The Yoga Lounge

09/05/2025

✨From Cara’s most recent blog post: “On Friendship…”

📸photo from our Yoga Lounge retreat to Utah (the Narrows in Zion National Park)

09/03/2025

🧘‍♂️✨ Turn Your Practice Upside Down ✨🧘‍♀️

Join us for a special workshop with Rich Logan →
Hands-On Adjustments: Inversions
📅 Fri, Sept 13 | 🕐 1–4 pm | 💲60

Learn how to safely guide yourself (and your students) into inversions with confidence. 🌿
This 3-hour intensive blends lecture + practice so you can:
🔹 Explore “The Inward Postures” with props & support
🔹 Learn safe, effective hands-on adjustments
🔹 Deepen body + breath awareness from a new perspective

📍 The Yoga Lounge

✨ Open to teachers, trainees & curious students

09/01/2025

Words, thoughts and insights from Cara on daily life and yoga ...

08/27/2025

🔥 Meet Joe Galli — Our New Yoga Instructor! 🔥

We’re thrilled to welcome Joe Galli to the teaching team at The Yoga Lounge! ✨

Joe is a 200-hour certified instructor whose teaching style is rooted in his Iyengar-inspired mentors. His classes are designed to be accessible for everyone, using props and clear, consistent cueing to support students at all levels.

As a career firefighter with a background in fitness training, Joe has seen firsthand the toll that high-demand lifestyles can take on the body and mind. He has even helped create statewide programs to improve the physical and mental resiliency of firefighters. Through yoga, Joe found not only recovery from physical pain but also profound support for his mental well-being.

🙏 With gratitude for his family, teachers, and the Yoga Lounge community, Joe is excited to share the alignment, balance, and healing that yoga has brought into his life.

Join Joe for:
💪 Men & Athletes Yoga — Mondays at 7:00 PM
🌱 Beginning Yoga — Tuesdays at 10:30 439

08/27/2025

🌿 Meet Janie — Our New Yoga Instructor! 🌿

We are so excited to welcome Janie to the Yoga Lounge teaching team! ✨

Janie first discovered yoga in 2019 while in college. What started as a relaxing break in her busy schedule quickly grew into a powerful practice of self-connection, healing, and growth. Through yoga, she found a way to quiet her anxiety, release emotional tension stored in the body, and cultivate a deeper sense of peace.

Inspired by her own transformation, Janie recently graduated from our 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program here at the Lounge, and is now stepping into the role of guide for others on their journey. 💫

🧘‍♀️ Join her for Sunday Somatics every week at 7:00 PM — a grounding and restorative class that invites you to slow down, connect with your body, and release stress in a supportive, soothing space.

Let’s give Janie a warm Yoga Lounge welcome! 💜

08/04/2025

🎓 Step into your power. Teach from your heart. ✨

Are you ready to transform your life, deepen your personal practice, and become a confident, skillful yoga teacher?

Join our 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training at Woodstock Yoga Lounge—a heart-centered, comprehensive, and absolutely life-changing journey into the art and soul of yoga.

Led by Cara Chang Mutert, E-RYT 500, alongside our exceptional senior faculty and special guest teachers like Gabriel Halpern, Rich Logan, and Lori Gaspar, this training is more than certification—it’s a calling.

🌿 Explore:
• Alignment-based + vinyasa practices
• Yin, Restorative, Chair, and Therapeutic yoga
• Safe sequencing, hands-on assists, & adaptive cueing
• Deep-dive yoga philosophy, chakras, doshas, pranayama, & more
• The real meaning of yoga on and off the mat

You’ll graduate empowered to teach multiple styles with confidence, and most importantly—you’ll know yourself more deeply than ever before.

This is your time to rise.
This is your time to lead.
This is your time to live yoga.

🧘‍♀️ Starts September 2025
📍 Woodstock Yoga Lounge, IL
🌐 Link in bio to apply or learn more

Looking for change in your life? Be the change.Enroll in teacher training at The Yoga Lounge. Learn to teach yoga to others and develop a better understanding of different yoga techniques through guided asana practice, discussion and practical analysis. Find out how to design and clearly instruct .....

