To be aware that we are not ultimately separate is to see that harm to one is harm to all, and the opposite of harm is love. Part of walking this 8-limbed path of yoga is understanding what we leave in our interconnected wake.
Read morePolish your mind-sight
These mindful practices are like taking a soft cloth and wiping the smudges off the window of our busy brains. In this way, we polish our perspective, making room for extra wisdom, patience, and compassion.
Read moreFree morning yoga in the park
Join us this Friday July 12 at 8am in Old Town Square Park as Fox5DC features Sun & Moon for its weekly #Fox5ZipTrip series. Come out for breathing and stretching before the day gets too hot. Terry Strayer will be teaching an accessible, all-levels class, and we'd love for you to come along.
Read moreThanks for singing our praises!
"I've been attending Sun & Moon for over five years and worked with several instructors. When somebody asked me which was my favorite instructor, I thought about it for a moment and said, 'I don't know, which is your favorite Beatles song?"
Read moreJuly Fourth Pop-Up Class
While traditionally we associate gratitude with the Thanksgiving holiday, the Fourth of July presents another occasion to do so. We can pause and remember that freedom in a democracy depends on each one of us to exercise our voting rights in free and fair elections, which can't be taken for granted.
Read moreSacred Threads: The Story of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras
Join us for this six-week series of myth-busting, story-telling, meditation-inspiring, and sacred-text-decoding with Annie Moyer, Master of Divinity student and longtime fan of Patanjali’s 196 aphorisms on Yoga and all it means.
Read moreThe sun, the moon, and us mere mortals
I've often wondered what early humans must have thought during a solar eclipse. Were they terrified? Did they fall to their knees in awe and wonder, begging the universe for mercy? Or dance wildly in the fields, abandoning their toil in the majesty of the moment?
Read moreCast your vision for weekly well-being in 2024
In general, the time you carve out for yourself may be scarce; in yoga, this time can be sacred, especially when it's earmarked in your calendar each week.
Read moreSomething big is arising this winter
In addition to our standard variety of hatha and vinyasa, we're thrilled to include some new ways to warm up, build strength, and strenuously exert mind, body, and heart.
Read moreThanks and giving: free yoga and food drive on Thanksgiving morning
Join us on Thanksgiving morning and choose from three options of a 60-minute easy practice to put you in just the right state of mind/body/heart for a day of feasting on great food and gratitude. Donations of food or funds for AFAC and Britepaths.
Read moreCooking potatoes: Moving from grim to grace
Troubling emotions can be likened to raw potatoes, inedible in their current state, but subject to transformation when effort and intention are applied.
Read moreMeditation for Peace
Let's soften to the very real pain inside as we witness fellow human suffering across the world. And better yet, let's soften into that pain together and hold each other up with care.
Read moreA thought, or four
All we can do is recognize the precious opportunities we have right in front of us to celebrate joys and to hold space for pain, whether that pain is in our own hearts, in the hearts of friends and family, or halfway across the world among human hearts enduring devastating violence.
Read moreBe Micro-Amazed
It's a lot easier to be mindful for extraordinary moments - reading a captivating novel, or eating a delicious meal, or sitting with a dear friend in their heartache - than it is to be mindful while walking 20 steps from one place in our home to the next.
Read moreWild Asana Book Release Celebration with Alison Zak
Wild Asana: Animals, Yoga, and Connecting Our Practice to the Natural World is a 'nature memoir through a yoga lens.' It explores how we can connect with and become animals on our yoga mats, taking inspiration from common critter pose names, Hindu mythology, wildlife research, and more.
Read moreShining bright this summer in Fairfax!
This surprise, random sunflower offered its bloom right in front of our new space, just days away from today's reopening in Fairfax City.
Read moreFinding Your Inner Guide
Investigating the balance between being a student who follows a teacher's lead, and being one's own guide in a moment-by-moment existence with ever-changing needs.
Read moreI can see for piles and piles
From the Buddhist viewpoint, as goes a stack of paper, so go I.
Read moreTake A Seat
The Sanskrit word for posture of the body is asana, which actually means "seat," and there is great value and diversity in the ways in which we might practice sitting in this world.
Read moreDancing through purple rain
In spite of such deep and lasting pandemic-borne change, some things are still and always true: moving our bodies in rhythm, sharing joy in community, and losing (or finding!) ourselves in a moment are some of the greatest gifts of life.
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