Events
Yoga Therapy with Amir for Lower Back Pain
Dates: Saturday, October 19, 2024
Location: Arlington
In this workshop, Amir will teach you how to create a customized routine to address your specific low back dysfunctions and related pains. He'll review the anatomy of the lower back and sacroiliac joint, as well as common misalignments, muscles spasms, compression, and disc issues. Using yoga therapeutics, as well as techniques from Egoscue, Somatics, and Thai Yoga Massage, Amir will offer tools to self-evaluate and find ease from both chronic and acute conditions.
Hatha Yoga for Pairs with Andrea Kiss and Steve Etkin
Dates: Sunday, October 20, 2024
Location: Arlington
In-Person
Join our carefully curated series of yoga poses for pairs starting with simple beginner poses moving to slightly more challenging poses. Our two-person poses promote balance, strength and flexibility. Most of all, we breath, let go and have fun!
Book Talk with the Trans Anthology Project
Dates: Sunday, October 20, 2024
Location: Fairfax
In-Person
Join Sun & Moon teacher, Chrissy Boylan, and her co-author, Heather Kirby, as they introduce their book, Trans Anthology Project, to the Sun & Moon community! The book combines educational content on gender-diversity with powerful personal accounts from almost 200 gender-diverse teens, young adults, and their parents from all across the country. Deepen your understanding of the basics of gender diversity, read excerpts from the book, and answer questions. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to better support the gender-diverse individuals in your life—whether they’re family, friends, co-workers, or members of your community.
Breathing for Vitality: 30 Practices to Build Prana with Carol Confino
Dates: Sunday, October 20, 2024 - Sunday, October 27, 2024
Location: Fairfax
Commit to this new and inspiring six-week course with Carol Confino using breath practices and movement to build energy, strength, and improve your mood and resilience. This workshop explores breathing from a yogic and scientific perspective based on rich resources from the book Restore your Prana by Robin Rothenburg, C-IAYT. These practices have been employed successfully for those with long-COVID, asthma, autoimmune disorders, sleep apnea anxiety, and neurological conditions, among others, and can help you move gracefully around whatever obstacles you are encountering. The workshop is designed as a series, with each class building on the last. Each session will consist of an introduction followed by breath practices and a breath-based asana practice. Time will be set aside for questions and discussion. Attend in-person or on Zoom. If you have to miss a session, the recording will be available for one month following the live presentation.
Sun & Moon Reads! Book Club & Community Discussion
Dates: Sunday, October 20, 2024
Location: Online
Online
Join Sun & Moon Reads Community Book Club as we dive into the exploration of our relationship to self and others through written stories.
October SELECTION: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Explore themes of family, hardship, friendship, resilience, and the search for meaning and belonging by following a young boy through his tumultuous childhood and adolescence in contemporary and poverty-stricken Appalachia.
Shining Bright, Traveling Together: Sunday Community Meditation Series with Christine Clardy
Dates: Sunday, October 20, 2024 - Sunday, December 15, 2024
Location: Arlington
Have you have tried meditation alone and given up, believing that it’s just not right for you? Or do you feel comfortable with a private routine but want to enrich that experience? Maybe the pace of world events is unbearable or—on the other end a spectrum—you are suffering a private loss that leaves you grieving. The good news is that throughout human history, people have gathered together in times of jubilation and sorrow. Now is no different. Each session will include centering, presentation of the topic, guided meditation, silence or journaling, group discussion, and a "Zen in Ten" movement/breath practice. Attend a la carte or all four - your choice!
Fabulous Feet = Fabulous You with Rixie Dennison
Dates: Saturday, October 26, 2024
Location: Fairfax
Join Rixie to learn techniques to create a healthy balance of flexibility and strength in the feet, to help with some common issues including plantar fasciitis, bunions and hammer toes, and to learn simple and lively practices that you can take home and practice regularly.
