Special Events

Bring a book you love, practice breathing, take home a book someone else loves.
Be refreshed and inspired as we enter a time of year that can feel busy with holidays, exams, and end-of-year fervor.
This relaxed, come-as-you-are gathering is limited to 20 attendees, ages 18 or older.
Bring a book you love. It can be any genre—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, romance, classic/literary, bildungsroman, etc. It must be a book; it must be in English; you must love it. It does not have to be related to yoga, contemplative practices, exercise, or health.
Pick one sentence or line, or very short excerpt, that’s especially meaningful to you. You’ll have the opportunity to share that line with the group.
We’ll do a moving meditation, talk about the books, breathe, and swap books.

While many eras in history were objectively harder, our world now feels uniquely overwhelming. Chronic stimuli, stress and reactivity amplify suffering and limit our ability to respond with effectiveness and care.
This workshop cultivates resilience through polyvagal regulation, self-compassion and self-empowerment practices drawn from somatic psychology, breath work, guided meditation, and conscious dance.
We will reflect how we give our power away and how to reclaim it. We will learn how flight, flight, freeze, fawn, and collapse look like and how to bring them back into regulation. We will explore when and how to say yes or no. We will deepen our sense of trust in ourselves. No experience needed—just a willingness to move what is real.
This work is about expanding the capacity to hold what life brings, meeting it with presence, right-action, and resiliency— for a more stable world from the inside out.

-Early Bird Price – $60 until 11/21
-$70 after

The B.A.S.E. approach to handstands deepens one’s practice of inversions and applies to riding the ups and downs of life, including information overload, tension, dullness, and stagnation.
This workshop is about exploration, not exhaustion. We will practice exercises and inversions, but the “training load” will be low. Participants will have the opportunity to ask (and live!) their individual questions.

What to expect:

A relaxed, yet focused environment;
Practical exercises that do not require going upside down;
Alternatives to ingrained thought patterns and movement habits;
A fusion of the (seemingly) material and immaterial—anatomy, philosophy, psychology, energy…sinew and soul.

What we won’t do:

“Hack” our way into handstands;
Compete;
Exploit joints and soft tissue;
Apply the same techniques to all bodies;
Flatten paradox.
If you have it, bring a yoga mat and a foam roller.

Feel free to reach out to email host Abby Steketee at literallyfit@outlook.com or message her on Instagram @literallyupsidedown