Archives for November 2015

Please be our guest to celebrate the holidays
Saturday, December 12, 2015

Join fellow students, teachers, and the YU family at our studio between 4-6pm for an afternoon of joy, laughter, yummy yogi food, and good cheer.

Your friends and loved ones are more than welcome!

Please bring your community spirit, and a vegetarian dish to share. Due to allergic and dietary sensitivities, please also bring a card or piece of paper listing ingredients used in your dish, it’d be much appreciated.

Also, please feel free to bring games, activities, and/or talent for everyone to enjoy.

Our very own lovely founder, Cara Sorkin will also be offering a Rope Wall Workshop before the party begins between 2-4pm.

This workshop is a free gift to YU members, and $35 for non-member guests. Come hang with us! Register here now, as wall space is limited in our cozy little yoga studio.

Not only is this special event to honor you, our precious community, but also Mr. B.K.S Iyengar’s birthday!

Move with reverence while you use your whole being to celebrate his unique tradition of yoga. For more details, and to register your spot in the workshop, please click here.

Namasté dear one. Looking forward to seeing you and your loved ones for festive fun!

With joyous love,
The Yoga Upstairs Family

The holiday season is here! Next week, you’ll be busy preparing for one of our nation’s favorite celebrations: Thanksgiving.

We’ll soon come together to share cherished time and a more than plentiful meal with our loved ones– all in the spirit of giving, abundance, and connection.

But what about those who don’t have this kind of holiday luxury? Those who can’t see their families, much less share a special meal with them?

At Yoga Upstairs, we’re blessed to be able to share the over abundance of this holiday with those in need in a super simple way– and you can help. With every Facebook check-in at Yoga Upstairs during this month, you’ll provide a meal for a child refugee through our studio partnership with Sweat Angels.

Just by coming to your yoga classes, and checking in at Yoga Upstairs, you become a Sweat Angel– it’s that easy for you to make an instant positive difference in the world. Through November, Sweat Angels is giving to the The Hunger Site.

*Note: If you haven’t noticed it in our studio, there’s a small video kiosk letting you know which cause YU + Sweat Angels are contributing towards through your check-ins.

All month, your check-ins help bring food to the tables of displaced Burmese refugee children. These children live in boarding houses due to an ongoing civil war in the region. Parents send their kids to distant boarding schools in rural provinces of Thailand “in [an] effort to further their education and avoid the risks of unsafe child labor.”

Read more about how The Hunger Site helps to Protect & Feed Burma’s Schoolchildren, and their partnership with Sweat Angels.

Thank you for everything you do, for giving, for the difference you make to your loved ones, and the people around the world who need your help.

With supreme gratitude and love,
The Yoga Upstairs Family