Friday-Sunday, April 20-22

Three sessions: Friday: 5:30-9pm, Saturday 1-8pm, Sunday 3-8pm (with breakout sessions for POC and white folks)

$195 (Equity pricing available by request, and no one turned away for lack of funds. Contact us at weloveyou@thebhaktishop.com for details on equity pricing if you would like to make a request.)

We are living in times of great change. Times of great flux are also opportunities for us to explore possibilities - ways of being in community, supporting one another and caring for ourselves, and working together to create change that is loving, just, and transformational. Spiritual justice work helps us to recognize, cultivate and value different mindsets and new leadership styles. The Spiritual Justice Immersion is the core program offered by the Yoga + Social Justice Collaborative. In this workshop, you will learn to draw upon a deeper well of spiritual strength and intuitive knowledge to support your own healing and wellbeing and to anchor your work with partners, community and family. In a safe and supportive environment this training will help you use simple yoga and meditation practices to cultivate self-awareness and reveal your unique role in working with social justice values. In community, we will practice the skills that will help to build resilience, compassion, community and self care as anchors for your justice and healing work, as you gain clarity on becoming an effective agent for change in a world that is calling for health and healing.

Four Meetings: February 17-18 and March 24-25, 3-7pm

$250 includes all Dinacharya supplies, oils, spices, food and materials (except books)

In this four-part series, dive into Ayurveda in a practical and experiential way, working with and learning the Dinacharya (daily self-care ritual), yoga and pranayama through the lens of Ayurveda, balancing oneself according to the seasons and the doshas, practical Ayurvedic cooking and eating, and more.

Sat/Sun, March 10 and 11 from 10:30-6:30pm

$250 (Single days $125 each)

RECENTLY ADDED: A Teacher Enrichment Mentorship with Brea in person here at The Bhaktishop on May 18-20! See below for details!

Join Brea Johnson of Heart & Bones Yoga for a weekend of exploration as we blend movement science, yoga and alignment into a succinct, sustainable and empowered practice.  You will discover the 4 pillars of a sustainable yoga practice, what they are and how to apply them to any style of yoga or movement practice.  Gain a better understanding of human movement, learn to observe bodies and how to design a yoga practice that supports the health of your joints, prevent wear and tear and keep you (and your students) practicing in healthy way for years to come. www.heartandbonesyoga.com

All proceeds of our Wednesday 8:30am classes with Monicka will benefit EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY

Why this organization? Everytown is a movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities. Gun violence touches every town in America. For too long, change has been thwarted by the Washington gun lobby and by leaders who refuse to take common-sense steps that will save lives.

But something is changing. More than 4 million mayors, moms, cops, teachers, survivors, gun owners, and everyday Americans have come together to make their own communities safer. Together, we are fighting for the changes that we know will save lives. Everytown starts with us, and it starts in our town.

All you have to do is come to class, we will do the rest.

All proceeds of our 6:30am classes with Danielle's Seasonal Sadhana mornings will benefit NARAL/Pro-Choice of Oregon.

Why this organization? We believe in reproductive equity. NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon is the leading grassroots pro-choice advocacy organization in Oregon, and we believe that every person should be able to make personal decisions about the full range of reproductive health options. NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon works to protect every Oregonian’s right to access the full range of reproductive health options, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing legal abortion. NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon is the state affiliate of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

From domestic violence and child abuse, to bullying and sexual assault, our groundbreaking programs, policy development, and public action campaigns are designed to prevent and end violence against women and children around the world.

All you have to do is come to class, we will do the rest.

Four Wednesdays, Jan 10th-31st from 7:30-8:30pm, $60 for the series

(due to the specific nature of this class, no drop-ins for this series are possible)

This series is for anyone seeking a resting place for an over-worked immune system, and a place to support the body in healing from long-term stress and its impact on
physiology and health. Supported, restful yoga poses, guided breathwork, and
simple meditation practices will help the body enter into its most healing state. Come allow yourself to practice resting, receiving, and holding kind, healing space
for your body to find its way back into balance. All levels and all bodies welcome.

