Shake loose from the slumber of winter and prepare for the energy of spring. Meet the season of clearing space, rooting, and blossoming toward a fuller expression of yourself, just like flowers, trees and wildlife will be doing all around us. Using sound bowls, gongs and other instruments, we will rest our nerves to prepare to receive and engage with spring more authentically. Leave feeling rejuvenated, refreshed, and renewed, ready for the new beginnings that spring offers. 

Experience the state of deep relaxation that awaits you from within. Relax, get comfortable, snuggle in your own home, and take an hour to tune in and be soothed by sound. 

This workshop event is cancelled. We hope to offer it again in the Spring quarter

Auricular acupuncture involves the stimulation of specific points on the ear, which can help unblock qi (energy) in the body's meridians (energy channels) and may help with an array of conditions, including orthopedic pain, insomnia, depression and anxiety, indigestion, and more. Join the communal space, cozy with quiet voices and relaxing music, to receive a 30-minute auricular acupuncture treatment of your choice,  which will include 6-12 sterile hair-thin needles inserted into various points in your ear. One of the oldest specialized medical therapies, acupuncture dates back over 3,000 years, and is widely regarded as a wonderful tool for healing. 

Grab a buddy for Valentine's Day – couples, friends, family pairs all welcome – and join Annie and Amir to learn to give and receive an easy sequence of Thai Yoga Massage. In this unique system, the "giver" guides the "receiver" through a series of relaxed yoga postures, while palming and thumbing along the body’s energy lines and pressure points. The experience can relieve muscular tension, improve circulation, boost the immune system, and balance the body energetically.

As we settle into winter, this practice will allow for deep rest for mind, body and spirit - individually and collectively.  Using sound bowls, gongs, other instruments and silence, this class will be the best gift you can give yourself - a long winter's nap.  Or at least a deep meditation session....

Indulge in mindful movement! First, take a stroll through Fairfax City's annual Chocolate Lovers Festival, and then indulge in yoga inspired by the richness of chocolate as you melt into sweet spots with slow, soothing postures, ending in a blissful and luxurious restorative practice to start your weekend just right. 

During this community clinic patients will choose from one of two treatments: one to reduce stress, or one to boost energy. In community acupuncture, many people are treated simultaneously in one large room, thus making this type of medicine more accessible to more people. Slots begin on the half hour.

Join Sun & Moon Reads Community Book Club as we dive into the exploration of our relationship to self and others through written stories. This month: How To Read A Book by Monica Wood

Meet Pernilla von Mettenheim, longtime Sun & Moon student, Work Exchanger, and In-Depth Teacher Trainee, who began painting Buddhas during the pandemic as a way to relieve the heaviness of the times. Join Pernilla for a brief talk and "gallery walk" of her work on display at Sun & Moon's Arlington studio, and hear her story of how she found her way back to the parts of herself she had put on the back burner, and found a type of meditative bliss along the way. 

During this community clinic patients will choose from one of two treatments: one to reduce stress, or one to boost energy. In community acupuncture, many people are treated simultaneously in one large room, thus making this type of medicine more accessible to more people. Slots begin on the half hour.

Join Sun & Moon Reads Community Book Club as we dive into the exploration of our relationship to self and others through written stories. This month: Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen  

During this community clinic patients will choose from one of two treatments: one to reduce stress, or one to boost energy. In community acupuncture, many people are treated simultaneously in one large room, thus making this type of medicine more accessible to more people. 

Join Sun & Moon Reads Community Book Club as we dive into the exploration of our relationship to self and others through written stories. This month: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver  

Join us for our 30th anniversary grand celebration! For an afternoon of community and gratitude, we'll be hosting free yoga classes, live music, food truck, and an arts & crafts bazaar. Consider a donation to our 30th anniversary community partner, the Arlington Free Clinic, also celebrating 30 years in service to health and wellness.

Join Sun & Moon Reads Community Book Club as we dive into the exploration of our relationship to self and others through written stories. This month: The Four Agreemends by Don Miguel Ruiz  

Join Sun & Moon Reads Community Book Club as we dive into the exploration of our relationship to self and others through written stories. This month: The Fault In Our Stars by John Green 

Join Chynna and Jarrick for a deeply relaxing sound bath session to create space for exploration of the duality between movement and stillness, and between silence and sound both internally and externally. With the breath, tap into the nervous systems to settle the MindSpace and the body to facilitate a deeper state of clarity, focus and relaxation in the midst of gongs, crystal bowls, and singing bowls. 

Join Sun & Moon Reads Community Book Club as we dive into the exploration of our relationship to self and others through written stories.

In his ground-breaking memoir, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia, covering topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. NOTE! The author will be speaking at the Arlington County Central Library on Thursday, June 13, from 6:30-8pm (in person, online, or view recording later).

Join Sun & Moon Reads Community Book Club as we dive into the exploration of our relationship to self and others through written stories. In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin

Join Chynna and Jarrick for a deeply relaxing sound bath session to create space for exploration of the duality between movement and stillness, and between silence and sound both internally and externally. With the breath, tap into the nervous systems to settle the MindSpace and the body to facilitate a deeper state of clarity, focus and relaxation in the midst of gongs, crystal bowls, and singing bowls. 

Join Sun & Moon Reads Community Book Club as we dive into the exploration of our relationship to self and others through written stories. This month we discuss The Measure by Nikki Erlick, a debut novel in which the world awakes to a box at the doorstep of every adult. Inside the box is a string that correlates to the length of your life. The story follows eight ordinary people who must make the choice whether to open the box and live with the consequences

For 13 weeks beginning Dec 4, join Melina and build community while exploring practices that span a range of focuses—some are dietary, some meditative, some yoga- or exercise-based, and others geared to sleep or self-care. Melina’s intention is to inspire each person to fall in love with simple weekly practices that you can do at home while sheltering in. She’ll teach you more about nutrition for the seasons, Ayurveda for modern times, and offer yoga tools for stress management and grounding.

Let your creative energy loose, awaken your spirit, and bring fluidity, breath, and embodied joy into your life with flowing, yoga-inspired movement. This event is happening at 8:00pm EDT

Join Annie and Amir and your Sun & Moon friends and family for a gathering of the community to center together, take some collective breaths, and chat together about the future of yoga in the time of Covid. This event is happening at 6:00pm EDT

Explore some simple approaches to embracing inquiry for the sake illuminating the way forward in these slippery and erratic times, with humility and practice.

How do we remain centered and grounded amid the uncertainties that life brings to us every day? Explore mind-body tools and guided meditation based on the teachings of iRest to help develop a felt sense of well-being.

Welcome in the fire energy of the summer at the Summer Solstice by flowing into the summer together with breath, movement, and high vibes! If you enjoy a lot of movement and trying out new flows, this workshop is for you.

By using mantra (the internal recitation of universal sound vibrations) the weights of physical and emotional suffering (karma) can be released, and the connection to our purpose in taking birth is restored. Join the workshop on Zoom and invite a soul-buddy to learn and implement these channels in meditation and in your life-expression.