Alissa Yoga

Come August 9th I have some changes to my teaching schedule FreedOM Hot Yoga and FreedOM Hot Yoga + Pilates SoJo 💜💫

Here they are:
Sunday 8:30am Power Vinyasa Orem 💪😅

Monday 6am Power Vinyasa SoJo 💪😅
Monday 6:30pm Integrated Hatha Orem 🔥

Wednesday 6:30pm Hot Vinyasa SoJo 🌊

I am so excited for these shifts to my weekly teaching schedule and really look forward to sharing yoga with the Freedom community 💜🕉️💜💫💫💫
I hope to see you at the Dharma Yoga class I’m holding there tomorrow 8/1 1-2:30pm SoJo location

On this Guru Purnima, under the light of the Aquarius Full Moon, I am reflecting on the profound gift of having a living guru, Sri Dharma Mittra. 🌕🕯️🕉️🙏🏼

In the yogic tradition, the highest offering to a guru is not admiration, but practice. To embody the teachings. To carry them forward with sincerity and humility.
Today I offer gratitude and my practice to my guru, to the lineage that preserved these teachings, and to every teacher who has helped me remember who I truly am. Thank you. 🕉️

Sri Dharma continuously reminds us that Self Realization is the entire reason we practice yoga.

Practicing with Sri Dharma in Arizona

Photo by Jeffery Vock

My first time at the Dharma Yoga Center in NYC

🕉️🕉️🕉️OM🕉️🕉️🕉️

When practicing asana, even meditation & compassion💜

After practicing with Dharma in Arizona Photo

Photo by Jeffery Vock

This was after my first time practicing with Dharmaji in Tahoe in 2013.

After I practiced with him back then, this is how I captioned this photo.

I am so grateful I was able to spend 2014 and 2015 learning from him Dharma Yoga and to have been able to learn from him during a time that was personally difficult; the teachings of my guru brought me back hOMe to myself and for that I will be forever thankful. 🕉️🙏🏼

Somewhere in the clouds of a past life

Frolicking and flying freely

Learning the wild arts near murky waters

Fear not and step into the unknown

You may experience the greatest love you have ever known

Dharma Yoga a complete practice in 90 minutes is happening again FreedOM Hot Yoga + Pilates SoJo 💜
Saturday, August 1st
1-2:30pm

All levels are welcome and encouraged to attend. We utilize breath, mantra, drishti, postures, meditation, and relaxation techniques during this practice. For me, one of the hallmarks of this yoga style is how we truly tap into the group energy and move together and are inspired by one another.

Class is a $20 drop in
$10 for FreedOM Hot Yoga + Pilates SoJo members & staff

Motherhood is the single place where I apply what I have learned through years of yoga and meditation on a moment by moment basis and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I am so grateful to spend my children’s childhood by their sides. It is the ultimate gift and truly something a former version of myself would be surprised I enjoy so much. ❤️🌞❤️

Dharma Yoga

I found Dharma Yoga actually through this app, Instagram, back in 2012. Backbends have never come naturally for me and I kept seeing these inspiring backbending yogis on Instagram. The one thing they had in common, they practiced with Sri Dharma Mittra.

I bought his dvd and began to practice Dharma Yoga daily.

In the summer of 2013 I was able to practice in person with him for the first time, and it had a true impact on me in more ways than one both on and off of my yoga mat.

In many ways it got me out of my own way.

I invite you to experience Dharma Yoga if you never have. Yes, he still has dvds and now an app, or you can practice with him NYC.

If you’re in Utah and want to experience Dharma Yoga, join me tomorrow 7/11 1-2:30pm FreedOM Hot Yoga + Pilates SoJo you can sign up beforehand or just show up. All levels are welcome. 💜🙏🏼🕉️

Sri Dharma encourages cultivating love, compassion, and devotion to the Divine in whatever form resonates with you.

Meditation is considered the heart of the practice.

The physical practice exists largely to make meditation more accessible.

Inhale “So”
Exhale “Hum”

I am you. You are me.
I am that. That I am.

Unlike many modern styles, the emphasis is not on constantly flowing, but on cultivating:
💪 Stability
👁️ Awareness
🌬️ Breath
🧘🏻‍♀️ Concentration
🌊 Ease
Asana is viewed as preparation for meditation by purifying the body and nervous system.

Be Receptive to the Infinite Grace of God
💜🕉️🙏🏼💜

Some thoughts on Yoga Teacher Trainings…

I have personally taken over a dozen YTTs and I have also facilitated over a dozen YTT cohorts in multiple yoga modalities. These are some big takeaways I have about trainings. I hope they are helpful.

Of course if you’re in Utah Valley and my vibe and the feel of Inner Peace Yoga School jives with you, join us this Fall / Winter for either our 200H or 300H YTTs and if we’re not your vibe, honor that too. ☺️