As the days grow colder and the nights are long, the rhythms of life naturally slow. Winter is the period of quiet germination necessary before rebirth and new beginnings can happen. The longer nights and colder weather promise a stillness that invites inner reflection, perhaps even growth and renewal. Winter solstice, the longest night, gives us an opportunity to explore and learn about resilience and hope in the face of darkness. Following the wisdom of our ancestors, the Solstice is an opportunity to break from modern life to come together in stillness and celebrate that more light is on its way.

Join Christy and Stephanie to harness the elements and energies of the Winter Solstice -- preparing body, mind and heart to move through the natural rhythms of season.

Teachers

Stephanie Henderson and Christy Brand

Cost

$45

This workshop is apart of a mindfulness series collaboration between community wellness professionals that offers a wide variety of self-care practices in support of the LGBTQIA and BiPOC community's health & wellness.

Supportive allies are welcome to attend, in solidarity with family and/or friends.

ECSTATIC DANCE

Sam Sharkey (she/they) is a Yoga Instructor, green-thumbed energy worker, mother, and a lover of all things pagan and sacred rituals/spirituality.

They infuse their whole being-ness into their classes, teaching from a place of authenticity and building genuine connections with their students.

Sam's ECSTATIC DANCE class extends from an ancient embodied yoga practice. She explains that, 

"Yoga postures connect us to ourselves, filling us with mental peace and bodily relaxation. That leads us all to the same place through free form movement, collective energy, and permission to play! Come let repetitive, uplifting music guide your body into its intuitive center. You'll leave feeling grounded, energized, and maybe even a little ECSTATIC! Come prepared to move off of your yoga mat and take up space!"

This class is beginner-friendly. Ecstatic Dance as a holistic practice is internally guided, so it is appropriate for all levels, all ages, and all bodies. Comfortable clothing wear is suggested.

Date

Saturday, December 14 from 11:30AM to 12:45PM

FEE

$25 per session or $99/4 sessions for the series.

**Please email Radiant Yoga for "pay what you can" options**

NEXT SESSIONS!

#1 - SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2024 
"PRIMAL YOGA, Coming Home!" w/Victoria Bates-Frye (she/her)

#2 - SATURDAY OCTOBER 12, 2024
"TAROT: for Self-Care" w/Josh Peterson (he/they) 

#3 - SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2024
"DRAG YOGA" w/Anaslaysia (she/her)

Do you wonder if you have anger and rage right under the surface but don’t know what to do with it? Have you been told to calm down your whole life, to keep quiet when you are angry? Are you afraid of your anger?  Can you feel anger rising up into your throat only to be constricted and restricted? Do you numb yourself rather than feel anger? Do you live in anger much of the time and are exhausted from it?  Or, are you exhausted at the effort to tamp it down? Are you anger-curious?

This workshop is a place to explore the process of feeling and then harnessing your anger into the wholeness of your life.  As Chelan Harken says,

Rage is recognition.

Rage is a love language of life for my entirety.

Rage is wildly in love with wholeness.

In this workshop, you can dip a toe in or jump in with your whole body. There will be group discussions, exploration of what our culture/s have told us about anger, feeling into the taboo of anger, and into anger itself through a variety of practices. We’ll practice listening to anger’s messages for us and moving into action with them. We’ll feel the power of anger and then see how once we understand anger’s messages, what remains is just the feeling of power itself, your own aliveness and wholeness.

Teacher

Marcia Miller

Cost

$65, with early bird rate of $55 by Dec 1

No recordings for this one.

Reiki Share (Practitioners Only)

Join us to deepen and explore your Reiki practice.

We invite all levels of Reiki practitioners from all lineages to join us and be part of our community as we share Reiki.  These sessions give each of us a chance to learn from one another and experience hands-on  giving and receiving Reiki.

We welcome all to join in community and practice together. Join us monthly.

Facilitator

Stephanie Henderson

Cost

Free

Let yourself be held in a candlelit sound bath with hands-on reiki to help release, restore, and realign your body, mind, and heart.

