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Weird Flex Yoga

Unconventional Approaches to Yoga

Pop-Up Yoga Classes Throughout the Mid-Ohio Valley

Helping Make Self-Care Fun and Accessible

Zero Judgement Zone

There are lots of ways to stretch and breathe in a yoga practice. At Weird Flex, we're just celebrating some of the less common or less traditional ways. Here, you'll find classes like:

-Adaptive Yoga (adapting the poses, breath and movement to all bodies and abilities)
-Beginner-Focused Practice (slow-paced, full of explanations, modifications, open dialogue and absolutely zero judgement)
-Grounding and Empowerment Yoga (with a focus on calming the nerves and resetting stress responses)
-Alpaca and Metal (music) goat yoga
-Metal Yoga (lighthearted yoga with a metal theme and music)
-Yo-Goth (yoga with a goth theme and music)
-Restorative True Crime Podcast Yoga
-Spooky themed classes (all year long)

-All the themed classes, honestly
..and more! We hope you'll find a home here with us! All classes can be signed up for online, through the link in an event info. If you have questions about ANY of the classes, please ask, any time! We're here to help! No refunds are offered on classes, but your spot can be transferred to a friend, for the same class.

09/21/2026

Absolutely wild to just exist, sometimes.

Like, to gather with friends, hike a lil hill, and rest under shooting stars while we share ghost stories in a private cemetery, on a random weekend in late September.

Listening to the cicadas, hearing fox calls and bird songs in the dark, feeling the chill of autumn creep in all around us, and find a reset with our bodies and our selves.

Unreal.

How is this real life?

I love this gang. So much.

Incredibly beyond thankful to Cindy, for sharing her family’s private property and cemetery with us.

So happy to have met Viva, and been able to partner with her for her Dark Discoveries Tours ghost stories. It’s a really fun pairing and I love working with her! Everyone loves her stories and her whole vibe. She’s definitely part of our family.

Extremely grateful for the photos Viva, Rachel and our whole family shared, and the support we all have for each other. Can’t wait to practice with you all again!

Our apple picking class got postponed today, due to rain. But we’ll head back in the future.

On Monday, we’re doing a gentle yoga practice and making our own decorative brooms to take home. Just in time for autumn to begin, and for us to welcome in a new season. Still have maybe 2 spots left, if you’d like to join us.

And then we get to do a fun class with Bebe animals, the following week.

For real…HOW. How is this real life? We’re so lucky, guys. So lucky.

09/17/2026

Our most recent class was Practical-ly Magical ✨

We really dove into our own personal power, and got to choose lots of different ways to incorporate “shenanigans” into our movement, our thoughts, and our breath.

We got to play, to shake off some stresses, and leave it allll on the mat. We got to make a circle of trees while we supported one another, and we even got to make magical, mid-day margaritas and have a lil tarot chat after class.

Days like these are what I live for.

Thank you to THE Historic Oakland Estate for being the best host, to Candice, Jane, Miranda and Rachel for the sweet photos, to folks for bringing their cards and sharing their wisdom, to the Holpps for bringing their kickass blender, and to everyone for being awesome and trusting the process. It’s honestly what real magic is made of.

Up next, we’re teaming up with Dark Discoveries Tours for a spooky, late night, restorative yoga class in a private cemetery on Friday,

stretching in Hidden Hills Orchard on Sunday (PLEASE NOTE, we will not be picking apples due to a u-pick schedule change, but we WILL get a back of pre-picked apples),

and making our own decorative brooms after class at First Chapter Bookstore on Monday!

Absolutely stellar weekend coming up, that I hope you’ll all join us for!

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09/10/2026

So cool to get to talk with Phyllis Smith about Weird Flex things. Check out our full interview at the link in the original post 🙌✨

09/08/2026

Sunday’s and Monday’s classes really hit home for me, in different ways:

On Sunday, we got to celebrate a band that has meant a lot to me, listen to their music, make silly lyrical references in our poses and movements, and even rest to Infinite Baths. It was an absolute honor to get to reflect on 10 years of Sleep Token with my Weird Flex Family. Thank you so much to Rachel & Candice for the sweet photos, and to Rachel for the awesome “Tomb” pillow!

