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11/02/2025

ROLLING INTO BALANCE: A ROLLING, 5 ELEMENT ACUPUNCTURE & YOGA NIDRA WORKSHOP

with Jamie Navarro & Carly Rice

Nov 22 🌀 3-5pm 🌀 PYP FOREST

Join us for a deeply rejuvenating 2-hour journey designed to harmonize body, mind, and energy through rolling, acupuncture, and guided Yoga Nidra. Inspired by the wisdom of the 5 Elements of Chinese Medicine, this workshop offers a potent blend of practices to support deep rest and energetic harmony.

What to Expect:

🔹 75 Minutes of Down-Regulating Rolling: Begin with guided self-massage using Yoga Tune Up® Therapy Balls to release fascial tension, down-regulate the nervous system, and awaken energetic pathways aligned with the 5 Elements. We will be rolling through each of the Acupuncture meridians.

🔹 Restorative Pose with Acupuncture: Transition into stillness as you’re supported in a restorative posture while receiving a complete 25 minute Five-Element acupuncture treatment, made even more powerful from opening and rolling through the meridians before receiving acupuncture. Each point is chosen to invite inner balance and energetic alignment.

🔹 Closing Yoga Nidra: Complete your journey with a guided Yoga Nidra meditation to integrate the experience, deepen rest, and cultivate inner spaciousness. This workshop is ideal for anyone seeking nervous system regulation, emotional balance, and energetic harmony. No prior experience is necessary — just come as you are.

Space is limited. Pre-registration is recommended.

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11/01/2025

November Events! ✨✨✨

✨Yin & Restorative Yoga for Perimenopause with // Nov 1, 8, 15 // 3-4:30pm // PYP FOREST

✨ Night Class with & .wav // Nov 8 // doors at 9pm // PYP DOWNTOWN

✨ Prenatal Yoga with // Nov 9 // 4:30-5:30pm // PYP FOREST

✨ Breath, Core, & Pelvic Floor: Connect to Your Deep Core with of // Nov 15 // 1:30-3pm // PYP DOWNTOWN

✨ Rolling into Balance: A Rolling, 5 Element Acupuncture, & Yoga Nidra with .and.restore.me & Carly Rice // Nov 22 // 3-5pm // PYP FOREST

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10/31/2025

Starting this Sunday, November 2!

Join Mel every Sunday for her signature flow - if you haven’t been to Mel’s classes yet, expect creative yet anatomically sound class with lots of breath work & fun prop use sprinkled in! ✨✨✨

Bonus: Mel teaches the 6pm restorative immediately after… so stay for the back to back! Perfect ending to a Sunday! 🫠

10/27/2025

BREATH CORE & PELVIC FLOOR: CONNECT TO YOUR DEEP CENTER

Saturday, Nov 15
1:30-3:00pm
With of
PYP DOWNTOWN

During your exercise classes, do you hear “engage your pelvic floor” and wonder what that really means? Do you find yourself asking “what is the pelvic floor?” and “why does it matter?” Have you been told to “just do your kegels” but feel unsure where to start — or if kegels are even the right solution for you? Maybe you’ve experienced leaking, urgency, or core instability. Or perhaps you’re pregnant or postpartum and curious about how to participate in your favorite movement classes while optimizing your pelvic health. If so, this workshop is for you.

In this 90-minute class, you’ll explore the anatomy and function of your deep core and pelvic floor, discover why your breath matters, and learn how these systems work together to support strength, balance, and ease. You’ll be guided through breath awareness, gentle core activation, and yoga-based movement practices designed to integrate pelvic health into daily life and the classes you already enjoy.

The workshop will close with restorative postures and guided relaxation, giving you space to connect inward and release. You’ll leave with a handout of cues, simple home practices, and resources for continued pelvic health support. This class is open to all bodies and levels — whether you’re seeking healing, curious about your core, or looking to enhance your practice with deeper awareness.

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10/24/2025

ROLLING INTO BALANCE: A ROLLING, 5 ELEMENT ACUPUNCTURE & YOGA NIDRA WORKSHOP
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Led by Jamie Navarro & Carly Rice
Saturday, November 22
3-5pm
PYP FOREST

Join us for a deeply rejuvenating 2-hour journey designed to harmonize body, mind, and energy through rolling, acupuncture, and guided Yoga Nidra. Inspired by the wisdom of the 5 Elements of Chinese Medicine, this workshop offers a potent blend of practices to support deep rest and energetic harmony.

