Join Marissa for an extended yin experience that serves as an invitation back into presence during the current season. Simmer in the energy of Spring! Taking place at the midpoint of our Spring season, we will move through postures and breath patterns that relate to the energetics of the season. Imagine an extended yin practice, with the offering of nurturing hands on assists and thought prompts throughout class. We will explore expansion, growth, action and rebirth. Intentionally honoring the natural seasons we experience invites time to slow down slightly and reconnects us with the present moment. Please join if you're seeking a reset, a calm down, or an energetic self-clearing.

When: Friday, May 2nd from 6:30-8:30pm

Where: In-person at the studio

Investment: $24

This workshop is for anyone who has experienced a death or a loss/transition of any kind. It is designed to offer individuals an opportunity to navigate their grief journey, build resilience, and find solace within a safe and supportive community. During this time, we will deepen our understanding of grief, explore practical coping strategies, with an overall goal to provide space and support for our grief. This workshop will include some gentle movement, reflection, journaling, and an opportunity for sharing.

Where: The Buffalo + Sparrow Yoga Collective's Studio: 441 Wadsworth Blvd, Suite 122, Lakewood, CO 80226

Date: Sunday, May 4th

Time: 11:00am-12:30pm

Investment: $40

This training is specifically for yoga teachers who want to dive deeper into how to support trauma survivors while they teach. Led by Buffalo + Sparrow Co-founder and Owner, Rachel Stroud, who holds her E-RYT® 500, YACEP® and has steeped training in TSY, Sociology, Psychology. Guest Speakers will be announced soon!

What you will learn:

• How to cue your class through a trauma-informed lens.

• How to hold space for students who experience triggers, as well as how to help them regulate from the sympathetic to the parasympathetic nervous system.

• How trauma is trapped in the body and how yoga can help to move it out.

• How the brain works in trauma and how yoga can help restore its communication with the body.

• The neurobiology of a traumatized brain and how the power of neuroplasticity works toward freedom and empowerment.

• How to self-regulate your nervous system and assist others to do the same through techniques, poses, breath and mind-body practices.

• How to support students with various types of trauma including, but not limited to: ptsd, sexual assault/abuse, domestic abuse, marginalization, complex, developmental, vicarious trauma and bullying.

• You will learn the latest and most relevant research and theories in trauma that will give you the confidence to teach from a place of being fully informed and equipped to teach to trauma survivors.

• We will discuss current and ancient world issues that will inform the way you teach and hold space (cultural appropriation, colonization and how to dismantle these in yoga spaces).

• Through practice teaching, you will be able to experience how to curb your verbiage, body language and sensitivities to hold space for anyone who walks into your classroom.

• Valuable lessons and guidance through reading homework.

This workshop is for anyone who has experienced a death or a loss/transition of any kind. It is designed to offer individuals an opportunity to navigate their grief journey, build resilience, and find solace within a safe and supportive community. During this time, we will deepen our understanding of grief, explore practical coping strategies, with an overall goal to provide space and support for our grief. This workshop will include some gentle movement, reflection, journaling, and an opportunity for sharing.

Where: The Buffalo + Sparrow Yoga Collective's Studio: 441 Wadsworth Blvd, Suite 122, Lakewood, CO 80226

Date: Sunday, June 8th

Time: 11:00am-12:30pm

Investment: $40