This lunchtime vinyasa flow features a dynamic yoga practice that calms the mind and cultivates presence by connecting movement with breath. This 45 + 15 minutes class will start and end on time and includes sun salutations, standing poses, and dynamic stretching focusing on hips, shoulders and the neck. The last 15 minutes of class will include pranayama (breath work) and Shavasana, optional for those needing to return to their afternoon obligations. This class is a great way to break up your day, release tension and stress, let go of your morning, and prepare for the rest of your day feeling energized and ready to tackle any afternoon challenges! Appropriate for the beginner with a few yoga classes under their belt to the intermediate yogi!

About the teacher:

Hi my name is Emily Fesler-Young!

Yoga found me in the fall of 2011, when I attended my first hot yoga class at the studio I would later go on to complete a 200 hr YTT certification, Yoga State in Lansing, Michigan. My teacher training was rooted in Hot Vinyasa and incorporated Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Tantric methodologies. In 2014, I began teaching in-studio classes. I continuously draw on Hatha and Yin styles in my teaching, as well as incorporating other elements of the 8-limbs of yoga to shape my class philosophy. As I have traveled and grown with teachers and students all over the world, my appreciation for practices centered on devotion, acceptance, and love has grown. Apart from teaching, I co-own a wellness-based business with my Husband and Brother-in-law centered on sharing mindful events and products to the SF Bay Area, and beyond. I am a seasoned traveler with a love for nature, people, and culture.

Curated by Alex Weinstein, somatic movement classes explore our conscious awareness through sensation and movement. 

For more details, see:
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/somatic-movement-at-alembic-1099379

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/rhythm-motion-fusion-with-rena-marie-guidry-1834599

Releasing into Presence: 

Meditation, Mantra & Movement

with Lopön Chandra Easton 

 Open to All

In this class, we’ll experience the benefits meditation, mantra, and movement have to offer our body, mind, and soul. Classes will be relaxing, rejuvenating, and fun, enhanced by community and collective practice. Weaving together mystical stories, meditations, mantra, movement and singing chants, Chandra offers practices that facilitate releasing into presence with ease and comfort.  All are welcome.

Meditation: Experience a richness of techniques for developing shamatha, calm abiding, and vipashyana, insight. These will include mindfulness of breathing, an especially effective approach to soothing the body and calming the discursive mind, and more advanced techniques called “settling the mind in its natural state” and “awareness of awareness.” 

Mantra:  Explore mantra recitation and chanting, both with and without musical accompaniment. Chandra will share a variety of mantras and melodies from the Buddhist and Hindu tradition, including melodies from her 21 Taras Collective project.

Movement: Practice gentle and accessible yoga and/or meditative movement/dance to bring more comfort and ease to your meditation and life. 

One Tuesday each month (dates TBD), Chandra will be joined by various musical guests to facilitate a deepening of devotion through sound, mantra, and kirtan.

Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton is a teacher, writer, and translator of Tibetan Buddhism. She has taught Buddhism and Yoga around the world since 2001 and co-translated Sublime Dharma: A Compilation of Two Texts on the Great Perfection, published in 2012. In 2015, she was given the title of senior lead teacher, Dorje Lopön (Varjāchārya), by Lama Tsultrim Allione and Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche. She is on the Tara Mandala Board of Directors and the Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Council, which addresses the under-representation of people from different cultural, racial, sexual orientation, and social backgrounds in the Dharma and at Tara Mandala. She is currently writing a book on the twenty-one Taras in Buddhist Tantra.  She is collaborating with musicians Nina Rao and Genevieve Walker, on the 21 Taras Collective, which aims to bring the 21 Taras alive through mantra, music, and devotion. She lives in Berkeley, CA. Visit www.chandra.easton.com to learn more. 

This lunchtime vinyasa flow features a dynamic yoga practice that calms the mind and cultivates presence by connecting movement with breath. This 45 + 15 minutes class will start and end on time and includes sun salutations, standing poses, and dynamic stretching focusing on hips, shoulders and the neck. The last 15 minutes of class will include pranayama (breath work) and Shavasana, optional for those needing to return to their afternoon obligations. This class is a great way to break up your day, release tension and stress, let go of your morning, and prepare for the rest of your day feeling energized and ready to tackle any afternoon challenges! Appropriate for the beginner with a few yoga classes under their belt to the intermediate yogi!

