Chi-Town Shakti: Yoga + Meditation in Chicago

Check out and follow KOCHÊ Coffee House™ just East of us on Devon! Enjoyed a Strawberry Almond Milk Matcha at their popup today. Construction continues but will be opening soon! Welcome, KOCHÊ Coffee House™ !
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We chant the Guru Gita practice on the first Sunday of every month - a beautiful Sanskrit chant, accompanied by harmonium. Song to the Guru, the Guru manifest and the Guru within. The manifest Guru lights the path and shows us the way. The Guru within is the ultimate intuitive guide, our inner wisdom strengthened with regular, consistent practice.
We offer sliding scale community meditation every Sunday from 10:15 am to 11 am. Check out our website and sign up to join!
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We are SO excited to welcome Justine Aten to the Chi-Town Shakti teaching staff! 🎉Join Justine THIS Thursday (9/3) and next (9/10) for in-person Yoga Basics from 6:30 to 7:30 pm!
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BIO:
Justine has regularly practiced yoga at Chi Town Shakti (CTS) for over 10 years and recently completed CTS’s 200-hour yoga teacher certification program. She teaches to share her love of yoga and all its benefits with as many people as possible. In yoga, Justine has experienced many delights: a deeper connection to body and spirit, the centering and calming effects of meditation, and the transformative connection between breath and movement. She feels fortunate to have found yoga as a means to keep her body, mind and spirit healthy and strong.
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As a teacher, Justine strives to make yoga accessible to all, regardless of experience, age or background. To that end, in class she provides options for postures and uses an abundance of props (blankets, blocks, bolsters, etc.). She strives to be very clear in her cueing, focusing on the connection between breath and movement. Justine brings her authentic self into her class and loves to help all find the joy in practicing yoga.
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As her day job, Justine is a high school teacher. Off the mat, she enjoys reading, hiking, travel and spending time with her family and friends. Justine is deeply appreciative for the support of Chi Town Shakti and ShambhavAnanda Yoga®️ communities as she continues to grow in her yoga and meditation practice.
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Ahiṃsā in the Body
A Yin Yoga Workshop
with Kathryn Norris
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Saturday Workshop (September)
September 5
2:00 Pm to 3:30 PM
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The premise of Yin yoga is simple, if a little counterintuitive: we use time, not effort, to create change in the body. We stay in a shape longer — finding enough ease there to sustain the hold, rather than forcing the tissue into what we think it should look like. It’s not about finding an aesthetic pose, but settling in, listening, and meeting the body where it actually is, with variations and props as needed.
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Passive loading, held over minutes, rehydrates connective tissue, supporting mobility and flexibility. The same stillness is doing something else: reharmonizing the body’s energetic balance, letting stuck or excessive energy in a channel settle back into flow.
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That stillness is where Ahiṃsā lives — practiced directly, pose by pose. Ahiṃsā means non-harming, and it’s the first of yoga’s five Yama, the relational guides for how we meet ourselves and others. The other four — truthfulness, non-stealing, right use of energy, non-grasping — only hold if they’re practiced without harm.
Ahiṃsā isn’t one guide among five. It’s the ground they stand on.
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In this workshop, we’ll slow down and spend real time with the postures and this idea — each hold a place to explore what non-harming actually asks of us. Ahiṃsā as the foundation, the other Yamas as what becomes possible once that ground is there.
**Tiered pricing available. We’d love to see you!
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September Sound Magic Immersion
with Special Guests, John + Jitka Yost
Saturday, September 12th
7 to 8:30 pm
*Early Bird Discount through August 29th!
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Join us for a September Sound Magic Immersion - a vibratory purification for the Soul. 
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Allow yourself to decompress and experience a unique inward journey for your body, mind and spirit. Physical sound vibrations entrain the brain to move from beta to alpha-theta waves, bringing about a deep, meditative state. Jitka and John will weave a tapestry of magical sounds using gongs, crystal bowls, singing bowls, chimes and other instruments. 
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Join us on Saturday, September 12th from 7 to 830 pm at Chi-Town Shakti Yoga + Meditation for a deeply relaxing 90-min Sound Magic Immersion with John and Jitka Yost. Bolsters, blankets, and cushions will be provided for your comfort. However, you are more than welcome to bring your own cozy comforts with you (pjs, soft blankets, eye masks, etc!). This Event is in-person in studio. Space is limited, so sign up soon! 
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✨The Sacred Sound of Self Embrace with Special Guests Hope Littwin and Marcus Broderick✨
Saturday, August 1st: 7 to 9 pm
Tiered pricing available
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NASA recently offered us the closest view of the Sun ever captured… imagine if we could attain an even greater insight of our own inner light. 
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Join us for a Sonorous Healing Ceremony co-facilitated by musicians and ceremonialists Hope Littwin and Marcus Broderick Montgomery. Together we will stoke the flames of our inner fire,  and personal power with radical Self-Compassion and Self-Comfort: via the Breath, the Voice, and the Word.
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Like a Kirtan led in call and response, together we will progress through sung and spoken activations over a living bed of droning instruments, bowls, harmonium, and guitar: Song by song, the Kula becomes the choir, the sun sets during the ceremony and we close by candlelight.
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Hope Littwin and Marcus Broderick Montgomery are musicians and ceremonialists who have spent their lives in sacred music practice: composing, ministering, and guiding rooms of strangers into song. They are also dear friends, and this ceremony is built the way their friendship is: call and response.
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Note: This is not an event centered in ShambhavAnanda Yoga® practices but rather an event offered with Love from our ShambhavAnanda Yoga® space. Proceeds help support studio time for Hope’s upcoming album.
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Follow Link in IG bio for more information on this unique and special event!
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