Yoga Soup

Danielle Elese is back!
🌿 Hypnosis Sound Meditation 🌿
Sunday July 21 @ 4 pm

Dive into a unique reiki-infused sound bath with guided hypnosis, for our Harmonic Hypnosis soundscape. This 75-minute journey will be focused on harmonizing our internal waters. Have you ever contemplated the alchemical properties of water, as we are composed mostly of this life-giving element? Sound has a profound impact on water, affecting its behaviour and structure - influencing the human body in a multitude of ways, down to the blood in our veins. We will utilize this knowledge with the foundation of sound healing therapy to harmonize our bodies, minds & spirits echoing the undeniable truth that ‘water is life’, as we honor the sacredness of this ancient element and its vital role in our well-being.

During a soundscape with Danielle you can expect to experience the combination of 432 hertz crystal bowls, Tibetan Sound Bowls, Chimes, Gong, Percussion, Vocal Toning & Song with guided Hypnosis Visualization in this relaxing yet transformational soul journey.

👍 2 Thumbs up for Breathwork 👍
and 2 chances to try it out this week!

👍 Thursday 6:45pm: Awaken Spirit Through Breath w/ Regina Powers
We begin with dance or large muscle movements to clear our energy field and connect to the body. Then propped up in a supine position as you're guided through areas of the body to generate an open, and connected breath. A time to awaken more of your spirit into form with individual assistance to help integrate your session.

👍 Saturday 7pm: Ecstatic Breathing w/ Eddie Ellner
A few minutes of gentle yoga followed by an hour of breathing. The process itself could not be simpler: one lies on their back and breathes to a selection of music designed to accelerate and amplify the breath. This induces what can most accurately be called a non-ordinary state of consciousness. From that point on many claims are made but the experience itself will provide its own meaning and insight.

🫖 Drysh-Tea Lobby Pop Up 🫖
Saturday July 20, 10am - 1pm
with Flowing River

Join Dryshtea for this special lobby pop up where Flowing River will offer samples of premium tea from around the world. Learn why tea is the most popular beverage today and how it is used to strengthen your mindfulness practice.

This is a free event and no registration is required. Stop by in the lobby!

🪼 Aerial Dance Workshop 🪼
Saturday July 20, 2-4 pm
with Loren Pennington

Join Loren for a two hour workshop where we will learn the basic foundations of aerial dance. Class will begin with a 30 minute stretch, followed by a 15 minute full body warmup. Attendees will be divided into groups and rotate through the three apparatuses, learning warmups and poses on all three. The last 10-15 minutes of class we will have the opportunity to share one pose and take photographs if you wish. Attendees need to bring water, wear leggings and a tight fitted top that covers the body.

*Sign up early to save your space in this small group experience*

✨A weekend with Murray Kyle & Anneliese Rose✨

Join us August 3 & 4 for 2 very special offerings from renowned Australian mystic troubadour Murray Kyle & vocalist / friend of Yoga Soup Anneliese Rose

✨Saturday Aug 3, 7-9 pm: Concert
Murray Kyle returns to Santa Barbara with his songs of connection and belonging. Anneliese Rose brings her powerful vocals and presence to the night, weaving with Murray for a heart opening & joyful journey of sound. This is contagious soul restoring music that will sweep you off your feet, out of your head, and into your heart.

✨Sunday Aug 4, 12:30-3: Song of Life Workshop
Drop in for an intimate workshop of wisdom and music as medicine. This is a rich portal inspiring and supporting you to set free your unique creative expression and bring to life the majesty of your true voice and sound.

No musical experience needed. Come learn vocal and self liberation techniques, play with movement and rhythm, and learn songs. Open your heart to birth and strengthen your creative channel, letting the song of life play through you once again.

Join us for both events or just one! See you then ✨

✨ Sunday Lineup! ✨

✨ 4 pm Sound Bath + Meditation with Lauren Barker
Transformational sound medicine coupled with Lauren's cosmic voice create a space for magic to take form. Visiting us from the portal of Mount Shasta, she anchors in Galactic Guides, Lemurian Ancestors and Ascended Masters that form a gateway for powerful healing to occur.

✨ 6 pm Firetenders Open Tending Men's Group with Jordan Santoni
Open Tending men’s group is a forum for all men to connect deeply and grow alongside each other. Together we are committed to practicing vulnerability and integrity and cultivating a new culture of men who are healthy, supported, courageous and confident in their relationships with themselves, others, and the world around them.

🌀 Param Praan The Supreme Breath 🌀
Thursday July 11 @ 6:45 pm
with Flowing River

Experience the transformational power of breath through an ancient kriya that elevates your consciousness.

