past events:

sunday may 13, 12:30 - 3 pm

chakras or energy centers correlate to different levels of consciousness, archetypal elements, developmental stages of life, colors and body functions. chakra six or ajna refers to archetypal identity, oriented to self-gratification; chakra seven or sahasrara refers to universal identity oriented to self knowledge.

a balanced chakra six exhibits good intuition, memory, ability to access and remember dreams, to visualize and think symbolically; a balanced chakra seven exhibits intelligence, open-mindedness, a sense of spiritual connection and wisdom. yoga poses for accessing and healing chakra six and seven will be taught in the workshop.

join internationally celebrated yoga instructor sarah powers for four days of yin yoga training. this intensive weekend will touch on the physical and energetic details of deepening our understanding of our vital energy (prana or qi) while understanding how a yin practice affects the meridian system and specific organs to enhance harmony of being. we will also explore the emotional component of yin yoga as well as buddhist mindfulness meditation. for more information contact nandini@boundlessyoga.com

thursday 5.31.2007
exploring mindfulness in yoga.
boundless yoga studio, 1522 u street,nw
6.30p-8.30p
cost: $40

aug 11-12
9-5 p

this two-day training with itsy bitsy yoga founder, helen garabedian, prepares you to become a certified tot itsy bitsy yoga facilitator (CIBYF). the session offers the most comprehensive yoga program and facilitator training for teaching yoga to young children and their parents. come learn the nurturing IBY philosophy and discover the techniques created by Helen Garabedian and used by over 100 certified IBY facilitators worldwide. for cost, registration and more information please visit www.itsybitsyyoga.com

we’re getting together with the businesses highlighted in the NY Times article (see our press section) to celebrate boundless, business in DC, and the re-greening of the earth!

yoga is the practice of moving from the gross to the subtle. we first learn asana, and how the breath fills the physical structure that we change, pose to pose, moment to moment. once we arrive at the subtler aspects of the practice, what, then, does the practice become?

learn tonight from kim about a brief history of yoga, its basic philosophic tenets, and how the details of the inner world unfold the quieter we become. kim will discuss the value of asana, contemplation, breath, and meditation as part of the yoga ashtanga system, and she welcomes questions about the myriad ways we deepen a yoga practice, both on the yoga mat and out in the world.

get two free tickets to the green festival with a purchase of $130 or more! supply of tickets limited, so buy now! support your favorite teacher at the festival, and learn more about all things green!

11 a stu–vinyasa

12 p james–yoga and ki chung

1 p kristen–core yoga

2 p andrea–transdance and yoga

3 p kim–chakra yoga

4 p kim– yoga basics

5 p jeanette–vinyasa yoga

6 p jeanette–yogilates

get two free tickets to the green festival with a purchase of $130 or more! supply of tickets limited, so buy now!  support your favorite teacher at the festival, and learn more about all things green!

12 p chaka–hatha yoga

1 p chaka–yoga for guys

2 p stu–vinyasa yoga

3 p orly–yoga basics

4 p orly–meditation and yoga

wring out the old, ring in the new!
12-2 pm
a new year’s day workshop, with liana brooks-rubin
$25

set your intentions — and your asana practice — out on the right foot for 2008! a boundless tradition (one that comes to us from one of our favorite studios, sun and moon studio in virginia), this workshop will help you **wring** out the toxins accumulated from 2007 (and maybe just from the night before!), and ring in the new year, yoga style!

january 13-february 10
with susan and catherine
$120

this session lasts five weeks and teaches the basic poses, breath patterns, and orientation to a standard yoga class. an essential building block for those interested in starting or re-learning yoga for the new year!

igniting the core: inversions and arm balances
130-4 p
$35

tired of the cold weather? learn how to warm yourself up from the inside out in this vigorous, challenging, and fun practice. this workshop will focus on asanas, pranayamas, and kriyas that build heat, increase vitality, boost circulation, and get us in touch with our inner fire. learn how to create lift and lightness in the abdomen to support all your poses and increase strength without strain. suitable for intermediate and strong advanced beginner practitioners. prerequisites are the ability to come into handstand, headstand, and tripod headstand unassisted (at the wall is fine), a firm understanding of standing poses and sun salutations.

february 24-march 30
with susan and catherine
$120

this session lasts six weeks and teaches the basic poses, breath patterns, and orientation to a standard yoga class. an essential building block for those interested in starting or re-learning yoga for the new year!

