Classes, Courses, Workshops, and Events
SUNDAY
MARCH 8
5:45 pm - 6:45 pm EST
IN-PERSON CLASS
Yoga Nidra: Mystic Slumber
In this 60-minute movement and meditation class, you'll be guided through a series of simple movements and breathing techniques to prepare your body for Yoga-Nidra: a long guided meditation and visualization designed to induce a deeply relaxing state of lucid dreaming.
This class can be especially helpful to those who deal with chronic stress and irregular sleep.
Luneh Yoga is located at 2000 S Street in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Enrollment: $30
WEDNESDAY
MARCH 11
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
Replay sent to all registrants.
FREE LIVE ONLINE EVENT
Community Conversation
Community Conversation is a FREE monthly online gathering where we connect spiritual ideas to real life by talking about personal challenges we all share, difficult issues we all face, and how the ancient spiritual teachings of the yoga tradition offer practical guidance for navigating our way through life in the modern world.
This month, we're going to explore the topic of action without reaction. In Sanskrit, the word “karma” simply means “action.” In yoga philosophy, there are three kinds of action: moral action, which generates a positive reaction, immoral action, which generates a negative reaction, and transcendental action, which doesn’t generate any reaction at all. The path of transcendental action is called “karma-yoga,” which begins with cultivating detachment from the results of our actions and culminates in moksha: liberation.
But is it possible to be detached when our actions are a moral response to profound evil? How do we reconcile the ideal of transcendental action with the reality of embodied existence, especially when we’re being bombarded by weapons of mass distraction that are intended to make meaningful action impossible? Learning how to respond to the world without reacting to the world is one thing, but how can we take meaningful action that doesn’t generate a reaction? Does the pursuit of liberation conflict with the pursuit of kindness, justice, and peace?
We'll explore these and other related questions in our next Community Conversation.
SATURDAY
MARCH 14
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
Replay sent to all registrants.
LIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP
Love in Action: A Bhakti Framework for Responding to Hate
The politics of hatred are a source of anxiety, frustration, exhaustion, and sadness.
Some spiritually-minded people respond by adopting a “just send love” attitude that rationalizes inaction. Some political activists respond by adopting a “fight fire with fire” attitude that takes a heavy toll on their body, nerves, and relationships.
Spiritual activism takes a different approach: engaged citizenship without bypassing or rage. Bhakti-yoga offers spiritual activists tools that can help us hold on to hope without deluding ourselves, face emotionally challenging situations without feeling overwhelmed, and champion righteous causes without becoming self-righteous.
This workshop is for yoga teachers and wellness guides who care about social justice — especially those who refuse to choose between grounded inner work and meaningful civic engagement but don’t want to turn their classes into political battlegrounds. It’s also for spiritually-minded people and community leaders who want language, principles, and practices they can share without resorting to spiritual bypassing or performative outrage.
Bhakti isn’t a path of sentimental love; it’s the path of love-in-action; an empowering philosophical approach to understanding the nature of hate and a blueprint for proactively responding to hate in ways that keep us grounded, steady, and inspired.
In this live 90-minute online workshop (with replay), you’ll learn a practical framework for understanding how hate forms and spreads — internally and socially — and how to interrupt it without surrendering your values. Expect real ideas, usable practices, and space for thoughtful questions.
We’ll explore principles of bhakti-yoga that reveal:
- Where hatred really comes from (and why it’s so contagious)
- How falsehoods that stoke the fire of hatred work — and how to counteract them
- What drives the inner mechanics of dehumanization—and how to reverse it
- How to navigate the tension between justice and forgiveness
- How principles of dharma provide support for courageous love-in-action
You’ll leave able to: understand how hate takes root in the mind and moves through culture, integrate courageous love-in-action into your thoughts, words, and deeds, and preserve your humanity in a dehumanizing world.
Love in Action is registered with Yoga Alliance and offers 1.5 hours of CE credit.
The workshop will be recorded, and I’ll send out the replay immediately afterward, so you can revisit the discussion at your own pace.