Breathe Ojai Yoga Studio

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Breathe Ojai Yoga Studio 🦋 yoga for inspired living & all stages of life
🪷 in person in Ojai (2nd floor) & online
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📚 seva
323 E.

Matilija St. Suite 217, Ojai CA Breathe Ojai is an uplifting, warm, and welcoming space. It’s a place for you to exhale and reorient towards what really matters to you and go back into the world with a refreshed vision and sense of calm, peace, and confidence.

Each month at Breathe Ojai, we offer a theme to work with. This months theme has been *release.* Please enjoy the follow...
10/26/2026

Each month at Breathe Ojai, we offer a theme to work with. This months theme has been *release.* Please enjoy the following sutras to further explore ~

📖 If this is your first time exploring a sutra, just let what resonates sink in and let go of the rest. As many students on this path know, there are layers of meanings to be found each time we return to these short but insightful scriptures…

*Wisdom from the Yoga Sutras*
The idea of release isn’t separate from the deeper teachings of yoga. In Patañjali’s Yoga Sutras 1.12, practice (abhyāsa) is paired with nonattachment (vairāgya). We keep showing up, but we practice releasing our attachment to how we think things should turn out.

💫 In Yoga Sutra 2.46, sthira-sukham āsanam reminds us that our relationship to posture can contain both steadiness and ease. We don’t need to choose between strength and softness.

💫 And in Yoga Sutra 2.33, pratipakṣa bhāvana offers the practice of cultivating a different perspective when we’re caught in an unhelpful pattern. When tension, frustration, or contraction becomes our default, we can consciously practice another possibility. Maybe that possibility is simply one easier breath. It adds up and makes a difference.

*Beyond the Mat*
Letting go doesn’t always mean giving something up. Sometimes it means releasing the need to control an outcome, loosening our grip on an old story, or resting before we’re completely exhausted.

Sometimes it means recognizing that something we’ve been carrying simply isn’t ours to carry anymore. Holding on takes energy. Release creates space, and in that space, there may be room for something new to grow.

So, were you able to find that one place in your life where you might practice a little less holding and a little more allowing?

Let us know 💞

🌖 pics of recent full moon at the studio 🌕

✨️5 years in a row!✨️ Thank you for voting Francesca Gold, Owner and Founder of Breathe Ojai {Yoga Studio & Community Ha...
10/25/2026

✨️5 years in a row!✨️ Thank you for voting Francesca Gold, Owner and Founder of Breathe Ojai {Yoga Studio & Community Hall}, Best Yoga Teacher in Ojai for five consecutive years🦋🙏🏽

From opening our studio doors nearly 5 years ago, to offering specialty classes, workshops, and yearly Yoga Teacher Trainings Gold Yoga School, Breathe continues to be a hub for sharing the living tradition of yoga with reverence and care thanks to Francesca and our amazing team.

To every student who walks through these doors: thank you for your curiosity, for bringing your friends and family, and for your continued love of learning with us.

The way we've seen you show up for yourselves and each other over time has been deeply inspiring. You are the heart of this community and what keeps these offerings alive and thriving in Ojai and beyond.

With deep gratitude to each of you for the recognition, and to our teachers, past and present, for passing down this wisdom, may we continue to learn, grow, and share this living tradition together with care.

💛With so much gratitude,
Melissa, Francesca & The Breathe Team

Breathe is your friendly neighborhood yoga studio full of inspiring students, multifaceted teachers, and daily classes g...
10/21/2026

Breathe is your friendly neighborhood yoga studio full of inspiring students, multifaceted teachers, and daily classes grounded in holistic wellbeing, modern discoveries, and traditional yogic wisdom.

What's one thing you love about practicing at Breathe?

If you've been waiting to take a class with us, we're ready to welcome you!

Find us across the street from Hip Vegan and just up the staircase on the corner 🦋

All 📸 by Eric Andersen ✨️

Cozy season is coming🕯and our teachers are here making the studio extra comfy for you 🪔Some evening classes to try if yo...
10/18/2026

Cozy season is coming🕯and our teachers are here making the studio extra comfy for you 🪔

Some evening classes to try if you're ready to snuggle in and take a long exhale as the days become shorter...

✨️Sundays 5pm, Restorative with Melissa Arellano

✨️Mondays 5:30pm, Gentle Hatha with lobatogirl

✨️Wednesdays 5:45pm, Yin & Restorative with Eric Andersen

✨️Fridays 6pm, Restorative & Therapeutic with Francesca Gold, MA Yoga Studies, Yoga Therapist (5:45pm starting Nov.)

🎐Holiday Sound Baths with Roberta coming soon

Sign up for class in our bio. More evening classes and workshops are listed on our website 🌜

10/12/2026

Release: The Practice of Letting Go

There is a time to hold on and there is a time to let go.

So much of our practice asks us to cultivate steadiness: to stay, to breathe, to show up, to meet ourselves where we are.

But yoga also reminds us that effort is only part of the practice.

There is wisdom in knowing when we can soften our grip.

