Happy Summer Solstice on June 21! As we approach the middle of 2023 and the start of summer, take a moment to reflect on how your year has been thus far, where you are now, and where you are going. Journal, draw, or put on a piece of music and dance it out.
SUMMER is associated with the Fire Element in East Asian Medicine. Stay cool through the rising heat (between June gloom, for my Ventura folx). Sip on herbal iced teas, or make a refreshing herbal highball. Make cucumber salads with fresh garden herbs. Create sun teas with mint family plants like tulsi, peppermint, lemon balm, and lavender. Make and freeze fresh pesto with basils, chives, and mustards. Revel in the abundance of this time of year. As you travel into your bold summer adventures, remember to rest, relax, and create pockets of spaciousness for freeform play– and simply doing nothing. (Acupuncture can help!)
VENTURA YOGA | Two beloved yoga studios in town-- the Pharm and Aum Vibe-- have closed their doors. 🙏 Teachers from both studios are rippling back out into the rich waters of our local Ventura yoga-scape at various other studios:
- ✨Ecstatic Dance continues at Bodhi Salt every month with rotating community DJs!✨ Bodhi Salt also has gentle infrared heat, all levels yoga, and rad teachers. Email me to sign up for dance updates, or write me to DJ! Come dance!
- Love climbing? Lauren Snyder teaches yin-flow on Tuesdays, and I teach Hatha-vinyasa on Thursdays at Boulderdash climbing gym @7:45 PM
- Klaudia Paletta & Rafaela Garcia of Primas Colectivas teach "Yoga en Espanol" in Oxnard & beyond.
- Portside Yoga now houses Accessible Yoga with Lisa Feeney, River Flow Yoga with the one and only River Shima, and Pilates/ Barre with Carrie Sablan... on the beautiful Ventura Marina!
- Going to Ojai? Visit Breathe Ojai and take classes with River, Lisa, Lauren, Sarah Aspell, and more!
🌻UPCOMING🌻
ECSTATIC DANCE | It bears repeating that Ecstatic Dance is now at Bodhi Salt! This location was one of the first locations that I taught yoga in Ventura. I've spent many an ecstatic dawn welcoming the sunrise through the majestic studio windows. It's a gorgeous space. Dances are FREE for Bodhi Salt members/ staff, and sliding scale for others. We're still rotating DJs and creating this community together, so please reach out if you would like to DJ!
EVENTS | Clinic nourishes my Yin, whereas teaching stokes my Yang. When I'm home in Ventura, not only do I get to rest and surf, but I also get to nourish my patients by anchoring all my teaching material with hands-on clinical experience, tending to one human at a time. This is quiet, focused, loving, attentive work that I am grateful for. The fanfare of teaching and travel is also deeply satisfying. This is my expressive move-around, share-everything-everywhere part of my life where I channel the Gods, embody poetry, and radiate sunshine. "You're a force," gushed a recent participant. *Blush* Well, I nourish my Yin in clinic/ ocean at home, and shine my Yang teaching all over once a month. Follow all event updates here! And come join us!
- International Herbal Symposium 6/9 - 6/11. Norton, MA
- Nourishing Life retreat @Omega 9/11 - 9/15. Rhinebeck, NY
- Elemental Creativity retreat @Green Gulch 11/29 - 12/3. Sausalito, CA
Trillium and fern in Eugene, OR
🌻HIGHLIGHTS🌻
- New Podcast Episode: Food as Medicine Tea Talks Roundtable
- Upcoming Events: Five Elements Omega Immersion (September, in gorgeous upstate New York!)... all events here!
❤️ Happy summer adventuring!
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