability around sharing / being seen in my joy. it seems so much easier to default to grumbles + complaints, which often pale in comparison with the atrocities we’re witnessing in so many places around the planet or here close up. yet, i wake up with such excitement every day, truly! even a flooded sink or fritzing AC unit + the whole convoluted process of repair can be so rich with learning, connection + growth.

the joy of living our daily lives, ever more accessible because of healing + practice, is why we pour so much love into Community Movement. we know that the freedom to gather, to move our breath together in all the ways available to us at IS, whether in class, as clients or at a market or event, is one of the things that makes human life so sweet. 

thank you to all the wonderful folks who have supported our fund-raiser - link in bio! it’s not too late! thank you to our marvelous teachers, gorgeous students + everyone else who makes this space such an oasis. we’re so grateful that devotional stewardship to land + learning gets to be our work.

thank you for moving with us!

briar rose, eric & inner space

welcome to August! there’s so much groovy goodness this month … links in bio to join us!🌺🌺🌺
08/05/2025

welcome to August! there’s so much groovy goodness this month … links in bio to join us!

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hello friends!we are jazzed to announce the return of the Inner Space Art Market & Open Studios this Fall! we had so muc...
08/05/2025

hello friends!

we are jazzed to announce the return of the Inner Space Art Market & Open Studios this Fall! we had so much fun this spring and are excited to continue building community with you all, in collaboration with our fabulous new resident magic-maker

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When?

2nd Saturdays, 12p-4p

* September 13th
* October 11th
* November 8th
* December 13th

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What?

if you share or sell:
- arts, crafts, fashion, jewelry
- antiques, vintage, oddities, thrift
- herbalism, holistic goods, massage
- activism, divination, healing, magic
- or something else creative / cool / helpful ?!

we’d love to have you as a vendor! please share with your friends and networks as well.

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How much?

$40 / per market
$130 if you commit to all 4 and pay before Sep 1st.

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Why?

why not?! seriously, the magic of gathering in local community to share in mutual appreciation of our gifts, learn and grow and get to know each other, eat yummy food and bask in the gorgeousness of our magical space — there’s really nothing like it! vendor or not, we hope you’ll join us!

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Vendor Application is live on our bio. Please fill this out to apply and let us know if you have any questions. tysm!

August @ Inner Space 🌻: Tai Chi, 5Rhythms, Energy Embodied & More! -
08/01/2025

August @ Inner Space 🌻: Tai Chi, 5Rhythms, Energy Embodied & More! -

Have you checked out our fundraiser yet?! This summer, we're raising $60k to strengthen our foundation, empower our stewardship and support the continued flourishing of our growing community of healing, learning and practice.

🏵️ RENTAL SPACE AVAILABLE 🏵️won’t you be our neighbor? we have a space for rent in our vibrant collective building @ 271...
07/31/2025

🏵️ RENTAL SPACE AVAILABLE 🏵️

won’t you be our neighbor? we have a space for rent in our vibrant collective building @ 2711 Troost aka Inner Space ☀️

- 228 sq ft ground floor studio
- exterior double open window

🍀 available now for a 12 month lease 🍀

this space would be great for art, crafting, music, writing, remote work, etc! really your imagination is the limit. 💛

rent includes utilities, wifi, off-street parking, access to shared kitchen, laundry and lobby waiting area. also your suite neighbors are great! 🌙

email innerspacekc@gmail.com to apply including desired use of the space - don’t delay, our spaces tend to go quick! 🙏

Our remedy for doom-scrolling despair? Giving, grounding & self-care 🌻 -
07/13/2025

Our remedy for doom-scrolling despair? Giving, grounding & self-care 🌻 -

doom spirals!  you know the drill. bingeing on bad news, whether on your phone or in your mind, until you feel hopeless, powerless, victimized by the world and so ashamed to be a human that you can only grab for the next available coping mechanism to stay afloat. been there, done that, got the t-s...

Move With Us! 2-Week Intro to Tai Chi Starts Tonight 🌴 -
07/09/2025

Move With Us! 2-Week Intro to Tai Chi Starts Tonight 🌴 -

Starts Tonight! 2-Week Intro to Tai Chi & Qi Gong   Wednesday 7/9+7/16 @ 6-7pm Register Here Intro to Tai Chi & Qi Gong: Tai chi is an internal or soft style martial art intended for self defense. Yet, at its core, it is a slow, moving study in meditation. Practicing tai chi over time, you will cu...

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