Common Ground Yoga

12/17/2025

Pop Up Class Alert📣📣📣 Thank you Chelcie for creating this awesome offering!

Sign up here: https://get.mndbdy.ly/rrUBKo3YaZb

12/12/2025

Unfortunately, due to inclement weather in school cancellations we are unable to have our noon slow flow at Common ground today. We apologize for any inconvenience!

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from these Sculpt turkeys! Leah got their drumsticks moving early! 🦃 Feeling grateful for our Common Ground family today and always. 🙏

11/27/2025

Here’s something extra to be grateful for this Thanksgiving…Allison has just added a Community Class (that means FREE!) tomorrow at 5:30pm! Let your nervous system recover from the holiday and Black Friday shopping at CGY❤️

Here’s the schedule…
8:15 Sculpt w/ Shannon
9:45 Vinyin w/ Sierra
5:30 Community Class w/ Allison

11/19/2025

There are a few spaces left in the myo facial release class coming up this Thursday! These classes have been hard to get into, now is your chance!

https://get.mndbdy.ly/fvuiVhsupYb

IT’S BACK! Yoga for Myofacial Release is on the schedule 4 more opportunities to go deep into release and relaxation. SIGN UP NOW (classes limited to 15)!

https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=231746&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000076

11/15/2025

Thanks to the generosity of the CGY community we were able to raise enough money to provide 36 families a Thanksgiving meal through this program. Thank you VCSC Coordinated Health Program for putting together this amazing effort❤️

Common Ground Yoga will be donating all late fees for October and November to this effort to help families in need enjoy the Thanksgiving Holiday without the stress of food insecurity. We’d love to make a larger impact so we’ve decided to match member donations! If you have the means to donate please do so following the link below and add your name to the list at the studio located at the front desk.

It is in giving that we receive, and in our understanding that we are all deeply connected that we do what’s necessary to help our brother and sisters in need of support❤️

Here is the link to donate: https://form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/union-health-foundation/give-thanks

11/06/2025

We have a last minute opening for my facial release tonight at 7pm if you want the spot sign up here!

11/05/2025

Common Ground Yoga will be donating all late fees for October and November to this effort to help families in need enjoy the Thanksgiving Holiday without the stress of food insecurity. We’d love to make a larger impact so we’ve decided to match member donations! If you have the means to donate please do so following the link below and add your name to the list at the studio located at the front desk.

It is in giving that we receive, and in our understanding that we are all deeply connected that we do what’s necessary to help our brother and sisters in need of support❤️

Here is the link to donate: https://form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/union-health-foundation/give-thanks

11/03/2025

Since 2023, we’ve offered sliding scale pricing to honor yoga’s roots in accessibility and care. We know finances are tight for many—and wellness is often the first thing cut.

If you want to practice, we want to practice with you. 💛
Money should never be the barrier. Reach out—we’ll find a way together.

Thank you to all our members who pay into the monthly membership together we make this happen🙏🏼

10/27/2025

Hi friends! There is an awesome opportunity to do a yoga deep dive this coming weekend with a local treasure. Check it out!

https://www.anandawellnessth.com/reconnect-to-nature-retreat-il

10/05/2025

Grateful for the group that left this little Jesus on our doorstep today as it gives me a chance to address a BIG question we get from time… “Is yoga a religion?”

The truth is that this Is a complex question with no straight forward answer. No easy way to wrap it up in a neat little box with a pretty little bow.

I know the answer that is typically given in the west bypasses much of the rich history of yoga. So i went out in search of the best explaination I could find to give you as comprehensive an answer one could expect with in a single article. I appreciate how this article includes many view points from practitiners in the west as well as yoga scholars. Over my 20+ years practicing yoga and hundreds of hours in study I agree with this authors conclusion below and encourage you to read the whole article if it Is of interest or concern to you. Let’s have the conversation🫶🏽

“Today when I teach, I acknowledge that yoga is “a vast and ancient tree with many roots and branches,” as religious scholar Mark Singleton has described it. In North America, most of us experience it as a secular practice influenced by South Asia, with its lyrical Sanskrit terms and its common-sense Eight Limbs philosophy.
I tend to follow Barkataki’s suggestion and approach yoga as a philosophy or mythology. “It’s a worldview, it’s an ethical philosophy, it’s a technology of personal development,” she says. “But in the context that we’re doing it, it’s not a religion. Being respectful that, for some people, certainly, yoga is part of their religious practice, but that’s not what yoga was in its entirety. It never was just that.”
And while I’m not a Sanatana Dharma expert, I encourage students to use the yamas and niyamas to guide their daily interactions. I urge them to explore pratyahara, dharana, and dhyana to help find focus and stay centered, because science and experience tell me these practices are helpful.
To borrow the beautiful explanation in Indu Arora’s Yoga—Ancient Heritage, Tomorrow’s Vision, “Yoga has as many meanings as there are people who ask this question. The answer to ‘What is yoga?’ is not limited to one person’s definition or to a single text or interpretation…. Each person needs to experience the truth himself/herself and only then all the doubts will vanish.”

https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/spirituality/lets-talk-about-yoga-faith/

10/01/2025

I love a good podcast and two of my go to podcasters recently did an interview together so i had to share. I hope you find this as validating, helpful and healing as i did!

“The Way Out is In” is a podcast out of the Plum Village Monastery and 10% happier by Dan Harris is another great podcasts about buddism and spirituality in the moder world.

Would love to connect in studio if you give it a listen. Or comment below❤️

Podcast Episode · The Way Out Is In · 09/18/2025 · 1h 14m