About the teacher:

Hi my name is Emily Fesler-Young!

Yoga found me in the fall of 2011, when I attended my first hot yoga class at the studio I would later go on to complete a 200 hr YTT certification, Yoga State in Lansing, Michigan. My teacher training was rooted in Hot Vinyasa and incorporated Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Tantric methodologies. In 2014, I began teaching in-studio classes. I continuously draw on Hatha and Yin styles in my teaching, as well as incorporating other elements of the 8-limbs of yoga to shape my class philosophy. As I have traveled and grown with teachers and students all over the world, my appreciation for practices centered on devotion, acceptance, and love has grown. Apart from teaching, I co-own a wellness-based business with my Husband and Brother-in-law centered on sharing mindful events and products to the SF Bay Area, and beyond. I am a seasoned traveler with a love for nature, people, and culture.

Using movement awareness and tissue preparation exercises, we will prepare the structure such that the energy body naturally awakens, purifies, organizes, and contains.

Creating this vessel will enable an approach to energetic meditation which will lead to insight and a clarity of thought and action.

Logistics:

1. The front door to The Alembic auto-locks, and since we don't want our volunteer to miss the class, the door will be locked at 10:15am. Please arrive with ample time to settle in.

2. There is ample free parking - details and directions will be in your confirmation email.

Since 2005 Melissa Forester has trained at the Institute for Internal Transformation in Qigong, Taiji and body mechanics and was given teaching permission in 2009. In 2010 she was certified in the GYROTONIC® Method and is certified in the Pulley Tower, Gyrotoner, and Jump Stretching Board. She began her training in Aquatic Manual Therapy in 2017 and holds a BA in Anthropology from San Francisco State University. Melissa has a passion for learning and for paving a road to insight using somatic movement therapy.

Soulful flow is a robust vinyasa yoga class that brings balance to the body, mind and spirit. Anne-René has always been drawn to the spiritual side of life and yoga. This influences her movement meditations that are physically challenging and inspiring to the heart. Her class intertwines asana, breath, awareness, attention to transition and experiencing a personal connection to the movement that opens the door for a meditative flow to wake you up. Hand mudras, chanting, inspired readings, and music are incorporated into the class.

Anne-René Petrarca is a dance artist, Alexander Technique teacher and the artistic director of Sculpted Motion. She began her yoga studies back in New York City in the 1990's. In 2008 she received her Vinyasa yoga teaching certification from the White Lotus Foundation. She is inspired and influenced by her many teachers and studios: Ty Landrum, Sara Baird, Erin Dudley, Keith Borden, Cindi Lee's Om Yoga Center, Laughing Lotus Yoga, and the anatomical teachings of Irene Dowd and Leslie Kaminoff. Other influences are Krishnamurti, Ram Das, Kundalini yoga, Gaga, and Gyrotonic.

"I have always expressed myself through movement. I find inspiration in watching the sky, feeling the sun on my skin and the wonderment of the night sky. Trees are amazing, animals are graceful, poetry can bring me to my knees. I find comfort in the resiliency of the human spirit and kind words from my friends. There is a fullness and flow to life that I know exist and I find comfort in knowing that I am a work in progress flowing toward it."

This lunchtime vinyasa flow features a dynamic yoga practice that calms the mind and cultivates presence by connecting movement with breath. This 45 + 15 minutes class will start and end on time and includes sun salutations, standing poses, and dynamic stretching focusing on hips, shoulders and the neck. The last 15 minutes of class will include pranayama (breath work) and Shavasana, optional for those needing to return to their afternoon obligations. This class is a great way to break up your day, release tension and stress, let go of your morning, and prepare for the rest of your day feeling energized and ready to tackle any afternoon challenges! Appropriate for the beginner with a few yoga classes under their belt to the intermediate yogi!

About the teacher:

Hi my name is Emily Fesler-Young!

