Balance Yoga Wellness + Ayurveda

Deep Yin Workshop & Potluck w/ Mikhayla Harrell🕉 Saturday September 17th, 2022 11-1pm Move from the expansive qualities of Summer to the internal contrastive nature of Fall in this two hour Yin Yoga Workshop. Investment $40 Enrollment is now open in Mindbody.🙏 For more information on Mikhayla and her workshops visit our website www.balanceyogawellness.com Other scheduled future Workshops w/ Mikhayla 🦾Yoga For Strenth Building 10/29/22, 💫Roll into Your Bliss 11/12/22, 🌈Emancipating Backbends 12/10/22

1/2 Led Primary Ashtanga Yoga Fridays 8:30-9:45am w/ Meredith Murphy
🔥Ashtanga Yoga can help build a positive relationship with one’s self. Ashtanga Yoga's living lineage dates back nearly five thousand years in a unbroken line of teachers, sages and gurus that culminates in the life of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, his son R. Sharath Jois and every Ashtanga practitioner today.

Save the Date for our Guest Teacher Dylan Bernstein💥 October 8th & 15th 💥More about his workshops and offerings coming soon! In the meantime check out Dylan’s website http://www.stillnessinaction.com/

Ashtanga Mysore Yoga🔥 Where you can take your practice to another level or take it slow and steady⭐️ A great class for beginning practitioners and seasoned practitioners! Check Out our schedule online for more details.

SPECIAL Guest teacher POP UP next week🌟 Mikhayla Harrell will be subbing two classes next week. Tuesday 6-7:15pm Vinyasa Class & Fridays 5-6:15pm Happy Hour Yoga class. Don’t miss her! Sign up through mind-body

200-hour BALANCE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
4-MONTH YOGA IMMERSION 2023 Applications are now available online through our website🙌🏼 The training starts the weekend of January 6th 2022✨

Utthita Trikonasana will give you a mix of grounded stability and a heart-opening expansion of the chest. This asana requires concentration and a steady breath, which can help focus a wandering mind and bring you fully to the present moment. 📐Find your geometric triangle in one of our classes!

Are you HOT yet? 🥵 Summer is on🌞 Come practice before it gets to hot…For the summer we are offering two “Self Practice” times for our BYW members. Mondays & Thursdays 6am-10am ☀️What is “Self Practice”? Students are welcome to use the studio to practice. There will not be a teacher. YOUR the teacher for your practice.🙌🏼If you need more info about memberships or the door code please contact [email protected]

Olivia Rose, one of our 200hour 2022 YTT’s is holding her first Yoga Retreat! We are so excited and proud of her. Love watching our students grow💜 Here’s some information about her retreat…..A 7-Day Nomadic Immersion and Yoga Retreat through Andean and Amazonian regions to explore sacred plant medicine, yoga, and meditation. Contact Olivia for more information.

Olivia Rose, one of our 2022 YTT’s is holding her first Yoga Retreat! We are so excited and proud of her. Love watching our students grow💜 Here’s some information about her retreat…..A 7-Day Nomadic Immersion and Yoga Retreat through Andean and Amazonian regions to explore sacred plant medicine, yoga, and meditation. Contact Olivia for more information.

“Stirum sukham asanam. Seated posture should be steady and comfortable.”– Yoga Sutra ✨Find contentment in the present moment at Balance Yoga & Wellness ✨

Our Ashtanga Teachers are coming home from Holiday❤️✈️ All Mysore Ashtanga classes & Led Ashtanga classes are back on schedule. Come see Stacey Zimet this Sunday Mysore 8:30-10:00am!

Special Guest✨Sir K. Pattabhi Jois 1993 video of the Ashtanga Primary Series will be projected on the Balance walls Friday May 27th & Friday June 3rd “8:30-9:45am”Rachel Ribando-Gros will be your host💜 Sign up through Mindbody

Bring more COLOR into your vibrant lives with yoga & meditation🌈 Check out our up and coming Workshop “Yin and Reiki” Friday May 27th 7-8:30pm with Victoria Mclntyre & Kristen Donat⭐️ Don’t miss out on this special offering. More information provided through our website.

