This workshop is for anyone who would like to learn the basics of backbends and inversions. Join Melanie Buffett, RYT as she guides you through a sequence designed to help you become stronger and more flexible so you can practice these poses with confidence and enjoy a whole new perspective in your practice. Students should be prepared to go upside down and press up into a full backbend with help and support. Seasoned Beginner/Intermediate Level. Some Yoga Experience Required. 2 HOURS $20 pre-register. $25 day of. Workshops are non-refundable.
Partner Yoga Workshop
The Joy of Partner Yoga
This playful workshop explores yoga by utilizing a partner to share postures, increase stretches, add stability to poses, and improve balance. While making conscious contact through your breathing, touch, and awareness, your partner’s presence co-creates an alignment that not only supports the physical body, but also touches the emotions and embraces the soul. Sign up with a friend or pair up with a classmate. Basic knowledge of yoga and previous yoga experience is helpful but not required.
Teachers: Dana Blazich has been practicing yoga since 1999 and teaching at the YMCA since 2003 when she completed her FiTour Yoga Certification. She currently teaches at the Moorer YMCA and Hearin-Chandler YMCA in Mobile.
Amanda Brenner has been practicing yoga since 2005 and teaching since April 2009, and she also has her FiTour Yoga Certification. She currently teaches at the Hearin-Chandler YMCA in Mobile and also at Yoga Birds.
Amanda began practicing with Dana in 2006, and since then they have enjoyed sharing the journey of yoga together. Amanda developed the Partner Yoga Workshop with Dana after cultivating a curiosity by experimenting with partner yoga with her husband, Ben.
COST: Early Bird Registration (recommended) $30 per person.
Day of (space permitting) $35.
Workshops are non-refundable.
Mystical Sutras with Michelle Baker
MYSTICAL SUTRAS SOUTHERN YOGA TOUR with MICHELLE BAKER, E-R.Y.T. 500
In this workshop, we will thread precious chosen verses of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali into our asana practice and pay honor to one of the most mysterious and vital yoga texts still invoking wonder in us today. The workshop is accessible to all levels of yoga experience. The asana focus will be on the alignment of the hips with hip openers that lead to arm balances for those ready.
Potluck to Follow 4 – 5pm!
Kirtan with Karuna at 5pm. (Separate Registration)
ABOUT THE TEACHER: MICHELLE BAKER has been teaching yoga full-time in the Gulf Region since 1998 with over 7,000 hours of yoga teaching experience. She is the founder of Swan River Yoga and the Director of Swan River Yoga Teacher Training. Find out more about Michelle and her studio at www.swanriveryoga.com.
WORKSHOP COST: $40
Workshops are non-refundable.
Kirtan with Karuna
Following the Mysical Sutras Workshop (Separate Registration)
Kirtan is call and response bliss chanting. Enjoy live harmonium, guitar, drums, harp, and heavenly voices of the ecstatic chant band, Karuna, singing yoga mantras, Sanskrit chants, and Gospel with serious Soul.
KARUNA KIRTAN COST: $15
Workshops are non-refundable.
Global Mala Yoga for Peace Project
SEPTEMBER IS NATIONAL YOGA MONTH
GLOBAL MALA YOGA FOR PEACE PROJECT UNITES YOGA COMMUNITY IN SUPPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
Yogis Throughout the World Cross the Borders of their Mats to Raise Consciousness for Peace
On September 19, the Global Mala Yoga for Peace Project, whose purpose is to unite the global yoga community, will implement events throughout the world in honor of the United Nations International Day of Peace. A mala is a string of beads like a Rosary. Forming a “mala around the earth” through collective practices based upon the 108 bead mala , the mission of the Global Mala Project is to raise consciousness for some of the most pressing issues facing the world today. Global Mala Yoga for Peace is a featured event during National Yoga Month 09.2009.
Thousands of yogis will practice 108 sun salutations at hundreds of event across the nation. Taking its name from the sacred prayer beads called “mala” used in India and Tibet as meditation guides, the Global Mala Project will benefit the Yoga Health Foundation and numerous other charities and projects being supported by local community leaders. Composed of 108 beads, the mala is symbolic of the prayer for peace, hope and charity the Global Mala Project will be sending to the world.
“With the rising threat of Global Warming, the illusion of separateness is dissolving around the world,” said Shiva Rea, world renowned Yoga teacher and catalyst for the Global Mala Project. “Yoga is one of the few common denominators for millions of people around the world; together we are creating a circle around the earth and dedicating our energy to peace.”