Yoga found me in the fall of 2011, when I attended my first hot yoga class at the studio I would later go on to complete a 200 hr YTT certification, Yoga State in Lansing, Michigan. My teacher training was rooted in Hot Vinyasa and incorporated Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Tantric methodologies. In 2014, I began teaching in-studio classes. I continuously draw on Hatha and Yin styles in my teaching, as well as incorporating other elements of the 8-limbs of yoga to shape my class philosophy. As I have traveled and grown with teachers and students all over the world, my appreciation for practices centered on devotion, acceptance, and love has grown. Apart from teaching, I co-own a wellness-based business with my Husband and Brother-in-law centered on sharing mindful events and products to the SF Bay Area, and beyond. I am a seasoned traveler with a love for nature, people, and culture.

Curated by Alex Weinstein, somatic movement classes explore our conscious awareness through sensation and movement. 

For more details, see:
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/somatic-movement-at-alembic-1099379

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/rhythm-motion-fusion-with-rena-marie-guidry-1834599

Welcome to a weekly drop-in relational meditation practice with Brian and Josefine. We will practice a group meditation based on presence in connection, and add Relatefulness exercises on top of that, with an aim of deeper connection in relationships, and greater embrace of what is. (Even embracing the non-embrace of what is).

Relatefulness (an offshoot of Circling) is the meditation practice of relating with a focus on in-the-moment experience.

We are discovering what it's like when we relate with more truth and more love.

Parking is free

Doors close at 6:35

Tickets are sliding scale, $10-$25, suggested donation is $15

If you currently have any symptoms of Covid or another illness, or have had direct exposure to someone who is sick, please stay at home as we have people in the group with a weaker immune system. 🙂

About your facilitators:

Brian is an Uruguayan-Israeli ex-software engineer that has dedicated his life to growth, learning and exploration of what-is. He fell in love with Circling in 2018 and has done thousands of hours, countless trainings, and has Circled all around the world. He is constantly amazed by the power of this simple practice to teach him new things, surprise him, and often kick his ass. Other passions of his are volunteering as an EMT for festivals and burns, exploring consciousness in all its forms, ecstatic dance, immersing himself in bodies of water from bath tubs to oceans, and long conversations about the heart of things.

Brian holds a BSc in Computer Science. He does Life Coaching and facilitates Relatefulness at CircleAnywhere.

Josefine is a Relatefulness Facilitator and Coach at CircleAnywhere. She holds a MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance from Imperial College in London and before she committed to the path of (inter)personal development, she founded and operated a sustainability consultancy in Norway. She has also lived in several intentional communities around the world.

Her dedicated practice of meditation and self-inquiry led her into discovering that her desire for outer change was secretly much more about herself than just about the world. Subsequently, she studied and received over 1000 hours of trauma therapy and meditative modalities, including Circling. After this long period of healing and development, she was ready to bring her work into the world at large, starting with facilitating Circling and Women’s Embodiment for several groups in Norway, Portugal and Bali.

She has integrated her knowledge of trauma work, developmental psychology and embodiment with the existing principles of Relatefulness. Josefine’s current focus is transitioning into motherhood and settling down in the US. Her passion is to continue to co-discover how the practice of Relatefulness can transform our world as well as making it more accessible to those who are interested.

Releasing into Presence: 

Meditation, Mantra & Movement

with Lopön Chandra Easton 

 Open to All

In this class, we’ll experience the benefits meditation, mantra, and movement have to offer our body, mind, and soul. Classes will be relaxing, rejuvenating, and fun, enhanced by community and collective practice. Weaving together mystical stories, meditations, mantra, movement and singing chants, Chandra offers practices that facilitate releasing into presence with ease and comfort.  All are welcome.

Meditation: Experience a richness of techniques for developing shamatha, calm abiding, and vipashyana, insight. These will include mindfulness of breathing, an especially effective approach to soothing the body and calming the discursive mind, and more advanced techniques called “settling the mind in its natural state” and “awareness of awareness.” 

Mantra:  Explore mantra recitation and chanting, both with and without musical accompaniment. Chandra will share a variety of mantras and melodies from the Buddhist and Hindu tradition, including melodies from her 21 Taras Collective project.

Movement: Practice gentle and accessible yoga and/or meditative movement/dance to bring more comfort and ease to your meditation and life. 

One Tuesday each month (dates TBD), Chandra will be joined by various musical guests to facilitate a deepening of devotion through sound, mantra, and kirtan.

Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton is a teacher, writer, and translator of Tibetan Buddhism. She has taught Buddhism and Yoga around the world since 2001 and co-translated Sublime Dharma: A Compilation of Two Texts on the Great Perfection, published in 2012. In 2015, she was given the title of senior lead teacher, Dorje Lopön (Varjāchārya), by Lama Tsultrim Allione and Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche. She is on the Tara Mandala Board of Directors and the Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Council, which addresses the under-representation of people from different cultural, racial, sexual orientation, and social backgrounds in the Dharma and at Tara Mandala. She is currently writing a book on the twenty-one Taras in Buddhist Tantra.  She is collaborating with musicians Nina Rao and Genevieve Walker, on the 21 Taras Collective, which aims to bring the 21 Taras alive through mantra, music, and devotion. She lives in Berkeley, CA. Visit www.chandra.easton.com to learn more. 

This lunchtime vinyasa flow features a dynamic yoga practice that calms the mind and cultivates presence by connecting movement with breath. This 45 + 15 minutes class will start and end on time and includes sun salutations, standing poses, and dynamic stretching focusing on hips, shoulders and the neck. The last 15 minutes of class will include pranayama (breath work) and Shavasana, optional for those needing to return to their afternoon obligations. This class is a great way to break up your day, release tension and stress, let go of your morning, and prepare for the rest of your day feeling energized and ready to tackle any afternoon challenges! Appropriate for the beginner with a few yoga classes under their belt to the intermediate yogi!

About the teacher:

Hi my name is Emily Fesler-Young!

Yoga found me in the fall of 2011, when I attended my first hot yoga class at the studio I would later go on to complete a 200 hr YTT certification, Yoga State in Lansing, Michigan. My teacher training was rooted in Hot Vinyasa and incorporated Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Tantric methodologies. In 2014, I began teaching in-studio classes. I continuously draw on Hatha and Yin styles in my teaching, as well as incorporating other elements of the 8-limbs of yoga to shape my class philosophy. As I have traveled and grown with teachers and students all over the world, my appreciation for practices centered on devotion, acceptance, and love has grown. Apart from teaching, I co-own a wellness-based business with my Husband and Brother-in-law centered on sharing mindful events and products to the SF Bay Area, and beyond. I am a seasoned traveler with a love for nature, people, and culture.

Using movement awareness and tissue preparation exercises, we will prepare the structure such that the energy body naturally awakens, purifies, organizes, and contains.

Creating this vessel will enable an approach to energetic meditation which will lead to insight and a clarity of thought and action.

Logistics:

1. The front door to The Alembic auto-locks, and since we don't want our volunteer to miss the class, the door will be locked at 10:15am. Please arrive with ample time to settle in.

2. There is ample free parking - details and directions will be in your confirmation email.

Since 2005 Melissa Forester has trained at the Institute for Internal Transformation in Qigong, Taiji and body mechanics and was given teaching permission in 2009. In 2010 she was certified in the GYROTONIC® Method and is certified in the Pulley Tower, Gyrotoner, and Jump Stretching Board. She began her training in Aquatic Manual Therapy in 2017 and holds a BA in Anthropology from San Francisco State University. Melissa has a passion for learning and for paving a road to insight using somatic movement therapy.

Soulful flow is a robust vinyasa yoga class that brings balance to the body, mind and spirit. Anne-René has always been drawn to the spiritual side of life and yoga. This influences her movement meditations that are physically challenging and inspiring to the heart. Her class intertwines asana, breath, awareness, attention to transition and experiencing a personal connection to the movement that opens the door for a meditative flow to wake you up. Hand mudras, chanting, inspired readings, and music are incorporated into the class.

Anne-René Petrarca is a dance artist, Alexander Technique teacher and the artistic director of Sculpted Motion. She began her yoga studies back in New York City in the 1990's. In 2008 she received her Vinyasa yoga teaching certification from the White Lotus Foundation. She is inspired and influenced by her many teachers and studios: Ty Landrum, Sara Baird, Erin Dudley, Keith Borden, Cindi Lee's Om Yoga Center, Laughing Lotus Yoga, and the anatomical teachings of Irene Dowd and Leslie Kaminoff. Other influences are Krishnamurti, Ram Das, Kundalini yoga, Gaga, and Gyrotonic.