What will this class look like?

You will make yourself comfortable in the same way you would attend a hOm Sound Bath while gifted and loving reiki practitioner Andi Wesley and her team move peacefully throughout the room providing hands-on energy work. All you have to do is show up as you are, how you are, and rest. Please bring a yoga mat, blanket, and pillow.

What is reiki?

Reiki is a Japanese healing technique that uses gentle touch to promote relaxation and well-being. It is is a non-invasive therapy that involves a practitioner placing their hands on or near a client's body to guide energy and encourage self-healing. The word "reiki" means "universal life energy."

Teacher

Jesse Cale of hOm

What to bring

Please bring a yoga mat, blanket, and pillow. Props provided by Radiant. Please bring a pen, journal, and water.

Cost

$35

There's nothing quite like letting yourself rest and stretch while soaking in the vibrations of singing bowls.

Join Marina Zahran and Jesse Cale as they guide you through select restorative positions (bolsters and blocks provided) and bathe you in a tranquil sound scape to help you relax that much deeper into the restoration you deserve.

What will this class look like?

Marina will guide you into a restorative and restful position which you will stay in for five to ten minutes while sound is brought in by Jesse to help you sink deeper into not just physical relaxation, but mental/emotional relaxation. After five to ten minutes you will be moved into a new position and the sound will begin again. This is an excellent way to recover and release from a long week.

Teacher

Jesse Cale of hOm

What to bring

Please bring a yoga mat, blanket, and pillow. Props provided by Radiant. Please bring a pen, journal, and water.

Cost

$35

Reiki Share (Practitioners Only)

Join us to deepen and explore your Reiki practice.

We invite all levels of Reiki practitioners from all lineages to join us and be part of our community as we share Reiki.  These sessions give each of us a chance to learn from one another and experience hands-on  giving and receiving Reiki.

We welcome all to join in community and practice together. Join us monthly.

Facilitator

Stephanie Henderson

Cost

Free

Join hOm at Radiant for this tranquil and relaxing hOm Signature sound bath. Find your bliss and reconnect with your center as you bathe in the sounds of the gentle rainforest, soft ocean shores, calm rainfall, and more accompanied with crystal singing bowls. Our natural relationship with the environmental sounds combined with the purity of singing bowls encourages a deep sense of relaxation and restoration.

Teacher

Jesse Cale of hOm

What to bring

Bring your mat, pillow, and blanket to make yourself comfortable during the sound bath. An eye mask is also encouraged.

Cost

$28

In this FREE online gathering, join Reiki Masters Marcia Miller, Linda Oshins, Luann Jacobs, and others for a Reiki ritual on Zoom to support us during what for many is a stressful political season. What if, instead of fear and animosity, we invoke the loving energy that is Reiki, within ourselves and our group. We will re-attune everyone who joins, so as individuals and as a group we can reconnect with Reiki energy and each other. Re-attunement is a powerful meditative experience. As we feel this connection to infinite loving energy we can joyfully rededicate and recommit ourselves to bringing light to the many challenges of the world. We need each other and the world needs our LIGHT!

Anyone who has previously been attuned to Reiki from any lineage is welcome to join us. You need not be using Reiki regularly to join. We’ll end with a giant send to any and all challenging situations, people, animals, plant life, water creatures—anything that is near and dear to our hearts. We predict you will leave this event feeling lighter, more at ease and more filled with energy rather than feeling the density and anxiety that is so common these days. Those who register will receive more info closer to the event.

You can absolutely come for free AND donations will be accepted.

This one-hour Zoom session is Sunday, November 3

• 1:00p ET

• Noon CT

• 11:00 MT

• 10:00 PT

Event Leaders

Marcia Miller, Linda Oshins, and Luann Jacobs

Cost

Free or $10 donation

Join us for this one of a kind melty mash-up class where our teachers will combine passive Restorative Yoga postures, Guided Meditation and Thai Yoga Massage to create the ultimate relaxation experience, just in time for the Holidays.

