events & workshops
Basics of Ayurvedic Cooking with Maria Rubinate
An introduction to the basic principles of Āyurvedic cooking, this class will be a mix of basic theory and practical application. Bring your questions and your appetite: we’re making lunch.
Hands-on Assists Workshop: Assists as Communication
Hands-on assists play an important role in supporting students in yoga classes and in an overall deepening experience of the practice. Physical assists can communicate essential alignment details that words sometimes cannot convey. In this experiential workshop, Kristin and Domenick will offer an approach to assisting as a form of communication between teacher and student – grounded in awareness, respect and clarity.
Participants will gain useful tools and techniques to confidently provide physical adjustments. We will explore considerations for how to choose and implement appropriate assists in a way that supports each student’s unique body and experience.This workshop is open to those who have completed a 200/300-hour yoga teacher training and long time practitioners who are interested in deepening their personal practice.
The Shala Book Club
We are reading What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures* by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Our friends Ellie Balk and Helen Dames will guide discussion, and all donations will go to Urban Ocean Labs.
Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures. With clear-eyed essays, vibrant interviews, data, poetry, and art, Ayana’s text guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice.
*Available at Greenlight Bookstore. The Audible version is great for listening to interviews!
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About the author (a former yoga student at The Shala!)
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and teacher working to help create the best possible climate future. She is co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for the future of coastal cities, and is the Roux Distinguished Scholar at Bowdoin College. She authored The New York Times bestseller What If We Get it Right?: Visions of Climate Futures.
Previously, she co-edited the climate anthology All We Can Save, co-founded The All We Can Save Project, and co-created and co-hosted the Spotify/Gimlet climate solutions podcast How to Save a Planet. She also co-authored the Blue New Deal, a roadmap for including the ocean in climate policy. Previously, as executive director of the Waitt Institute, she co-founded the Blue Halo Initiative and led the Caribbean’s first successful island-wide ocean zoning effort. Early in her career, she developed U.S. federal ocean policy at the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The Active Series with Barbara and Maria Rubinate
Intended as a more accessible practice, but still requiring strength, the Active Series is ideal for a wider range of students. The traditional practice method of linking movement with breath is retained but new more accessible poses and variations have been added. The entire practice is under one hour.
Handstand and Forearm Stand Workshop with Ashley and Barbara
Whether turning upside down sounds terrifying or thrilling, whether you’ve never inverted or you like to spend all day walking on your hands, whether you’re brand new to yoga or have been teaching for decades, we will offer a variety of ways to approach handstand and forearm stand. That’s the beauty of these poses, they offer us endless possibilities to meet our edge, gather strength, grow, and see ourselves and the world from a new perspective. We will offer partner and assist work throughout.
