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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 | Noon
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 noon 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!
We’re still wearing masks and physically distancing to keep our communities safe. Lavender face masks available on-site.
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. Social distancing and masks, even during practice, are strongly encouraged. Please bring your own mask and mat.
Pranayama
Free Community Offering | Sundays | 5PM-6PM CDT
Angela Deen
Living with Multiple Sclerosis since the age of 21, Angela thought her my body was her enemy. It wasn’t until she discovered yoga that she began to form a relationship with her body, becoming more in union with her mind, body, and spirit. Yoga has helped Angela befriend her body; allowing her to feel at peace within herself in a way she’d never felt before. It is her mission to provide yoga and meditation to folks who think they don’t “fit the mold”. Her philosophy is that Yoga is for everyone and every body. Angela is a RYT 500 and a Certified Accessible Yoga Teacher. In addition, she is enrolled in the C-IAYT program at My Vinyasa Practice.
- Ratio/Box breathing
- Viloma/3-part breathing
- Ujjayi
- Alternate Nostril Breathing
- Breath of Fire
- Bellows Breath
- Humming Bee
- Sheetali
Heartfelt Consciousness Podcast
Free Community Offering | Mondays | 6:30PM-7:30PM CDT
Laura Bender
Yoga first made an appearance in Laura’s life several years ago and as an avid runner, she heard yoga could play a huge part in improving her form, mental control, breathing, flexibility and balance. Over the last few years, she discovered that it’s so much more than that. While her practice has helped her grow stronger and more flexible, it has taught her the importance of mindfulness and gratitude. Yoga inspires Laura to shine from her heart and open up her soul, to be her most authentic self. Laura completed her 200 hour Vinyasa training with Omnipresent Yoga and has gone on to complete her 300 hour training with My Vinyasa Practice as well as several other programs in Yin, Yoga Nidra, Mindfulness Meditation, Mindfulness Coaching, Aromatherapy and Restorative Yoga. In addition, being a Reiki Master allows her to bring a holistic aspect to her classes that help balance the body and mind. Laura is currently an E-RYT 200, RYT 500, and YACEP with Yoga Alliance.
Our latest Heartfelt Consciousness Podcast Episode goes LIVE every Monday.
Laura Bender talks with a variety of individuals from fellow yogis, yoga teachers, specialists, and more to share their knowledge and expertise on challenges many of us face today both in and outside of our yoga practice and teachings. Not to mention, the fun and entertaining connections that can happen along the way in our journey!
Check out Laura’s Heartfelt Consciousness Podcast every Monday for something new!
De-Stress & Relax
Free Live Stream Event | Mondays | 6:30PM-7:30PM
Bridget Martin
Bridget Martin is a 500-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher and Certified Meditation Teacher. She teaches Vinyasa, Power Yoga, Meditation and Restorative Yoga. Her path to yoga began as a healthy outlet to aid in stress reduction. Bridget is also a wellness blogger and self-care podcast host. When she’s not practicing, you can find her enjoying nature, hiking, or playing with her cat, Oke.
Looking for a safe space to relax and de-stress with the MVP community?
Attend our De-stress meeting with Peer Support Representative and LiveStream Teacher, Bridget, for guided meditation, pranayama practice, and other relaxation techniques. This is a great opportunity to practice self-care and fill-up your cup!
Event Details: This is a free Live Stream Event hosted via Zoom. This event is free, however you must register in order to receive the link to participate. The link will be sent 30 minutes prior to the event start time.
Vipassana
Free Community Offering | Wednesday | 9AM – 9:30AM CDT
Deb Phelps
Deb Phelps is a certified Mindfulness Coach, Meditation Teacher, and Yoga Specialist who specializes in helping her clients overcome stress, anxiety, PTSD, and other life situations so that they can once again live purposeful, joy-filled lives. Deb has overcome significant life challenges aided by a variety of mind-body-spirit practices. By diligently using these tools over many decades, she found a life of contentment and equanimity. Through extensive education and life experience, she assists and inspires others to do the same.Deb has practiced yoga since 1996 when she was pregnant with her youngest child. She was appreciative of the gentle nature of the practice and the integration of mind, body, and spirit as she performed asanas. It has been a part of her physical and mental healing since. She is a Yoga Instructor and a Yoga for All Certified Instructor with a focus on Mindful, Gentle and Restorative Yoga, Chair Yoga for all shapes, sizes, and abilities. She is currently enrolled in training to become a Yoga Therapist.
Join us for our free Community Offering of Vipassana or “Insight” Meditation, a time-honored skill of calming the spirit and clearing the mind for higher understanding. This practice emphasizes mindful attention to the breath, physical sensations, thoughts, and even emotions, to develop a loving awareness of one’s life experience.
