WORKSHOPS

Willow Street Yoga is excited to offer a variety of special events and workshops that expand the practice of yoga. Our teachers and world-renowned guests specialize in a variety of topics that encourage our community to learn and grow. Members receive 20% off workshop registrations!

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FEATURED WORKSHOPS

SummerExpansion

Summer Expansion with James Foulkes

Saturday, July 26th | 4:00pm - 7:00pm EST | HYBRID | Cost: $60

As we move past the Summer Solstice and into the height and heat of the season, nature walks a delicate line between full bloom and burnout. This is a time of peak energy — passion, expression, and connection — yet it also calls for discernment, balance, and rest.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), summer is associated with the Fire Element, which governs the Heart and Pericardium meridians and holds the emotional spectrum of love, joy, jealousy, and meanness. This workshop invites you to explore and transform these energies through a deeply embodied experience.

Through yoga asana, Qi Gong, meditation, and guided journeying, we’ll nourish the organs and meridians of the Fire Element, and align ourselves with the vibrant, expansive spirit of the season.

What you’ll experience:
🔥 Practices to awaken and balance the Heart and Pericardium
🔥 Tools to transform emotional patterns into love and joy
🔥 Movement and breathwork to embody the full expression of Summer’s Yang energy
🔥 A space for reflection, rejuvenation, and conscious connection

Join us to honor the radiance of summer, and reconnect with the fire within.

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Tension Taming Thursdays with Laura Dyer

Thursdays, July 24th, August 7th, and August 21st| 5:15pm - 6:15pm EST | In-Person | $70 for the full series • $30 per session

A 3-Part Evening Series for Fascial Release

Ease into your weekend with less tension and more freedom of movement! Join Laura for Tension Taming Thursdays, a 3-part evening workshop series designed to release fascia and reset your nervous system.

Each session will focus on a different area of the body:

Session 1: Hips, Glutes & Low Back
Session 2: Head, Neck & Shoulders
Session 3: Full Body Integration

Using props for both support and release, we’ll explore yoga postures that target each area with intention. Each class will close with time for a deeply restorative pose to leave you grounded, clear, and at ease.

Whether you attend one session or the full series, you’ll walk away feeling more spacious—physically and mentally.

Come unwind, reset, and welcome the weekend with clarity.

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Yoga Nidra For Resilience - Summer 2025 with Carol Mermey

Sundays, July 27th, & August 24th | 5:00pm - 6:00pm EST | Online | $20 per class/ $55 for all 3 sessions

Resilience -- Returning to the wisdom of your body & mind to deal with life’s challenges.

Strengthen your ability to bounce back from life’s challenges by reconnecting with the inner resilience of your body and mind. Through the guided meditation practice of Yoga Nidra, discover a deep source of internal stability, clarity, and self-empowerment. This workshop is designed to help you release tension, calm your nervous system, and restore your energy.

In each session, you’ll:

Learn centering and relaxation techniques
Practice gentle asana stretches for joints and muscles
Explore mindful breathing practices
Experience a complete Yoga Nidra session

Yoga Nidra is practiced lying down or seated comfortably. No experience is necessary—everyone is welcome.

*All registrants will receive recordings of these practices.

About the Facilitator:

Carol Mermey, E-RYT 500, MPH, brings over two decades of experience teaching yoga with an emphasis on alignment, balance, core strength, and functional movement. She is certified in Yoga for Osteoporosis, Yoga for Healthy Aging, ParaYoga Nidra, and is a Brain Longevity® Specialist. Carol has also completed iRest Yoga Nidra Level II and the Duke/Kripalu Integrative Yoga for Seniors Professional Program. Her teaching draws from working in diverse settings, including yoga studios, schools, health clinics, and community centers.Carol invites her students to “start where they are, use what they’ve got, and do what they can.” Her approach helps students cultivate strength, flexibility, balance, and a deep sense of well-being and empowerment.

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PeacePelvis

Making Peace with Your Pelvis with Joe Miller

Sunday, August 3rd | 2:30pm - 4:30pm EST | In-Person | Cost: $40

Your pelvis is the foundation for your spine, organs, and body! It is the source of your ability to move across the earth.

Unfortunately, in the wonder and challenges of 21st-century life, pelvis dysfunction is more common than ever before in history!

In this workshop, we will take a deep empowering dive into the elegant architecture of this remarkable system that makes YOU possible.

Drawing upon modern biomechanical understanding and time tested ancient tools of yoga, you will gain access and agency in this foundational relationship of your body. You will leave this workshop with practical tools to support you in dealing with sciatic pain, sacrum and hip joint issues, as well all supporting the healthy elimination and control as well as prostate and pelvic floor health.

Take advantage of Joe Miller's 30 years of yoga and therapeutic experience to give yourself tools that will last the rest of your life!

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Inspired Growth: A Sound Healing

with Austin Shook

Saturday, August 9th | 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST | In-Person | Cost: $60

Join us for Inspired Growth: A Sound Healing with Austin Shook for a TWO HOUR sound healing experience!

Come wake up your ability to hear with more than your ears as you bathe in the sounds of 14 different instruments! You are invited to let go and just be as you receive the harmonies and vibrations washing over and moving through you.

Austin Shook of Alignment Sound Energy will play an array of instruments to aid you in achieving deep relaxation and to guide you into the parasympathetic state of your nervous system. With the aid of these instruments, space will be held for you to connect with the deeper aspects of yourself. This experience is an invitation to enter into your own essence, deeply connect with your body through ethereal sound vibration; to release, soften, unwind, envision and to meditate.

Sound is vibration and we know that vibration touches every part of our physical being. Sound is heard not only through our ears but through every cell in our bodies. Come let healing processes be initiated by the unique tones of this sound bath, creating the perfect state for deep meditation, creative thinking and intuitive messages. Students are encouraged to wear unrestrictive athletic wear to allow ease of movement and relaxation.

Please bring a yoga mat and expect to use studio props, including blankets and bolsters.

About Austin Shook: Austin Shook, based out of Charlotte, NC, has been traveling around the US over the last 8 years and has shared sound healing in roughly 41 states through more than 1,000 sound healings. Austin is also certified as a Reiki Master and utilizes high vibrational energy (love) to balance out the rest of the energetic centers in the body and to release blockages that keep us from recognizing and merging with our highest potential self.

Slide & Glide: Happy Hips, Knees, & Feet with Tricia Kull

Sunday, August 10th | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST | In-Person | Cost: $40

Join us for this two hour Fascial Release workshop with Tricia Kull!

Fascia is connective tissue that surrounds your muscles, blood vessels, nerves, and organs.

When it’s healthy, fascia allows your muscles to slide and glide as you move, but when your fascia gets tight and stuck, it can restrict your movement and breath, and even cause pain.

In this workshop, we will use tools, simple techniques, and yoga poses to release layers of fascia in the feet and legs.

This practice will help create renewed slide and glide in the tissues of your hips, knees, and feet, and make space for more easeful movement.

Props will be provided. No experience necessary. This is in person ONLY.

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