In this session participants will be guided into restorative postures by Liz while Stella and Amy move around the room giving special hands on attention to each person, working on areas of the body that hold the most tension.

The practice of Thai Yoga Massage is a hands on stretching release of muscles and fascia, marma point (acupressure, trigger point release), and sen line (energy line) work that unwinds tight muscles and opens energy pathways to restore health and wellbeing to both the physical body and energetic bodies. It is a practice where both giver and receiver benefit from metta or loving kindness.

Restorative Yoga is like a grown up pillow fort of comfort where we use pillows and blankets to support the body so it can relax completely.

Teachers

Liz Baldridge, Stella Cornett, and Amy Patterson

Cost

$45

Reiki Share (Practitioners Only)

Join us to deepen and explore your Reiki practice.

We invite all levels of Reiki practitioners from all lineages to join us and be part of our community as we share Reiki.  These sessions give each of us a chance to learn from one another and experience hands-on  giving and receiving Reiki.

We welcome all to join in community and practice together. Join us monthly.

Facilitator

Stephanie Henderson

Cost

Free

Finding YOUR Balance as we move into Fall 

Each season brings its unique energy. Autumn, a busy time in preparation for Winter, is also a time of slowing.  As days grow shorter, we navigate the earth’s pull to slow and rest while soaking up the sun’s rays to store as days grow shorter and nights grow longer. Perhaps as we are actively enjoying the vibrant colors and activities of our fall days and nights, we long to lean into a different pace invited by the seasonal change. Or perhaps the chill in the air and the excitement of  fall activities brings excitement and wonder. Whatever Autumn is for you, Christy and Stephanie invite you to join them to learn more deeply about energies and elements of Autumn and explore your joy in the season and what supports you.

What to expect:

• Aromatherapy of the season

• Intention setting and contemplation

• Yoga Nidra meditation

• Energy of Community

You will receive:

• Reiki

• Journal

• Our specially selected offering to you  

Teachers

Stephanie Henderson and Christy Brand

Cost

$45

This workshop is apart of a mindfulness series collaboration between community wellness professionals that offers a wide variety of self-care practices in support of the LGBTQIA and BiPOC community's health & wellness.

Supportive allies are welcome to attend, in solidarity with family and/or friends.

PRIMAL YOGA, Coming Home!

Victoria Bates-Frye (she/her) has worked in the fitness industry for over 3 decades. She is registered in Yoga, Meditation, and Reiki, as well as an UZIT practitioner, an EMBER Trauma Sensitive Yoga and a Resilience-focused Yoga Teacher. Victoria is also an advanced Buti Yoga Instructor and a SUP Yoga Instructor, one of the few in Ohio.

Victoria is a lifelong learner and a true believer in transformation from the inside out. She is a Lupus warrior and is passionate about reminding her students that they are beautiful, worthy and that they too are warriors!

Her PRIMAL YOGA class focuses on “co-regulation”, “resiliency”, and “community”. All elements that provide a sense of feeling at “Home”.

Victoria states,

"I deeply believe that our spiritual siblings who belong to this community are needed in the world, and need spaces and practices that are "all the things" and then some! My desire is to create a practice and feeling of home, tapping into the PRIMAL of which every human shares! It will be primal yoga, primal community movement, primal breath work, some meditation, and lots of fun!"

Date

Saturday, September 21 from 11:30AM to 12:45PM

FEE

$25 per session or $99/4 sessions for the series.

**Please email Radiant Yoga for "pay what you can" options**

NEXT SESSIONS!

#2 - SATURDAY OCTOBER 12, 2024
"TAROT: for Self-Care" w/Josh Peterson (he/they)

#3 - SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2024
"DRAG YOGA" w/Anaslaysia (she/her)

#4 - SATURDAY DECEMBER 14, 2024
"ECSTATIC DANCE" w/Sam Sharkey (she/they)

Reiki Share (Practitioners Only)

Join us to deepen and explore your Reiki practice.

We invite all levels of Reiki practitioners from all lineages to join us and be part of our community as we share Reiki.  These sessions give each of us a chance to learn from one another and experience hands-on  giving and receiving Reiki.

