Mark your calendars for some great upcoming yoga events at Stone Turtle Yoga!

Thursday, May 26th: Live Music Yoga with Lexi and Jacob Bondar
Higgins Lake Studio, 5:30pm – 6:30pm (plus optional 15 minute meditation following class)

Join us for a very special evening of yoga, combined with the beautiful sound of live harp music! Back by popular demand, this class features instructor Lexi Bondar, who guides students through a relaxing, rejuvenating yoga class. Meanwhile, her wonderfully talented brother, Jacob, accompanies the yoga class with calming, enchanting harp music. It is a powerful experience, designed to help students reach deeper states of awareness and calm via the healing vibrational effects of sound. *This is a “donations based” class, meaning memberships and packages will not be applied. Don’t miss this amazing experience! Space is limited, so click here to pre-register online.

Wednesday, June 1st: Yoga & Essential Oils with Mariah Frye Colie and Nicole Mygrants
6:00pm – 7:30pm at The Gift in Grayling*

Explore the ancient practice of essential oil therapy while practicing yoga! In this special workshop, we will delve into our profoundly powerful sense of scent, and use it to tap into a deep level of balance and well-being during our yoga practice. In this workshop, Mariah guides students through a Hatha II yoga class, which is specifically designed to coincide with the oils. These top-grade essential oils, including Grapefruit, Bergamot, and more, are applied aromatically, internally, and topically throughout class by essential oil specialist, Nicole Mygrants. The combination of yoga and essential oils is a fun, interesting, and powerful practice, and is open to everyone! Space is limited, so pre-registration is highly encouraged. The cost is $15 in advance, or $20 at the door. Click here to pre-register!

*This workshop takes place at The Gift in Grayling, which is located at 4304 W M-72, in the old day care building about 1 mile east of downtown (towards Mio).  

We look forward to seeing you at these awesome workshops!

Namaste,
Mariah, Lexi & Amy

Join us for a FREE Beginner Yoga class, this Sunday, May 15th from 4:30pm to 5:30pm at our Grayling studio!

If you or someone you know is interested in yoga, but is not sure where to start or feels intimidated to try, this is the perfect learning opportunity! Attendees will learn the foundations of yoga in a welcoming, risk-free setting, so that they can receive the amazing benefits of yoga in their very first class! The class will cover, but is not limited to:

• Foundational standing poses
• Basic Sun Salutation
• Relaxing seated and supine poses
• Basic breath work

Students will leave this class with a fundamental understanding of yoga, and feel confident enough to start attending regularly scheduled yoga classes at Stone Turtle Yoga!

By attending this FREE yoga class, you will also receive:

1. A private consultation following class with teacher Mariah Frye Colie to go over any questions or concerns (optional).

2. One week of FREE yoga classes at both Stone Turtle Yoga locations ($29 value)!*

While this class is aimed at beginners, you do not have to be a beginner to attend! Current or past yoga practitioners are welcome to join and deepen their knowledge of yoga fundamentals. Can’t make it? Don’t worry, this class is not required for new students; you are still welcome to attend any regularly scheduled Stone Turtle Yoga class!

Grayling Studio Location (at Ausable Dance Center):
600 Cedar St (M-72 E business loop)
Grayling, MI 

Preregistration for this class is encouraged but not required. Click here to sign up online, or call 989-302-7928. To view our current class schedule click here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/admhome?studioid=29064

We look forward to seeing you!

*For new Stone Turtle Yoga students only. Must be used week of May 15th to May 21st. 

We are so excited for Dawn Brockett to share her teaching with us this Thursday!

Mariah and Dawn became fast friends last fall, when she was visiting the Higgins Lake area from her home in Idaho. She has graciously agreed to share her extensive background in yoga teaching with the STY community while she’s in town this spring!

Dawn’s bio:

Dawn is a 21-year practitioner of yoga and has been teaching for 16 years. She earned her 500-hour registered yoga certification in 2006 and continues to develop her knowledge in the field. Though trained in multiple styles of yoga, Anusara alignment-based is her strongest influence. Her extensive fitness training background also informs her instruction on the mat.

Dawn prefers to focus on the individual physical and psychological benefits gained from a regular practice, but if you want to get down and dirty in yoga philosophy, she did do her Honors undergraduate thesis on the shared origins of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. When not on her mat, you can find Dawn on the trails hiking, biking, snowshoeing and nordic skiing.

Join Dawn this week at our normal weekly class, Hatha II, on Thursday, May 5th at 5:30pm in Higgins Lake!

Preregister by clicking here, or just show up a few minutes early. See you there!

Mariah, Lexi & Amy