"I have always expressed myself through movement. I find inspiration in watching the sky, feeling the sun on my skin and the wonderment of the night sky. Trees are amazing, animals are graceful, poetry can bring me to my knees. I find comfort in the resiliency of the human spirit and kind words from my friends. There is a fullness and flow to life that I know exist and I find comfort in knowing that I am a work in progress flowing toward it."

This lunchtime vinyasa flow features a dynamic yoga practice that calms the mind and cultivates presence by connecting movement with breath. This 45 + 15 minutes class will start and end on time and includes sun salutations, standing poses, and dynamic stretching focusing on hips, shoulders and the neck. The last 15 minutes of class will include pranayama (breath work) and Shavasana, optional for those needing to return to their afternoon obligations. This class is a great way to break up your day, release tension and stress, let go of your morning, and prepare for the rest of your day feeling energized and ready to tackle any afternoon challenges! Appropriate for the beginner with a few yoga classes under their belt to the intermediate yogi!

About the teacher:

Hi my name is Emily Fesler-Young!

Yoga found me in the fall of 2011, when I attended my first hot yoga class at the studio I would later go on to complete a 200 hr YTT certification, Yoga State in Lansing, Michigan. My teacher training was rooted in Hot Vinyasa and incorporated Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Tantric methodologies. In 2014, I began teaching in-studio classes. I continuously draw on Hatha and Yin styles in my teaching, as well as incorporating other elements of the 8-limbs of yoga to shape my class philosophy. As I have traveled and grown with teachers and students all over the world, my appreciation for practices centered on devotion, acceptance, and love has grown. Apart from teaching, I co-own a wellness-based business with my Husband and Brother-in-law centered on sharing mindful events and products to the SF Bay Area, and beyond. I am a seasoned traveler with a love for nature, people, and culture.

Curated by Alex Weinstein, somatic movement classes explore our conscious awareness through sensation and movement. 

For more details, see:
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/somatic-movement-at-alembic-1099379

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/rhythm-motion-fusion-with-rena-marie-guidry-1834599

Welcome to a weekly drop-in relational meditation practice with Brian and Josefine. We will practice a group meditation based on presence in connection, and add Relatefulness exercises on top of that, with an aim of deeper connection in relationships, and greater embrace of what is. (Even embracing the non-embrace of what is).

Relatefulness (an offshoot of Circling) is the meditation practice of relating with a focus on in-the-moment experience.

We are discovering what it's like when we relate with more truth and more love.

Parking is free

Doors close at 6:35

Tickets are sliding scale, $10-$25, suggested donation is $15

If you currently have any symptoms of Covid or another illness, or have had direct exposure to someone who is sick, please stay at home as we have people in the group with a weaker immune system. 🙂

About your facilitators:

Brian is an Uruguayan-Israeli ex-software engineer that has dedicated his life to growth, learning and exploration of what-is. He fell in love with Circling in 2018 and has done thousands of hours, countless trainings, and has Circled all around the world. He is constantly amazed by the power of this simple practice to teach him new things, surprise him, and often kick his ass. Other passions of his are volunteering as an EMT for festivals and burns, exploring consciousness in all its forms, ecstatic dance, immersing himself in bodies of water from bath tubs to oceans, and long conversations about the heart of things.

Brian holds a BSc in Computer Science. He does Life Coaching and facilitates Relatefulness at CircleAnywhere.

Josefine is a Relatefulness Facilitator and Coach at CircleAnywhere. She holds a MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance from Imperial College in London and before she committed to the path of (inter)personal development, she founded and operated a sustainability consultancy in Norway. She has also lived in several intentional communities around the world.

Her dedicated practice of meditation and self-inquiry led her into discovering that her desire for outer change was secretly much more about herself than just about the world. Subsequently, she studied and received over 1000 hours of trauma therapy and meditative modalities, including Circling. After this long period of healing and development, she was ready to bring her work into the world at large, starting with facilitating Circling and Women’s Embodiment for several groups in Norway, Portugal and Bali.

She has integrated her knowledge of trauma work, developmental psychology and embodiment with the existing principles of Relatefulness. Josefine’s current focus is transitioning into motherhood and settling down in the US. Her passion is to continue to co-discover how the practice of Relatefulness can transform our world as well as making it more accessible to those who are interested.

