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Community yoga events help to invite relationships and personal development. We believe in fostering personal connection and community throughout our studio, both in-person and online. That’s why we’ve put so much into creating community yoga events that are designed to help you connect with your teachers and other yogis all over the world.
We are currently offering interactive Live Stream workshops and events as well as Community Yoga Events at our Austin studio. Check out the listings below to find our next offering and register. All times listed are in U.S. Central Time.
Self Love Sunday
Free Community Outdoor Yoga | Sundays | 10:30AM CST
Alyssa Clark
Alyssa loves sharing the joy and power of yoga with anyone at any stage in life or practice. She’s been a practitioner for over a decade and is an RYT 200. As a lifelong lover of learning, she continues to study the science and philosophy of yoga. Alyssa’s Vinyasa classes are fun, creative, and welcoming – and she can guarantee a killer playlist, too.
Join us on the lawn at My Vinyasa Practice for a FREE Community Outdoor Yoga at our local Austin studio every Sunday! Please bring your own mat and any props you may want to incorporate in your practice.
We gather at 10:30am to flow under the Austin sun. Alyssa Clark will lead you through a 60 minute all-levels flow focused on loving and giving gratitude to the most important person in your life – you!
See you in the oak grove!
Event Details: These events are free to join, but space is limited due to social distancing, so be sure to reserve your spot on the lawn by clicking the link below. Please bring your own mat.
Online YTT Info Session
August 9th | Tuesday | 7pm-8pm CST
Micaela Powell
This is a livestream event.
Are you interested in deepening your personal practice or taking the next step in your career as a yoga teacher?
This info session breaks down the content of our 200H and 300H online yoga teacher training and offers you the opportunity to connect with MVP’s Micaela Powell, who will answer any questions you have about our training process.
Show up, learn more, and get started on your desired program quickly!
Relaxation Workshop
August 20th | Saturday | 3:30pm-5pm CST
Kristiana Castillo Vuong
Miguel Castillo
Join Kristiana and Miguel as you give yourself the gift of rest in our Relaxation Workshop. Participants will start off with a supportive, restorative class that segues seamlessly into a relaxing sound bath followed by Yoga Nidra. Props are provided, or students can bring props from home if they prefer. Restorative yoga supports health and wellbeing by giving the nervous system the opportunity to relax. The sound healing sessions will include crystal bowls, brass bowls, and the gong. Restorative yoga has been proven to mitigate stress, encourage energetic balance, and promote overall health and wellbeing.
This event is donation-based with a suggested donation of $25-$50
MVP Book Club
AUGUST 25th & 26th | Thurs & Fri | 6:30pm & 12pm CST
Micaela Powell
This is a livestream event.
Join us in reading August’s book club book, The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga.
Is happiness something you choose for yourself? The Courage to Be Disliked presents a simple and straightforward answer. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of nineteenth-century psychology alongside Freud and Jung, this book follows an illuminating dialogue between a philosopher and a young man. Over the course of five conversations, the philosopher helps his student to understand how each of us is able to determine the direction of our own life, free from the shackles of past traumas and the expectations of others.
August 25th, 6:30pm CST
August 26th, 12pm CST
Here’s the link to vote for September!
New Moon Ceremony
AUGUST 27th | SATURday | 7:30pm-9pm CST
Lilah Bazarte
The New Moon is a marked beginning to a new cycle. As such, it is an ideal time to set intentions and goals to work towards as the moon waxes towards fullness. The New Moon can be considered a cosmic reset.
Each New Moon cycle, Lilah will guide you through rituals including a practice of yoga asana, meditation, reflection, and time for journaling. She will incorporate crystals and teach you how you may continue with your ritual through the month at home and on your own.
The New Moon Ceremony Series will take place for each New Moon throughout the year of 2022. Please bring a yoga mat and a journal. We hope you will join us.
Simply Grounded Yoga & Pilates: An Accessible Yoga Workshop
Sept 17th & 18th | Saturday & Sunday | All Day
Michelle Young
Tara Cleven
Ana Pilar Cruz
My Vinyasa Practice is coming to Simply Grounded Yoga and Pilates on September 17th and 18th. Ana Pilar, Tara Cleven, and Michelle Young will all be there to lead workshops and breakout sessions on accessible yoga. Participants will learn how Viniyoga creates space for healing and integration, how to effectively use and cue the use of props, how to adapt asana and pranayama for special populations, and how to language and cue inclusively. Group practice will be offered each morning, followed by a lecture, breakout sessions, lunch, group meditation offerings, and closing lectures/Q&A.
You can choose to purchase a day pass or a weekend pass.
MVP COMMUNITY VINIYOGA
Free Live Stream Event | Tuesdays & Thursdays | 12PM-1PM CST
Ana Pilar Cruz
Ana Pilar Cruz, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, RYT 200, has been teaching yoga in Austin, Texas since 2001 and has been training yoga teachers since 2006 at both 200 and 500 hour levels in the United States and abroad with Yoga Yoga, Global Yoga Shala, and Zingara Yoga. She has been studying with her teacher, Gary Kraftsow, the founder & head of the American Viniyoga Institute, for over 16 years. Under the guidance of Kraftsow, Ana Pilar completed the American Viniyoga Institute’s 500-hour advanced training in 2005. Her continuing education is immersed in a number of specialized areas, including Western & Yogic Anatomy, Injury Prevention, Stress-relief, Mantra chanting, and Tantric philosophy, as she studies with the likes of Leslie Kaminoff, Srivatsa Ramaswami, Donna Farhi, Rod Stryker, and Dr. Douglas Brooks. In 2017 Ana Pilar was grandfathered into the International Association of Yoga Therapist, receiving her C-IAYT designation in recognition of her specialized client work in adaptive structural therapeutics. As a senior teacher trainer she excels in teaching asana, pranayama, mantra, and yogic philosophy & literature.
Viniyoga is a traditional lineage of yoga that adapts the practice of yoga to the unique conditions, needs and interests of each individual student. By using dynamic movement, repetition-and-stay and breath-centric asana, each class will offer adaptations in both asana and breath to allow the students to individualize their experience for their own transformation. Props are not needed, but are useful.
Event Details: This is a FREE MVP Community Offering hosted via Zoom through the MVP Web App. Please register via the MVP Web App by clicking the button below.
SILENT MEDITATION
MVP Community Offering | Fridays | 2 PM – 2:30PM CST
Join us for this free Community Offering, which is also known as Vipassana, a meditation involving concentration on the body or its sensations, or the insight which this provides.
You are invited to participate in a quick introduction, a 15-minute silent meditation, followed by self-reflection.
Event Details: This is a FREE MVP Community Offering hosted via Zoom through the MVP Web App. Please register via the MVP Web App by clicking the button below.