Set up a weekly meditation routine with this FREE Wednesday morning live class. Mandi will guide you through a 15- to 30-minute meditation to align with the energies of the week. You’ll be finished in time for your workday.

Suggested Practice: Light in the Body

Restorative Slow Flow

When the wintering season starts to feel heavy, sometimes the most rejuvenating thing we can do is bring gentle movement back into the spine. Light in the Body is a kundalini/restorative slow flow designed to create spaciousness from the base of the spine to the crown, helping you feel clearer, brighter, and more at ease during darker or slower seasons.

Astrological Overview: Moon in Leo trines Mars — effortless confidence, enthusiasm, and expressive action. This is a good day for progress on something you love.

Reflection: Where is momentum naturally building, and how can I work with it?

Suggested Practice: Moments of Joy

Meditation

This meditation utilizes experiential exercises, mudra, and visualization to cultivate joy and gratitude for your day.

Astrological Overview: Leo Moon encourages play, creativity, and reconnecting with what feels genuinely inspiring. Subtle insights emerge when you follow what lights you up.

Reflection: What brings me joy today, and how can I give myself permission to follow it?

Reconnect to yourself and restore/replenish your body with this vital and nourishing class. We will utilize deep and prolonged stretching, breath, meditation, restorative yoga, and subtle energy techniques to align with the theme of the week.

Suggested Practice: From Pressure to Presence

Level 2 Slow Flow

When life feels heavy with expectations and the pressure to perform, this practice offers a space to let go and move with compassion. Enjoy a slow, mindful flow to unwind tension from the upper spine and hips — the places where emotional and energetic burdens often collect — and reconnect with ease, breath, and presence.

Astrological Overview: Mars in Sagittarius squares Saturn in Pisces — motivation hits a wall, or energy feels blocked. This is a day for patience, perspective, and stepping back to reevaluate.

Reflection: Where can I release pressure and trust that slowing down honors my clarity?

Suggested Practice: Inspired Visioning

Level 1/2 Seasonal Flow

This feel-good winter practice brings gentle warmth to the body while re-awakening cold muscles and joints. "When you perceive the world with depth and clarity, you empower your imagination. When you fuel your imagination, you are able to visualize and manifest what you desire." (Chakra Oracle Deck)

Astrological Overview: Mercury trines Jupiter — big ideas, expansive thinking, hopeful planning — supported by intuitive steadiness from Cancer Moon.

Reflection: What possibilities feel aligned, exciting, and worthy of my trust?

A Gemini Supermoon Ceremony of Breath, Sound, and Inner Knowing

The last Full Moon of 2025 is a supermoon in Gemini — a moment of initiation before the year closes.

This moon awakens clarity, truth, intuition, and the voice of inner wisdom. It is your invitation to cross from the old year into the next with deeper self-trust and a clearer connection to your guides, your creativity, and your inner oracle.

In this full moon ceremony, we will gather to open the channels of intuition, clear the subtle body, and step into the New Year from a place of alignment and inner truth.

What to expect:

Managed Energy Meditation (Thymus Activation)
A subtle yet powerful breath-and-energy technique that awakens the thymus gland — the center of immunity, vitality, and spiritual discernment. This practice strengthens your energetic field and enhances your capacity to trust what you feel and know.

Pick-a-Card Oracle Reading
Choose a card to connect with the guide, master, or teacher who will walk with you in the coming year.

Healing Technique: Bhramari Chakra Breath
A specialized full-channel bhramari that moves the vibration through all seven chakras
— clearing stagnation, aligning your inner voice, and preparing you for initiation.

Saraswati Mantra (33 Repetitions)
Together we’ll chant Om Aim Saraswatyai Namaha to awaken wisdom, clarity, creative intelligence, and the divine flow of expression.

Guided Journey: Awakening the Inner Oracle
A full-moon visualization to open deep inner listening, receive messages, and step across the threshold into the new year.