And on Monday, we kept the same class flow, but converted it to a chair practice. One of my favorite things to do is convert a pose or class flow into a different approach. It’s amazing how a pose’s sensations and experience can completely change when the angle rotates, and gravity plays a new role. The creativity of it all lights me on fire.

One of our students mentioned last night that she started showing up for our classes because our class photos have people that look like home, like “our people”, like they belong. It’s my favorite feeling in the world, to know we’re building a self-care family that feels like home.

And just a reminder to allll of our family, YOU showing up for yourselves is a beacon to everyone who is wondering if they have a place where they can belong. Thank you for continuing to show up and shine your weird with us.

So in love with our Weird Flex Family! Gah

If you wanna join in our next classes, on Sunday (9/13), we’re celebrating the release of “Part 2” with a “Practical-ly Magic” class at noon. The following Friday (9/18), Viva from Dark Discoveries Tours joins us for another restorative yoga class. This time it’s in a private cemetery!

Hope to see y’all there!

Practical-ly Magic 2

Dark Discoveries Restorative Yoga: Private Cemetery Edition

09/04/2026

SO FUN to get to sit down with Phyllis Smith of WTAP Television , for the Women of the MOV series she has pioneered. We could have talked for hours (but we kept it under an hour, I promise)! Be on the lookout next week, when the conversation about Weird Flex will go LIVE. If you’ve ever wanted to pick my brain about my reasons for teaching, here’s your chance to be a fly on the wall. Honored to have been included in this project!

09/02/2026

I’m so sorry that folks get intimidated by photos and videos of people doing “perfect yoga poses”, and think that has anything to do with what yoga really even is.

So many times I hear people saying yoga isn’t for them, because yoga folks can’t stop posting fancy headstands and balancing poses, without context, and saying “you should join us”.

There was a meme that went around a bit recently, of a teacher doing an elaborate balancing pose, with her saying folks could join her in the pose if they wanted. And then the video flashed to a cat, puddling on the floor and rolling to their back.

HILARIOUS!

And some of my students sent it to me, which made my day!

To me, to our group, the yoga lies in having the comfort and the confidence to say “absolutely not” or “absolutely not, today”. And to know you won’t be shamed, or asked to just “push through the discomfort”, or be told you’re not trying hard enough.

Folks, life is hard enough. We don’t need to show up for self-care and be told it has to be harder than the capacity we have for that moment. Puddle on the damn floor. Tell me absolutely not. Listen to your body.

You’ve shown up for yourself, and this is your practice. Listening to yourself, deciding what feels best, choosing kindness for you, and communicating your needs are ALL important parts of yoga.

On Monday, we went to First Chapter Bookstore and held a restorative (super restful and supported) yoga class while we read our favorite books. Yes, any book at all. I brought my Shadow Work journal and worked on that. Folks bring all sorts of stuff to read, and nobody peeks over your shoulder. We just rest, together.

One of our students told me this was parallel play, and I LOVED this. It is!

Knowing we have that level of comfort with each other, to rest next to one another and read together, it’s everything. It’s so special. And it’s yoga.

There’s no entry level knowledge needed, no code for how to act. We just rest together, in a few different poses. Or not. It’s your practice.

Yoga to me in this class was also having the time to really take in how awesome it is, to see our family resting-really taking time to nurture themselves. That gratitude of getting to witness that is so emotional. Such a gift.

Yoga is also getting settled into comfort, using the blankets and the props because they feel loving and supportive. Yoga is noticing your neighbor needing them too, and grabbing an extra set while you’re up getting your own.

Yoga is gently reaching your hand out to your side so the shop cats can stroll by and nuzzle you while you read.