Event Details: This is a free Community Offering. However, please register to secure your spot. The link to join will be emailed 30 minutes before the event.
Integrating Music Workshop
Free Community Offering | May 6th | 7PM – 8PM CDT
Vanisha Weatherspoon
Vanisha is an RYT 500 and native of Killeen, TX. She began her yoga journey when she began taking classes in Austin after making her way there for school/ work. Her love for yoga truly developed when she began law school in Washington, DC. Law students are at heightened risk for alcoholism, drug abuse, anxiety and depression, so she looked to yoga to help her avoid falling victim to one of the former. It was here on her yoga mat where she discovered true happiness and peace, which led her to want to bring this to her law school community, but also others.
Want to learn more about how to integrate music into your teaching classes and personal practice?
Especially when offering this to practitioners, whether in-person or through live stream, there are some points to consider, that Vanisha (RYT500) will be happy to explain and ponder on with you.
Event details: This is a Free Community Offering hosted via Zoom. This offering is free, however you must register in order to receive the link to participate. The link will be sent 30 minutes prior to the event start time.
Mother’s Day Family Friendly Yoga
Live Stream Class | May 8th | 10:30AM – 11:30AM CDT
Emily Gauger
Emily has been practicing yoga since 2012 and is a certified Yoga teacher through MVP. She started using yoga in 2012 to help to relieve stress and anxiety and slowly but surely this grew into a daily practice. Emily loves to use yoga to connect the mind and body to the spiritual aspect of life. She teaches many classes that are scripture based and uses yoga as a way to worship God. Emily teaches both public and private classes in her hometown. Emily lives in Arkansas, is married, and expecting their first child. She believes in using yoga to bring gratitude, strength, meditation, and balance to lives both on and off the mat.
Bring your little ones to the mat with you for a special family-friendly flow!
We will honor the joys of motherhood while we practice this fun flow that our little ones can be a part of too! You can wear your baby, let them hang out on your mat with you, or they can practice on their own mat. All parents and kiddos are welcome!
Event details: This class is part of our regular membership for live stream or you can pay $5 for this offering and drop in for this class for the one time fee! The link will be sent 30 minutes prior to the event start time.
MVP MOVIE NIGHT(US)
Free Community Live Stream Event | May 13th | 7 PM CDT
Grab the popcorn – it’s time for MVP Movie Night!
This month, we gather via Zoom to watch Fantastic Fungi! A consciousness-shifting film directed by Louie Schwartzberg that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can heal and save our planet.
Stay after for a guided discussion and community connection!
Event Details: This is a free community event hosted live on ZOOM! Registration is required in order to receive the link to join. You’ll be emailed the link to participate 30 minutes prior to start time.
MVP MOVIE NIGHT(Europe)
Free Community Live Stream Event | May 14th | 12 PM CDT
Grab the popcorn – it’s time for MVP Movie Night!
This month, we gather via Zoom to watch Fantastic Fungi! A consciousness-shifting film directed by Louie Schwartzberg that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can heal and save our planet.
Stay after for a guided discussion and community connection!
Event Details: This is a free community event hosted live on ZOOM! Registration is required in order to receive the link to join. You’ll be emailed the link to participate 30 minutes prior to start time.
Community Offering
Holistic Health, Yoga & WEllness
Free Community Live Stream Workshop | May 20th | 7 PM CDT
Stephanie B.
Stephanie is a 200hr RYT and a Certified Health & Life Coach, Certified in Plant-based Nutrition from Cornell. She is trained to support and encourage people along their journey to living their healthiest, happiest life, inside and out.
Enjoy a short Yoga session as well as time to journal in this FREE MVP community offering.
MVP alumni Stephanie B. will offer encouragement and tips to support healthy living. You’ll learn mindfulness tricks, new recipes to try and connect with other participants to hear what works for them to stay centered healthy, and well. In addition, we’ll invite special guests to share their stories and experiences with a Q&A.
Accessing your inner wisdom
Live Stream Workshop | May 22nd | 3:30PM – 6:30PM CDT
Deb Phelps
Deb Phelps is a certified Mindfulness Coach, Meditation Teacher, and Yoga Specialist who specializes in helping her clients overcome stress, anxiety, PTSD, and other life situations so that they can once again live purposeful, joy-filled lives. Deb has overcome significant life challenges aided by a variety of mind-body-spirit practices. By diligently using these tools over many decades, she found a life of contentment and equanimity. Through extensive education and life experience, she assists and inspires others to do the same.Deb has practiced yoga since 1996 when she was pregnant with her youngest child. She was appreciative of the gentle nature of the practice and the integration of mind, body, and spirit as she performed asanas. It has been a part of her physical and mental healing since. She is a Yoga Instructor and a Yoga for All Certified Instructor with a focus on Mindful, Gentle and Restorative Yoga, Chair Yoga for all shapes, sizes, and abilities. She is currently enrolled in training to become a Yoga Therapist.
