Summer with YOGAMOTIF
YOGAMOTIF has a schedule packed with summer fun, and we are so excited about these collaborations and workshops with our partners.
In July and August, you can find us in the community working with the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh! We have curated meditation and yoga practices centered around family, whatever that may look like for you.
All of us at YOGAMOTIF, recognize how yoga can benefit adults and children of all ages, and that many m/others and families may find it difficult to incorporate a yoga practice into their full lives. So, it is important to us to center and uplift these communities and create spaces where they are welcome and celebrated.
Our values rest at the intersection of healing and the arts, empowered by a regular yoga practice, movement ritual, and participation in creative activities that support well-being.
Creating these offerings has been a joyful opportunity to challenge the standard formats of meditation and yoga, and offer practices that welcome artistry, laughter, playfulness, and permission to go with the flow.
We hope to see you around this summer!
Read more about each workshop and when/where they will be offered below:
Meditation Garden Series
Carnegie Museum of Art
July 6th + 27th, August 17th
10 - 10:45 am + 12 - 1:30 pm
Yoga Guides: Jacquelin Walker, Sheba Gittens, & Alecia Dawn Young
Registrations links included below
Description:
Move, create, and meditate during an afternoon of embodied awareness. This creative wellness experience invites guests to explore a sampling of meditation modalities created to inspire human flourishing and broader well-being. Curated by the founder of YOGAMOTIF, Alecia Dawn Young, this series brings local yoga and meditation guides to exhibit the vastness in which meditation might be expressed. Designed to meet you exactly where you are in your mediation practice, meditations include sound, food, movement, art making, and stillness. Explore the definition of mindfulness and consider the meaning of creativity in your own meditation practice.
Schedule Detail
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Guided Meditation/Yoga Practice
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Drop in Meditation Workshop
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Drop in Meditation Workshop
7/6 Meditation for Movement/Yoga/Energy
Join Jacquelin Walker during this movement practice, grounded in yoga asana postures, designed to explore rhythm and play. Sequence, repetition, and fluid motion invite guests to sync breath and body. Explore gentleness or energize your body during this all-levels standing and floor practice.
7/27 Meditation for Grounding/HeARTwork
This Rest Stop Meditation with Sheba Gittens is an invitation to pause and bring us into our bodies with movement, breath work, and stillness. When we think of a rest stop we think of an opportunity to simply exist and bear witness to ourselves. We know that resting doesn’t always feel safe and life can often feel full. This series invites you to find your own sense of comfort, within yourself, as a home base.
8/17 Meditation for Creativity
This seated practice explores guided and stillness meditations designed to make space for clarity and creative exploration as a daily practice. Join Alecia Dawn Young as we build upon simple meditation and breathwork techniques to inspire openness and reflection for creative thinking. Prepare for this practice by bringing a blanket or meditation cushion to sit on. No previous experience is necessary.
All Levels Yoga for Families
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
July 9th, 2024
12:00pm + 12:30pm
Yoga Guide: Heather Manning
Register for a daily admission ticket here.
Description:
Breathe, move, and look inward during this gentle yoga practice inviting families to slow down and reflect together. Children, parents, and caregivers will take a moment to pause and experience 20-minutes of gentle and playful movements for your creative center. This all-levels gentle practice may include seated, floor, and standing postures with variations available throughout. Prepare for this practice by wearing clothes that invite ease and free movement.
Family Yoga
KST: The Alloy School
Saturdays, July 13 – August 10, 2024
10:00am – 10:50am
Yoga Guides: Jacquelin Walker + Heather Manning
Description:
Come with your family! This Hatha Yoga class playfully explores creating shapes with our bodies, syncing breath with movement, and cultivating mindful thoughts. This workshop is a community partnership with YOGAMOTIF, a creative wellness studio that offers art and yoga classes to youth, pregnant people, and the community at large.
