SPECIAL EVENTS
Sound Bowl Ceremony for the Autumnal Equinox with Emmy Mathis
Friday, September 19, 6:30-8pm, $50
Join Emmy Mathis for a special Sound Bowl Ceremony to celebrate the Autumnal Equinox.
Emmy’s Crystal Alchemy Singing Bowls are rare and uniquely crafted instruments, each infused with precious metals and gemstones like amethyst, platinum, and Egyptian blue. These bowls create profoundly healing vibrations that are unmatched in their ability to clear energy, balance chakras, and promote deep relaxation. As a highly skilled and intuitive sound healer, Emmy combines these exquisite, specialized tools—renowned for their exceptional quality and investment—with her expert guidance to create a truly transformative experience. This is an opportunity to experience sound healing at its highest level, in a way few practitioners can offer.
This event is more similar to a concert than a yoga class. You are encouraged to lay down on your back and comfortably support your body with props and blankets. Emmy will play the sound bowls as you relax and take in the experience. Dress comfortably and layers are suggested.
Relax & Restore with Melissa
Sunday, September 21, 3-4:30pm, $35
Join Melissa for an extended session of mindful, unhurried flow followed by supported and deeply relaxing restorative poses. Begin by gently releasing tension and stress through meditative movements and breath work. Ease into floor based postures with the support of props to encourage deep relaxation and comfort. Class will culminate in a tranquil savasana to bask in the healing power of stillness. Embrace the art of slowing down, honoring your body’s unique needs and creating spaciousness in the mind.
Deep Rest & Restore: Yoga & Sound Bath
with Rachel
Sunday, September 28, 2-4pm, $45
Rachel returns with her signature offering: Deep Rest and Restore: Yoga and Sound Bath. Through mindful breathing techniques and slow, intentional movement, you'll activate the body's natural relaxation response, helping to shift from a state of stress to one of calm and ease. Build an understanding of how you can use your yoga practice and simple breath work to regulate your nervous system. This 2-hour class includes gentle somatic movement, yin and restorative yoga, and breathing practices - all infused in the magic of crystal singing bowls.
Musical Melting Dreamtime Yoga: Yoga Nidra
& Restorative Yoga with Live Music for Better Sleep
with Sherrie Howard
Tuesday, September 30, 7-8:30pm, $50
If your nights are filled with racing thoughts or restless energy, this workshop is for you. Take a break from the busyness of life and give yourself the gift of rest. This experience combines restorative yoga, yoga nidra, and live music to help you relax fully and sleep more peacefully. Together, these practices help to support regulating the nervous system, reducing anxiety, and preparing the mind and body truly restful sleep. Gentle, accessible, and deeply nourishing, this class is for anyone who longs to quiet the mind and regulate the nervous system.
Sherrie Howard is a multi-talented international kirtan artist, 1000-hour certified Kripalu yoga teacher, nature guide, sound healer, and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music trained vocalist. Thousands of people across the globe have delighted in Sherrie’s unique blend of yoga, healing, and music.
In addition to leading yoga retreats and programs both online and in person, she has recorded and toured both locally and internationally with her own kirtan band and has performed with several of the most well-known chant artists in the world including Jaya Lakshmi, Govindas, Girish, Johanna Beekman, Deva Premal & Miten, Ben Leinbach, and others. She loves to share her beautiful singing voice in her classes and workshops. She has shared her offerings at some of the most prestigious retreat centers in the world including Kripalu Center, Miraval, Canyon Ranch, Blue Spirit, Bodhi Tree, and Omega Institute. You may have seen sharing her gifts at Sedona Yoga Festival, Berkshire Yoga Festival, EnVision Festival, Bhakti Love Festival, Love Light Festival, and Bhakti Stock Festival. In addition to shining her own light brightly, she loves to support others in helping to shine their light in the world. Let’s lift each other up in love.
Seasonal Sound Bath and Restorative Yoga
with Ori and Sasha
Saturday, October 18, 5-6:30pm, $40
Join Ori and her daughter Sasha for an immersive and deeply relaxing experience. Through breathwork, five gentle poses and a deeply restorative meditation, you'll be guided into stillness while the soothing vibrations of crystal bowls fill the space. As Ori and Sasha harmonize their voices and synchronize with the sound, allow the frequencies to wash over you bringing deep relaxation, reflection and alignment with the changing season.
