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

Tension Taming Thursdays with Laura Dyer

Final Session: Thursday August 21st| 5:15pm - 6:15pm EST | In-Person | $30

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.

Tension Taming Thursdays

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Tools for Inner Peace with Joe Miller

Sunday, August 24th | 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm EST | HYBRID | Cost: $40

In the fast pace of everyday life, cultivating inner peace isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity. Tools for Inner Peace is a nurturing yoga workshop designed to help you reconnect with your calm center, release inner tension, and build lasting practices for emotional balance and clarity.

Through a blend of gentle movement, breathwork (pranayama), guided meditation, and reflective journaling, this workshop offers accessible tools you can return to again and again—on or off the mat.

Whether you're new to yoga or a seasoned practitioner, this experience will support you in:

Releasing physical and mental stress
Cultivating mindful awareness and self-compassion
Exploring grounding practices for anxiety and overwhelm
Developing a personalized toolkit for peace in daily life

Come as you are. Leave feeling grounded, restored, and empowered to carry peace within you.

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Yoga Nidra For Resilience - Summer 2025 with Carol Mermey

Sunday, 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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Chair Enhanced Flow with Alene Moyer

Thursdays, August 28th, September 11th, September 25th, October 9th

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST | In-Studio | Cost: $100 for the series | $30 per session

Please join Alene for this 4-class series as we learn to use the chair as an effective prop to increase the accessibility and variety of a gentle asana sequence.

Making use of a chair in our yoga practice can help us to access familiar poses in new ways, manage injuries, and simply release with greater support into a steady, comfortable practice.

Chair-Enhanced Yoga Flow ensures all the beneficial elements of yoga - strengthening, flexibility, balance, relaxation - using a variety of pose adaptations both on and off the chair.*

As a result, you will learn how to use the chair to best advantage for your body and your practice goals. Everything you learn can be easily applied to your home practice as well!

This is a practice for every BODY!
* Please note this is not a fully-seated practice.

About Alene:

Alene began studying Iyengar yoga 24 years ago as a way to address work-related stress. After years of practicing various yoga styles, she was excited to complete her 200-hr teacher training in 2024 in alignment-based Hatha. Alene has since received certification in accessible/chair yoga through Jivana Heyman’s Accessible Yoga School and certification in Yoga for Seniors with yoga therapists Kimberly Carson and Carol Krucoff, based on the program they developed at Duke University’s School of Integrative Medicine.

Family Yoga: An adventure for the family with littles ages 3-6 with Susan Comfort

Saturday, August 23rd & Saturday September 6th | 12:30pm - 1:30pm EST | In-Studio | $25 per mat

Family Yoga: Move, Play, and Connect (Ages 3–6)

Come stretch, breathe, and play together in our Family Yoga workshop—designed especially for parents and their little ones (ages 3–6). This joyful and interactive class blends simple yoga poses and playful movement to help children build body awareness, balance, and focus all while having fun on their own or with their loved ones.

Led by experienced children’s yoga instructor, Susan Comfort, and Sonja Johnson, this session offers families a chance to connect through movement and mindfulness in a relaxed and judgment free space. No prior yoga experience needed—just bring your curiosity, a sense of play, and a willingness to get a little silly!

What to expect:

Yoga sequences adapted for young children and parents
Techniques to encourage calm, focus, and emotional regulation
Quality bonding time that strengthens both bodies and relationships

Perfect for: Those with children ages 3–6. Mats provided or bring your own.

Come as you are, and leave feeling centered, connected, and full of smiles.

Date: Saturday, August 23rd & Saturday, September 6th || Time: 12:30pm - 1:30pm || Cost: $25 per mat (mat can consist of two people) per session

Family Yoga

Elementary Yoga: Playful Poses for ages 6-11

with Susan Comfort

Saturday, August 23rd & Saturday September 6th | 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST | In-Studio | $30 per person

Elementary Yoga Workshop | Playful Poses for littles ages 6–11

Let your child stretch, breathe, and move in a fun and supportive environment designed just for them. Elementary Yoga is a 90-minute workshop tailored specifically for elementary-aged children (ages 6–11).

Through playful movement, age appropriate yoga poses, breathing exercises, and mindfulness games, kids will build strength, flexibility, balance, and focus all while having a fun time.

This workshop encourages creativity, confidence, and body awareness, helping kids develop healthy habits they can take off the mat and into their daily lives.

Led by experienced instructors, Susan Comfort and Sonja Johnson, who specialize in teaching children's yoga, the session is designed to be active, engaging, and relaxing all at once.

Please note: This is a kids-only class.

Perfect for both beginners and returning young yogis. No prior experience needed! Mats and props are provided, but please feel free to bring your own.

Elementary Yoga

Four Seasons of Forest Bathing

with Susan West Montgomery

Saturday, August 23rd | 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST | Rock Creek Park | $55

Follow the Wheel of the Year with seasonal forest bathing sessions in Rock Creek Park!

Shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing, is a Japanese wellness practice that helps individuals access the healing properties of nature.

These can be especially powerful during the times of transition offered by the changing seasons. Each walk will follow a different route, but all will allow us to experience this familiar landscape at
different times of the year.

You will be invited to slow down, to be curious, and to touch, smell, hear, and see nature more fully. The walks will not be strenuous but requires the ability to walk a mile or so on uneven surfaces.

About Susan:

Susan is long-time member of the Willow Street Yoga Community and a Kripalu certified Outdoor Mindfulness Guide. She provides customized outdoor mindfulness excursions in the Washington DC region and beyond. She is also a passionate advocate and non-profit consultant who is committed to leveraging natural and historic places to connect citizens, promote social justice, and foster health and well-being. Learn more at susanwestmontgomery.com

NOTE: Location and parking details will be sent out via email one week prior. Locations will most likely be varying meeting points within Rock Creek Park.

Forest Bathing

Radiant Rhythms Ecstatic Dance with Clara Fang

Saturday, August 23rd| 6:45pm - 9pm EST | In-Studio | $30

Ecstatic dance is an exceptional wellness practice exploring free expression through movement in a substance-free, facilitated, and inclusive environment. In ecstatic dance, there are no set steps or structures, you move however you feel moved to move.

Do you feel like doing graceful twirls by yourself or with a partner? Stomp and punch the air? Rock back and forth on your back? Put your legs up against a wall? Curl up in a corner? You do anything you want that doesn't interfere with others' self expression.

In ecstatic dance, we co-create a safe space where everyone is free to be their authentic selves. The result is mental clarity, emotional freedom, and physical embodiment.

The benefits of ecstatic dance include:

Stress and tension relief
Mindfulness and relaxation
Somatic healing
Self-expression
Exercise and play
Community and connection

An Inclusive Space: All ages, genders, sexual orientation, and abilities welcome.

About the Facilitator:
Clara Fang, Ph.D is the founder of Green Tara Consulting, a consulting firm that specializes in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. She is an experienced facilitator of ecstatic dance, meditation, and authentic relating. She lives in Germantown, MD. Learn more at bio.site/cfang

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