All proceeds of our Sunday 11am classes with Linnea for the month of January will be donated to  Portland Equity in Action's Stolen Angels PDX Billboard Project.

Portland Equity in Action (PEA) is a local community action group comprised of individuals with a range of professional skills and resources, dedicated to building racial equity in Portland. Our purpose is to confront and disrupt the rampant complacency in this city regarding issues of white supremacy and racial inequity. We aim to create a public demand for change to the inequitable structure of our society, through stimulating and challenging visual campaigns.

All you have to do is come to class, we will do the rest.

Friday Dec 1 from 5:30-8:30 Prenatal Yoga Primer: Do and Don't For Your Pregnant Students $50

Saturday/Sunday Dec 2 & 3 from 3-8pm Postpartum Yoga Teacher Training Primer $160

$199 for both workshops with Shana Celnicker Chong

Fri-Sun, November 3-5th $75 (scholarships available)

FRI: 5:30-8:30pm SAT/SUN: 3-6:30pm

NAVIGATING THE FINE LINES

We re delighted to welcome Kenya Budd, our Equity and Racial Inclusion facilitator whom we have been working with privately for some time now, into a public forum from which the whole community can benefit.

We all have implicit biases - ways in which we think things about other people that are based on our own bias, not on reality --  As Daniel Kahneman has said, "We're blind to the obvious, and blind to our blindness" about our own thinking, which can be mistaken.  The key question is always whether we are willing to learn more deeply about ourselves and, importantly for our lives and livelihoods, ask: at what point do our implicit biases become another person's impediments to accessing wellness services? 

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30-8am
October 24- November 16

$80 for the whole series, discounts available for Passports Tier 2 and 3

Join Danielle in this 4 week series to learn about daily practice. In each session we will explore several of the limbs of classical yoga including asana (postures), pranayama (breath control), pratyahara (withdrawing the mind from sense perception) and dharana (concentration) moving towards a place of dhyana or meditation. All levels welcome. (Advanced Study 12 hours)

All the proceeds of Saturdays at 1pm with Allie will go to www.honorearth.org.

Their mission is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard. Honor the Earth is a Native-led organization, established by Winona LaDuke and Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, in 1993 to address the two primary needs of the Native environmental movement: the need to break the geographic and political isolation of Native communities and the need to increase financial resources for organizing and change.

October 19-22, 2017

Thursday and Friday 12-5pm, Saturday and Sunday 1-6pm

Early Bird Pricing: $345 before September 20, $385 after

The Grace of Great Things is a two-part program designed to enrich and enhance the experienced teacher’s inner life and to bring clarity to fundamental teaching skills through practice, study, contemplation, and discussion. Every day will have time for personal inquiry, asana instruction, and practical forays into refining teaching methods like sequencing strategies, hand-on adjustments, alignment techniques, work with propsand developing personal presence.  Teachers will gain insight and tools to bring into their practice and classes to help them help their students with confidence and clarity. This teacher training is not about rigid rules or dogma and is not concerned with rights and wrongs as they apply to teaching yoga. Instead, this program is designed as a collegiate learning environment that can assist each person in finding theirauthentic expression as a teacher without judgement or criticism. While this is not a training is social justice or political activism, we will explore the role of yoga and  self-inquiry in our current political climate.

Friday, October 6-Sunday October 9th, 2017

For teachers and students alike, Yoga Tune Up® is a therapy format built around the three P's – Pain, Posture and Performance. It helps eradicate pain, improve posture and enhance performance through a unique blend of Corrective Exercise, Self Massage and Yoga.

Friday 9/29 from 7-9pm and Saturday/Sunday 9/30 & 10/1 3-7pm

Early bird registration by 8/31: $180, After 9/1: $200

This training integrates the time-tested wisdom of Ayurveda with current Western medical understandings of the nervous system to more deeply inform the restorative yoga practice. In order to bring you the best of both worlds, this training will be co-taught by two yoga teachers, Danielle Hanna, an Ayurvedic practitioner and Kate Busby, a licensed acupuncturist and an ongoing student of Somatic Experiencing.