Global Mala Yoga Project in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, San Francisco and many other cities worldwide will include 108 sun salutations, live music, and fellowship with like-minded yogis interested in creating the peace they wish to experience in the world.
Yoga Birds in Fairhope, Alabama will celebrate Global Mala and National Yoga Month with a free Global Mala Yoga For Peace event on September 19th from 1-4pm. Festivities will include a 108 minute on-going practice of Sun Salutations in the studio from 1pm – 2:48pm followed by a live music performance by Burke Ingraffia. Healthy refreshments will be served.
For more information, please visit www.globalmala.org or www.yogamonth.org.
Memorial Day Weekend Sale!
FRIDAY: NOON – 6PM
SATURDAY : 4 – 6PM
THESE 2 DAYS ONLY
BOUTIQUE SALE
OUTRAGEOUSLY COOL 50% OFF RACK plus…
- EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT FOR EVERYONE!!!
- 30% OFF ALL YOGA BIRDS APPAREL
- 15% OFF ALL OTHER BRANDS…HARD TAIL, BE PRESENT, YAMA ONE, ALTERNATIVE APPAREL
NOT KIDDING!
Yoga For Teens Summer Series
JULY 7 – JULY 30 (8 YOGA SESSIONS)
TUES & THURS 8:30-9:45 AM
$100
Learn and practice the Sun Salutation flowing sequence and classic yoga poses. Experience the benefits of yoga. Sign-up if you’re interested in ● Improving your posture ● Bringing balanced tone to your whole body ● Increasing core stability and awareness ● Experiencing deep states of relaxation ● Increasing focus and concentration ● Having fun with adventurous like-minded peers!
Open to teens 13 – 18. Melanie Buffett, RYT and Georgia Schrubbe, FiTour certified will team-teach each session. Yoga mats provided. For more information about Yoga Birds or to sign-up and pay online go to www.yogabirds.com. Or come by Yoga Birds during the boutique hours (12 – 6 Mon-Sat) to register. Space is limited.
Pre-registration is required.
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Yoga Birds Celebrates Arts and Crafts
Classes, Clothes, Gifts, and Yoga Accessories
Yoga Birds Boutique will have special hours during the Fairhope Arts and Crafts Festival.
Friday, March 20 : Boutique Hours are 10am-7pm
Saturday, March 21 : Boutique will open at 12:15 following regularly scheduled classes until 7pm.
Sunday, March 22 : Boutique Hours are 10am-7pm
Shop for cute yoga clothes, healthy snacks, as well as yoga-inspired and bird-inspired gifts.
Stop by the boutique on North Section Street on your way into town from Highway 98 to see one of Fairhope’s coolest and award-winning new businesses.
Enjoy a relaxing shopping experience and a cold water!
Today is the Day
Today is the Grand Opening of Yoga Birds in Fairhope. We hope to be the hub of the yoga community in Lower Alabama – Daphne, Mobile, Point Clear, Fairhope, and all of Baldwin County.
Yoga classes are a great way to stay in shape while working on your own mindfullness and awareness of your body. Individual class price is $15 – or buy an 8 class package for $108. Gift certificates available.
The boutique is also ready for business. Yoga Birds carries some clothing lines that are not available anywhere for hundreds of miles. Please stop by the studio to see what we have in stock.
The Grand Opening celebration will be all day. The schedule will include:
- 9:30 – 10:45 AM | Align and Flow Yoga Class
- 11:00 – 12:15 | Restorative Yoga Class
- 2:00 – 4:00 | Live Music by Burke Ingraffia
- Store Hours are from 10:30 AM – 6PM, Monday through Saturday
- Class Schedule can be found here
We hope you can make it out. Please click on the Contact / Map link for directions. Thank you for your support. We hope to see you very soon.
Yoga Day USA a Great Success!
On Saturday, January 24 Yoga Birds offered a free yoga class to the community and received a great response! Twenty-four people showed up for the class. We are even more optimistic than ever that Yoga Birds will be a great asset to Fairhope, the Eastern Shore, and the entire Mobile Bay region.
Please stay connected to the community by signing up for the eNewsletter. The Grand Opening will take place on February 7. We will be offering classes Monday through Saturday, with lessons scheduled all day long. There will also be some special visiting yoga instructors that will be teaching weekend workshops for you to continue a strong yoga practice and to further find harmony among your mind, body, heart, and spirit.