Location:
We will meet on the top level, closest to where the drum circle will be, under the trees. See picture for where to go!

Outline:
We’ll open open classes with breath-work, exploring the variations on breath of fire.
~30 minutes of a moderately engaging creative Vinyasa practice to activate and relax your muscles, joints, and mind. Followed by
~15 minutes of guided mediation starting with posture, breathing, and other key meditation anchors. We’ll do deep breathing leading into a body scan relaxation with visualization exercise.

After:
Classes will close with sharing and play. Afterwards you’re invited to chat, hang out on the slack-line, play tarot/angel cards, flow into acro yoga, bring an instrument and jam, or share your favorite healing art! 🧘‍♂️🕉🙏💜

Energy Exchange:
Venmo: @Lucas-Ciapetta
Paypal: Paypal.me/LucasCiapetta
or lucas.ciapetta@gmail.com
Donation based. Recommended Dana of $10. Gratefully received 💚🙏

You:
Please bring yourself, a yoga mat, optional meditation cushion or prop, and all your vibes! See ya at the park!

Created by Gabrielle Roth and practiced by tens of thousands worldwide, 5Rhythms® is a philosophy, perspective, performance art and a dynamic movement practice rooted in the principle that if you put the psyche in motion it will heal itself. Movement is both the medicine and the metaphor, reaching across all languages, cultures and age groups to transform suffering into art, art into awareness, and awareness into action. Wherever the 5Rhythms are practiced, a community is born to dance, to sweat, to change, to support, and to provide a safe space for each of us to shatter the ego’s hold and awaken the juicy, unpredictable, fascinating, edge-walking, rock star part of ourselves that yearns to be free.

Creativity. Connection. Community.

There are no steps to learn. 5Rhythms can be practiced by anyone regardless of age, fitness, ability, or experience. For more information about what to expect in your first 5Rhythms class, see our About 5Rhythms page.

Just as the title says! Join me, Altruce, Wednesday evenings in September as we asana our way through the chakra system!

In yogic philosophy the Chakras are energy centers in the body. There are 7 main chakras arising vertically along the central energy channel or Shushumna, each one corresponding with a different aspect of consciousness.

Each week we will focus on 1 chakra at a time, with the final class in the series integrating all 7 chakras into the practice. We will learn the various functions and themes of each chakra as well as gain a deeper understanding of how these energy centers affect us as individuals in our everyday lives.

After our movement practice we will create space to share our experiences and insights with the group.

There are mats and meditation cushions available here for your use. If you want to bring yoga blocks, please do so!

Each week the asana portion will be led by either myself or a guest teacher. I am currently organizing and scheduling the teachers and they will be announced as we confirm each one. As of now we have…

9/4 Root – Altruce Ashe
9/11 Sacral – Jenny Demers
9/18 Solar Plexus – Sofia Uriarte
9/25 Heart – Altruce Ashe
10/2 Throat – Michelle Zavalij
10/9 Third Eye – Lucas Ciapetta
10/16 Crown – Houston Alexander Ward
10/23 Final Class – Altruce Ashe

Energy Exchange: Suggested donation of $10 **No one turned away!**

Your donations are highly appreciated and help make Soma Sol Community Space offerings like this sustainable and ever evolving. Particularly, donations from this series will be put towards purchasing yoga blocks and blankets for use within our space!

Join musicians Rufus Achyut Juskus, Carmelle Levia, and Emily Hall for an afternoon of Kirtan and healing music. After the music, there will be a community potluck. Guests are invited to bring vegan dishes to share. All ages are welcome.

Love Offering: Suggested donation of $15-20, no one turned away. Love offerings collected from the event will be donated to support girls’ education in rural central India.

The event is hosted by Katie Baxter in Ahimsa House DC.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Carmelle Levia
My music bridges folk and sound healing. I sing devotional songs in English, Spanish, Hebrew, Sanskrit and Light Language. The purpose of my music is to celebrate Nature and God, Earth and Sky. I love creating fusion music, merging rhythms and sounds from all over the world. I mix Bhajans, folk and Native American Medicine music. I see music as a way to connect with the divine and remind us of our higher purpose.