Check out our KARMA shop when you come to class! We just got NEW Meditation Cushions in by Natalie Flowers 🌺 Just Gorgeous 🌺

To all Jazz Fest-ers your YOGA mat misses you☀️ Start your week of with Monday Vinyasa & Yin 6:00pm w/ Melanie Schatz

YIN and REIKI Workshop
Friday, May 27, 2022, 7pm-8:30pm
Facilitated by: Victoria McIntyre, 200-RYT & Kristen Donat, Usui/Holy Fire 3® Reiki Master Teacher✨ Investment $30 Sign up through our website in Mindbody🤍
Clear out negative energy and transition into your weekend with a 90-minute Yin and Reiki class.

Students will be guided through a yin practice: passive, longer-held postures that will be held for 2-10 minutes, targeting the deepest tissues of the body (our connective tissues) and providing a release of the fascia to increase circulation, improve flexibility, and activate our energy pathways.

Students will also receive the healing and relaxing benefits of Reiki Energy. Reiki (an ancient Japanese energy healing technique) provides deep relaxation and works with each person's individual energy to help heal from the inside out. Students can receive the benefits of Reiki Energy Healing with or without physical touch, and options of hands on or hands off Reiki will be available.

Props will be available, but you may also bring your own bolster, blanket, blocks, and strap.

Sink into this nourishing practice and sink back into yourself and awaken your inner resiliency.

Our 2022 YTT’s Graduated over the weekend ✨What an amazing group of Women. We can wait to see what they all do with there new found knowledge. Thank you to our YTT teachers Mikhayla & Meredith for taking the trainees through this amazing process. Om Shanti Om Shanti

We are happy to have the US Veterans back at Balance from the pandemic! Jessica Blanchard started this program and provide the Balance space for the Veterans six years ago. ❤️🤍💙Yoga helps with issues veterans face, including anxiety, depression, PTSD and insomnia.

Exciting weekends in NOLA till mid May! Keep yourself Balanced ⚖️ with yoga through the week with us.

”True yoga is not about the shape of your body, but the shape of your life. Yoga is not to be performed; yoga is to be lived. Yoga doesn’t care about what you have been; yoga cares about the person you are becoming. Yoga is designed for a vast and profound purpose, and for it to be truly called yoga, its essence must be embodied.” – Aadil Palkhivala ✨ Check out our schedule through the website and come see us 🥰

2202 YTT’s 8th Weekend is coming up! We have a special guest appearance from Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. How do you say? We will be projecting the 1993 Led Primary Ashtanga Series with him guiding.🙌🏼 stay tuned to see how it goes. Check out our on going Schedule at our website💜✨

“Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.” – Unknown 🎋Sunday Mysore Ashtanga 8:30-10am & Balance Yoga Vinyasa sliding scale 10:15-11:30am🎋Check out all are amazing classes through our website.

💫NEW💫Ashtanga Schedule starts next week! 🌑Mondays Mysore 8:30-10am 🌕Tuesdays Mysore 6-7:30am🌑Wednesdays Mysore 8:30-10am & Beginners Ashtanga 10:15-11:15am🌕Thursdays Mysore 8:30-10am🌑Fridays Led 8:30-9:45am Saturdays Mysore 8:30-10am 🌕Sundays 8:30-10am See you at the studio ⭐️ Om Shanti

Prenatal Yoga 🧘🏻‍♀️ with the Goddess Melanie Schatz Wednesday nights 6-7:15pm. Also catch her amazing Vinyasa & Yin class Monday evening 6-7:15pm

NEW TEACHER🎉NEW CLASSES🙌🏼 Starting this week “Tuesdays 6-7:15pm Vinyasa & Vin” ✨“Fridays Happy Hour Yoga 5-6:15pm” both with Victoria McLntyre 💻 sign up online

FREE Demo Class🙌🏼Come check out a potential NEW teacher Victoria McIntyre Tuesday March 29th 8:30-9:15am Vinyasa Style. She has a 200-RYT (Hot Asana Yoga University, Southern Pines, NC) and currently teach heated vinyasa flow, flow to yin, and yin classes at Love More Hot Yoga in Covington. In addition to her 200-hour training, She received certifications in Yin (25 hours, Hot Asana Yoga University), Hands-On Assisting (25 hours, Hot Asana Yoga University), Traditional Chinese Medicine (30 hours, Yoga Medicine). She is currently enrolled in another 100-hour restorative training (to be completed in September) covering yin, restorative yoga, and MFR, as well as two other advanced anatomy classes (Yoga Anatomy Training, 20-hours, Yoga Medicine; Functional Anatomy Training, 20-hours, Yoga Medicine).

