“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.”
— Melody Beattie
Soulful Sundays with Susan @ The Be Sanctuary
Reset the nervous system and prepare for the week ahead with mindfulness and intention. Each class will incorporate breathwork and meditation, movement, as well as deep stretches and restorative poses. Opportunities for hands on healing energy throughout the class.
May Reiki Share
Spend some time connecting with fellow Reiki practitioners and enjoying group hands on healing. This is a free event, and anyone who has completed a Reiki Level 1 training is welcome to attend.
July Reiki Share
Spend some time connecting with fellow Reiki practitioners and enjoying group hands on healing. This is a free event, and anyone who has completed a Reiki Level 1 training is welcome to attend.
September Reiki Share
Spend some time connecting with fellow Reiki practitioners and enjoying group hands on healing. This is a free event, and anyone who has completed a Reiki Level 1 training is welcome to attend.
November Reiki Share
Spend some time connecting with fellow Reiki practitioners and enjoying group hands on healing. This is a free event, and anyone who has completed a Reiki Level 1 training is welcome to attend.
Awaken Your Creativity: A Yoga Nidra & Mandala Art Journey
Join me for a transformative workshop where the calming, healing practice of Yoga Nidra meets the creative power of mandala art. In this guided session, you will experience the deeply restful state of Yoga Nidra, a practice that induces profound relaxation and enhances mental clarity and creativity. As you enter this dream-like state, you will connect with your inner peace, allowing inspiration to flow freely. Following this journey of inner stillness, we will transition into a meditative art practice. Mandalas, with their circular and symmetrical patterns, represent unity, harmony, and interconnectedness The process of creating a mandala while in a deeply relaxed state can help bring a sense of peace and balance, allowing you to connect with your intentions and inner wisdom. This workshop is perfect for anyone looking to deepen their self-awareness, reduce stress, and explore creative expression. No prior experience with Yoga Nidra or art is required—just an open heart and a willingness to connect with your true self. All art supplies are included. And if creating your own art feels like too much, coloring pages and supplies will be available for an equally meditative experience.
Calming The Nervous System: Donation-based First Friday Event
Life may feel especially overwhelming in these very challenging times, leaving many of us feeling anxious and disconnected; perhaps even angry or fearful. This class is an invitation to take a sacred pause from the outside world and give yourself the gift of peace, relaxation, and renewal.
Experience the powerful combined healing powers of breathwork, restorative yoga, Reiki, and meditation; helping you to slow down, balance your energy, and restore a sense of peace and well-being. Donation-based event.
March Reiki Share
Spend some time connecting with fellow Reiki practitioners and enjoying group hands on healing. This is a free event, and anyone who has completed a Reiki Level 1 training is welcome to attend.
SHINE On: Nurturing Your Light Through Uncertain Times
Katy and I am teaming up again for this half day blissful retreat!
In a world that often feels unpredictable and overwhelming, this half day retreat offers a sanctuary for the soul. As we transition from the stillness of winter into the warmth of spring, join us for an afternoon of mindful renewal.
Throughout the afternoon, we will guide you through a series of practices designed to quiet the noise of the outside world and help awaken the power within you. Through guided meditation, journaling, breathwork, movement, live music, mindful dialogue, contemplative art, & sound bath, you'll break through the noise of the outside world & connect to your inner radiance.
New Year Movement, Live Music & Yoga Nidra
Start your new year with an open heart and balanced body! Immerse yourself in a gentle flow of yoga postures complemented by live music from local artist Katy Oberle. Experience how live music can add a meditative layer to your practice, inviting a profound sense of calm, ease and presence. With a balanced body and calm mind, Katy will bathe you in sounds from her crystal quartz singing bowls, taking you into a deeper state of relaxation. As you surrender to the sound bath, you will be led through a series of restorative poses culminating in a long savasana accompanied by a yoga nidra guided meditation where you will set your intentions for the new year from a place of deep awareness.. Join Katy and I on this transformative journey of mindfulness, music, and inner healing,
January Reiki Share
Spend some time connecting with fellow Reiki practitioners and enjoying group hands on healing. This is a free event, and anyone who has completed a Reiki Level 1 training is welcome to attend.
December Reiki Share
Spend some time connecting with fellow Reiki practitioners and enjoying group hands on healing. This is a free event, and anyone who has completed a Reiki Level 1 training is welcome to attend.
Coping With Election Anxiety
I am teaming up again with Katy Oberle on Sun. 10/27 from 2-5pm, this time to offer strategies and tools to help mitigate anxiety and calm the nervous system during this election cycle. We will incorporate breathwork techniques, sound healing, guided meditation, journaling & hands-on Reiki, as well as hold space for connecting as a community. Refreshments will be provided. Katy is a sound bath facilitator, psychotherapist, & mindfulness coach. Investment $60. Snacks will be provided.
September Reiki Share
Spend some time connecting with fellow Reiki practitioners and enjoying group hands on healing. This is a free event, and anyone who has completed a Reiki Level 1 training is welcome to attend.
Yoga Nidra, Reiki & Sound Bath
Experience the power of restorative yoga, sound healing, Reiki and yoga nidra all in one blissful workshop designed to reduce stress and anxiety and tap into your body’s own innate healing ability!
Summer Wellness: Movement, Meditation, Live Music & Sound Healing
Immerse yourself in a gentle flow of yoga postures complemented by live music from local artist Katy Oberle. Join Katy and Susan on this transformative journey of mindfulness, music, and inner healing, beautifully aligned with the season's essence of growth, renewal, and abundance.