Emily Hall
Greatly influenced by her experiences traveling and teaching in East Africa and South East Asia, singer-songwriter Emily Hall blends elements of modern folk, mediation music, and indie-rock. Her songs explore themes of identity, belonging, human rights, connection, and the construct of home. Emily recently completed her masters’ degree in international education with a focus on teacher policies in developing countries and works for the U.S. Department of State teacher exchange programs. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her orange cat Tara. You can check out samples of her music at https://soundcloud.com/emilyhall1018 and https://www.reverbnation.com/emilyhall.

Rufus Achyut Juskus
“I’m a widower, a divorcee three times over, a retiree, an elder, a loner, a chanter, a meditation student and practitioner, a writer, a vedic astrologer, a singer, a musician, a lover of the power of mantras, a child of God, a devotee of Amma and Yogananada, a lover of Ganesh and Neem Karoli Baba, a devotee of Krishna, Shiva, Mahavatar Babaji, Anandamayi MA, and Jesus, and open to the voices of all.”

“In practical terms, I have been chanting in the DC-Maryland area for close to 20 years, and I am having a good ol’ time of it – Jai MA!”

Blessings!

This will be an Enchanting Evening of live music with Bij and Robert Strasser. The evening will be infused with breathwork and rhythmic movement while honoring the practice of Kundalini Yoga.

Kundalini Yoga with Live Music: The Spirit of Sound

Kundalini Yoga is a spiritual practice offering many tools and techniques that allow us to access stillness and peace in class together and in our daily lives. The work includes mantra, breathwork, rhythmic movement, deep relaxation, and meditation to bring about balance and harmony in body, mind, emotions, and spirit. An experiential, exploratory practice, Kundalini Yoga meets you where you are; no prior yoga experience necessary. This special class will focus on the power of our own voices to bring about profound healing in our lives. Our ability to speak our truth, to hear truth from others, to learn and to teach, is intimately connected to our relationship to our voice. A liberated voice is a gift that only you can give yourself. Live drumming and soothing classical guitar provided by Robert Strasser.

Chant Meditation: The Sacred Feminine Resounding

Go deeply into the healing power of sound with an hour-long sacred chant meditation experience focused on honoring and celebrating the sacred feminine spirit in all beings, regardless of sex or gender expression. She dances within us and all around us in the perfection of nature; her creative wisdom is everywhere from the forests, to the oceans, to meadows, to flowers, to your own innocent body. Reconnect with her essence while you explore ancient mantras from yogic tradition that have been proven by the personal experiences of millions of people around the world throughout time, and more recently by scientific research, to alter brain chemistry and bring about profound states of connectedness, transcendent peace, and exuberant joy.

When we gather together and join our voices with intentions of connection, compassion, and peace for ourselves and all beings, the healing ripples out in ways we cannot fathom.

Follow Bij’s sweetly soothing voice and unique melodies, the meditative harmonium, and Robert Strasser’s beautiful guitar on a journey into the heart. Emerge uplifted, renewed, and rejoicing for the gift of your precious life.

Date: Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019
Time: 6 – 9pm
Cost: $35

To live fully today we must become attuned to ourselves — our physical, emotional, and spiritual condition — so that we may ride the eddies of our times not just gracefully, but with the courage of leaders in a movement of awakening.

This is the year we must step forward and own both our weaknesses and our strengths. This is the year that we must acknowledge our past so we can live fully in the present. The world is calling more loudly than ever for a new humanity — a humanity where raw authenticity is the daily norm and our open hearts lift us to a higher awareness of our connectedness and responsibility.

In this workshop, we will create a crucible to melt the façade that hides our Light. We will, as a community, build and undergo an alchemical experience that leaves us feeling comfortable in our fluid, emotional nature and grounded in our life’s purpose and service in 2020.

Dec 29, Sunday: 7pm-10pm – Open Community Night
Dec 30, Monday: 11am-6pm
Dec 31, Tuesday: 12pm-4pm & 8:30pm-12:30am
Jan 1, Wed: 12pm-4pm

Cost: $345 Early Bird / $395 Standard / $60 Community Night – Sunday Only (if space allows)