On-line Spring Yoga Challenge
28 Day Yoga Challenge. Commit to your practice. Commit to yourself.
Yoga & Dharma: Staying Steady with an Open Heart
Inner calm comes from a deep embrace of change.
Yoga & Dharma: Authentically Yourself: The Power of Truthfulness
Inner calm comes from a deep embrace of change.
Sunday Morning In - Person Yoga
Join me for an old-fashioned in person vinyasa yoga class. Let’s move together! Registration is limited to 20 students
Beginner's Mind: Nature, Mindfulness, & Yoga
Join us at Refuge at Pudding Creek, a retreat center in a redwood forest, for a summer retreat exploring curiosity and openess.
On-line Fall Yoga Challenge
28 Day Yoga Challenge. Commit to your practice. Commit to yourself.
Spring Work Retreat: Yoga, Mindfulness & Nature
Join us at Refuge at Pudding Creek, a retreat center in a redwood forest, for a spring retreat. The 40+ apple trees should be in bloom this weekend!
In - Person Vinyasa Yoga
Join me for an old-fashioned in person vinyasa yoga class. Let’s move together! Registration is limited to 20 students
Don't Believe Everything You Think; The Power of Thought
The mind can be a powerful ally in life when we care for it and understand it’s nature.
Back To Basics: 8 Week On-Line Yoga & Dharma
Explore and learn! Yoga Asana and the Buddha’s Path
Yoga & Dharma: An In-Person Exploration of Power and Choice
Power, strength, and choice belong to each of us.
Explore true inner power and choice in this in person workshop series. Practices such as mindfulness, letting go, equanimity, truthfulness, and self-compassion support awareness of power and choice. Cultural and personal views impact our own sense of inner agency. We will investigate how much choice we actually have and what true inner power feels like.
On-line New Year Yoga Challenge
28 Day Yoga Challenge. Commit to your practice. Commit to yourself.
On-line October Yoga Challenge
28 Day Yoga Challenge. Commit to your practice. Commit to yourself.
Apple Harvest: Yoga, Mindfulness & Nature Retreat
Join us at Refuge at Pudding Creek, a retreat center in a redwood forest, for a special Fall harvest retreat. We will be a small group of people, no more than 10, practicing together to renew ourselves with nature, community, and the twin practices of yoga and meditation. Plan to spend lots of time outside, to laugh, and to eat wholesome delicious vegetarian food. There will be space for you to be alone and space for us to connect. We will stand still, reflect, and bathe in the natural world so that you can return to your life revitalized and inspired. Weather permitting, we will make apple cider on Saturday afternoon. Evenings and mornings will be in silence to deepen your retreat experience.
Back To Basics: 8 Week On-Line Yoga & Dharma
Explore and learn! Yoga asana and the Buddha’s 8 Fold Path
Shine Like the Sun: Solstice Yoga, Mindfulness & Nature Retreat
Join us at Refuge at Pudding Creek, a retreat center in a redwood forest, for a summer retreat. We will be a small group of people practicing together to renew ourselves with nature, community, and the twin practices of yoga and meditation. Plan to spend lots of time outside, to laugh, and to eat wholesome delicious vegetarian food.
Apple Blossom Retreat: Yoga, Mindfulness & Nature
Join us at Refuge at Pudding Creek, a retreat center in a redwood forest, for a spring retreat. The 40+ apple trees should be in bloom this weekend!
Flying Free On-Line Women's Group
Join a group of vibrant and compassionate women exploring the integration of spiritual teachings into the messiness of everyday life.
Yoga Challenge for the New Year
28 Day Yoga Challenge. Commit to your practice. Commit to yourself.
Yoga & Dharma On-line Thanksgiving Holiday Workshop
On-line Thanksgiving holiday workshop on inter-connectedness
An Exploration of Power and Choice
Explore power and choice in this afternoon workshop. See where your true power lies. Practices such as mindfulness and metta (loving-kindness) support awareness of power and choice. Cultural and personal views impact our own sense of inner agency. How much choice do you actually have? What does true inner power feel like? Power, strength, and choice lie within each of us.
September Yoga Challenge
30 Day Yoga Challenge. Commit to your practice. Commit to yourself.
Shine Like the Sun: Yoga, Mindfulness & Nature Retreat
Join us at Refuge at Pudding Creek, a retreat center in a redwood forest, for a summer retreat. We will be a small group of people practicing together to renew ourselves with nature, community, and the twin practices of yoga and meditation. Plan to spend lots of time outside, to laugh, and to eat wholesome delicious vegetarian food.