We welcome all to join in community and practice together. Join us monthly.

Facilitator

Stephanie Henderson

Cost

Free

Reiki Share (Practitioners Only)

Join us to deepen and explore your Reiki practice.

We invite all levels of Reiki practitioners from all lineages to join us and be part of our community as we share Reiki.  These sessions give each of us a chance to learn from one another and experience hands-on  giving and receiving Reiki.

We welcome all to join in community and practice together. Join us monthly.

Facilitator

Stephanie Henderson

Cost

Free

Spend a Saturday afternoon with your friend, partner or family member feeling relaxed and blissed out! Thai Yoga (or Nuad Boran) is a mix of yoga postures and gentle stretching with palming & thumbing techniques applied to energy lines and pressure points. It can help to relieve stress, muscular tension, and restore an energetic balance in the body.

In this workshop, Stella will guide you through a gentle and soothing sequence of assisted yoga stretches and compression poses. Using hands, elbows, knees and feet, you will work with a partner in both giving and receiving a Thai Yoga Massage.

The purpose of this workshop is for relaxation and it is not a training. Please wear loose clothing that you can move in (e.g., yoga clothes or lounge wear) and make sure you wear long pants because that will feel more comfortable during the massage.

Teachers

Stella Cornett

Cost

$45 per person

Learn more about our upcoming 200 Hour Teacher Training with our organizers Aimee Pruitt and Jenn Gebhart! Details and and the application form for the training can be found here.

Cost

Free

"Queer Yoga", sponsored by Queer Behavior, is a mindfulness-based program offered to the LGBTQ+ community, as well as supportive allies.

The program features a variety of styles, but mainly integrates Restorative Yoga, Hatha Yoga, and/or Vinyasa Yoga coupled with meditation & breathwork. Each class offering is beginner-friendly, with modifications included for more advanced practitioners.

Queer Behavior supports diversity & inclusion within the QY teacher rotation, to honor the fact that representation matters for students. All students are welcomed and affirmed.

Dates

MONTHLY - Second Saturdays 11:30am

Teachers

Sam Sharkey (she/they)
Sarah Dryer (she/they)

Cost

DONATION-BASED - The suggested donation is $10-15. However, ALL donations will be accepted. No one will be turned away due to their financial constraints.

The loss of a beloved can be one of the most agonizing, even obliterating, times in a person’s life.  If the death was unexpected or through violence, there will likely be shock and the inability to comprehend what has happened as well.

What does the nervous system have to do with all this?  Everything! When we can add wise work with the nervous system to the experience of grief, there can also be a sense of sacred presence to what is happening, as well as ideas of what might be helpful, if anything. There is also the possibility for deep connection: with family, community, and eventually something bigger, even as the pain of grief is present. There may even eventually be a sense of connection to the person who is physically gone.

When you feel safe and supported in community, your grief will have a very different flavor, one that bonds you to others. Since we live in a culture that is death-phobic (a phrase coined by Stephen Jenkinson), it is especially important to care for ourselves and each other during these life-altering experiences, and to explore and create meaningful rituals that support the needs of the whole community.

Together we’ll explore the trajectory of grief through states of the nervous system with support through poetry, writing and drawing, conversation, movement, and a few good questions.

 Saturday, Aug 3, 1:00 to 3:30p ET in person and online through Zoom.  Because of the personal and shared nature of this experience, you must attend in real time.

Teacher

Marcia Miller

Cost

$55

Learn more about our upcoming 200 Hour Teacher Training with our organizers Aimee Pruitt and Jenn Gebhart! Details and and the application form for the training can be found here.

Cost

Free

Learn more about our upcoming 200 Hour Teacher Training with our organizers Aimee Pruitt and Jenn Gebhart! Details and and the application form for the training can be found here.

Cost

Free

Reiki Share (Practitioners Only)

Join us to deepen and explore your Reiki practice.

We invite all levels of Reiki practitioners from all lineages to join us and be part of our community as we share Reiki.  These sessions give each of us a chance to learn from one another and experience hands-on  giving and receiving Reiki.