Param Praan Meditation (Known as the supreme breath or breath of life) is an ancient and powerful method for chakra purification. This practice combines rhythmic, controlled breathing with focused meditation on the seven primary chakras.

Through this process, it purifies the energy pathways, releasing concealed emotions and blockages while simultaneously activating the chakras.

The culmination of these efforts elevates one's state of consciousness, promoting a profound sense of bodily and spiritual well-being, fostering a profound sense of unity and completeness to awaken to a deeper awareness of self.

🌸🌼 Play, Create, & Connect 🌼🌸
With Sacred Sister Emily & Polly Carey
Sunday July 14 @ 3 pm

A fun and playful approach to bridging the gap between the physical and spiritual world through movement and creative practices.

Together we’ll create a labyrinth of plant and flower beauty, each petal and leaf a symbol of our shared creativity and connection to nature and each other. Using the labyrinth as inspiration, we’ll embark on a journey of self-discovery as we explore movement and music that resonates with the essence of laughter and play. Through writing prompts and group activities we’ll engage in meaningful discussions on the importance of connection and the wisdom of intuition. With each laugh, each moment of stillness, we'll cultivate gratitude for the precious gift of time spent in each other's company, basking in the beauty and magic of human connection.

💫 Sonic Devas Presents: Soul Songs Celebration 💫
Saturday July 13, 8 pm

Join Sonic Devas for a selection of medicine songs, meditative music,
soundscapes and chants from their recently released studio album, Soul
Songs.

Sonic Devas is a multi-instrumental sound healing ensemble featuring
world renown women musicians, sound healers and wellness leaders
performing as one on a grand scale. The audience is invited to shift
into new states of being and be inspired by the power of mystical
sound. Mantras, medicine songs, angelic harmonies, masterful
improvisations and spacious soundscapes with unique instruments from
all around the world inspire musical transcendence like never before.
We are celebrating the Release of our Full-Length Studio Album, Soul
Songs, officially released in May 2024.

🐚 Return to the Sacred: A Cacao Journey 🐚
Friday July 12, 7-8:15 pm
with Marie-Pier Tremblay

As we constantly shed our skin, just like the Moon sheds her shadow, a ritual practice that is ancient can reconnect us while we journey under the Sun.

As in ancient times, we will gather in a circle and be served a medicinal cacao with the intention to heal and speak from our hearts.

This cacao ceremony is designed to be a poetic journey through the 4 elements and into the Self.

🤸 Handstand Workshop 🤸
Saturday July 13, 2-4 pm
With Cameron Pratto

Elevate your yoga practice with a fun, playful handstand workshop! Open to all levels, this workshop offers step-by-step guidance, strength-building exercises and balance techniques. Enjoy personalized instructions and progress at your own pace. Beginners will find a supportive environment, while intermediate and advanced yogis can refine their skills and explore new shapes.

🐐 Pose of the Month: Peaceful Warrior 🐐

Happy July! Join us this month in learning a little more and dropping deeper into Shanti Virabhadrasana, Peaceful Warrior.

🪷 Weekend Lineup 🪷

🪷 Saturday July 6, 7 pm: Heart Songs Kirtan & Cacao w/ Darren & Teagan
During this sacred gathering, Darren & Teagan Rose will weave together call and response singing (kirtan), a cacao ceremony, and heart-centered infused spiritual teachings to create a magical, uplifting experience. Kirtan is call-and-response singing of devotional music.

🪷 Sunday July 7, 4 pm: Reiki Soundscape w/ Darren & Anahita
Join Darren and Anahita for this delightful reiki-infused soundscape that will soothe your mind, relax your body, and connect you to your soul’s essence. In this safe, sacred space, you will be blessed with the healing sounds of the harp, chimes, singing bowls, guitar, voice, and drum while receiving 1:1 reiki. This is truly an opportunity to relax, receive, and be nurtured.

🌴 First Friday Ecstatic Dance 🌴
July 5 @ 7 pm

A barefoot, substance-free, live DJ get-down dance party. A place for you to move however you wish to amazing music. Take a meditative inward movement journey, dance and connect with other amazing people, get some exercise, or just to throw off your shoes and get down on a Friday night!

On the first Friday of every month, we will host a world-class ecstatic dance DJ to take us on this journey. The music for the ecstatic dance will loosely follow an ecstatic dance “wave” with slow and mellow music building to chaotic intensity and then returning to stillness at the end.