Reiki Share
Spend some time connecting with fellow Reiki practitioners and enjoying group hands on healing. This is a free event, and anyone who has completed a Reiki Level 1 training is welcome to attend.
Explore Relaxation Through Yin and Yoga Nidra
Unlike vinyasa practices, the practice of yin yoga works on our deep tissues, keeping our joints healthy. It is also a deeply meditative practice with each pose being held for several minutes. Props are used to support the body in a way that allows for deepening into the pose as the muscles relax. This intimate practice requires us to go deep within ourselves, acknowledging sensations and emotions.
Yoga nidra, or yoga sleep, is defined as a state of sleep with trace awareness, a state that induces deep relaxation. This deeply meditative state is achieved using a guided meditation technique designed to move you through the five koshas, or layers of your being. It is believed that when practiced to it’s fullest capacity, yoga nidra can be a pathway to Samadhi, a state of higher consciousness.
Both practices have many physical and mental benefits-- decreased stress response, decreased anxiety, improved digestion, improved blood circulation and pain reduction to name a few.
In this workshop we will explore the origins, philosophy and many benefits of both of these meditative practices. You will have an opportunity to fully experience both practices as well as learn techniques that you can incorporate into your daily lives.
Holiday Healing Practices
While the holiday season is full of joy, gratitude and giving, it can also leave us feeling stressed, depleted and overwhelmed. Take a pause from the hustle and bustle to give yourself the gift of peace, relaxation and wellness. If you've never experienced these 3 practices together - Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Mediation - you are in for a treat!
We'll slow everything down to balance out the busy-ness of the season by enjoying a restorative yoga sequence with the addition of deep meditative breathing. This will relax the body, quiet the mind and on a cellular level, calm the nervous system, lowering stress-related hormones and jump-starting the body's natural healing processes. Susan, a master-level Reiki practitioner, will offer her gifts as an energy worker throughout the yoga practice, helping to diffuse any energy, thoughts, emotions or physical tensions that might feel stuck or heavy. Once we've got the body open and our energy flowing more freely, we'll experience a special meditation to leave you feeling wonderfully present and peaceful in body, mind and spirit as you head into the holidays and the new year!
Investment: $37.50 GoYoga members; $45 non-members.
Yoga Nidra + Gratitude Journal Making
Relax your body, awaken your innate creativity and deepen the quality of gratitude within!
We all possess innate creativity, whether we recognize it or not. Oftentimes we allow our busy minds to block yur ability to tap into the wells of ideas, dreams, passions and projects that reside within, just waiting to be brought to life!
Yoga Nidra has been used for hundreds of years as a powerful, guided meditation technique to produce a dream-like state of consciousness between waking and sleeping. This systematic method is capable of inducing the deepest possible state of physical, mental and emotional relaxation. When you enter into this state, you are able to connect more deeply to your true nature and inner peace. From that place, you can access Alpha brain activity, which has been proven to reduce stress, evoke deeper feelings of appreciation and spark creativity.
This workshop will focus on exploring the philosophy and origin of Yoga Nidra as well as experiencing the benefits of a yoga nidra for yourself. Following the practice, you will be guided through the process of creating and binding your own gratitude journal to support you in manifesting more of the powerful energy of gratitude in your life.
Investment: $35 GoYoga Members: $45 Non-Members
SPRING HEALING PRACTICES
Spring is a time of awakening and blossoming, a time when the earth and our bodies reawaken from winter's hibernation, and our energy warms and becomes more expansive. As we all experience these changes externally, it is essential to integrate them internally. The gentle approach of Reiki is a perfect support during a time of change and rebirth.
The practice of Reiki transfers divine energy from the universe through the practitioner to the receiver. It moves energy through the body and activates the natural healing processes of the body, restoring physical and emotional well-being. In this workshop, you will discover the power of Reiki through restorative yoga poses, meditation and pranayama techniques. Hands on Reiki will be offered throughout the practice. . Join Cindy Lilly, ERYT500 and I for an evening of Bliss!
All props will be provided and will be sanitized prior to the workshop. Space is limited to 15 in order to maintain social distancing requirements.
Investment: $37.50 GoYoga members; $45 non-members.
BEGINNER SERIES | FUNDAMENTALS OF YOGA
Dates: 4/18, 4/25 and 5/2 from 1-2:30pm
In this 3-week series, you will learn the basics of a well-rounded yoga practice! Our intention is to empower you to create a solid foundation to support you in all of our group classes and in incorporating yoga into your everyday life! We will explore a series of traditional yoga postures, trying on different variations and use of props to find a starting point that supports you. We will learn to incorporate mindful breathing into our physical yoga practice as well as learn relaxation and meditation techniques to help cultivate focus and alleviate stress. This series is geared toward brand new beginners and is also great for those who are looking to freshen up on or get another perspective on the basics.
Investment: $60 if enrolled by 3/31; $70 after
*includes 3 weeks of unlimited yoga!
YOGA NIDRA + ART | EXPRESSION COMPASSION & CREATIVITY
At our core, we are all full of love and creativity. Often self judgement holds us back from experiencing a life full of love, creativity and joy.
Yoga Nidra creates a state of deep inner peace that allows space for creativity to arise. This guided meditation journey will focus on offering love, acceptance, and compassion for yourself.
Following the meditation practice, you will have time to create an inspired work reflecting self love. A variety of materials will be provided for you to uniquely express yourself, and I will offer suggestions to help get your creative juices flowing. Please bring a journal and writing implement.
Investment: $40.00 GoYoga members; $50 non-members, including all supplies + beverages and snacks.