Radical Rest Yoga

13/03/2024

People of the Marble at - IYKYK!

Packing up after a class we pointed out the beings that we see in the grand marble columns of our studio. I learned I am not alone in that the ones who seem to leap out at you in a yoga class sometimes can’t be found again! In the soft focus of the moment, you somehow feel so much more open and receptive to these creatures.

In Yoga Nidra, we invite a shift of perspective. Creativity can indeed be cultivated! And I’m not even talking about artistic exercises and endeavors. Yoga Nidra ramps up the messenger of dopamine for creative thought and implementation. A Dutch study showed the practice of this deep rest can position you to engage in divergent thinking more effectively, opening possibilities and flexibility.

Let’s have a Yoga Nidra for Creativity tomorrow, shall we??

🌀 Yoga Nidra every Thursday at 7pm
🌀 This Fri morning 6:30AM, filling in for Kim with Hatha Yoga
🌀 Spaces still available for Saturday’s Benefit for , stacked classes and healing arts sessions from 8-1

Show me the People I’ve missed!

23/02/2024

Free Community Meditation & Yoga with New Bedford Wellness Initiative - simply show up as you are!

NB Well Sunday Adult Programming this week with Carly Baumann for 9:30am Meditation & 10am Yoga! Hope to see you there!

06/02/2024

Stillness & Action
Surrender & Will
Inward & Outward

This week: Practicing the ability to release the grip and relax in the awareness of the natural polarity in life.

⭐️ Tues at 7p - Yoga Nidra for all via Facebook Live

⭐️ Wed at 7p - filling in for Sarah G’s Feel Good Flow!

⭐️ Thurs at 7p - Yoga Nidra and a light stretch

⭐️ Sun at 3:30 - Second Sunday Serenity, Yoga Nidra + the wisdom of yoga philosophy

03/01/2024

Please SHARE! Sunday Adult Programming starts back Sunday, Jan 7th at 9:30am at the Boys & Girls Club of Greater New Bedford / New Bedford Wellness Initiative this Sunday! We are looking forward to seeing everyone after the holiday break!

04/12/2023

I am ever-awed by the symbol of the spiral.
🌀 Beauty, simplicity, mystery, a mini-journey.
In the holiday season with so much competition for our attention, so much outwardly focused energy, the spiral is a soothing reminder to orient inward.
Swadyaya is self-observation with compassion. Like a spiral, we can circle back to what we “know” from a different perspective. We study the self to learn who we are *and* who we’re not.

In this week’s Second Sunday Serenity, we will take inspiration from Buzzard’s Bay spiral shells and give bodies & brains a break, dropping deep to the heart of the spiral with a Yoga Nidra meditation. 🐚

Sunday 12/10 at 3:30 (& Nidra + a stretch every Thursday 7pm)

Spiral inspo
1. Teeny whelk shell
2. Painting by Colleen Kelley
3. Spiral Garden at

11/11/2023

There was a “Karma made me do it” sign that hung in a place I used to teach classes.
Well, guess I had my own reactions to work through with that sign because I could. not. STAND. it. Waiting for students to arrive, I’d sometimes daydream what my alternate edits would be to the notion of waiting around to be cuffed by the karma police.

Tomorrow’s Second Sunday Serenity will be a dive into karma - what it is, what it ain’t, and where our choices lie - from a yogic perspective.

As Einstein said, “You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it.” In the profoundly deep rest of Yoga Nidra, there’s an invitation to disengage with the seeds of karma beneath the level of mind.

Sunday 3:30-4:30pm at

04/10/2023

Second Sunday Serenity returns to this week
10/8, 3:30-4:40

An afternoon antidote for the Sunday scaries, where deep rest meets an exploration of the wisdom of yoga.

This Sunday: a Nidra for Shiva! Last month Sangha welcomed this handsome symbol of Nataraja, Dancing Shiva, hand-delivered from Bali.

Investigating symbols in the story of yoga can be an inspiring path of curiosity - they are doorways to understanding intrinsic aspects of ourselves. ✨

A unique Yoga Nidra paired with a gentle stretch continues every Thursday at 7pm at Sangha. 😌

26/06/2023

✨Family Yoga for young children 2-6 & their families - this Thursday!

🌹Movement, stillness, nature, play, stories - FUN!
Fired up for our third collab between , and local public spaces.
🌹Free community program through the garden gates of the
🌹It’s rose season! Don’t miss these kaleidoscopic showstoppers at the RJD

in New Bedford, MA
Thursday, June 29 at 10am
Registration with PACE is required - link posted in stories or message me

🌀Yoga Nidra for grown-ups as always Thursdays at 7 in the AC of
My online offerings are on pause through summer…

20/04/2023

I spy…
Spring! Feelin’ that collective rumble of potential unleashed!?
Today is a new moon 🌚; she’ll open up to May’s Flower Moon.
In that spirit, for tonight’s Yoga Nidra we’ll plant an intention in the deeper place of what we desire to grow and nurture.

I’ve started a new job with the !Nourishing another core love of mine: sharing in the wonder of nature with kids & families. This Saturday 4/22 (Earth Day!) we’ll be bringing our electric van of fun possibilities 🚌🌱✨ to the Arbor Day Fair at Kennedy Park, Fall River. Deets in photos.

Comin up:
🌱 Tonight/Thurs 7pm Yoga Nidra at
🌱 Sat 4/23 - 9am Sub Yin Yoga, 5pm sub Kripalu yoga while our team gathers at Gillette Stadium 💞

🐸Save the date🐸
Sun 5/7 10am Free Mindfulness Walk sponsored by at Woodcock Preserve vernal pool. Meet at the Tinkhamtown Woodlands parking lot/trailhead.

09/02/2023

💓 Heart-Opener 💓

I ain’t talkin bout those back bends!!!

Something softer. Something deeper.

According to yoga, your individualized consciousness (chitta) contains the tendencies of what you think and do.
But the chitta doesn’t reside in the head, it lies in the HEART.
To shift our habits at the source, we must go to the heart.
Less “figure it out”, more open-heartedness.

The door is always there; in Yoga Nidra we have a key. 🔑

“Heart-Openers”:
💓 Yoga Nidra Thurs/Tonight at 7pm
💓 Second Sunday Serenity at 3:30pm before snacks and Rihanna! 🎤✨🌮 …football if that’s your thing 🏈😆