Our guidelines for the dance:
1. We move however we wish.
2. No drugs or alcohol are permitted.
3. We don’t speak on the dance floor.
4. We respect ourselves and the people around us.
5. Come as you are. We are creating a safe space where all emotional states are welcome to be explored and danced with.

✨ Emma Patrick ✨
Emma is stepping in to the Wednesday 4 pm Yoga + Weights Class
Starting July 3

Designed to build greater strength and stability in your practice, these uplifting and energizing classes integrate light hand weights into more familiar asanas. Dynamic movements and added weight will bring you into a deeper sense of what muscles are being stretched and worked within the poses. Join us in these classes to build inner heat and endurance while improving the health of your muscles, tendons, and bones.

Her enthusiastic passion for play led her to an undergraduate study of Exercise Science, and later to become a Personal Trainer and Group Exercise Instructor. She has been facilitating movement experiences for 12 years and continues to deepen her embodiment through personal exploration and facilitation of both private and public movement classes.

🎆 July 4 Schedule 🎆

Our schedule on Thursday, July 4 will be modified! We will close the studio after the 3:30 class. Hope you can join us for class in the morning!

Special Community Song Circle: Voice Medicine
Tuesday, July 2 @ 7 pm
with guest guides Michelle & Ryder Mackey

Join us for this special Community Song Circle with Michelle & Ryder Mackey. Explore the healing, uplifting power of your voice as you strengthen and activate your vocal channel. All voices and skill levels are welcome! Our time together will include YOGA OF THE VOICE (a guided, meditative, call-and-response singing practice), MANTRA, MEDICINE SONGS, & CHANTS from around the world, and GROUP VOCAL IMPROVISATION.

🍃 Reiki Sound Bath 🍃
Sunday, June 30 @ 4 pm
with Darren Marc, Mitsuko McGavock, & special guest reiki master Jennifer Davis

Join Darren, Mits, & Jennifer for this relaxing, healing reiki and sound journey. Be immersed in the healing vibrations of gongs, singing bowls, drums, chimes, guitar, and sacred mantras. This is an opportunity to let go of all that is not serving you, to relax, to receive, and to connect to the peace, love, and well-being that is within you. Throughout the journey, you will receive hands on reiki by Darren, Mits, and Jennifer.

🦋 Awaken Spirit Through Breath 🦋
Thursday June 27 @ 6:45 pm
with Regina Powers

Awaken spirit through breath is an active form of meditation. It involves breathing in deeply through the mouth and into your abdomen while softly exhaling through an open mouth.

We begin with dance or large muscle movements to clear our energy field and connect to the body. Then propped up in a supine position as you're guided through areas of the body to generate an open, and connected breath. A time to awaken more of your spirit into form with individual assistance to help integrate your session.

Regina trained with Dr. Judith Kravitz the co-founder of Transformational Breath. She had a profound benefit during that time and is now excited to provide this technique during our breath session.

🌼 Blossoming Bellies: Prenatal Yoga & Birth Prep 🌼
July 28 & Aug 4
With Carone Scott, Mitsuko McGavock, & Kylie Wagner

Join Carone, Mitsuko and Kylie for a fruitful 2 session prenatal yoga series to nurture your mind, body and baby in community. Immerse and invest in the power of your body, and drop into its wonder with sound healing, breathwork and visualization. Explore yoga positions for labor, awaken your pelvic floor, and embrace the journey of pregnancy for a confident and empowered birth experience.

No prior yoga experience is necessary, all levels and trimesters are welcome!

This series is designed to give you the tools for a more empowered and easeful pregnancy, labor, birth and beyond. Topics we will cover:

🌼 Preparing the body for an easier labor, birth and postpartum recovery.
🌼 Breathing techniques for calming the mind and promoting relaxation.
🌼 Understanding the pelvic floor muscles and their role in pregnancy and childbirth.
🌼 Exercises to strengthen and release tension in the pelvic floor muscles.
🌼 Gentle stretches to relieve common pregnancy discomforts (e.g., back pain, hip tightness, swollen feet).
🌼 Yoga poses for each trimester, focusing on stability and alignment.
🌼 Positions for labor and birth that facilitate comfort and progression.
🌼 Assisted poses and massage techniques for pain relief during labor.
🌼 Visualization and relaxation exercises to reduce fear and anxiety about childbirth and build confidence in the birthing process.
🌼 Mindful movement practices to connect with the baby and the changing body.
🌼 Strategies for managing stress and finding balance during pregnancy.
🌼 Sound healing and yoga Nidra for deep relaxation.
🌼 Creating a safe and supportive community.
🌼 Providing additional resources for pregnancy and postpartum support.

