In the winter yoga series, we build on themes and explore alignment that emphasizes relationships. Hands-on adjustments, demonstrations and intentional sequencing are offered.
Suniti shares her love, devotion and inspiration for practice. She teaches with warmth, generosity, care and a great deal of wonder and awe.
Through movement, meditation and discussion we engage in a creative process that investigates being with the world and depth of self as a mutually transformative process. When we move we are moving with the planetary body that is alive and knowable in each of us. When we sit we expand our sense of self to include our bones, blood, organs, skin and we sit with what our body knows of the earth.
Join Suniti for a weekend to engage in practice with community on beautiful land. Through movement, meditation, and discussion we experiment with listening for connections between inside and outside, the skin of the body and the soil of the earth. We bring forward the sensuous body reminding us that we are in a constant process of exchange.
Join us in honoring the longest of nights and the suns return to lengthier stays. Nature is always in the process of construction and deconstruction. Nature is purposeful as it regenerates and becomes re-energized by the un-expected.
In this 2-hour class, we experience our bodies as elemental, as nature, as deeply connected to this shadowy season. Accompanied by Diane Chapplin, a world-class cellist and music educator.
This fall I am trying something new and letting go of one of my drop-in classes and I am adding two new classes that will be offered as a series.
The mere act of signing up for a series deepens your commitment to practice. Every week we build on themes and I will have the opportunity to get to know your practice and offer one on one attention in a community centered environment.
Join Melissa and Suniti this June for our annual retreat on Salt Spring Island. Stowel Lake Farm is a thriving organic farm, retreat center, and community, located on 100 acres of mixed forests, fields, rocky outcrops and rolling hills. The food, the facilities and the land are an exceptional venue to meet all the right elements of retreat.
Investigate movement that arises from being in a process of relating. Dance with ancestors, place, culture and your bodies remembering. Experience aliveness as a practice of connection and love.
Join us for 4 days to engage in practice with community on beautiful land.
Through movement, meditation and integration, we enter a community research project, a creative process that exists in the body and is in collaboration with the land. We move together with wind, sand, stars and sky.
Join us in honoring the longest of nights and the suns return to lengthier stays. In this 2 hour class, We move through fluid movement expressions as well as familiar restorative yoga postures. We add breath awareness and somatic meditation while inviting the mind/body into a natural state of balance.
This retreat is in the spirit of Zen, Buddhism, and tending to the body with love. It will be about the simple treasures of practice. Beautifully bare bones. Our time together will be a blend of traditional yoga practice, silence, stillness, connection, breath, sound, the ground and deep rest. Together we are gently resurrecting bodies of goodness.
In this workshop, we are learning how to be together, by engaging in spontaneous, emergent play. We gather to explore contact within and beyond a physical movement form. Honing and practicing the skill of moving together is not only fun, it’s a way to make relating more visible.
Another Ocean is a somatic movement and meditation class, an experience, a gathering and a circle.
We practice listening to be moved from within. Somatic prompts are offered to inspire movement explorations that invite an opening to new places of responsivity.
Join Suniti for a day of practice where we engage in somatic mediation, movement and walks in nature to listen to our bodies and to the land. Quieting down, listening, what have we not yet heard? Connecting to our own rythym beneath tick tock time, we discover a resource that comes from within.
Join us in honoring the longest of nights and the suns return to lengthier stays. In this 2 hour class, We move through fluid movement expressions as well as familiar restorative yoga postures. We add breath awareness and somatic meditation while inviting the mind/body into a natural state of balance.
You are invited to join Suniti and Rebecca for a 2-day dive into being with what is.
In Body of Relating we move through a soft form that includes meditation, movement, and discussion. Class is informed and created through the contact with the group. In collaboration we give rise to the aliveness of what emerges.
Join Melissa and Suniti on a vacation retreat in Costa Rica, where we will seek to awaken and investigate new ways of inhabiting the body.
4daysinarow: It’s a Fucking Miracle workshopping it out one second at a time
This is us being nimble and flexible and pushing up through the cracks because we lean into resource and our nervous systems need this in ways that are not possible to say or feel in words, and that is exactly why we move our bodies and dance.
Let’s be together
In person
At the same time.
Let’s share in practice.
Let’s move our bodies both outside with the trees and inside with a beautiful cork floor.
Let’s find stillness.
