Suggested Practice: Reclaim Your Wholeness

Yin

Spend some time with your body in this nourishing yin practice with long holds and contemplative pauses. "Reclaim your wholeness by being the body in all its changing sensations." (Danna Faulds)

Question for reflection: What story or lesson from this year are you ready to share with others?

Reconnect to yourself and restore/replenish your body with this vital and nourishing class. We will utilize deep and prolonged stretching, breath, meditation, restorative yoga, and subtle energy techniques to align with the theme of the week.

Suggested Practice: The Beginning of Light

Level 1/2 Hatha

Welcome in the winter season with a slowly emerging practice that opens the whole body. "[The sun] represents end of darkness, the beginning of light, and the initiation of a whole new cycle." (Sacred Destiny Oracle)  

Question for reflection: How can you bring more light into your relationships and your inner world?

Suggested Practice: Winter Breath Practice for Balance and Peace

Meditation

This practice includes sushumna breathing, a variation of alternate nostril breath called anuloma viloma, and a mudra meditation for a winter glow. This is a great daily practice to cultivate balance and peace.

Question for reflection: How can you balance your ambition with self-compassion as you pursue your goals?

Tap into divine connection and healing life force energy with yoga and mindful movement. This class offers creative and intuitive sequencing to align with current cosmic energies — encompassing my unique integration of vinyasa mandalas, kundalini, yin, breathwork, meditation, mudra, meridian-focused practices, energy healing, or wherever Spirit guides me. Some yoga experience is helpful but not necessary to experience this all-levels class.

Suggested Practice: Taking Inventory

Yin

Attune to your body and energy through this stretchy hip and hamstring practice. You’ll be guided into subtle body awareness so you can ”collect the data” and become clear about your needs and wants. On a physical level, this practice is a great go-to for all kinds of hip and hamstring clearing.

Question for reflection: What small detail or task have you been avoiding that could make a big difference once completed?

Connect with the seasons and the beauty of the Gardens through Mandi's creative, nature-inspired yoga classes. This gentle to moderate flow class blends mindful movements, stretching, breath, and meditative practices to cultivate a calm mind and peaceful strength. 

During the warmer months (April to October) yoga classes are primarily held outdoors. In the event of inclement weather or other factors the class will be moved indoors. During the colder months (November to April) yoga classes are always held indoors.

Suggested Practice: Savor Your Life

Dynamic Yin

This dynamic yin practice combines joint movements with postures for expansion and hip-opening. Create new space for what life has in store for you. "To savor your life, each and every part of it, take pleasure in slowing down and experiencing each of your senses." (Sacred Destiny Oracle)   

Question for reflection: What new experiences with loved ones could bring more joy and connection into your life?

Set up a weekly meditation routine with this FREE Wednesday morning live class. Mandi will guide you through a 15- to 30-minute meditation to align with the energies of the week. You’ll be finished in time for your workday.

Suggested Practice: Renewal and Hope

Yin

This yin practice is a wonderful reminder to trust the process, with practices to purify and awaken your centers of expression. "If you've been through a time of worry or turmoil, know that you are coming out of the darkness and into the light." (The Dreamgate Oracle by Danielle Noel)

Question for reflection: How can rest and solitude help you recharge and prepare for what’s next?

Step into the stillness of the Solstice and honor the return of the light with a winter ceremony of initiation and rebirth. This special event will feature a crown chakra meditation to connect with divine inspiration and clarity as we embrace the new solar year. Together, we’ll honor the turning of the wheel, reflect on the wisdom of the dark, and step forward into the growing light with renewed purpose and vision.

During this practice, you’ll experience:

• A grounding ritual to reflect on 2024 and release the past.

• A crown chakra activation to align with higher wisdom and purpose.

• Guided visualization to initiate your rebirth into the solar year.

• Energy healing and intention-setting to carry you into 2025 with clarity and purpose.

Attendees will receive:

• A Zoom link for the live event upon registration.

• A Solstice-inspired journal prompt PDF.

• Suggestions for creating your own Solstice ritual space at home.

The Winter Solstice marks a initiatory turning point—a threshold between the past and future, between dark and light. Join us in this sacred container to celebrate your inner light, awaken your potential, and initiate a transformative journey into the new solar year.

**Note: this workshop is limited to 22 attendees.

Suggested Practice: Everyday Elevation

Level 1 Transformation Flow

This accessible practice has a little bit of everything: deep stretch, shoulder openers, hip and hamstring openers, strength building, heart activation, mudra, pranayama, and everyday core exercises (that your low back will actually enjoy). Visit this practice regularly and watch yourself transform. Feeling like you need something, but you don't know what? Save this practice for those moments.

Question for reflection: How can you bring more creativity into your daily routines or tasks?

Suggested Practice: Emotional Support Yin

Yin

This deep-stretch, breath-focused, and feel-good class may be your next go-to yin practice. The breath is the focus, as we use the breath to clear energy, move through our postures, and heal in the emotional realm.

Question for reflection: What emotional needs require your attention right now, and how can you meet them?

Reconnect to yourself and restore/replenish your body with this vital and nourishing class. We will utilize deep and prolonged stretching, breath, meditation, restorative yoga, and subtle energy techniques to align with the theme of the week.