We welcome all to join in community and practice together. Join us monthly.

Facilitator

Stephanie Henderson

Cost

Free

Join Brittny Manos for a special workshop experience. The spirit is the seat of our emotion and true nature and to know our spirit is to know the very essence of our being. Each workshop invokes a feeling told through a story of the moon, water, earth, sun, air, or fire woven with movement and meditation. We will use ancient and modern practices to guide our intentions and to discover new ways to be in relationship with ourselves and this wild word.

What to expect:

• intention setting and journaling

• asana movement

• restorative postures

• Reiki

You will receive:

• Workshop journal

• Ritual offering

Teacher

Brittny Manos

Cost

$45

"Queer Yoga", sponsored by Queer Behavior, is a mindfulness-based program offered to the LGBTQ+ community, as well as supportive allies.

The program features a variety of styles, but mainly integrates Restorative Yoga, Hatha Yoga, and/or Vinyasa Yoga coupled with meditation & breathwork. Each class offering is beginner-friendly, with modifications included for more advanced practitioners.

Queer Behavior supports diversity & inclusion within the QY teacher rotation, to honor the fact that representation matters for students. All students are welcomed and affirmed.

Dates

MONTHLY - Second Saturdays 11:30am

Teachers

Sam Sharkey (she/they)
Sarah Dryer (she/they)

Cost

DONATION-BASED - The suggested donation is $10-15. However, ALL donations will be accepted. No one will be turned away due to their financial constraints.

In this free online gathering, join Reiki Masters Marcia Miller, Linda Oshins, Luann Jacobs, and others for a Reiki ritual to honor the summer solstice. We will re-attune everyone who joins, so as individuals and as a group we can reconnect with Reiki energy and each other. Re-attunement is a powerful meditative experience. As we feel this connection to infinite loving energy we can joyfully rededicate and recommit ourselves to bringing light to the many challenges of the world. We need each other!

Anyone who has previously been attuned to Reiki from any lineage is welcome to join us. You need not be using Reiki regularly to join. We’ll end with a giant send to any and all people, animals, plant life, water creatures, and all situations that are near and dear to our hearts. Those who register will receive more info closer to the event.

This one-hour Zoom session is Sunday, June 23

• 1:00p ET

• Noon CT

• 11:00 MT

• 10:00 PT

Event Leaders

Marcia Miller, Linda Oshins, and Luann Jacobs

Cost

$10 donation (if financial concerns are a barrier, please contact the studio at info@radiantyogaandwellness.com for free admission)

As we have learned in the Polyvagal workshops over the last few years, one of the states of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) is the Dorsal Vagal (DV).  Most of the nerves in this system are located like a web in the belly, and when activated (as the Polyvagal Theory goes) take us into a collapsed and dissociated state.  This is a very good thing if you are being eaten by a tiger—you don’t want to be consciously there for that—and now some of us are wondering if there is much more to what happens in this state.  In fact, Gabriel Kram (one of my main teachers of the ANS) thinks that there are at least 3 dorsalities, and how we get into our collapsed state determines what might help us to come back into our lives.  He suggests that the three entry ways into dorsal vagal are shock, burnout, and grief. I have had many experiences in my life that lead me to believe this is true, and as a yogi, I have explored practices that support each of these experiences back into connection a connected (Ventral Vagal state).

In this workshop, we’ll lay out the ideas and then enjoy practices that will enliven our bellies in gentle yet powerful and even fun ways.

Class will be in person (space is limited) and on livestream.  Recordings will also be available for those who can’t be there in person.

Teacher

Marcia Miller

Cost

$55

Reiki Share (Practitioners Only)

Join us to deepen and explore your Reiki practice.

We invite all levels of Reiki practitioners from all lineages to join us and be part of our community as we share Reiki.  These sessions give each of us a chance to learn from one another and experience hands-on  giving and receiving Reiki.

We welcome all to join in community and practice together. Join us monthly.

Facilitator

Stephanie Henderson

Cost

Free