Take rest how you wanna! Here at Balance we want to help our practitioners build their internal independence. 🥰 Check out our schedule online 🙌🏼

Holi, the festival of colors is this Sunday! We hope your yoga practice brings you all the colors this life has in store. Celebrating life every day! 🎉 Our weekend schedule: Saturday Mysore 8:30-10am Sunday Mysore 8:30-10am Sunday Vinyasa 10:15-11:30am ✨It’s also YTT’s 6th weekend with & .rose.murphy

“Be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi ✨It’s as simple as that. Weekend classes Saturday & Sunday Mysore Ashtanga 8:30-10am Sunday Balance Vinyasa 10:15-11:30am

“Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.” ― B.K.S Iyengar Sunday Balance Yoga Vinyasa (sliding scale) 10:15-11:30am w Aaron Brewer

“Riding the Serpentine Currents” Ashtanga Workshop w/ Sean Ambrose 🐲This Sunday March 6th 5:45pm In this workshop, we will explore the mythology behind the figure Patanjali as an amalgam of serpent and human. This myth offers a dhyana sloka i.e. a proprioceptive embodied meditation template for accessing a deeper level of the inhale and exhale. Patanjali's cobra hood and coiled tail are artistic stylizations for opening the breath and body through in-spirational alignment of prana and apana. In a nondogmatic and playful way we can transpose the serpentine imagery off this myth into the lived experience of our own bodies, expanding the conditioned limits of the body-mind flow. Connecting this nondual ta***ic psychology with the scientific frame of Interpersonal Neurobiology, we form and integrative method for our Western minds and a felt re-spect for the Eastern traditions. ✨ re-register through our website. Sliding scale $20-$40

Our inner Wild Child was released with all the Mardi Gras extravaganza. Now it’s time to reel it back in. If you want 😜 Our normal schedule starts this Thursday with ✨Mysore Ashtanga 8:30-9:15am w/ ✨Balance Vinyasa Yoga 12:00-1:00pm & 6:00-7:15pm w/

Our 2022 YTT’s created collages that represented the Yamas and Niyamas. Check them out on our walls when you come to class! Mikhayla Harrell is there artistic inspirational guide 💛💜💚 .rose.murphy

Ashtanga Vinyasa Play(work)shop
with Sean Ambrose
Sunday March 6th from 5:45-8ish 🐍Riding the Serpentine Currents:
A deep dive into the exploration of prana (inhale) and apana (exhale) vayus (breaths) as they relate from mythology to science & mind to body. ✨In this workshop, you will explore the mythology behind the figure Patanjali as an amalgam of serpent and human. This myth offers a dhyana sloka i.e. a proprioceptive embodied meditation template for accessing a deeper level of the inhale and exhale. Patanjali's cobra hood and coiled tail are artistic stylizations for opening the breath and body through in-spirational alignment of prana and apana. In a nondogmatic and playful way we can transpose the serpentine imagery off this myth into the lived experience of our own bodies, expanding the conditioned limits of the body-mind flow. Connecting this nondual ta***ic psychology with the scientific frame of Interpersonal Neurobiology, we form and integrative method for our Western minds and a felt re-spect for the Eastern traditions.

Sliding scale $20-40
No student turned away, alternative energies welcome for trade, reach out if need be. 💚Sign up in Mindbody under Workshops.

What is Mysore Ashtanga? It’s an assisted self practice. Each student moves independently with there breath through the Ashtanga sequence. The teacher moves through the room, giving assistance, instruction, and guidance as needed on a one on one basis….Also Mysore (or Mysuru) is a city in India's southwestern Karnataka state.🤓✨ 💜💛💚 Check out all our classes through our website ✌🏽

“Yoga hOMe”-a place where one feels open to release the freedom within. 💜💚💛

If you’re in the neighborhood swing by and check out our display of the 2022 YTTs “Yoga Timelines” Getting to know the history of yoga is a fascinating exploration😍 Can you spot two of our teachers?!!!

It’s COLD outside but it’s cozy at the Shala🔥 join us Sunday Ashtanga Mysore 8:30-10:00am & Balance Yoga Sliding Scale 10:15-11:30am