Events
Mindfulness for the New Year with Jennifer O'Sullivan
Dates: Thursday, January 16, 2025 - Thursday, January 30, 2025
Location: Fairfax
In-Person
Mindfulness, or mind-training, is the practice of being awake. By training up our ability to closely watch our mind, we become intimate with our suffering, our habitual patterns of grasping and avoiding, all the while opening a doorway to personal insight. Only when we know ourselves deeply can we relax reactive habits and live with a more open-heart. In this 4-week series, you'll practice a variety of traditional mindfulness meditation methods that calm the mind and relax the body, improve focus and concentration, develop an accepting and resilient orientation towards life's challenges, and cultivate an open-hearted and friendly attitude towards yourself and others.
It's All In the Sun Salutations: Free Workshop with Jarrick and Jeselene
Dates: Saturday, January 18, 2025
Location: Arlington
In-Person
Join Jarrick and Jeselene, directors of the Ashtanga/Morning Mysore program at Sun & Moon, for a free hour to learn, modify, or refine your sun salutation practice! They will lead you carefully, step-by-step, through several different adaptations and modifications among several different lineages, and offer tips and tools for incorporating this timeless flow of postures into your day-to-day life.
Restore with Amir
Dates: Saturday, January 18, 2025
Location: Arlington
Restorative yoga is a practice that is focused on slowing down and opening your body through passive, supported stretching. During the long holds of restorative yoga, muscles and connective tissues are allowed to relax and elongate deeply as props, rather than muscles, are doing the work. This workshop will be recorded and available for one month following the event.
Yoga Nidra: Deep Relaxation with Vicki Christian
Dates: Sunday, January 19, 2025
Location: Fairfax
In a guided meditation, from a relaxed state of body and mind while lying supported by blankets and props, you're invited to silently state a personal, positive resolve, which plants a seed that can carry into daily life guidance.
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.
New Year, Your Purpose: An Afternoon's Journey to Connect with Your Spirit, Led by Tara Bishop
Dates: Saturday, January 25, 2025
Location: Arlington
In-Person
Start 2025 with intention and discover the clarity, inner peace, and inspiration to make this year a true reflection of who you are and what you’re meant to share with the world. In this full-day workshop/afternoon retreat, you'll practice a gentle Hatha Yoga flow, learn easy meditation techniques to ease into the present moment and cultivate awareness of your thoughts, and make space to connect with your inner self.
Family Yoga with Annie Sue
Dates: Sunday, January 26, 2025 - Sunday, April 06, 2025
Location: Fairfax
In-Person
Age-appropriate instruction for classic poses, yoga-based games, partner/teamwork. Featuring easy-to-remember techniques for calming and relaxation, which you can continue practicing at home. Use yoga’s wisdom to help your family flow and grow together! Ideal for kids aged 2-11 with at least one adult present.
Spinal Intelligence with Special Guest Gernot Huber
Dates: Saturday, February 01, 2025 - Sunday, February 02, 2025
Location: Fairfax
In-Person
Learn to align yourself from the inside out to transform your physical and mental wellbeing. Join special guest teacher Gernot Huber to explore a wide variety of yoga poses to replace goal-oriented patterns with present-centered actions that free the breath and create intelligent spinal alignment.
Yoga Therapy for Your Neck and Shoulders with Amir
Dates: Saturday, February 08, 2025
Location: Arlington
Do you find yourself hunched over your phone, computer or desk? Do you feel tight and sore, or experience limited mobility, headaches or TMJ syndrome? Upper body, neck, and shoulder tension can become so chronic that it masquerades as normal, and the symptoms take on a life of their own. If you have chronic neck and/or shoulder pain, this workshop will show you how to re-align your neck and shoulders, improve neck and shoulder function, and increase natural and safe range of motion. This workshop will take place in the Arlington Studio and on Zoom. Attend live, and/or access the recording for one month following.
Valentine's Day Thai Yoga for Partners with Annie & Amir
Dates: Friday, February 14, 2025
Location: Arlington
Grab a buddy for Valentine's weekend – couples, friends, family pairs all welcome – and join Annie and Amir to learn to give and receive an easy sequence of Thai Yoga Massage. In this unique system, the "giver" guides the "receiver" through a series of relaxed yoga postures, while palming and thumbing along the body’s energy lines and pressure points. The experience can relieve muscular tension, improve circulation, boost the immune system, and balance the body energetically.
Journey Through Ashtanga: Exploring Ashtanga Yoga Practice with Jarrick Browner and Jeselene Andrade
Dates: Sunday, February 16, 2025
Location: Arlington
In-Person
Gain insights into the Ashtanga Yoga lineage and the principles of Mysore-style practice, and learn the tools to establish a daily routine that supports continuous personal development.
Resting with Silence and Sound: Half Day Retreat with Marjorie and Christine
Dates: Sunday, February 16, 2025
Location: Fairfax
In-Person
Join us at the Fairfax Studio for an afternoon of sustenance for mind, body and spirit to help you establish or deepen contemplative practices. Spend a winter afternoon exploring intentional silence at our lovely Fairfax Studio. This half-day workshop provides an opportunity for meditation and mindfulness as well as gentle, guided movement and periods of intentional silence. Wrap-up the retreat with a sound healing session featuring peacefully employed gong, chimes, and crystal bowl tones. Accessible for all whether meditation-curious or an established practitioner.
Sun & Moon Reads! Book Club & Community Discussion
Dates: Sunday, February 16, 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.
FEBRUARY SELECTION: Read This to Get Smarter (About Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More) by Blair Imani
An approachable guide to being an informed, compassionate, and socially conscious person today—from discussions of race, gender, and sexual orientation to disability, class, and beyond—from critically acclaimed historian, educator, and author Blair Imani.
March Meditation Madness Kickoff with Kristen Verderame
Dates: Friday, February 21, 2025
Location: Arlington
In-Person
Join Kristen to kick off March Meditation Madness, a 31-day challenge to jump start your meditation practice. This workshop will be a fun and explorative session to introduce you to a variety of ways to meditate, from the extraordinarily simple to more elaborate practice options, that you can use throughout the month.
Yoga at the Wall with Gretchen Sprehe
Dates: Saturday, February 22, 2025
Location: Fairfax
The wall is an extension of the yoga classroom, and can help in many poses beyond balancing or inversions. In this lively workshop, we will have fun experimenting with how the wall can aid or deepen your practice in a variety of seated, standing, and reclined poses.
Sun & Moon Reads! Book Club & Community Discussion
Dates: Sunday, March 16, 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.
MARCH SELECTION: Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
An alien girl infiltrates Earth-life and communicates with her fellow life-forms via fax as she helps gather intel about whether our planet is habitable. This funny-sad novel follows the girl and her single mother as they find the means to persevere.