Flying Free
Join a group of vibrant and compassionate women exploring the integration of spiritual teachings into the messiness of everyday life.
Ease & Effortlessness: Yoga, Mindfulness & Nature Retreat
Join us at Refuge at Pudding Creek, a retreat center in a redwood forest, for a special Memorial Day weekend retreat. We will be a small group of people practicing together to renew ourselves with nature, community, and the twin practices of yoga and meditation. Plan to spend lots of time outside, to laugh, and to eat wholesome delicious vegetarian food.
Yoga and Dharma Immersion
Investigating loving-friendliness, compassion, joy, and equanimity through yogic and Buddhist perspectives and practices.
Yoga + Meditation: Daylong at Green Gulch
Green Gulch is a Zen center on the coast by Muir Beach and is a gorgeous working small farm and meditation center.
Fearlessness, Authenticity and Craft
Honing the Skills of Teaching
Mentorship for Yoga Teachers
“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
Phil Collins
Join this on-line mentoring program to support yourself in the craft of teaching yoga as we take a deeper look at class structure, creating themes, sequencing, language, and on-line offerings. Find (or solidify) your teaching voice and develop confidence and trust in the authenticity of your teaching style. Key themes also include intuition and creativity. Teaching is a daily exercise in vulnerability and courage - it is an art and a practice that with care can be strengthened over time.
Suggested reading: The Courage to Teach by Parker J. Palmer
Topics include:
Confidence and trust and the opposite - comparing mind and insecurity
Class structure, sequence and theming
The speaking voice as a powerful instrument
Clarity around your unique offerings as a yoga teacher
How to teach on-line; privates and group classes
A road map of where you’d like to go as a teacher
This is a small group program meeting on Wednesday evenings and also includes an additional 15 minute call with Ashley scheduled at your convenience. Please note that although the schedule is every other Wednesday evening, we will be meeting the first two weeks in a row.
Wednesdays 6:30 - 8pm
June 10
June 17
July 1
July 15
July 29
Aug 12
$252 - $342 Sliding Scale
Register now as space is limited. Email ashleysharpyoga@gmail.com. Please let me know if you need a scholarship or work trade position.
Coping with Uncertainty
You may have heard teachings about how everything is always changing or about how things are always uncertain. In fact you personally may have weathered periods in your life where everything has been turned upside down. In this moment, collectively we are living a reality where uncertainty is more pronounced and obvious than ever. How can we make decisions when it is not clear when we can safely leave the house? This can be very destabilizing and disconcerting. Because there are many tools such as yoga, mindfulness and wisdom teachings available to us for support, I have decided to offer a 6 week course on Monday evenings to dive into practical tools for dealing with uncertainty. Every meeting will have a brief asana and meditation practice focused on mindfulness. Topics include compassion/self-compassion, mindfulness, exercise, pranayama, mantra, radical acceptance, guiding principals and small group discussions. Mondays from June 1 - July 6. 6:30 - 8pm on Zoom. Cost is sliding scale $108 - $222. No one turned away for lack of funds. Classes will be recorded if you can not participate. Please email to register or for more details.
Yoga + Meditation: Daylong at Green Gulch
Green Gulch is a Zen center on the coast by Muir Beach and is a gorgeous working small farm and meditation center.
Yoga & Dharma Immersion
In its fourth year, this immersion continues to attract a welcoming community of students. Each weekend we will explore yoga asana, meditation and other embodied practices from both Yoga and Buddhist traditions. The physical postures of the yoga tradition will support us in the development of the weekend’s topic.
Grace and Gratitude
“To be healed, we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of creation.”
- Wendell Berry
This special holiday retreat will introduce mindfulness through yoga techniques and
mindfulness meditation. Join together in community to rest into the bounty of the
season and enrich your sense of connection with the world. The yoga asana will be basic,
accessible, and focused on the cultivation of mindfulness. Yogic breathing practices will
be introduced. Newcomers will have the opportunity to learn about mindfulness, and
experienced practitioners will have the opportunity to explore deepening practice. Come
prepared to explore the present moment!
Mindful in Nature
Let's go outside! This special event on July 13 takes mindfulness outdoors as a support for insight, joy and wonder. Spend some time together connecting with the wildness of nature and each other. We will stroll and open the senses to the environment - some of which will be in silence. Come prepared to walk some uneven trails and sit in meditation on the ground (bring a yoga mat, towel or blanket to sit on). You will need sun protection, water, and snacks. Also dress in layers for the cool marine fog. 10:30 - 12:30 round trip July 13. No need to register - just show up. We will meet in Tilden park at the Meadows Picnic Area. Suggested donation $20.
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