Return to Light: A Winter Solstice Yoga and Mindfulness Course

Name: Return to Light: A Winter Solstice Yoga and Mindfulness Course
Start: 2025-12-28T10:30:00-09:00
End: 2025-12-28T12:00:00-09:00
Location: Fairview Recreation Center

Schedule

Sun Dec 28 2025 at 10:30 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-09:00

Location

Fairview Recreation Center | Anchorage, AK

Return to Light: A Winter Solstice Yoga and Mindfulness Course
As winter invites us inward, this ten-week journey offers an embodied way to align with the natural cycle of reflection and renewal. Each week includes posture and movement practice grounded in yoga and nature-based mindfulness, supported by guided reflection you may carry into meditation or writing.
If you are in Anchorage, please join us for the “long form” in-person practices that bookend the 8-week online series. These will be held on Sunday afternoons: November 16 and January 18 at the Fairview Rec. Center. We will consider the full range of yoga postures in practice, both active and supported. We have mats, chairs, and some blocks there, if you could bring a couple of blankets and/or a bolster with you, that would help.
The rhythm of consistent practice—showing up for your body, your breath, and your own awareness—builds stability and insight over time. Through this commitment, we awaken the inner light of creativity, compassion, and resilience, echoing the seasonal return of the sun. Combining the “long form” in-person classes with 8 weeks of formal online practice can help to strengthen the bonds that connect you to your body, your resolve, your practice, and this community.
It’s not easy to temper current moment impulses with a big picture perspective, but with practice, it gets easier. You might find that this is just the right season to support this development. The effort, discipline, and focus that you invest now in your big picture perspective will integrate and be obvious (easier) in the future. Effort begets ease.
Join us for this mindful exploration of body, breath, and being as we turn toward the light—together. Get your body moving in mindful ways and spend time in close proximity to others who prioritize these practices. Encourage, for all of us, the flow of energy that soothes the soul and keeps us from getting stuck!
This course will begin and end with in-person sessions (November 16th & January 18th, 2-5pm, Fairview Rec. Center) and feature livestream classes for the remaining sessions (Sundays 10:30-12 (AKST), November 23, 30, Dec 7, 14, 21, 28, January 4, 11).
To register: https://yogaformentalhealth.com/event/solstice-yoga-course/2025-11-16/