teacher series, pt 1: beginning poses and classes
with kim weeks, boundless founder
4-6 p, $25

for teachers and teacher trainees. spend time building community with teachers and trainees both in and outside the boundless community. learn the boundless approach to teaching beginning-level students. as with teaching the basics of discipline, beginning-level teachers often struggle with many aspects of the beginner yoga class: how much or how little information to convey, how to teach the fundamentals of intermediate poses (to keep advanced-beginners challenged) without losing the total newbies, and how to keep students engaged in the process of the yoga, an orientation of the mind rather than a goal to accomplish.

in 2008, boundless will teach four two-hour workshops, required for boundless yoga teachers, that explore the mechanics of teaching a good yoga class. you must either be a yoga teacher, or in training to become one, to take this workshop.

saturday, april 5, 2-6 pm

Join area master yogi Doug Keller for a strong asana class directed toward developing more awareness of the bandhas in your body as you move from pose to pose. The focus of the workshop is to develop the use of the bandhas as keys to strength and alignment as you move from pose to pose.

Doug will first describe the actions and effects of each of the bandhas physically and energetically. The bandhas are simple yet powerful muscular actions in the area of the pelvic floor (mula), lower abdominals (uddiyana), head, neck and shoulders (jalandhara) — which align these key areas, providing optimal strength, support, protection to the joints, as well as freedom in both the supple physical movement of vinyasa and the subtleties of the breath. In the case of pranayama and meditation, the bandhas support greater and more extended periods of stillness and concentration. Some simple exercises will be introduced to support your practice of the bandhas as part of this introduction.

Then he’ll lead a vinyasa-based asana class that will incorporate the bandhas into the weave of breath and movement. The basic exercises for the bandhas will be incorporated into the flow. The original texts of hatha yoga cite the bandhas as being crucial to having a fruitful asana practice.

This workshop will help you examine the powerfully supportive qualities of these bandhas in your own body. The extended length of the workshop will allow time to end with a period of guided (seated) pranayama techniques and meditation which incorporate the actions of the bandhas. advanced beginners to intermediate students.

all levels

april 6-june 8
sundays, 4-530 p

our newest member of the semi-private teaching team, stu is taking all levels of practitioners into this 10-week series! in this class with stu, you’ll take a different, longer look at the breath and how it affects your postures, and you’ll be taking on a variety of poses, “easy” to “challenging.” get deeper into your practice no matter what your level!

april 6-may 11
Sundays, 530-630

think “downward dog” is a command for your labrador? can’t tell your asana from your elbow? this six-week session teaches the basic poses, breath patterns, and orientations encountered in a standard yoga class. it’s an essential building block for those interested in starting or re-learning the fundamentals of yoga.

spring cleaning: detoxing with twists! with kristen krash
130-4 p

while practicing yoga can be viewed as exercise and something to get you “in shape,” yoga differs from other exercise in its ability to strengthen, tone, and cleanse internal organs. join kristen as she highlights the use of twisting postures to detoxify organs that get clogged during winter. tone the liver, kidneys, and spleen, and stretch and enliven the spine. this intensive workshop is appropriate for advanced beginner to intermediate students. pre-requisites: strong head- and shoulder-stand, familiarity with variations, firm understanding of standing poses.

sunday may 4
130 - 4 p

are we in control of our own happiness? why do depression and anxiety arise? What does yoga, a tradition thousands of years old, have to say about these conditions that affect a growing proportion of the u.s. population each year?

This practical hands-on workshop will arm you with the following tools for your quest in understanding and combatting depression and anxiety in the short and long term:

– physical postures for working on the level of the physical body
– breathing techniques for working on the level of the breath
– meditations for working on the level of the mind/heart
– yogic philosophy to put these tools into context

$30 pre-register online/ $35 same day in-person

May 18 - June 22
Sundays 530-630 p

think “downward dog” is a command for your labrador? can’t tell your asana from your elbow? this six-week session teaches the basic poses, breath patterns, and orientations encountered in a standard yoga class. it’s an essential building block for those interested in starting or re-learning the fundamentals of yoga.

may 22 - july 10
thursdays 730 - 930 a

this experimental class forms the building blocks of the 2009 boundless yoga healing energy program, which kim weeks, boundless founder and energy healer, is currently building. the class, led by kim, will teach hands-on healing work in a safe learning environment formed by a sacred circle.

friday june 6, 7 - 930p (kirtan concert and philosophy), $20
saturday june 7, 12 - 2p, $30
sunday june 8, 10-12p, $30

Tibetan Heart Yoga is a practice where one works from
the inside and the outside. One works from the inside
with meditation and from the outside with pranayama,
asana, and ethical practices.

