SPECIALTY CLASSES + SERIES
Willow Street Yoga is excited to offer a variety of specialty classes. These classes are often short-term, series based explorations of different elements of the practice of yoga or other disciplines.
Our teachers and world-renowned guests specialize in a variety of topics that encourage our community to learn and grow. Members receive 20% off speciality class registrations!
SPECIALITY CLASSES
Ayurvedic Spring Reset Series with Belinda Baer
Fridays, March 20th - April 10th | 7:30 PM EST | Online only
If you are experiencing sluggish digestion, mental fog, lower motivation, or a lingering sense of heaviness, Ayurveda offers a gentle, practical path to renewal. As we transition into spring, our bodies often mirror the season's damp, slow qualities, leading to Kapha accumulation.
The Ayurvedic Spring Reset is a 4-week online series designed to help you understand these seasonal changes and respond with sustainable, nourishing shifts to restore balance and vitality.
Program Highlights:
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Gentle Digestive Support: Restore your digestive fire (Agni) and reduce heaviness.
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Detoxification & Lymphatic Support: Use natural, sustainable methods to clear winter buildup.
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Seasonal Rhythm: Establish daily routines that align with spring, fostering steadier energy.
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Includes Ayurvedic teachings, practical guidance, and guided pranayama (breathwork).
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Practical Tools: Take away actionable tips to improve daily wellbeing immediately.
About Your Guide:
Belinda is a NAMA-certified Ayurvedic Practitioner (immersed since 2011) and a 500-hour Yoga Teacher (since 2001), specializing in grounding, restorative practices that integrate Ayurvedic wisdom with nervous system support.
When: Fridays, 3/20 - 4/10 | 7:30pm – 8:45pm
Cost: $100 (if registered by 3/14); $112 thereafter
Note: Open to all, no prior experience needed. This is a progressive series; no drop-ins or recordings.
Reclaim your energy and shed the heaviness of winter by joining this community-focused, educational, and nourishing reset.
Mindfulness Tools for Rough Seas: A Meditation Series with Jen Smith
Tuesdays, April 7th - 28th | 7:30 PM EST | Online only
Are you feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or burned out? This class will give you the tools to find the peace you deserve.
In this series of 4 classes, students will learn mindfulness meditations, breath work, and movement exercises proven to minimize stress.
No experience is necessary.
Classes will include short talks with optional sharing, and address the following topics:
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Mindfulness of breath – pausing and noticing
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Understanding stress and mindfulness of the body
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Mindfulness of emotions – finding equanimity
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Compassion and loving kindness – naming and soothing suffering
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WHEN: Tuesdays, April 7, 14, 21, 28 |COST: FREE
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*Participation in all 4 classes is strongly encouraged, but drop-ins are welcome. People who commit to all 4 classes will receive a short meditation audio file each week, as well as 2 videos of practices from the classes.
Students who participate in the whole series will provide valuable feedback with a final evaluation.
Yoga Nidra for Resilience Spring 2026 Series with Carol Mermey
Sundays, 4/12, 5/3, & 6/7 | 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm EST | Online | $20 /class
Resilience -- Returning to the wisdom of your body/mind to deal with life’s challenges – strengthening our ability to bounce back from adversity.
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Yoga Nidra, a guided meditative practice, can help you find a source of internal stability, clarity, and self-empowerment. It can ease tension and fatigue, calm the nervous system, and restore energy.
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In this series you’ll:
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Explore relaxation, breath, and meditation practices
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Gently prepare the body with movement for joints and muscles
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Experience a Yoga Nidra practice to help release tension, calm the nervous system, and restore energy.
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Yoga Nidra is practiced in a comfortable lying or seated position. No prior experience is needed — everyone is welcome. All registrants will receive recordings of these practices.
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Sundays 4/12, 5/3, & 6/7 | 5:00 - 6:00 pm | online | $20 per class or $55 for entire series
Playful Poses: Kids' Yoga with Susan Comfort
Sundays at 8:45 AM EST | In-Studio only
Discover the Magic of Movement with Susan!
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Join us for a yoga journey designed especially for growing bodies and curious minds. Our drop-off class twists traditional yoga into an adventure playground where elementary-aged explorers build strength, flexibility, and confidence through playful challenges that feel more like games than exercise.
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Meet Your Guides:
Susan brings bilingual instruction, 26 years of yoga experience, and circus-inspired teaching techniques.
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Each session will weave together physical activity, mindfulness practices, and cooperative games that help children develop body awareness, emotional regulation skills, and a sense of calm that extends beyond the yoga mat.
Space is limited! Siblings welcome. Reserve a spot today.
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Dates: Sundays, 3/1 - 4/26 || Time: 8:45am - 9:45am || Ages: 5-10
Nia: Yoga Dance with Suzannah Weiss
Sundays 11:30 AM EST | In-Studio only
Nia is the original, soul-stirring "JOY" workout, a mindful movement practice meticulously crafted to blend the best of nine distinct disciplines. By fusing three Dance Arts (Jazz, Modern, Duncan), three Martial Arts (Tai Chi, Taekwondo, Aikido), and three Healing Arts (Yoga, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais), Nia offers a unique, holistic experience often described as dancing yoga or Tai Chi in motion. These intentionally designed movements are set to wonderful music, and absolutely NO EXPERIENCE OR COORDINATION IS NECESSARY!
Every class and every move is created using the science, craft, and art of the body and its natural design. Supported by focused research on the brain, Nia is designed to create new neural pathways and support overall brain health. It provides a stimulating workout for all four of your "bodies"—physical, mental, emotional, and spirit—leaving you feeling energized, centered, and truly appreciated. Nia offers movement medicine for body and soul, inviting everyone to step onto a path of outrageously fun, embodied, and soulful fitness.
Note: This class is in-person ONLY.
Key Benefits of Nia
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Total Body Conditioning: Increases flexibility, agility, mobility, strength, and stability
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Encourages listening to your body, focusing on pleasure over pain, and finding your own pace.
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Boosts brain function and creates new neural pathways through conscious, varied movement.
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Stress Reduction: Blends mindfulness with motion, creating a meditative, joyous experience that clears mental fog.
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Accessibility: Suitable for all ages, body types, and fitness levels, from beginners to athletes.
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Tai Chi with Robert Anderson
Mondays | In person & Online | 7:45 PM​
Tai Chi is a gentle, low-impact exercise that originated in China as a martial art. It involves a series of slow, controlled movements and postures, along with deep breathing and a meditative state of mind. Tai Chi is often called "meditation in motion" because its designed to harmonize the body, mind, and energy levels. It can help with a variety of health concerns, including flexibility and strength, balance and coordination, stress and anxiety, depression, and pain relief.
Tai Chi has evolved from a martial art for combat and self-defense into a sport and form of exercise that's increasingly practiced all over the world. There are five popular styles of Tai Chi, each with its own unique methods, principles, and lineage.
Balanced Arts classes around Tai Chi are designed to introduce students to the Yang style of Tai Chi. Using seated, standing, and moving forms, the workshops leverage partner drills (push hands), as well as some Tai Chi ball and Chi Gong.
Class participants experience introductory basics as well as advanced movements and exercises in order to gain a full understanding of Tai Chi’s philosophy so that they can begin to incorporate it into their everyday wellness practice.​