“In every moment the universe is whispering to you. There are messages for you carried on the winds. There is wisdom for you in the morning songs of the birds outside your window and in the soft murmurs of an ebbing sea. Even ordinary, everyday events in your life carry communications from the realm of spirit.”
~ Denise Linn
Has there been a time when you wished you had the answers to life’s important questions, or assistance in making a decision, or a warm embrace of feeling comforted while in the midst of a difficult time?
In this online workshop, we will explore connecting with our Inner Wisdom (Intuition, Guides, Higher Self, etc) to receive guidance, higher awareness, and support. Anyone can connect with their Inner Wisdom, it is learning how to do so with patience, perseverance, and practice.
In a special inspirational sequence, we will enter the Higher Realm through a meditation with the Crystal Singing Bowls. Specific tones will help us to create the Inner Sanctuary where our Guide is encountered. We will strengthen the connection with meditation, visualization, journaling, and practice.
In this journey, you will delight in the process as you are welcomed with comfort and support. You will broaden your energy and expand your horizons. As your journey continues to unfold, you will learn the language of your Inner Wisdom as It speaks uniquely with you.
Business Development Meeting
Free Community Offering | May 26th | 7PM-8PM CDT
Are you looking to connect on different options to start your own business or develop your existing business further?
We’re hosting a monthly Business Development meeting, which will assist to identify your business model and structure, touch on marketing and social media and leave sufficient time for all questions that might come up.
Event Details: This is a free Community Offering hosted live on zoom. Registration is required in order to receive the link to join. You’ll be emailed the link to participate 30 minutes prior to start time.
MVP book club (US)
Free Community Live Stream Event | May 27th | 7 PM CDT
Get started on the next book for the May MVP Book Club Meeting! One of our favorite community yoga events.
This May we will be reading, Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to Self by Anodea Judith*.
A fresh approach to the yoga-based Eastern chakra system, adapting it to the Western framework of Jungian psychology, somatic therapy, childhood developmental theory, and metaphysics and applying the chakra system to important modern social realities and issues such as addiction, codependence, family dynamics, sexuality, and personal empowerment. Arranged schematically, the book uses the inherent structure of the chakra system as a map upon which to chart our Western understanding of individual development.
We can’t wait to discuss with you!
Event Details: This is a free community event hosted live on ZOOM! Registration is required in order to receive the link to join. You’ll be emailed the link to participate 30 minutes prior to start time.
MVP Book Club (EUROPE)
Free Community Live Stream Event | May 28th | 12 PM CDT
Get started on the next book for the May MVP Book Club Meeting! One of our favorite community yoga events.
This May we will be reading, Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to Self by Anodea Judith*.
A fresh approach to the yoga-based Eastern chakra system, adapting it to the Western framework of Jungian psychology, somatic therapy, childhood developmental theory, and metaphysics and applying the chakra system to important modern social realities and issues such as addiction, codependence, family dynamics, sexuality, and personal empowerment. Arranged schematically, the book uses the inherent structure of the chakra system as a map upon which to chart our Western understanding of individual development.
We can’t wait to discuss with you!
Event Details: This is a free community event hosted live on ZOOM! Registration is required in order to receive the link to join. You’ll be emailed the link to participate 30 minutes prior to start time.
Healing through Movement
Live Stream Workshop | May 30th | 9AM – 10:30AM CDT
Molly Arney
Molly Arney is an RYT 500 Yoga Teacher, Certified Reiki Practitioner, and Registered Dance/Movement Therapist. Molly offers in- person and online holistic health services, specializing in older adults, hospice and palliative care, and cancer support populations. Classically trained in flute and voice, Molly intertwines live music and sound healing into her private and group sessions for a full mind-body experience.
Molly is the creator and founder of G.R.I.E.F DANCE, a 90-minute healing journey through movement, music, and meditation. During this therapeutic group experience, participants will move through the waves of Gratitude, Resilience, Intuition, Empowerment, and Feeling.
With education, experience, and certifications in Dance/Movement Therapy, Thanatology, Mindfulness, Meditation, and Yoga, Molly incorporates the physical and subtle energy bodies, movement efforts, trauma-informed meditation, and authentic movement within every G.R.I.E.F DANCE session.
Workshop Details: This is a Live Stream Workshop hosted via Zoom. This offering is an investment of $10. You must register in order to receive the link to participate. The link will be sent 30 minutes prior to the event start time.
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