What to Expect:

🔹 75 Minutes of Down-Regulating Rolling: Begin with guided self-massage using Yoga Tune Up® Therapy Balls to release fascial tension, down-regulate the nervous system, and awaken energetic pathways aligned with the 5 Elements. We will be rolling through each of the Acupuncture meridians.

🔹 Restorative Pose with Acupuncture: Transition into stillness as you’re supported in a restorative posture while receiving a complete 25 minute Five-Element acupuncture treatment, made even more powerful from opening and rolling through the meridians before receiving acupuncture. Each point is chosen to invite inner balance and energetic alignment.

🔹 Closing Yoga Nidra: Complete your journey with a guided Yoga Nidra meditation to integrate the experience, deepen rest, and cultivate inner spaciousness. This workshop is ideal for anyone seeking nervous system regulation, emotional balance, and energetic harmony. No prior experience is necessary — just come as you are.

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10/23/2025

An incredibly thoughtful, thorough, and robust curriculum led by the very best & tenured faculty…

Registration deadline is Dec 15 // $500 deposit to secure your spot // tiered pricing // payment plans available

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10/21/2025

New Classes/Schedule Updates (that have nothing to do with Stephen or our orange couch but these photos need to resurface once in a while - swipe left)

Starting next week…
🧡Mondays, 7am vinyasa DT now belongs to Jess Emilfarb - yep! Jess is returning to the yoga schedule!

Starting in November…
🧡Sundays, 4:30pm-5:30pm vinyasa DT with Mel Walbridge - another opportunity to flow on Sundays…
🧡Sundays, 6pm Restorative DT will now be led by Mel Walbridge (come for the vinyasa, stay for the restorative) as Devon is moving out of Maine 😩

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09/23/2025

YOGA & LIVE CELLO: A SLOW FLOW YOGA CLASS with .elizabeth &

📆Friday, Oct 17
🕰️5:30-7pm
📍PYP FOREST

You know it, you love it! Sign up early 🎻✨

09/21/2025

Prenatal Yoga with ✨
Sundays 4:30-5:30pm
PYP FOREST

Upcoming dates…
✨October 5
✨November 9
✨December 14 (registration opens soon)

$18/class

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09/20/2025

ADVANCED ANATOMY TRAINING FOR FITNESS PROFESSIONALS

w/ .brookefleurent
Saturday, October 18
8am-1pm
PYP FOREST

Designed for fitness instructors, this advanced anatomy workshop will deepen your understanding of how muscles, bones, and nerves work together in movement. Explore muscle function, joint mobility, and biomechanics to enhance alignment, flexibility, strength, and overall movement efficiency.

Learn how muscles contract, bones support, and nerves facilitate movement, while identifying key areas prone to strain or injury. Understand how to assess movement patterns, muscle imbalances, and postural deviations, and how to apply anatomical principles to prevent injury and improve practice.

Gain practical tools for modifying exercises and creating safe, effective routines based on your students’ anatomical needs. Elevate your teaching and optimize your students’ results by mastering the connections between muscles, bones, and nerves in yoga, barre, Pilates, and strength based classes.

Ideal for fitness professionals seeking to expand their anatomical expertise, this workshop will help you elevate your teaching, boost student confidence, and optimize results. Join us to enhance your skills in creating a safe, balanced, and impactful practice for all levels of students.

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09/11/2025

YIN YOGA & LUNG MUDRA
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Friday, October 3, 2025
5:30 PM 7:00 PM

PYP FOREST

This 90 minute Yin Yoga class will incorporate the use of Mudra that benefits the lungs. Mudra’s are like doing yoga with your hands — they can embody or invoke unique qualities that nourish our physical, mental or spiritual layers. Expect a well rounded Yin yoga practice, mudra and meditation.

$30 or FREE for unlimited auto-renew members

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09/09/2025

Grab a friend! 👯 and book your spots in our upcoming Yoga Retreat in Nicaragua ☀️🐒🌊 with &

We only have a couple spots left & they are in our shared room - The Casa Horizon room is one of 4 rooms reserved for our guests & overlooks a private (to our group) pool and tucked away from the public spaces.

Don’t sleep on our 3rd annual trip to Costa Dulce - it’s truly such an incredible trip filled to the brim with as little or as much as you want.

Yoga, delicious food, surfing, beach & pool hangs galore 🤍

Address

449 Forest Avenue
Portland, ME
04101

Website

http://theportlandyogaproject.com/

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