07/10/2025

🌺 Pop-Up Thai Yoga Class with Jori
Friday, August 22nd | 7:15–8:30 P.M.
At The Yoga Lounge

Looking for something a little different? Join us for this special pop-up experience that blends the gentle movement of Hatha Yoga with the healing touch of Thai Yoga assists.

This hands-on class is restorative in nature—offering simple postures paired with supportive, intentional adjustments designed to melt tension and invite deeper release.

Whether you’re new or experienced, this class is open to all levels and offers a nurturing space to connect, receive, and reset.

✨ One night only. Come as you are. Leave feeling renewed.

🧘‍♂️ Spots are limited — pre-register now through the link in bio or DM us to save your space!

07/10/2025

🎶 Sound Bath Immersion with Sarah
Friday, August 15th | 5:30–6:30 P.M.
✨ $20 | At The Yoga Lounge

Step into a sacred space where sound becomes medicine. 🌬️💫

This 1-hour immersive journey begins with a grounding meditation and flows into the soothing resonance of crystal quartz singing bowls. As the sound waves ripple through your body, your nervous system softens, your mind quiets, and your whole being is invited into harmony.

Expect deep rest, gentle release, and a soft return-to-body meditation to close. Whether you’re seeking healing, stillness, or simply a moment to just be—this space is for you.

Led by Sarah—a yoga instructor, energy worker, and singing bowl practitioner whose work honors the inner wisdom of the body and the power of presence.

🌿 Pre-register now to reserve your spot.
🎟️ Link in bio or DM us to join

07/10/2025

🧗‍♀️ The Ropes with Cara
Saturday, August 9th | 11:00 A.M.–12:15 P.M.

Steadiness & Ease — Sthira Sukham Asanam
Find your balance between effort and ease—on the mat and in life.

Using the support of the wall and yoga ropes, this class offers a unique opportunity to explore alignment, traction, and deep release. We’ll begin with grounding poses to build strength and awareness, then transition into restorative shapes that invite rest, support, and calm. Expect a long, peaceful savasana to seal it all in.

🌿 Therapeutic • Restorative • Empowering
⚠️ Limited to 12 students — Pre-registration required!

📍Sign up now through the link in bio or message us to reserve your spot.

06/26/2025

✨Find Your Center, Meet your Core Yoga Workshop with Tatiana ✨

When you hear “core,” do you immediately think of sit-ups and six-packs? It’s time to change that narrative.

This 2-hour workshop dives deep beneath the surface—into the stabilizing muscles that support your posture, balance, and breath. Tatiana, with over a decade of Pilates and yoga experience, will guide you in building a powerful connection to your true center.

✨ Learn how core awareness transforms:
• Your strength
• Your breath (pranayama)
• Your asana practice
• And your life beyond the mat

Whether you’re new to core work or ready to deepen your understanding, this empowering experience is for you.

📍 The Yoga Lounge
🗓 Saturday, June 27
⏰ 12:00 – 2:00 PM
💰 $40

🧘‍♀️ Reserve your spot now — move from your center and feel the difference.

06/24/2025

🌲Cara’s most recent blog (6/22/25): Root to Rise

05/14/2025

✨ Thursdays with Rich Logan ✨

EVERY Thursday from 4 - 6 p.m. -$20 to drop in

Join this highly skilled, knowledgeable, entertaining teacher, and seasoned practitioner.

Rich is a long time practioner of yoga and creates a space for exploration and discovery, using humor and years of insight to help facilitate an intentional practice. The closer we come to the edge of consciousness, the closer we are to our core selves. And when we discover a technique that helps us transcend our seeming duality, that is the moment we arrive... the reason we practice.... to go beyond Ananda, the idea of bliss, into the actuality of unity.

Or we might just learn some cool stuff that eases our stressful lives. In either case you win, and the world wins when each of us is better at taking care of ourselves... to go beyond Ananda, the idea of bliss, into the actuality of unity. Or we might just learn some cool stuff that eases our stressful lives. In either case you win, and the world wins when e ach of us is better at taking care of ourselves. Only $20 to drop in.



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