The celestial fever is upon us. On June 24th and July 21st we take It’s a fucking miracle class outside to Fernhill park! We dance our weird, sweaty, we can’t stop fucking shaking our bodies, we are alive, we are exhausted, we are feeling into our individual and collective grief, we are ecstatically moving our bodies in the SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME dance. Say it again: in the SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME!
Let’s be together
In person
At the same time.
Let’s share in practice.
Let’s move our bodies both outside with the trees and inside with a beautiful cork floor.
Let’s find stillness.
In this 3-week series we build on our resourcing practices to connect us to our ancient, elemental bodies, to truly connect to a body of relating. When we are resourced we expand our capacity to be here and to move into creative action.
In this three-week series, we explore entering our practice through the door of compassion. Compassion reminds us that we are here together in relationship to all things.
Be with us for Yoga Anytime’s LIVE 20-day online yoga retreat. Together we will drop into our bodies to access a sense of safety, inspire joy, and feel more connected with each other. Join Wade Gotwals, Arturo Peal, Alana Mitnick, Suniti Dernosevek, and Miles Borrero for this collaborative online experience, starting Monday, January 4th, 2021.
Led by Caverly Morgan, Suniti Dernovsek, David Perrin & Latifa Till
This day of retreat is specifically designed for those who identify as white. The practice of identity-based caucusing is vital in fostering a collective community that honors inclusivity and belonging, and de-centers a harmful hegemony. There are important conversations for white people to have, accountable to BIPOC individuals, aimed at dismantling racism. Only when white people are ready to do the work of confronting the myriad of emotions, attitudes, behaviors, and actions that stem from internalized white supremacy will we be able to forward a just, equitable society of collective presence.
Join these four white-identified teachers for a day of practice, embodiment, discussions, and action-planning about committing or re-committing to a practice rooted in love rather than alienation, awareness rather than ignorance, and engagement over apathy or burnout.
We come from water and we live in a fluid body. In this weekend workshop we practice asana, somatic meditation and guided improvisation as a way to wake up our connection to a fluid body. We may think of asana and our life in general as being solid and fixed but we are a fluid body and like water we are receptive and adaptable. How can our asana practice be less of an expression of static positions and more of a movement through space? We will spend time walking in nature, taking in the spring landscape and being near the creek to feel ourselves as a connected body of elements.
Join Suniti Dernovsek for a weekend of study in yoga and meditation. We engage with asana, movement improvisation, meditation and discussion to be in an exploration of getting to know the inherent wisdom of our bodies. We move through sequential fluid movements to notice areas of the body that are held or quiet. Through increased attention we find the ability to pause and know presence, which gives us more choice on how to respond and to be in alignment.
It’s a fucking miracle we are here right now under and held by this sky. It’s a fucking miracle we breathe, we move, we sweat, we love, we anger, we feel anything at all, it’s a fucking miracle. It’s a fucking miracle we dance, we prance, we shake, we jazz finger it up sometimes. This is a dance party, an exercise class, a somatic lesson, a play date, it’s a fucking miracle. We are collective action and we are individual desire. It’s a Fucking Miracle is nonexclusive, it is meant for every body of all shapes, sizes, abilities and identities. For this hour, your body is the guide as prompts are given, your body translates all that is into this moment of a miracle, of you being here right now. Now let’s dance.
Join us in honoring the longest of nights and the suns return to lengthier stays. Nature is always in the process of construction and deconstruction. Nature is purposeful as it regenerates and becomes re-energized by the un-expected. In this 2-hour class, we experience our bodies as elemental, as nature, as deeply connected to this shadowy season.
Join Adam and Suniti for a unique retreat at Breitenbush Hot Springs where we will deepen our ability to view and experience the body from the inside. Through the combined study of somatic meditations, movement improvisations, qigong and asana we engage in a dialogue with sensation.
Adam and Suniti offer a practice in qigong, movement improvisation and somatic mediation to steep in presence and aliveness. We listen into our body to gain insight into our current condition. We touch a body of elements, a body of relating to everything all at once.
Join Tahni Holt and Suniti Dernovsek for a summer camping retreat near Eugene Oregon. We engage with practices of various somatic and improvisational techniques that draws attention to embodied experience and highlights individual’s process.
Join Suniti Dernvosek and Rebecca Harrison for a spring retreat where we connect deeply to our own experience while cultivating tools to show up more fully in our everyday lives. Through an intentional weekend of movement, meditation and time spent in nature we renew ourselves and become more conscious and embodied.