The Tibetan Heart Yoga lineage traces its roots back through Tibet to ancient India. It is a compassion and wisdom based practice that weaves philosophy, meditation, and breath work with the physical postures. If you are looking to set your practice on fire with authentic teachings taken directly from the ancient texts and masters, please join us for the first ever Tibetan Heart Yoga workshop in Washington, DC! All levels encouraged.






Mira Shani is a founding member, North American
Regional Executive Director and Senior Staff teacher
of the Yoga Studies Institute. She’s been studying and
teaching yoga, philosophy and Buddhist Dharma for over
10 years. She is a close student of Geshe Michael
Roach and Lama Christie McNally, who she came in
contact with while studying at Kopan Monastery in
Nepal. She also studies closely with Anusara Founder,
John Friend and travels around the country and world
to teach. Mira lives in Arizona where she studies with
her heart Teachers and teaches at Yoga Oasis. Mira
also hosts a local radio show called the Chill Side on
92.9, The Mountain.

Pay online for the full workshop or to register for one or two of the sessions, please call or stop by the studio (202-234-9642)

saturday june 7
130 - 4 p

Using meditation, imagery, and physical asana
taken from ancient texts on the Machine of the body
and the Kalachakra Tantra, Mira will lead us through a
practice that harnesses the power of the inner winds
and helps us relate to our body on a level beneath the
gross physical plane.

Series 4 is a beautiful, vigorous practice that
includes meditating on the five vayus: prana vayu,
udana vayu, samana vayu, apana vayu, and viyana vayu.
The five vayus run through the inner body, underlying
not only our health and well-being but also our
experience of the outer world. Be prepared to
transform your physical practice by re-imaging your
perception of the body and to explore your
understanding of the inner body’s relationship to the
outer world.

teacher series, pt 2: beginning poses and classes
with kim weeks, boundless founder
4-6 p

for teachers and teacher trainees. spend time building community with teachers and trainees both in and outside the boundless community. learn the boundless approach to teaching beginning-level students. as with teaching the basics of discipline, beginning-level teachers often struggle with many aspects of the beginner yoga class: how much or how little information to convey, how to teach the fundamentals of intermediate poses (to keep advanced-beginners challenged) without losing the total newbies, and how to keep students engaged in the process of the yoga, an orientation of the mind rather than a goal to accomplish.

in 2008, boundless will teach four two-hour workshops, required for boundless yoga teachers, that explore the mechanics of teaching a good yoga class. you must either be a yoga teacher, or in training to become one, to take this workshop.

saturday jun 14
130 - 4p

yoga is a 5000 year old tradition with myriad health benefits for everyone from the first-time student to the most practiced yogi. don’t spend another sleepless night wondering if there is another way to help you battle insomnia. join us for this workshop that will help participants learn how the practice of yoga can improve sleeplessness with specific techniques that will help you fall asleep naturally.

$30 online pre-register/ $35 day of

june 16 - august 18
mondays 630 - 745 p

enjoy the benefits of private sessions without the cost! this series is a small class (max.10 participants) in which kim works with each practitioner to identify energetic and physical challenges in the poses. the community aspect of the class is a big plus, and your practice will deepen through personal attention. call or stop by the studio to enroll, as the class will fill quickly.

for advanced beginners to intermediate students

saturday june 21
2 -3 p

if you are interested in the boundless yoga teacher training program come attend one of our free info sessions! some of our teacher trainees and the boundless teacher training faculty will be there to answer your questions!

saturday july 19
2 -3 p

if you are interested in the boundless yoga teacher training program come attend one of our free info sessions! some of our teacher trainees and the boundless teacher training faculty will be there to answer your questions!

july 24 - sept 11
thursdays 730 - 930 a

this experimental class forms the building blocks of the 2009 boundless yoga healing energy program, which kim weeks, boundless founder and energy healer, is currently building. the class, led by kim, will teach hands-on healing work in a safe learning environment formed by a sacred circle.

teacher series, pt. 3: intermediate and advanced poses/classes
with kim weeks, boundless yoga founder
4-6 p

teacher series, pt. 4: intermediate and advanced poses/classes
with kim weeks, boundless yoga founder
4-6 p