The landscape of yogic history moves through time as the Vedas (ancestors), Upanishads (grandparents), Sutras (parents), Kundalini (teenagers). It moves right through our modern lives and we can call on its different teachings to meet different needs, the way we call on different friends for different conversations. Yoga is a continuum of experience and teachings that is alive in each of us and we interpret and inform the tradition for those who will follow us. This perspective helps us understand the fundamental questions: What are we seeking? Why do we why practice? Here we will move through the primary elements of movement: the hinge of the hips, the axis of the spine, the feet and hands.

Sep. 12 - 14, 2025

Being present means observing and responding appropriately to whatever arises. When we live in the present, we have a full connection to what is real as it arises and falls, fluctuates and changes. This allows us to be fully engaged with our lives. Ayurveda asks “What is present? What is required?” What are the most basic aspects of practice that set a foundation to hold everything else? Standing poses connect us to the earth, to the place we came from and where we return. Here we focus on standing poses; energies of grounding, integrating, rising. We use the Yoga Sutras to consider how we begin things, get unstuck, and build momentum.

October 3-5, 2025

Yoga is the (re)connection to Source and Self. It is a journey back and forth; we constantly join and separate. It is not the lack of real connection that causes a sense of isolation, but the illusion of separation. Some of our disconnection can come from the speed at which we perceive we are living. We can use the pace of our practice as a means of “re-pacing” our modern lives to enrich our senses and feel contentment and satiation rather than constant grasping. Here we learn the transitions between postures, sun salutations as an engine to establish our energy, and considerations of pacing/timing on and off the mat.

October 24-26, 2025

As animals, we have an instinct to protect our vital organs, our throat, our inner emotions, so we have a natural protective response to close our front bodies. While backbends feel liberating, a chance to free ourselves of the limitations of this protection, they can be difficult due to habit and sensations of vulnerability. By opening our front body, we demonstrate a willingness to be in the world, to feel, to be hurt, to be ecstatic, to activate latent energy of possibility. Here we explore backbending and the energetic supply that waits here; subtle, surprising, elevating.

November 14-16, 2025

When we encounter resistance we tend to think that we must try harder. It is vital to allow ourselves to sit with difficulty or confusion until there is an opening, a shift. In twists we encounter our edge, over and over, and learn to meet it with the spaciousness of our breath. In this way we open to new, unconsidered options rather than force or inner abuse. Here we work into and out of twists to digest not only our food but to process our experiences and bring them into integration with our Selves.

December 5-7, 2025

In all truth, we know very little about who we are and the universe around us. As we step into the future, we make calculated guesses about what will happen next and how to respond, but they are limited by our own awareness. Our relationship to the unknown is a very prominent, and largely invisible, part of our lives. Practices to help determine and choose our responses can change our future significantly. We become creative and conversational with what could be instead of hiding or bracing for the worst. Here handstands, shoulder stands, and inversions help us reimagine what we are capable and expand our perspective of what lies Beyond.

January 9-11, 2025

At the midpoint of our studies we strengthen our ability to slow down, to come to rest, to find places and purpose to pause. Many of us have filled up our schedules in the outside world to the point where there is no time or energy for looking inward. We have built the foundation of our practice, can we learn to slow down and to savor what we find, what is quietly revealed in our lives? Here forward folds serve us as we build what yogis call langhana, or the energy of calming, slowing, and restoring ourselves in terms of time, perspective, and quality of life/love.

January 30-February 1, 2026

How can we fully shift the innate orientation we have to who we think we are, the systems we have chosen to be in agreement with, and the relationship we have with what is right/wrong, up/down? Headstand is a chance to rest in reorientation. Here the practice of headstand, one steady step at a time provides a freedom from what we have assumed to be true and opens our eyes literally and metaphorically to another way. We are constantly changing. Headstand here will compress the spine in new ways and then in its release offer new sensory awareness and orientation.

February 27 - March 1, 2026

Balance is the ability to recover our center and inner sense of contentment, again and again. There will be disruptions, interruptions, disagreements. The whole of the process and practice of Yoga serves to provide ways to return and reestablish ourselves so we stay open to the shifting tides of our lives and pliable in our reply. We learn how to reorganize, regroup, find relaxation again deep inside the body in the present set of circumstances. Here, instead of individual groups of postures, we feel the ride of the whole sequence and start to determine for ourselves what outcome is needed and how to get there.

March 20-22, 2026

The physical body is the home of the energy that runs through us throughout our lives. the shapes we make, hands high or folding forward, direct this energy and create direction and recognition. The whole body is an antenna and postures are basically the means to tune into different stations. We can then shift the clarity or density or intensity of that station, that energy center. This is the place of Kundalini kriyas as a means of activating and stabilizing deep, innate energy in connection to something cosmic. Here we move through the subtle body of nadis, how they gather into chakras, how the right / left, individual/collective, solar/lunar come into conversation in our lives.

April 10-12, 2026

It is essential that we feel equipped to come to our practice on our own. There are patterns of resistance and habit that can limit what we believe we can do. Simply coming to our mat can be an act of great significance because it enacts choice and inner integrity. In the yoga sutras Patanjali says a meaningful, impactful practice is done “Over time, without interruption, with devotion.” We will leave with 3 simple, general practices that we can adapt and apply for any circumstance to return to connection with ourselves. Here we will consider the 3 keys of repetition, time, and technique as means of claiming authority and progress in our lives.

May 1-3, 2026

Each month I will be teaching the training element through my Radiant Body Vinyasa classes. When we discuss headstands, I will emphasize headstands, modeling how they can be presented. When we discuss standing poses, for the following weeks I will teach with an emphasis on standing poses. Come in to TRIBE and explore for yourself how these principles and considerations can be felt as daily practice.

As part of the 10 month program you will also have topic-specific sequences to practice at home. Every day will have a practice that is related to our theme of that month.

Yoga is a practice, it is experience in and through our bodies as a means of experiencing and processing our lives. Each of these modules are designed to come alive and you are invited to join in.