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Jesus said, “I have come in order that you might have life – life in all its fullness.”

John 10:10

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Holy Week Yoga

Each year FULLY ALIVE YOGA offers this most unique and holy way to experience Holy Week.  Moving prayerfully through this meditative yoga practice we will participate in  the story of the passion and death of Jesus through music, scripture and embodied prayer.  This will likely be the most powerful and moving yoga class you will ever experience. This class runs around 70 minutes.

Choose from these two options:

  • Saturday March 23 9am Fully Alive Yoga Studio 
  • Monday March 24 7pm Christ United Methodist Church

This FREE practice is gentle and suitable for all, including beginners.

Upcoming Class Cancellations

Please note that practices on Saturday March 30 and Monday April 1 will be cancelled. If you’d like to practice those days, please take a look at the video archive and pick a practice that suits you! 

Lenten Yoga Series, Week Five: Being Content During Lent

Being Content During Lent Keep your lives free from the love of moneyand be content with what you have. Hebrews 13:5 In the traditional yoga sacred writings we find the spiritual guidelines called the NIYAMAS. One of these niyamas is SANTOSHA- the art of contentment,...

Lenten Yoga Series, Week Five: Compassion, Pity, Mercy

So during Lent we practice three spiritual disciplines; prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Being curious about and struggling to relate to the word “alms”, I did a little research. The word alms comes from the Greek word eleemosyne, which means “compassion or pity,” and...

Lenten Yoga Series, Week Four: Compassion & Mercy

Compassion, Pity, Mercy Last year during Lent we traveled to NYC to celebrate my birthday with my son. Sometimes you have to dig deep in that sea of humanity to find something to smile about. But one afternoon while riding the subway I witnessed the most tender...

Lenten Yoga Series, Week Three: I Went Hiking With Jesus and Oh, My….

I Went Hiking With Jesus and Oh, My.... Let's go on a hike... During Lent we are called to grow closer to God through fasting, almsgiving and prayer.  Of course, there are many, many ways that we can pray, that we can commune with God. One of those ways is to read and...

Lenten Yoga Series, Week Two: The Desert

In Sunday’s gospel, Mark says simply, “The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert and he remained in the desert for forty days.” Have you been to a desert? We have family in Tucson, so I am familiar with the desert in that area. Let me share my observations about this...

Lenten Yoga, Week One: Desiring What God Desires for Me

Our Christian yoga season began last week on Ash Wednesday. For many of us this journey toward spiritual growth may have started with the tradition of having a cross of ashes placed on our forehead and hearing the words “Repent and believe in the gospel”. The ashes...

Welcome to Fully Alive Yoga!

My hope is that you will always find Fully Alive Yoga to be a place where you can just show up as you are and not as how you think you should be. Where you are comfortable practicing in the body God created especially for you and not in the body you wish you had. That you will confidently move and pose in a way that nourishes your own body without striving to move just like everyone else is moving, asking yourself, “how do I feel?” rather than “how do I look?”. This is the essence of listening to your own body, a wonderful discipline that is necessary if you want to be true to yourself and comfortably practice yoga. This discipline of listening to the body is a foundation for learning to listen to the soul.

My hope is also that you will always find Fully Alive Yoga to be the place where you come to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit. Where you step into the sanctuary of your yoga mat and shut out the world so that you might hear the voice of the Divine Presence. Where Jesus meets each of us in each one gathered here and His word. “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them and they follow me.” Jn 10:27

So as we practice allow yourself to breathe, find stillness within, and listen to His voice.

Breath of God, breathe in me.

Why Practice Yoga?

Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10

Yoga is not something we come to our mats just to do. We don’t practice on our mats just to get it over with or get it done. Despite what the west has done to traditional yoga, yoga was never intended to be just an exercise class or an opportunity to sweat. The word yoga actually means to yoke or to form a union. We know that physically we unite our breath (pranayama) with our movement (asana). Spiritually, we come to our mats to be yoked with the Divine Mystery. The breath and the postures are vehicles to prepare our bodies to relax more deeply into a state of prayer, meditation and rejuvenation. To be present with The Presence.

Again, yoga is not something we just come to our mats to do. Much like our faith, it is a way of life we follow. We practice to unite with and to feel the Presence within, and then we leave our mats and take the Presence out into the world with us, becoming light in the darkness. By taking the time to breathe, stretch, and pray we make ourselves available to become a conduit of healing and peace in this world. We practice both on and off of our mat.

Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10

Classes Available

You can breathe, stretch, and pray with us:

Saturdays 9-10 am (At the Fully Alive Studio)

Mondays 7-8 pm (At Christ United Methodist Church)

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