Tap into divine connection and healing life force energy with yoga and mindful movement. This class offers creative and intuitive sequencing to align with current cosmic energies — encompassing my unique integration of vinyasa mandalas, kundalini, yin, breathwork, meditation, mudra, meridian-focused practices, energy healing, or wherever Spirit guides me. Some yoga experience is helpful but not necessary to experience this all-levels class.

Suggested Practice: Gratitude and Surrender Flow

Level 2 Transformation Flow

A devotional flow guided by prostration namaskars and practices for the crown chakra, blending upper body strength with deep surrender.

Astrological Overview: Moon in Gemini squares Saturn — mental heaviness or overwhelm requires perspective. Moon enters Cancer for comfort, nurturing, and emotional replenishment.

Reflection: How can stepping back help me trust my own understanding more fully?

Connect with the seasons and the beauty of the Gardens through Mandi's creative, nature-inspired yoga classes. This gentle to moderate flow class blends mindful movements, stretching, breath, and meditative practices to cultivate a calm mind and peaceful strength. 

During the warmer months (May to October) yoga classes are primarily held outdoors. In the event of inclement weather or other factors the class will be moved indoors. During the colder months (November to April) yoga classes are always held indoors.

Suggested Practice: Full Moon Holiday Release and Restore

Lunar Ceremony

Step into the transformative energy of the last full moon of the year, a Full Moon of Initiation. This powerful lunation invites you to release what no longer serves and awaken fresh inspiration as you prepare for the coming year.

Astrological Overview: The Full Moon brings insight, discernment, and the desire to sort through ideas and finalize plans. Heart and mind synchronize.

Reflection: What clarity is this Full Moon revealing about my next steps?

Set up a weekly meditation routine with this FREE Wednesday morning live class. Mandi will guide you through a 15- to 30-minute meditation to align with the energies of the week. You’ll be finished in time for your workday.

Suggested Practice: Durga Rising: A Lunar Ritual of Courage and Grace

Lunar Ceremony

This ritual is a devotional journey into the fierce and loving presence of Durga — the radiant warrior goddess who awakens within us during times of courage, clarity, and change.

Astrological Overview: Moon in Taurus opposes Mercury in Scorpio, making communication feel sticky or intense. Moon enters Gemini, shifting toward clarity and expression.

Reflection: What truth is rising that needs a gentle, honest voice?

Suggested Practice: Winter Breath Practice for Balance and Peace

Pranayama

This practice includes sushumna breathing, a variation of alternate nostril breath called anuloma viloma, and a mudra meditation for a winter glow. This is a great daily practice to cultivate balance and peace.

Astrological Overview: Moon in Taurus squares Pluto — power struggles or tension may surface — but grounding practices help restore inner calm and clarity.

Reflection: Where can I release the need to control the outcome and trust the process instead?

Suggested Practice: Lower Chakra Alchemy (30 minutes)

Level 1/2 Hatha

A grounding and clearing short mandala practice to support the lower chakras.

Astrological Overview: Moon in Aries trines Mars in Sagittarius — high energy, inspiration, and initiative — before entering Taurus for grounding and steady presence.

Reflection: What step can I take today that honors both my excitement and my need for steadiness?

Reconnect to yourself and restore/replenish your body with this vital and nourishing class. We will utilize deep and prolonged stretching, breath, meditation, restorative yoga, and subtle energy techniques to align with the theme of the week.

Suggested Practice: Soften Into Light

Meditation

A breath-focused meditation to invite inner calm, self-trust, and energetic protection.

Astrological Overview: Venus trines Neptune, opening intuitive channels and softening the heart. Venus then enters Sagittarius, inviting freedom, honesty, curiosity, and emotional expansion.

Reflection: Where is my heart guiding me to open, soften, or explore?

Suggested Practice: Clear Resonance

Level 1/2 Transformation Flow

This stretchy and activating flow works with the hips, legs, obliques, core, and heart to transform heaviness into lightness and uncertainty into clear resonance.

