SOME Q's & SOME A's
who?
Anyone and everyone is welcome to ALL of our offerings. Yoga Classes are tailored to the group at hand, and modifications are welcomed and encouraged. If you're new to yoga, sound or playing like a kid, then all the better. If you have an acute injury, please check in with me (and your doctor) first; a Sound Bath or creative play event might be a better way to participate than yoga while your body heals. This is a space held for community, personal growth, self-care and creative fun. Prices are fixed at signup, but accessibility is important in our Village. Please don't hesitate to reach out if the tuition is keeping you from this bliss. We have gift cards also if you've got a friend who could use some self-care time!
what?
Our Village is a creative, self-care collective, expanding the LIFE in our lives by cultivating strength and serenity, balance and beauty, intention and inspiration. We use yoga, sound meditation and creative play of all kinds to hone these parts of ourselves, together in community. For in depth details on our Yoga, Sound Meditation and Creative Play offerings, click on the bubbles in the home page.
where?
The Village Barn at Rolling Range Ranch in Briones This family owned property is open during class times and events. Click on the address at the bottom of any page here to get a Google Doc with printable directions. Waze and Google Maps work pretty well, but cellular service is spotty in the valley, so DO screeshot or print direction if it's you're first time out! 357 Bear Oaks Drive Martinez, CA 94553 Above all, remember to enjoy the drive as you slip out of the city or suburbs into the beautiful rolling countryside peppered with tractors and turkeys, where the hidden threads of Lafayette, Orinda & Martinez stitch together along Bear Creek Road. It's Magic!
when?
Yoga classes take place most Tuesdays and Fridays from 9:30am-11:00am. Sound Baths are scheduled once a month on Wednesdays at sunset. Big Magic Fridays are on a Friday every month or two. The barn doors are open from 11:30am until 2:00pm to come and go as you please. For the scoop on when classes open up or other special events are happening, like retreats or Village curations and collaborations, be sure to subscribe (at the bottom of any page here) and stay in the know. Events tend to sell out quickly, so DO subscribe if you don't want to miss the Magic!
how?
To book with the most flexibilty, please use the FIT by WIX app. If you're new to FIT, download it at the app store, then use invite code BIGMAGIC to connect to our Village. You may also register for classes and happenings directly on the website. Create a username and password so that you can access your account info if needed for rescheduling or checking your class packs. NOTE: You will definitely have more agency over your bookings if you use FIT and book with class packs (and save cash!). For instance, if you have a class pack and need to cancel, use the app, and your class will be credited back to your class pack automatically. If you pay online and need to cancel, you will need to reschedule for another day or ping me to receive a class credit - as long as you are not within the 12 hour cancelation window. Another big bonus of using FIT is your access to the WAITLIST. You can only get on the waitlist through the app. If a spot opens up, you will have 5 minutes to book it before the offer passes on to the next person on the waitlist. Hint: be sure your notifications are on in order to get the ping that your spot is available! DO book in advance. Cancel in advance also, if necessary, so that others may join. Unless it's for illness or emergency, cancelations less than 12 hours prior to classes will be not be refunded. Thank you for your understanding! We typically have a waitlist going, and we want to make sure that we are being thoughtful of our community whenever possible. Karma and all.... :)
why?
Specifically, why the focus on creative living? Because creativity lights up parts of the brain that so often sit stagnant in our sharp-edged, straight-lined world, awakening parts of us that are actually critical for surviving and essential for thriving, because as we all know, sometimes we have to venture outside the lines when life becomes unpredictable. Creativity is a practice to foster fluidity and flexibility in order to withstand life's little earthquakes. It cultivates curiosity, learning, open-mindedness, critical thinking, empathy and thus connection, vastly overshadowed virtues that can make enormous impacts in our lives, in the lives of those around us, and around those folks, and beyond... rippling our Magic out into the greater world. To this I say, "Yes and more, please!"