Releasing into Presence: 

Meditation, Mantra & Movement

with Lopön Chandra Easton 

 Open to All

In this class, we’ll experience the benefits meditation, mantra, and movement have to offer our body, mind, and soul. Classes will be relaxing, rejuvenating, and fun, enhanced by community and collective practice. Weaving together mystical stories, meditations, mantra, movement and singing chants, Chandra offers practices that facilitate releasing into presence with ease and comfort.  All are welcome.

Meditation: Experience a richness of techniques for developing shamatha, calm abiding, and vipashyana, insight. These will include mindfulness of breathing, an especially effective approach to soothing the body and calming the discursive mind, and more advanced techniques called “settling the mind in its natural state” and “awareness of awareness.” 

Mantra:  Explore mantra recitation and chanting, both with and without musical accompaniment. Chandra will share a variety of mantras and melodies from the Buddhist and Hindu tradition, including melodies from her 21 Taras Collective project.

Movement: Practice gentle and accessible yoga and/or meditative movement/dance to bring more comfort and ease to your meditation and life. 

One Tuesday each month (dates TBD), Chandra will be joined by various musical guests to facilitate a deepening of devotion through sound, mantra, and kirtan.

Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton is a teacher, writer, and translator of Tibetan Buddhism. She has taught Buddhism and Yoga around the world since 2001 and co-translated Sublime Dharma: A Compilation of Two Texts on the Great Perfection, published in 2012. In 2015, she was given the title of senior lead teacher, Dorje Lopön (Varjāchārya), by Lama Tsultrim Allione and Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche. She is on the Tara Mandala Board of Directors and the Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Council, which addresses the under-representation of people from different cultural, racial, sexual orientation, and social backgrounds in the Dharma and at Tara Mandala. She is currently writing a book on the twenty-one Taras in Buddhist Tantra.  She is collaborating with musicians Nina Rao and Genevieve Walker, on the 21 Taras Collective, which aims to bring the 21 Taras alive through mantra, music, and devotion. She lives in Berkeley, CA. Visit www.chandra.easton.com to learn more. 

This lunchtime vinyasa flow features a dynamic yoga practice that calms the mind and cultivates presence by connecting movement with breath. This 45 + 15 minutes class will start and end on time and includes sun salutations, standing poses, and dynamic stretching focusing on hips, shoulders and the neck. The last 15 minutes of class will include pranayama (breath work) and Shavasana, optional for those needing to return to their afternoon obligations. This class is a great way to break up your day, release tension and stress, let go of your morning, and prepare for the rest of your day feeling energized and ready to tackle any afternoon challenges! Appropriate for the beginner with a few yoga classes under their belt to the intermediate yogi!

About the teacher:

Hi my name is Emily Fesler-Young!

Yoga found me in the fall of 2011, when I attended my first hot yoga class at the studio I would later go on to complete a 200 hr YTT certification, Yoga State in Lansing, Michigan. My teacher training was rooted in Hot Vinyasa and incorporated Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Tantric methodologies. In 2014, I began teaching in-studio classes. I continuously draw on Hatha and Yin styles in my teaching, as well as incorporating other elements of the 8-limbs of yoga to shape my class philosophy. As I have traveled and grown with teachers and students all over the world, my appreciation for practices centered on devotion, acceptance, and love has grown. Apart from teaching, I co-own a wellness-based business with my Husband and Brother-in-law centered on sharing mindful events and products to the SF Bay Area, and beyond. I am a seasoned traveler with a love for nature, people, and culture.

Using movement awareness and tissue preparation exercises, we will prepare the structure such that the energy body naturally awakens, purifies, organizes, and contains.

Creating this vessel will enable an approach to energetic meditation which will lead to insight and a clarity of thought and action.

Logistics:

1. The front door to The Alembic auto-locks, and since we don't want our volunteer to miss the class, the door will be locked at 10:15am. Please arrive with ample time to settle in.

2. There is ample free parking - details and directions will be in your confirmation email.

Since 2005 Melissa Forester has trained at the Institute for Internal Transformation in Qigong, Taiji and body mechanics and was given teaching permission in 2009. In 2010 she was certified in the GYROTONIC® Method and is certified in the Pulley Tower, Gyrotoner, and Jump Stretching Board. She began her training in Aquatic Manual Therapy in 2017 and holds a BA in Anthropology from San Francisco State University. Melissa has a passion for learning and for paving a road to insight using somatic movement therapy.

