River & Stone Yoga

There’s still time to join us! 🌻

Our Sept 2026 - March 2027 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training begins September 16, and we’re finalizing this year's cohort!

The teaching team has been diligently planning this program with intention and love and are so excited to meet the students and dive in together.

If teacher training has been on your mind, whether you’re interested in teaching, deepening your own practice, or are looking to spend meaningful time studying yoga in community... we’d love to hear from you.

Come study, practice, question, teach and grow alongside us.

Applications are still open.

Questions? Send us a DM or reach out at [email protected].

Learn more and apply at the link in bio.

8:10 AM, Aug 25

✨ Assisting Skills & Techniques with Ray & Meng ✨

Join us for a five-hour assisting training focused on intentional, consent-based physical touch in yoga spaces. This workshop emphasizes safe, supportive assisting techniques with ample time for hands-on practice.

Alongside technique, we’ll explore grounding practices, key anatomical concepts, common fears around assisting, and the benefits of skillful touch. Thoughtful assisting can deepen connection and support a student’s experience of practice. This training is designed to help you feel confident, attuned, and respectful when offering hands-on support.

Whether you’re new to teaching, returning to assisting after time away, or refining your approach, this workshop offers a grounded way to reconnect with the art of supporting students safely and skillfully.

This training may also serve as a first step in becoming Practice Support, a new studio role coming to River & Stone in Fall 2026. Practice Support assists studio classes through optional, gentle hands-on support under the guidance of the lead teacher.

For those interested, we’ll offer additional trainings and mentorship to support your growth into the Practice Support role.

More details coming soon.

✨ Assisting Skills & Techniques with Ray & Meng ✨

🗓 Sunday, September 20 | 11 am-3 pm

📍 River & Stone Yoga, Upstairs

💰 $150

Led by Meng + Ray

Open to teachers, teachers-in-training, volunteers, and dedicated practitioners.

No prior assisting experience required.

Sign up via FitDegree

Limited spots available.

🍂 Starting in September! 🍂
This fall brings back some familiar classes & faces and more ways to practice together.

✨ Here’s what’s new/updated for the fall:
- Monday 10:30 am Baby Moves with Theresa
- Tuesday 4:30 pm Flow with Doreen
- Tuesday 6 pm Slow Flow + Gentle Strength and 7:30 pm Flow with Bridget
- Wednesday 5:45 pm Prenatal with Ellery
- Thursday 5:45 pm Fundamentals with Kris
- Friday 9 am Slow Flow with Kris
- Saturday 9 am & 10:30 am Flow with Sarah Basile
- Sunday 7:30 am Flow with Alicia
- Sunday 6 pm Earthy Flow with Ellery
- Monthly Wednesdays at 7 pm: Earthy Flow with Reiki with Kristen

Whether you’re settling into a favorite class or ready to put something new on your calendar, we’re excited to practice with you this fall.
Take a look at the full schedule on FitDegree 🍁

✨️NEW! Monthly Pop-up!✨️
Earthy Flow with Reiki with Kristen
Upstairs 7pm first Wednesday of the month starting 9/2

🧘‍♂️ Soften, relax and return to yourself.

🌱 This class starts with a slow, mindful yoga flow, gently awakening the body through intentional movement and breath. Expect an accessible and grounding practice into presence, designed to release tension and open energy pathways.

💫 The latter half of class, you’ll be guided into a meditation. As you journey inward, Kristen will offer Reiki energy healing to support energetic balance and release. An opportunity to receive and reconnect with your inner calm!

💛 You’ll leave feeling nourished, and energetically aligned - experience being held in a space that honors both movement and stillness, effort and ease.

✨ Assisting Skills & Techniques with Ray & Meng ✨

Join us for a five-hour assisting training focused on intentional, consent-based physical touch in yoga spaces. This workshop emphasizes safe, supportive assisting techniques with ample time for hands-on practice.

Alongside technique, we’ll explore grounding practices, key anatomical concepts, common fears around assisting, and the benefits of skillful touch. Thoughtful assisting can deepen connection and support a student’s experience of practice. This training is designed to help you feel confident, attuned, and respectful when offering hands-on support.

Whether you’re new to teaching, returning to assisting after time away, or refining your approach, this workshop offers a grounded way to reconnect with the art of supporting students safely and skillfully.

This training may also serve as a first step in becoming Practice Support, a new studio role coming to River & Stone in Fall 2026. Practice Support assists studio classes through optional, gentle hands-on support under the guidance of the lead teacher.

For those interested, we’ll offer additional trainings and mentorship to support your growth into the Practice Support role.

More details coming soon.

✨ Assisting Skills & Techniques with Ray & Meng ✨

🗓 Sunday, September 21 | 11 am-3 pm

📍 River & Stone Yoga, Upstairs

💰 $150

Led by Meng + Ray

Open to teachers, teachers-in-training, volunteers, and dedicated practitioners.

No prior assisting experience required.

Sign up via FitDegree

Limited spots available.

It's the most simple thing, yet not so easy. In this workshop we'll slide between discussion and experience. Between periods of discussion, Q&A, and instruction we'll practice short, digestible bouts of meditation.

We'll talk about our experience, ask questions, get clarification, then go back into the realm of practice, and repeat. This ancient practice can be a helpful antidote to managing stress, anxiety, and depression! A regular meditation practice can also help one sleep more soundly, have a clearer, brighter outlook and insights. Additionally, there are studies that show regular meditation practice can heal heart damage, offer heart attack prevention, as well as simply making one's life easier and more fun to live!

Come, try and see what happens.

How to Meditate & Why
📅 Saturday, September 12
🕛 12:00–2:00 PM
📍 Upstairs at River & Stone Yoga

🤔 Thinking about yoga teacher training?⁠
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🎉 Less than a month until we kick-off our program 🎉 ⁠
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We are finalizing our September cohort! If you have been thinking about YTT, there's still time to join us 😊⁠
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Application link in bio.⁠
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Still have questions? DM or send us a message at [email protected]⁠
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Planning to practice? Save your spot by preregistering in FitDegree 🤍

We totally get that practice schedules, especially in the summer can be a little more on the fly, but if you know you’re planning to come to class, we encourage you to pre-register whenever you can.

Signing up ahead of time helps teachers:

✨ Prepare the space and gather any props you’ll need
✨ Know who to expect and plan for the class
✨ Make sure there’s a spot waiting for you
✨ And help keep classes on the schedule!

As a friendly reminder, when registration is low, classes may be canceled 2 hours before the scheduled start time.

Know you’re coming? Sign up ahead of time and we’ll be sure to see you there!

Wishing you a wonderful last few weeks of Summer 🌻

Join us for our August Reading Circle, a free evening to gather in community and explore ideas that support your practice and your life.

This month, we're reading The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer.

Together, we'll explore the nature of the inner voice, what keeps us caught in habitual patterns, and how cultivating awareness can help us meet life with greater clarity and freedom.

Whether you've read every page or are simply curious about the conversation, you're welcome.

🗓 August 30

🕔 5:00–6:00 pm

💫 Free to attend

Bring your book if you have it!
Sign up in FitDegree.

☯️ Join us in supporting Matt Haney's opening of Pathway Martial Arts for an introduction to Brazilian Jui-Jitsu on August 15th. This is a free, special event for the River & Stone community to explore Brazilian Jui-Jitsu and celebrate this new business coming to Worcester August 29th.

🥋Explore movement, breath, partner balance, positional play, and a flow to put it all together.

Zero experience required! Come to explore this martial art and how it can compliment your yoga practice.

Link in bio to learn more and register!