Astrological Overview: Mercury stations direct in Scorpio — the fog lifts, bringing mental clarity and renewed focus.

Reflection: What truth feels clear now that confusion has dissolved?

Tap into divine connection and healing life force energy with yoga and mindful movement. This class offers creative and intuitive sequencing to align with current cosmic energies — encompassing my unique integration of vinyasa mandalas, kundalini, yin, breathwork, meditation, mudra, meridian-focused practices, energy healing, or wherever Spirit guides me. Some yoga experience is helpful but not necessary to experience this all-levels class.

Suggested Practice: Clear and Balanced

Yin

Clear winter congestion and balance your energy body for healing and winter wellness. "As winter casts its blanket of stillness across the land, we naturally turn inward... And from this place of quiet, a single flame reconnects us to the mystery of our existence and the miracle of the breath... We are suspended in Mother Earth's pause." (Kim Krans, The Wild Unknown Alchemy Oracle)  

Astrological Overview: First Quarter Moon in Pisces asks for subtle, intuitive adjustments and inner reflection.

Reflection: What needs to shift within me so I can move forward with more peace and clarity?

Suggested Practice: The Body is the Cosmos

Level 1/2 Kundalini

This kundalini-focused practice will elevate, uplift, and raise your vibration! We also connect with Shakti Goddess Bhuvaneshari, "she whose body is the world." (Sally Kempton, Awakening Shakti)

Astrological Overview: Saturn stations direct in Pisces, releasing emotional heaviness and renewing trust in divine timing.

Reflection: Where am I feeling the call to surrender and flow instead of control?

Set up a weekly meditation routine with this FREE Wednesday morning live class. Mandi will guide you through a 15- to 30-minute meditation to align with the energies of the week. You’ll be finished in time for your workday.

Suggested Practice: Root to Rise

Level 1/2 Hatha

A mindful hatha practice designed to build stability and strength in the lower body, creating a steady foundation for the heart to open and expand.

Astrological Overview: Venus in Scorpio trines Jupiter and Saturn, offering harmony, trust, and renewed faith in relationships or long-term goals.

Reflection: How can I stay grounded in love and gratitude as life begins to expand again?

Suggested Practice: Inner Power, Outer Clarity

Level 1/2 Elemental Flow

Enjoy a lot of outer hip and IT band movements and stretches that will have you feeling like a new person.

Astrological Overview: Moon in Aquarius conjunct Pluto, emphasizing breakthroughs and higher perspective.

Reflection: What pattern or mindset am I ready to release to make space for growth?

Suggested Practice: My Desires Are Sacred

Yin

A yin practice to awaken the magnetic field of the heart through the emerald ray and the mantra “My desires are sacred.”

Astrological Overview: Mercury conjunct Venus in Scorpio — reconnections, revisiting past creative or emotional bonds, or returning to what once brought joy.

Reflection: What has resurfaced that reminds me of who I’ve always been?

Reconnect to yourself and restore/replenish your body with this vital and nourishing class. We will utilize deep and prolonged stretching, breath, meditation, restorative yoga, and subtle energy techniques to align with the theme of the week.

Suggested Practice: Fire Element Mandala for Radiance

Level 1/2 Transformation Flow

Experience a different kind of fire practice with lots of twists, deep breaths, and connection to your personal power.

Astrological Overview: Sun in Sagittarius sextiles Pluto in Aquarius, empowering confident movement toward your next chapter.

Reflection: What small, courageous step am I ready to take toward what inspires me?

Suggested Practice: Surrender to Vision

Yin

A yin practice for the third eye chakra and the amethyst ray, guiding you into deep surrender and inner vision.

Astrological Overview: Mercury in Scorpio trines Saturn and Jupiter, aligning intuition with long-term goals.

Reflection: How can I trust the timing of my growth as I move toward new horizons?