This lunchtime vinyasa flow features a dynamic yoga practice that calms the mind and cultivates presence by connecting movement with breath. This 45 + 15 minutes class will start and end on time and includes sun salutations, standing poses, and dynamic stretching focusing on hips, shoulders and the neck. The last 15 minutes of class will include pranayama (breath work) and Shavasana, optional for those needing to return to their afternoon obligations. This class is a great way to break up your day, release tension and stress, let go of your morning, and prepare for the rest of your day feeling energized and ready to tackle any afternoon challenges! Appropriate for the beginner with a few yoga classes under their belt to the intermediate yogi!

About the teacher:

Hi my name is Emily Fesler-Young!

Yoga found me in the fall of 2011, when I attended my first hot yoga class at the studio I would later go on to complete a 200 hr YTT certification, Yoga State in Lansing, Michigan. My teacher training was rooted in Hot Vinyasa and incorporated Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Tantric methodologies. In 2014, I began teaching in-studio classes. I continuously draw on Hatha and Yin styles in my teaching, as well as incorporating other elements of the 8-limbs of yoga to shape my class philosophy. As I have traveled and grown with teachers and students all over the world, my appreciation for practices centered on devotion, acceptance, and love has grown. Apart from teaching, I co-own a wellness-based business with my Husband and Brother-in-law centered on sharing mindful events and products to the SF Bay Area, and beyond. I am a seasoned traveler with a love for nature, people, and culture.

Curated by Alex Weinstein, somatic movement classes explore our conscious awareness through sensation and movement. 

For more details, see:
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/somatic-movement-at-alembic-1099379

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/rhythm-motion-fusion-with-rena-marie-guidry-1834599

Welcome to a weekly drop-in relational meditation practice with Brian and Josefine. We will practice a group meditation based on presence in connection, and add Relatefulness exercises on top of that, with an aim of deeper connection in relationships, and greater embrace of what is. (Even embracing the non-embrace of what is).

Relatefulness (an offshoot of Circling) is the meditation practice of relating with a focus on in-the-moment experience.

We are discovering what it's like when we relate with more truth and more love.

Parking is free

Doors close at 6:35

Tickets are sliding scale, $10-$25, suggested donation is $15

If you currently have any symptoms of Covid or another illness, or have had direct exposure to someone who is sick, please stay at home as we have people in the group with a weaker immune system. 🙂

About your facilitators:

Brian is an Uruguayan-Israeli ex-software engineer that has dedicated his life to growth, learning and exploration of what-is. He fell in love with Circling in 2018 and has done thousands of hours, countless trainings, and has Circled all around the world. He is constantly amazed by the power of this simple practice to teach him new things, surprise him, and often kick his ass. Other passions of his are volunteering as an EMT for festivals and burns, exploring consciousness in all its forms, ecstatic dance, immersing himself in bodies of water from bath tubs to oceans, and long conversations about the heart of things.

Brian holds a BSc in Computer Science. He does Life Coaching and facilitates Relatefulness at CircleAnywhere.

Josefine is a Relatefulness Facilitator and Coach at CircleAnywhere. She holds a MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance from Imperial College in London and before she committed to the path of (inter)personal development, she founded and operated a sustainability consultancy in Norway. She has also lived in several intentional communities around the world.

Her dedicated practice of meditation and self-inquiry led her into discovering that her desire for outer change was secretly much more about herself than just about the world. Subsequently, she studied and received over 1000 hours of trauma therapy and meditative modalities, including Circling. After this long period of healing and development, she was ready to bring her work into the world at large, starting with facilitating Circling and Women’s Embodiment for several groups in Norway, Portugal and Bali.

She has integrated her knowledge of trauma work, developmental psychology and embodiment with the existing principles of Relatefulness. Josefine’s current focus is transitioning into motherhood and settling down in the US. Her passion is to continue to co-discover how the practice of Relatefulness can transform our world as well as making it more accessible to those who are interested.

