Allegra Chabay Yoga

Kriya Yoga: Action & Transformation
Join me and my dear friend and colleague Laura Ahrens for a day retreat .

Three interwoven principles for steadiness, awareness, and liberation.
This is a path of progression, of deepening practice, and of liberation, of lessening suffering, of building the fire of transformation.

We’ll explore all three: tapas (discipline and heat in practice), svadhyaya (self study and study of the traditional texts), Isvarapranidhana (surrender to Source).

We’ll weave lecture and discussion with embodied practice, bringing each principle home to body, breath and mind.
Tea and snacks, and a nourishing local, organic vegetarian lunch provided.

This Sunday, June 7
10am - 5pm
$120* (as always, im@committed to making these teachings accessible. If cost is a barrier, DM me for pricing options.💗)

Saturday, May 30 & Tuesday, June 16 6-7:30pm
Join me for an unhurried 90 minute yoga practice amid the abundant flowers and foliage of this gorgeous little urban farm.
We’ll practice in connection to the living earth and the elements, in community, with the divine fragrances of the flowers weaving through the evening air.
By donation - offer what you can, whether it’s the gift of your presence, a dollar, or more. All proceeds split with the farm.
Bring a friend! Bring several! Do RSVP, as spaces are limited, and these events filled up quickly last summer!

Let’s talk about death, baby…

The fear of it can bind us powerfully, in both subtle and overt ways. Facing it can liberate equally.

It is the inevitable.

It is named abhinivesha in yogic philosophy; one of the five kleshas, the root causes of suffering.

And it can liberate as powerfully as it binds…

We will all experience death, both others and our own.
Death of the body, death of previous iterations of self, death of relationships, death of ways of thinking and being.

Yoga identifies abhinivesha, the fear of death, as one of the five root causes of suffering (Kleshas).

Coming to face it - with compassion, with the support of ritual and experienced guides, with the ancient wisdom of yogic practices and philosophy, in community, can open a deeper awareness of how we can expand more fully into our capacity for living, for sensing what we most value in life, for greater embodiment and joy.

Into the infinite… savasana, literally the seat of the co**se. In much of our Western world and lives, death is hidden, avoided… but in the practice we visit it as an integral part of the fabric of life, as part of what is essential and true, and as a way to feel more connected to what continues when the finite body, the container inevitably changes, and eventually passes away.

The fear of death, sometimes characterized as abhinivesha, the fear of loss, in the yoga tradition, can bind us intensely, preventing us from living fully. Likewise, coming to face it can liberate powerfully, and illuminate what is most important for us in living, and provide a path to living more fully in alignment with what we most love, want, and value.

For caretakers, hospice workers and volunteers, for our own processes of aging, for deepening intentional connection to life and gaining greater clarity about how we want to live it while we are here.

Dying to Live: a workshop on meeting the inevitable with grace and vitality, incorporating yoga, somatic movement, yoga philosophy, journaling, meditation, breath, and community.

Saturday, April 18, 1-5pm Elk Rock Yoga
$120 (As always, please reach out if cost is a barrier. Our intention is that this work be accessible to all.) with Jade Hering and Jordan Amali, trained death doulas and dedicated hospice and end-of-life supporters..

Register: https://www.allegrachabayyoga.com/event-list?lightbox=dataItem-met8x17p


📸taken - where magnificent vultures circled as we lay in savasana…

It is complete.

Navratri/Spring Equinox Retreat 2026 🌺

Seven days of beauty, of holding each other through difficulty and emerging into such deep connection and steady sweetness.
The aperture of each heart wider now, expanded to fit the wild brilliance of this sacred place, opened to the light of self and the nourishment of community.
We each leave something that doesn’t need to come back with us. We take something that serves and supports. We give something as a gift to others.
“And in the end, the love you make is equal to the love you take.”

Paradise/ Paraíso

At the end of a long practice in the Shala

Awaiting my Spring Equinox & Navratri retreat group. I could not be more excited to share this divine place with them, and to celebrate the return of the light together!

Retreat reprise!

Time away, time inside, time together and time moving into stillness can transform us.
It transformed this group into family on our Yucatan retreat last summer.

I was so charmed to be asked to offer a special class for the Portland locals here in town last week. The joy they have at being together, the deep connection to their practice, and the profound commitment they each hold to their continuing study on and off the mat is such a gift to perceive.

We talked about the impetus for transformation - and how retreat offers a window, a map, an imprint for that shift into greater alignment and resonance.

Make your own map this March in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Off the beaten path; on the path of the heart.
March 19-25
Bocas del Toro, Panama

Register: www.allegrachabayyoga.com

Proud mama.

It may still be a struggle sometimes to get them to do dishes, but they know what’s important to the world, and to them. Glad to walk in the rain with them and a few hundred others today in solidarity with Minneapolis and the abolition of ICE.

This is where the yoga begins. In standing for these principles of non-harming, truthfulness, non-stealing, non-greed, and energetic responsibility.