Suggested Practice: Breath Awareness Meditation for Focus and Calm

Meditation

An essential meditation practice to narrow your focus and calm the mind.

Question for reflection: Which ideas are worth pursuing, and which are better left behind as you move forward?

Suggested Practice: An Expansion of the Mystery

Level 1/2 Transformation Flow

Connect to the sacral chakra, the water element, and the Shakti energy of desire and bliss in this hip-focused flow. "Reach down into your deepest being. Take a stand in eternity. Walk through this world, see every situation as an expansion of the mystery." (Radiance Sutras, Yukti Verse 93)  

Question for reflection: What new experiences or opportunities would bring more joy and optimism into your life?

Step into the transformative energy of the last full moon of 2024, a Full Moon of Initiation. This powerful lunation invites you to release what no longer serves and awaken fresh inspiration as you prepare for 2025. Together, we’ll tap into the Gemini moon’s energy of curiosity, insight, and clarity to reflect on your journey, integrate its lessons, and step forward with renewed purpose.

This session includes:

• A restorative guided meditation with relaxing yoga postures to ground and align with your intentions.

• EFT (meridian tapping) to facilitate emotional release and clarity.

• Distance healing to support your body, mind, and spirit.

The Gemini Full Moon represents a gateway—an opportunity to shift from reflection to initiation, honoring the wisdom of 2024 while planting seeds of creativity and vision for the year ahead.

Upon registration, you'll receive:

• A Zoom link to join the session live.

• A carefully curated Spotify playlist to inspire and enhance your practice.

• A list of suggested props to create a supportive and restorative space.

This experience is designed for those seeking emotional renewal, creative inspiration, and a sacred container to reflect on the past year while stepping into the next chapter. Together, let’s harness the moon’s energy to release, restore, and initiate a bright new beginning.

Tap into divine connection and healing life force energy with yoga and mindful movement. This class offers creative and intuitive sequencing to align with current cosmic energies — encompassing my unique integration of vinyasa mandalas, kundalini, yin, breathwork, meditation, mudra, meridian-focused practices, energy healing, or wherever Spirit guides me. Some yoga experience is helpful but not necessary to experience this all-levels class.

Suggested Practice: Blue Ray Meditation for Healing and Awakening

Meditation

Find a space of deep relaxation as you visualize yourself listening to the ocean before receiving white light healing and the healing of the blue ray. Practice anytime you find it difficult to communicate or express yourself, or when you need to heal/clear any barriers to your creativity and authentic light.

Question for reflection: What do you most want to express to others, and what unique way can you share it?

Connect with the seasons and the beauty of the Gardens through Mandi's creative, nature-inspired yoga classes. This gentle to moderate flow class blends mindful movements, stretching, breath, and meditative practices to cultivate a calm mind and peaceful strength. 

During the warmer months (April to October) yoga classes are primarily held outdoors. In the event of inclement weather or other factors the class will be moved indoors. During the colder months (November to April) yoga classes are always held indoors.

Suggested Practice: Air Element Vinyasa and Kriyas

Level 1/2 Vinyasa and Kundalini

A full-spectrum practice that includes meditation, breathwork, vinyasa flows, and kriyas to tap into subtle energy and awaken the element of air.

Question for reflection: How can you channel your passion into something productive and meaningful?

Set up a weekly meditation routine with this FREE Wednesday morning live class. Mandi will guide you through a 15- to 30-minute meditation to align with the energies of the week. You’ll be finished in time for your workday.

Suggested Practice: Grounding Meditation for Deep Peace

Meditation

Connect to the earth in this grounding meditation that uses visualization, breath, healing, and root chakra activation.

Question for reflection: What helps you feel grounded and secure when life feels uncertain? How can you access that today?

Suggested Practice: Awareness and Self-Acceptance

Level 1 Hatha

Connect with your body and breath as your internal guidance system throughout this gentler, slow-paced movement practice.

Question for reflection: What do you truly want right now, and how can you nurture yourself as you work toward it?

Suggested Practice: Steady Self-Trust

Dynamic Yin

Activate the bladder meridians to facilitate emotional release and a sense of self-trust. This sequence is more dynamic with shorter holds and some movement for times when you struggle to be still and settle the mind.

Question for reflection: What action can you take today to move closer to a personal goal, no matter how small?

Reconnect to yourself and restore/replenish your body with this vital and nourishing class. We will utilize deep and prolonged stretching, breath, meditation, restorative yoga, and subtle energy techniques to align with the theme of the week.

Suggested Practice: Embracing Change

Level 1/2 Transformation Flow

This kundalini/hatha slow flow activates the lower three chakras in order to blossom and expand. "Growth comes when we can be present without fear, when the simplicity of BEing and anchoring on the ground is enough to let the mind rest on the hear and now." (Mandi Garrison)

Question for reflection: What’s one area of your life that needs change? How can you approach it with creativity and ease?

Suggested Practice: Awareness as the Field of Enlightenment

Level 1/2 Goddess Flow

This practice works with the heart and throat chakras to elevate your divine wisdom and connect with the Shakti energy of Saraswati. "Saraswati can help you penetrate through the thickets of thought...to recognize your own awareness as the field of enlightenment."

Question for reflection: What does your intuition want you to know as the fog lifts? How can you connect with it more deeply?