Yoga is hearing the halfway mark of a pose, and letting yourself really melt into your shape. And your shape never, ever has to look like your neighbor’s shape. It’s always a valid shape.

So much of yoga is about feeling: Feeling comfort, feeling love and grace for yourself, finding your own boundaries, deciding you want to get kitty nuzzles (or not)…so many little decisions that all start with showing up. But it’s hard to share photos of these things.

So instead, I share class photos and write about them.

I was so happy to get to really notice our class on Monday. With restorative (and yin), slower-paced classes, there’s extra moments where I have the luxury of really looking around. It’s not a time of judgement, ever. It’s really a time of extreme gratitude, for me.

So grateful to get the chance to take our students in and see how cool it is to witness self-care.

Loving these photos from Candice, and our first Chapter team. Thank you to everyone for showing up for yourselves, and parallel playing, together. 💜

Up next is a class honoring one of my very favorite bands, and their 10 year anniversary. Join us for a donation-based Sleep Token-themed, gentle yoga class, this coming Sunday at 2pm, in Marietta, OH.

The Offering: 10 Years of ST

The next day, we’re bringing our practice to the chairs! I looove chair yoga, and look forward to this class every first Monday at Artsbridge (in Parkersburg, WV).

Chair Yoga

I sincerely hope you’ll join us! Follow the link in the events, or hop over to app.ubindi.com/Michelle.Waters to sign up, directly.

08/30/2026

We do a lot of magical things in our classes.

Some of them involve stuff like charging crystals, smudging the vibes and talking about the moon, stars and planets.

But it’s always so much more than that, too. We hold space for each other in so many different ways.

We work on dropping shame, tapping in to our bodies, laughing together, giving and getting grace, AND the woo woo s**t.

This time we also honored our patron saints Dolly and Tim while we talked about feral lunar eclipse energy and how to surrender to change (and let s**t go).

I am not lying when I say how glad I am to be part of the best family around. Beyond fun and beyond grateful for this buncha weirdos.

Thank you gigantically to Keith, for the awesome peacock ore donation for our class, to Rachel & Shannon for their awesome photos and kind words, to Jane for the cool conversation and inspiration to dig deeper, to Willow for the whimsy and for singing with me, and to everyone for being soo wonderful, trying a new skill and giving yourself grace when it didn’t match the picture in our heads.

A great reminder, just like with yoga, that everything is a process, and grace for ourselves (and others) is the greatest gift we can sometimes offer.

Up next? We’re relaxing in Silent Book Club ( Chapter). Bring a favorite book and rest in a handful of restorative yoga poses while you get your reading in. Still have mayyybe one spot left for that one (one of our favorite classes). Hope you’ll sign up and join us!

08/27/2026

Thank you to Oasis Salt Cave & Renew Wellness for being the best hosts, and the coolest shop around.

Thank you to our Weird Flex Family, for always being so incredibly welcoming and supportive of everyone, for showing up for yourselves, and to Rachel and Shannon for the awesome photos and kind words of support.

Thank you to the gorgeous weather, where it finally didn’t rain during our class 🤣

Thank you to the chaos that was happening all around us, to remind us we can look for zen anywhere, and have a lot to be grateful for.

And thank you gang, for enjoying the class flow, supporting local businesses, and for being cool. I loved Sunday.

Tonight (Thursday), we’re practicing in the time leading up to the second eclipse of the month, talking about what that means, and grounding and taking care of ourselves while we flow through the changes at the Historic Oakland Estate in Parkersburg.

Still have space left this evening if you’d like to join us. We’re gonna get a bit woo woo, and eclipse-y, together!

Crystal Charging Yoga (with a Make + Take)

08/24/2026

September and October classes are officially LIVE, and ready for you to hop on!

Head over to app.ubindi.com/Michelle.Waters to sign up, or click on the “tickets” link on any of the event pages.

Yay!

08/20/2026

Have you been waiting long…for the fall and Spooky Season Weird Flex class schedule?

Wait no more! New season of classes is dropping this weekend. Please save the date(s)!

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