Somatic and Reiki Restorative Yoga with Tabitha Croy
Dates: Saturday, October 26, 2024
Location: Arlington
In-Person
A mindful, gentle approach to movement and stillness, fostering a deep connection between mind and body. Explore intentional stretching and contracting movements, ease into restorative and yin-inspired yoga poses, and during times of stillness, receive hands-on Reiki energy to enhance your healing experience and encourage the flow of fresh, revived energy.
Tuning to the Peace Channel: Movement, Breath, and Trauma Release with Anne Jablonski
Dates: Saturday, November 02, 2024
Location: Arlington
Explore accessible, simple, yet powerful techniques for resetting your nervous system back to the peace channel. Learn somatic movement, easy breath practices, and trauma-releasing exercises that you can incorporate into daily life, all for the sake of getting more skilled at resetting your nervous system in favor of the peace channel.
Community Acupuncture Clinic With Tova Steiner, LAc
Dates: Friday, November 08, 2024
Location: Arlington
In-Person
During this community clinic patients will choose from one of 2 treatments: one to reduce stress, or one to boost energy. In community acupuncture, many people are treated simultaneously in one large room – this is the way acupuncture is administered in most places in the east. By treating patients in a community setting, more people can be treated in the same amount of time, and costs can be greatly reduced, thus making this type of medicine more accessible to more people.
Yoga Therapy for Your Hamstrings with Amir
Dates: Saturday, November 09, 2024
Location: Arlington
This workshop is ideal for anyone with tight hamstrings, sciatica, or back pain. The focus will be on isolating the backs of the legs and using yoga therapeutic techniques to bring about a greater range of motion and flexibility to the hamstrings, which can decrease any overcompensation made by the spine – often the culprit of hip strain and chronic low back pain. This workshop will be recorded and available for one month following the event.
Finding Resilience By Welcoming Opposites: A Mind-Body Exploration with Asya Haikin
Dates: Sunday, November 10, 2024
Location: Arlington
In-Person
Explore the concepts of attachment and aversion as two of the five causes of suffering, and practice emotional resilience by learning to welcome opposites of sensation and emotions with a sense of equanimity, all while staying grounded and embodied. Experience an accessible movement practice, a philosophical explanation and discussion, and guided meditation and yoga nidra.
Kirtan: The Songs of Yoga with Special Guest Jared Turner (Rudra Das)
Dates: Saturday, November 16, 2024
Location: Arlington
In-Person
Kirtan is a musical community gathering of singing mantras in a call-and-response style. Accompanied by traditional Indian instruments, drumming, and the "cosmic orchestra" of our voices raised together, kirtan begins and ends in a quiet, meditative atmosphere while building in the middle to a joyful crescendo of singing, dancing, and celebrating community spirit.
Sun & Moon Reads! Book Club & Community Discussion
Dates: Sunday, November 17, 2024
Location: Online
Online
Join Sun & Moon Reads Community Book Club as we dive into the exploration of our relationship to self and others through written stories.
November SELECTION: Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen
A graphic novel by Muscogee-Jewish writer and artist Emily Bowen Cohen explores the complexity, meaning, and deep love that comes from being part of two vibrant tribes.
Osteoporosis and Resilient Aging with Catha Pavloff
Dates: Saturday, November 23, 2024
Location: Arlington
Tap into emerging research to debunk the myths around yoga and osteoporosis. You'll learn which poses are known to strengthen muscles and bones, and practice modifications for other poses. Most importantly, you will learn yoga-inspired techniques, including proper posture and better proprioceptive awareness, to improve your balance and mitigate falls.
Sun & Moon Reads! Book Club & Community Discussion
Dates: Sunday, December 15, 2024
Location: Online
Online
Join Sun & Moon Reads Community Book Club as we dive into the exploration of our relationship to self and others through written stories.
December SELECTION: How To Read A Book by Monica Wood
An unsparingly honest and profoundly hopeful story about letting go of guilt, seizing second chances, and the power of books to change our lives.
Sun & Moon Reads! Book Club & Community Discussion
Dates: Sunday, January 19, 2025
Location: Online
Online
Join Sun & Moon Reads Community Book Club as we dive into the exploration of our relationship to self and others through written stories.
January SELECTION: This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite
Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces the author's journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life.