The Energy and Anatomy of Sun Salutations
with Ori and Sasha
Sunday, October 19, 3-4:30pm, $35
Join Ori and her daughter Sasha for a 90 minute workshop on the anatomy of the asana (poses) and pranayama (breathwork) of Sun Salutations A and B. We will use props and show you how to include them in different types of yoga classes and practices, making every class available no matter your level of flexibility or athleticism. This workshop will include use of the bandhas (energetic "locks"), techniques to make a pose easier or harder, ways to stimulate your chakras and ways to go deeper spiritually - going from doing the practice to being the practice. This workshop is suitable for all levels.
Ceremonial Breathwork with Evie O'Connor
Friday, October 24, 6-8pm, $75
Ceremonial Breathwork: a space to travel beyond the mind and traverse the sacred terrain of your body, heart, spirit and soul. a two-hour candlelit journey that weaves together solar and lunar breath practices, an intentional soundscape, intuitively guided meditation, therapeutic touch + deep relaxation.
Together, these practices can facilitate a non-ordinary state of consciousness where emotions, memories and energies can be located and liberated in and through the body and and breath. Conceptual understanding is an essential part of our process as humans, but we cannot get where we want to go with the mind alone-- we also must feel, presence, sense, allow, embody and express. The journey is both up and down: a descent into our humanity and an ascent into our divinity.
Ceremonial Breathwork can supplement, illuminate and deepen your path in yoga, meditation, therapy or coaching, it can also support the integration psychedelic or other peak states, re-parent your inner child, activate your intuitive mind and ultimately, is a space to feel and welcome the full spectrum of your humanity and divinity in whatever form they emerge in the space. No experience needed. Come as you are. Remember all you can be.
Space is very limited to 11 students. Register early to secure your space.
About Evie: the archetypes I resonate most with are teacher and writer; both of which require a requisite commitment of being a forever student. in all of my work, i orient to love as the true alchemist and ultimate refuge. I received my masters in clinical mental health from Naropa University in contemplative psychotherapy and buddhist psychology in 2021. I completed my initial yoga teacher training at Yandara yoga institute in 2013 and have been teaching yoga, intuitive movement and meditation ever since. my work and studies are in devotion to supporting people through the sacred terrain of this life: embodiment, spiritual emergence, addiction, anxiety, alchemy, communication, grief, depression and trauma with its many forms and faces.
I am honored to continue to serve at the altar of love, to walk alongside people through the portals of their pain to the space and grace on the other side.
I am equally devoted to offering my own healing work as I am to mentoring and training others on the ancient path of service so that the medicine we carried into this lifetime can be shared in an integrated, ethical and effective way.
s h i f t: a movement and meditation practice
with Evie O'Connor
Saturday, October 25, 9:30-10:45am, $35
s h i f t: a ceremonial movement + meditation practice created + facilitated by evie marie o'connor; a journey inward through the mediums of yoga, breath, sound, dance, intuitive movement + meditation.
This practice is rooted in the observation that when we shift the world within us, the world around us recalibrates in response. s h i f t is a space for sensitive + intuitive souls to tap into transformative power of community, ritual + devotion; to dance within and between the polarities of feminine and masculine frequencies and co-create a field of coherence that emanates from the heart.
No particular prior experience needed, but familiarity with vinyasa yoga is helpful as well as a willingness to expand your mind + awaken your heart.
Annual Ayurveda Fall Cleanse
with Loren Winters
Kickoff meeting Saturday, November 1, 4-5pm
Cleanse runs Nov. 2-8, $150 early bird / $175 after
Ayurveda is a thousand-year-old health system that uses a wholesome diet and daily routines to prevent disease and promote healing. Twice a year, at the juncture of seasonal change, several days of cleansing are done to give your digestive system, the key source of balanced health, a chance to clear out, refresh, and restore itself. Signs that you could benefit from a cleanse:
lack of pep, sour taste in mouth, gassiness, irregular bowels, weight gain, skin irritations, allergies It is possible to see symptoms such as these clear up in a matter of days on cleanse.
For many years, Loren has guided the OTM community through Ayurvedic seasonal group cleanses. Previous cleanse community members are welcome back as well as those new to the Ayurvedic cleanse! The group format provides real-time insight and input as we go through this transformative experience together.