👶 Childcare while you Practice! 👶

We're looking for volunteers for our Monday childcare program! And also want to remind any parents of this special offering we hold once a week. Please reach out to Casey with questions or interest in volunteering.

☀️🥤 Summer is Here! 🥤☀️

Starting TODAY, our summer special is on sale through the end of July. Save on your next 10 pack of classes! These classes expire three months from purchase date. See you soon!

🌱 People Project 🌱

Meet Ashley Phillips - Cleaning Yogi

Why do you practice yoga?
"I practice yoga to come back to my true nature - that calm, patient and humble inner state where I feel most at peace. Yoga reminds me of why we are here, what the human race is capable of...deepening my practice means getting to know myself on a deeper level. I believe all of the Universe's secrets lie within the body."

How has your yoga practice changed your relationship to your body?
"My yoga practice made me realize how the body is not separated from the soul, that what goes on inside the body is a direct representation of the world around us."

What realization completely shifted your perspective?
"Realizing that we are all on this teacher planet to help each other heal - that when someone triggers us it is igniting an invitation to heal something within ourselves."

Thank you Ashley for all you do! 🤍

🌴 Sunday Line Up! 🌴

🌴 1:30 Yin-Tensive with Suzanne Marlow 🌴
This 2 hour practice is a perfect amount of time to go a little deeper into the stretch of connective tissue. In the depth of the stretch Suzanne will offer therapeutic suggestions in working with our mind and the traumas that have left wounds on the heart. Practices of meditation inspired through Buddhist psychology will be instructed throughout the practice. This practice helps to relieve stress, rejuvenate the body and refresh the mind.

🌴 4:00 Soundgasm Experience with Shane Thunder 🌴
Shane will be utilizing a plethora of gemstone crystal bowls, planetary & elemental gongs, chimes, and other instruments. You are in store for a blissful and uplifting journey!

Love, Light, Vibrate!

🌴 Next Sunday! 🌴

Join us for an Instagram LIVE info session to answer all of your questions about the upcoming 200 hr yoga Teacher Training: Love in Action.

Join Denise and Erica to hear more about this special offering and what you can expect by enrolling! Mark the date 🌴

🪻 Intuitive Sound Bath 🪻
Sunday June 16 @ 4 pm
with Lauren Barker

Sound Therapist and Reiki Master Lauren Barker is offering an opportunity to go deep into yourself without having to do a thing but lay back and receive. The transformational sound medicine that her sacred instruments create coupled with her cosmic voice create a space for magic to take form. Lauren travels to Santa Barbara to from the portal of Mount Shasta to offer these sound experiences in studio at Yoga Soup. She anchors in Galactic Guides, Lemurian Ancestors and Ascended Masters that form a gateway for powerful healing to occur.

🌾 Breath is Kinetic 🌾
Thursdays June 13 & 20 @ 6:45 pm
with Sonya Barriere

In this breathwork class you’ll be encouraged to move and explore the sensations and intuitions of the body. Through this freedom you can shake loose the places which might have accumulated stagnation in your psychic, emotional and physical selves.

Breathwork is a potent gateway and ally into self awareness. This practice often includes acute physical sensations, as well as somatic release and psychedelic visualization that wane and surge with the breath itself. Often breathers will also notice intense emotions, physical sensations or memories that will surface when we get deeper into the practice. In our class we will engage with our emotional and kinetic responses as a means to explore the inner landscape through the breath. This kind of physical engagement helps to ground the energy that builds in the body and allows free flow of circulation to places that may feel stuck. As we traverse the pathways that open up to us, we come into contact with our own healing. I look forward to breathing with you.

🌷 New Teacher 🌷

Welcome Heather Shea who will be offering a Balanced Flow, Tuesdays 4-5 pm starting June 11!

Through deep listening and breath, this class elevates the spirit and the form. Fascia floss, asana, and meditation all combine into a balanced flow to illuminate and ground the body.

Heather shares: With a BFA in Dance, and a deep love of movement, I bring focus to the body through the lens of self-compassion, and with a sense of curiosity and honesty. I emphasize connection to the Self, through the breath and deep listening. In my class, I invite you to expand, play, and smile through vinyasa flow, hatha yoga, fascia flossing and deep listening.

🕊 Channeling The Divine Through Song 🕊
Saturday, June 15 @ 7pm
with Kyle Nicolaides & Marcie Grambeau

A night of music, mantra, magic, and healing.

Come home to your inner divinity and remember who you are through the power of sacred sound and music as medicine.

Featuring original songs, ancient mantras, and channeling source. Part concert, part ceremony, part celebration of life and self.