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THE IMPOSSIBLE, LOVED

Summer Yoga Series on Psyche & Eros

 

Mondays & Thursdays

7:00–7:45am

June 22 – August 6

$140 - Register Now

{Live online & Recordings included}

 

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

— Rumi

 

 

The Summer Journey

 

There is an ancient myth about a soul who loved something she could not see, lost it by looking too closely, and spent a long time earning her way back. Making the impossible - possible.

 

Her name is Psyche. And scholars of myth have found her in every culture on earth — her story told in different languages, different landscapes, different centuries — because it belongs to all of us. It is the oldest map of the soul’s journey through love. To love means to withstand many endings, and many beginnings.

 

This summer, we follow her — through innocence, rupture, and four tasks the world calls impossible — on the mat, in the breath, in the body. The four tasks given by Aphrodite are not obstacles to love - they are the very substance of it. Love is not only about relationships, it is also an affair of the soul. 

 

Each of the 14 classes unfolds one movement of the story alongside one layer of the soul’s own unfolding. Where the myth goes, the body follows. Where the body opens, the soul remembers.

 

•  Suitable for all levels. Props welcomed and encouraged. 45 minutes - enough time to go deep, short enough to carry into your day •  

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​​14 Classes for the Soul in Love

 

Class 1  —  Monday, June 22

The Soul Before She Knows Herself

   Psyche is radiant and unaware. Worshipped, but unseen. We begin here — arriving fully, without agenda, into the body we actually have today. Not the body we’re working toward. This one. Now.

Peak Pose:  Savasana as opening, not closing — the radical act of full arrival.

 

Class 2  —  Thursday, June 25

The God Who Fell

   Eros comes to destroy her and instead is undone. Love does not ask permission. This class works with desire as a spiritual current — the pull toward practice, toward depth, toward something we cannot yet name. What moves you? Follow it.

Peak Pose:  Camatkarasana — Wild Thing. The heart flung open, the body surrendered mid-flight.

 

Class 3  —  Monday, June 29

Loving What You Cannot See

   Psyche lives in an invisible palace, tended by invisible hands, loved in the dark. A class of pure inner sensing — eyes closed, breath as guide, the body’s own intelligence trusted completely. The soul knows more than the eyes.

Peak Pose:  Natarajasana — Dancer’s Pose. Balance found not by looking down, but by softening the gaze inward.

 

Class 4  —  Thursday, July 2

The Voices That Doubt

   The sisters arrive with their questions. Is it real? Are you sure? Don’t be a fool. Every practitioner knows these voices. This class builds the inner fire that burns through borrowed fear — strong, grounded, unapologetic.

Peak Pose:  Virabhadrasana — Warrior I - 2 - 3. The body as declaration. I am here. I choose this.

 

Class 5  —  Monday, July 6

The Lamp

   She looks. She sees. She loses everything. And the path truly begins. The most honest class of the series — the moment we stop practicing yoga and start living it. Seeing clearly always costs something. It also gives everything.

Peak Pose:  Anjaneyasana — Low Lunge. One knee down. Heart forward. The exact posture of someone who has lost something and is still moving.

 

Class 6  —  Thursday, July 9

What the Soul Does With Grief

   Before Psyche acts, she feels. Completely. This class does not rush past the ache into the fix. Long holds, slow breath, the floor as friend. Grief moved through the body becomes the very ground the soul stands on.

Peak Pose:  Paschimottanasana — Seated Forward Fold. The full weight of the self, surrendered forward. Nothing held back.

 

Class 7  —  Monday, July 13

Walking Toward What Frightens You

   Psyche goes directly to Aphrodite. The force that sought her destruction. She does not hide. She asks: what must I do? This is the bravest moment in the myth — and the most transformative posture in practice: facing the edge without armour.

Peak Pose:  Ustrasana — Camel. The throat open, the chest unguarded. Exposed and unafraid.

 

Class 8  —  Thursday, July 16

The Art of Sorting

   One task: sort the chaos into meaning by nightfall. Impossible — until the mind grows still enough to discern. This class is devoted to viveka, the yoga of clear seeing. When the inner noise quiets, the soul always knows which seed belongs where.

Peak Pose:  Sukhasana Pranayama — Simple seat, Nadi Shodhana. The breath as the great sorter of what is essential.

 

Class 9  —  Monday, July 20

The Wisdom of Waiting

   Gather the golden fleece — but not by force. Wait. Let the rams pass. Then take what the brambles hold. A fluid, unhurried class on the intelligence of timing. The soul that has learned to wait has learned everything.

Peak Pose:  Yin Dragon — long, low, unmoving. Power received through absolute stillness.

 

Class 10  —  Thursday, July 23

Let the Eagle Carry It

   The waterfall is impossible. The vessel too small. Then the eagle descends and takes it from her hands. Some tasks were never meant to be carried alone. This class practices the most difficult posture of all: genuine surrender to what is larger than us.

Peak Pose:  Garudasana - Eagle. What feels like restriction reveals itself as flight. The eagle does not strain. It rises by trusting the current beneath its wings. 

 

Class 11  —  Monday, July 27

The Willing Descent

   Into the underworld. Willingly. With instructions she trusts but does not fully understand. The deepest class of the series — a slow, somatic journey into the body’s own underground. What lives in the dark of you that practice has not yet reached?

Peak Pose:  Yoga Nidra as the descent itself — consciousness lowered, willingly, into the deepest layer of the self.

 

Class 12  —  Thursday, July 30

She Opens the Box

   She was told not to. She does anyway. The soul collapses on the road. This class holds the most human moment in the myth without judgement — the old pattern, the familiar wound, the beautiful relapse. Every practitioner knows this road. None of us are past it.

Peak Pose:  Supta Baddha Konasana — Reclined Bound Angle. The body open, on the ground, completely surrendered. Not defeat. Readiness.

 

Class 13  —  Monday, August 3

Love Finds What Fell

   Eros finds her. Wipes the sleep from her eyes. Returns — not as the hidden beloved, but as the fully known one. This class is wide open: backbends, breath, the unguarded heart after everything it has been through. This is what love looks like on the other side of the impossible.

Peak Pose:  Urdhva Dhanurasana — Full Wheel. The soul arched open toward the sky. Nothing hidden. Nothing held.

 

Class 14  —  Thursday, August 6

The Soul, Luminous

   She is made immortal. Not despite the tasks — because of them. This final class moves through every thread of the journey and ends in stillness. The soul that arrived on June 22nd and the soul that rests here today are not the same. That is the whole point.

Peak Pose:  A Potpourri of mixed asana poses to carry the scent of love within.

Seven weeks. Four impossible tasks. One luminous soul.

Love made it possible.

"It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone."

- Marion Woodman

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart."

- Carl Jung

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