Rest is Ritual: Honoring the Seasonal Shift with Gentle Breathwork, Yin Yoga, & Sound Healing
Join Cass for a deeply nourishing experience to ground your body, calm your mind, and gently welcome the seasonal shift into fall. This workshop offers a spacious opportunity to reset your nervous system and align with the slower, inward rhythms of the Autumn Equinox.
You’ll be guided through a slow, intentional, yin yoga practice with gentle breathwork that will help regulate the nervous system, soften tension, and anchor you into presence.
The experience concludes with a restorative sound bath to integrate your practice and leave you feeling held, harmonized, and deeply at ease. Thoughtful journaling prompts will guide your reflection, offering space to turn inward and step into the new season with clarity, softness, and strength.
Leave feeling replenished, rooted, and reconnected — ready to honor your inner rhythms and the turning of the upcoming season.
Please bring a journal & pen, water, and wear comfortable clothing.
All levels welcome! No prior experience required.
Price: $35, sliding scale available by emailing hello@bostonyogaunion.com
When: Saturday, September 13 at 4:30-6:00PM
Where: Coolidge Corner Studio, 1297 Beacon St, Brookline, MA
About Cass
Cassandre is a certified Yoga Instructor and a Licensed Practical Nurse that has been caring for patients for more than 10 years. Her studies of the human body and her curiosity about the mind - body - soul connection intrigued her into diving deeper into the practice of yoga.
She completed her 200hr yoga teacher training in 2016 and her 300hr yoga teacher training in 2023. Her studies include vinyasa, restorative yoga, and yin yoga. She is also a certified Thai Yoga Massage Bodyworker offering a therapeutic blend of relaxation, renewal, and restored balance within.
Cassandre uses her qualities of compassion and strength within her classes to guide students to self-connection through movement and breath.
The Class:
The BIPOC Yoga Collective is an accessible, all-levels practice for those who identify as BIPOC. This monthly workshop style class intends to create a safe and familiar space to expose new and seasoned yogis to Boston’s BIPOC instructors, local community of practitioners, and a diversifying studio space. Classes will rotate between different instructors who will take care to ensure students at all levels are able to follow along and create a container that may leave them feeling stronger, empowered, or rested depending on the workshop design.
Purpose:
To create a shared space where Black, Indigenous, and People of Color may be in community with others who share a deep understanding of their marginalization, because of their unspoken shared experience. The intent is to create a sense of safety in one’s authenticity without the gaze of well-meaning and curious onlookers or “saviors”.
We hope to create an automatic increase of baseline trust simply by holding space for this experience, but continuing to build upon it by leveraging ongoing feedback and representation from the varied perspectives, racial groups and levels of privilege within the broader BIPOC identity group.
Our goal is to have attendees engage in the practice of yoga without the reminders of negatively racialized lived experiences within their racial identities, and create solidarity among us.
Upcoming Dates:
Saturday, September 13th at 4:30-6:00PM with Cass
Saturday, October 11th at 4:30-6:00PM with tRISH
Saturday, November 8th at 4:30-6:00PM with Born
Saturday, December 20th at 4:30-6:00PM with Cass, tRISH, and Born