be. in union yoga

Hey Scotland…can your kilt handle hot yoga? Free* yoga this week if you think you can take the heat. Thurs 4:30pm or 6pm 🔥 Fri 8:30am 🔥
*kilt required

TODAY with Maddie: 4pm COMMUNITY CLASS
While our city is rockin’ community energy today we’ll be doing the same. $5
Whether it’s your warm up or cool down from a fantastic day, drag your friends and family (or not!) and come roll out your mat. You won’t regret it!

We had a brain fart. Allison is teaching community class tomorrow and Zia teaches next Saturday. So!
Don't miss her. And bring your friends! You'll be well cared for by our resident aquarist...

In her day job, she's a professional aquarist (meaning she takes care of fish! at the New England Aquarium). Her focus is often on the details of animal care that most people don’t even realize exist. Through her work, she's come to appreciate that as humans we often take our own complex needs for granted. That appreciation is something she tries to bring into her classes, always offering a gentle encouragement to explore and take what is truly needed over what is expected. Her goal as a teacher is to facilitate a space where all students feel welcome to grow their own practice and to learn about themselves without judgement.

As for her own practice, she began attending yoga classes as a way to calm anxiety and practice emotional regulation. And though she approached yoga with trepidation and skepticism...where she thought she'd find judgement she found a supportive community. Over months, and then years, that community helped her learn to be confident in her own practice, to play, to be curious, and to challenge herself. That consistency and patience helped her find strength, balance and flexibility she never thought she possessed. But even more important was that through the physical practice she found a way to focus her mind and regulate her nervous system. (Who doesn't need that right now?!?!)

So come tomorrow and take whatever you need and find a peaceful landing place for compassion and curiosity. And maybe ask questions about the fish 🙂

Safe Space Saturday : $5 Community class with Zia! Spread the word—now more than ever it is important we make people safe and supported. When you meet Zia you will feel just that!
Zia’s bio:
I first came to yoga from a need to heal my relationship with my body. As a trans person and eating disorder survivor, I felt simultaneously hyper aware of my body and completely disconnected from it. Yoga has offered me tools to come back to my body, and even to love it! Physical practice has helped me find strength, balance and flexibility, while the philosophy of yoga provides a roadmap to leading a healthy, meaningful and intentional life. By taking care of my whole self, yoga helps me show up for the people around me.

I’m a jack of many trades. I’ve been a bartender, jewelers assistant and tree worker. Now I’m a barista, voice actor and new yoga teacher! I’m particularly excited to share this practice with other trans and q***r people, since it’s been such a source of healing for me. Yoga classes are often a predominantly cisgender space, and the tight clothing that is so ubiquitous doesn’t feel comfortable for everyone’s gender presentation. My dream is to create a space that feels safe for trans and genderq***r people to explore yoga.

b|e. you and b|e. there Saturday :)

Come support your community and meet Leah this Saturday @ 4pm.

When she first came to yoga she couldn't quite fit it into the world she had built for herself that demanded relentless intensity and prioritized extreme experiences...but eventually she found her way to the mat, into her body and space to calm the noise and focus here at b|e. and now hopes to share that space with you.

As a triathlete, doula, care-taker and in her work advancing reproductive freedom for all people across New England...yoga makes her feel strong in a body that has been gripped with injury; light in a heart that has been weighed down with stress; steady in a brain that has been pulled in many directions to support competing priorities; and centered in a spirit that feels unsteady in the midst of so much political and social duress. Yoga gives her the space to care for herself and a well of strength to draw from so she can care for others.

Leah is excited to guide you through a playful, creative and higher intensity practice that empowers you to challenge yourself in advanced postures and develop ease and grace in core poses, while you move at your own pace. Maybe you struggle with practicing yoga because you can't quite find the rest amidst all the chaos by which we are constantly surrounded. I invite you to join me for class and see if we can work together towards focus and rest. (Class will be 90 minutes and have gentle music in the background.)

See you there!

Inversion and arm balance small group training Saturdays in April 10:30am - 12pm, with Jaclyn. Limit 6 students.

We’ll build strength, confidence and knowledge of the anatomy behind the balance of each posture….register now and let’s fly!

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