Join us in class while we linger on the exhales a bit longer during this season of release. Sign up link in our bio ♡

We hear the same things all the time ~“I feel so comfortable here.”“This space is gorgeous. It feels so peace...
10/08/2026

We hear the same things all the time ~

“I feel so comfortable here.”

“This space is gorgeous. It feels so peaceful inside.”

“I can feel the healing happening here.”

“I wasn’t sure what to expect, but this is exactly what I needed.”

“It’s clear just how much intention has gone into making this space. I’m grateful it exists in Ojai. Thank you.”

We are here… quietly waiting for you 😘 🦋

Last month at Breathe we focused on "grounding" in our classes to walk you into the airy and spacious season of Autumn w...
10/08/2026

Last month at Breathe we focused on "grounding" in our classes to walk you into the airy and spacious season of Autumn with steady feet. In October, we're shifting our focus to "release", just as the trees begin to shed their leaves🪾

We ask ourselves: what am I ready to let go of this month?

We're here to support you with thoughtful classes and guidance through this Vata season, which can sometimes stir up restlessness or scattered thoughts amidst frequent change🌬

One perfect way to stay connected to nature's rhythm during these shifts is to watch the sun set earlier each day. You can even catch the Ojai Pink Moment right from our studio windows; it's pure magic🌄

If you come to our evening classes this month, you'll see this beautiful light shift while you practice. We offer evening classes 5 nights a week. Visit our website for the schedule and join us soon🍂

So much gratitude to Dr. Chapple for his annual Ojai talk Breathe Ojai {Yoga Studio & Community Hall}, and to our studen...
09/12/2026

So much gratitude to Dr. Chapple for his annual Ojai talk Breathe Ojai {Yoga Studio & Community Hall}, and to our students plus Master of Arts in Yoga Studies grad students for gathering to witness, listen, and learn about Yoga from one of the best🙏🏽

Dr. Chapple's newest book is a clear and thoughtful guide that walks you through the ancient texts of Yoga in a wise and practical way. You can purchase 'A Sourcebook of Yoga Philosophy and Practice' online if you weren't able to catch him at the studio!

Do you want more educational workshops and Yoga trainings beyond the āsana? We're here for that!

Visit us soon and let us know what you've been practicing and what you're curious to discover more about 👁

📸 Master of Arts in Yoga Studies

🍃 Autumn is just a couple weeks away, and at Breathe we’re practicing the art of balancing the heat, winds, and cool dip...
09/04/2026

🍃 Autumn is just a couple weeks away, and at Breathe we’re practicing the art of balancing the heat, winds, and cool dips that quickly cycle through this time of year.

💐 When you find yourself in transition, be it seasonal in nature or a season of your life, you can remember to gently call on the practices that keep you feeling grounded and stable time and time again.

🦋 This month, *grounding* is our theme at Breathe. If you’d like to join us in practice or reflection we’d love to offer a kind word and a space for you to simply pause and breathe.

🧘🏻‍♀️ Grounding can come in the most natural of ways: through connection with friends, family, and community, by dedicating time to yourself each day, or by allowing ordinary moments to feel sacred.

🫖 Like basking in the moment before you take your first sip of morning coffee or tea - its warmth, scent, and flavor - all of your senses inviting you to slow down and be fully present as a pathway to grounding you in each moment.

☀️ What are some other ways you bring a sense of grounding into your day? Walks in nature, Yoga, time with pets? Are there people in your life who help you feel grounded, and are there people who you might offer a grounding presence back to?

🫂 At the studio, we’ll be sharing Yoga practices in our classes to work with this theme, together building resilience and the confidence to meet big shifts and potential challenges with grace, space to explore, and encouragement to carry your insights off the mat.

♥️ May you continue supporting yourself and each other, from the ground up. We can’t wait to spend some time breathing in crocodile pose with you at the studio (:

What if you gave yourself one intentional hour each month to comfortably lay down and breathe, release, and feel rejuven...
09/02/2026

What if you gave yourself one intentional hour each month to comfortably lay down and breathe, release, and feel rejuvenated?

Join Rachael Barkley for a trauma-informed Breathwork class every First Friday at 12pm through the end of the year.

Rachael's facilitation and care for those in class is deeply grounded in the psychology of healing as she is currently pursuing a PhD in Integral Transpersonal Psychology. She has been guiding breathwork at Breathe for over three years, and we are grateful to have her warm and compassionate presence at the studio 🙏🏽

Through intentional breathing, gentle guidance, and a supportive environment, breathwork can help you:

✨Reduce and release everyday stress, physical tension, and emotional blockages that feel stuck or stagnant

✨Cultivate deeper presence, self-awareness, and connection to yourself and others

✨️Tap into and experience a calm yet refreshed state of being

Save your spot online & join us for the next class this Friday at noon 🌬 Use your membership or drop-ins welcome!

No previous breathwork experience is needed. Come exactly as you are.

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323 E. Matilija Street Suite 217
Ojai, CA
93023

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