Releasing into Presence: 

Meditation, Mantra & Movement

with Lopön Chandra Easton 

 Open to All

In this class, we’ll experience the benefits meditation, mantra, and movement have to offer our body, mind, and soul. Classes will be relaxing, rejuvenating, and fun, enhanced by community and collective practice. Weaving together mystical stories, meditations, mantra, movement and singing chants, Chandra offers practices that facilitate releasing into presence with ease and comfort.  All are welcome.

Meditation: Experience a richness of techniques for developing shamatha, calm abiding, and vipashyana, insight. These will include mindfulness of breathing, an especially effective approach to soothing the body and calming the discursive mind, and more advanced techniques called “settling the mind in its natural state” and “awareness of awareness.” 

Mantra:  Explore mantra recitation and chanting, both with and without musical accompaniment. Chandra will share a variety of mantras and melodies from the Buddhist and Hindu tradition, including melodies from her 21 Taras Collective project.

Movement: Practice gentle and accessible yoga and/or meditative movement/dance to bring more comfort and ease to your meditation and life. 

One Tuesday each month (dates TBD), Chandra will be joined by various musical guests to facilitate a deepening of devotion through sound, mantra, and kirtan.

Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton is a teacher, writer, and translator of Tibetan Buddhism. She has taught Buddhism and Yoga around the world since 2001 and co-translated Sublime Dharma: A Compilation of Two Texts on the Great Perfection, published in 2012. In 2015, she was given the title of senior lead teacher, Dorje Lopön (Varjāchārya), by Lama Tsultrim Allione and Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche. She is on the Tara Mandala Board of Directors and the Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Council, which addresses the under-representation of people from different cultural, racial, sexual orientation, and social backgrounds in the Dharma and at Tara Mandala. She is currently writing a book on the twenty-one Taras in Buddhist Tantra.  She is collaborating with musicians Nina Rao and Genevieve Walker, on the 21 Taras Collective, which aims to bring the 21 Taras alive through mantra, music, and devotion. She lives in Berkeley, CA. Visit www.chandra.easton.com to learn more. 

This lunchtime vinyasa flow features a dynamic yoga practice that calms the mind and cultivates presence by connecting movement with breath. This 45 + 15 minutes class will start and end on time and includes sun salutations, standing poses, and dynamic stretching focusing on hips, shoulders and the neck. The last 15 minutes of class will include pranayama (breath work) and Shavasana, optional for those needing to return to their afternoon obligations. This class is a great way to break up your day, release tension and stress, let go of your morning, and prepare for the rest of your day feeling energized and ready to tackle any afternoon challenges! Appropriate for the beginner with a few yoga classes under their belt to the intermediate yogi!

About the teacher:

Hi my name is Emily Fesler-Young!

Yoga found me in the fall of 2011, when I attended my first hot yoga class at the studio I would later go on to complete a 200 hr YTT certification, Yoga State in Lansing, Michigan. My teacher training was rooted in Hot Vinyasa and incorporated Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Tantric methodologies. In 2014, I began teaching in-studio classes. I continuously draw on Hatha and Yin styles in my teaching, as well as incorporating other elements of the 8-limbs of yoga to shape my class philosophy. As I have traveled and grown with teachers and students all over the world, my appreciation for practices centered on devotion, acceptance, and love has grown. Apart from teaching, I co-own a wellness-based business with my Husband and Brother-in-law centered on sharing mindful events and products to the SF Bay Area, and beyond. I am a seasoned traveler with a love for nature, people, and culture.

Using movement awareness and tissue preparation exercises, we will prepare the structure such that the energy body naturally awakens, purifies, organizes, and contains.

Creating this vessel will enable an approach to energetic meditation which will lead to insight and a clarity of thought and action.

Logistics:

1. The front door to The Alembic auto-locks, and since we don't want our volunteer to miss the class, the door will be locked at 10:15am. Please arrive with ample time to settle in.

2. There is ample free parking - details and directions will be in your confirmation email.

Since 2005 Melissa Forester has trained at the Institute for Internal Transformation in Qigong, Taiji and body mechanics and was given teaching permission in 2009. In 2010 she was certified in the GYROTONIC® Method and is certified in the Pulley Tower, Gyrotoner, and Jump Stretching Board. She began her training in Aquatic Manual Therapy in 2017 and holds a BA in Anthropology from San Francisco State University. Melissa has a passion for learning and for paving a road to insight using somatic movement therapy.