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Coming to you LIVE from my online studio this week

Coming to you LIVE from my online studio this week:
* Monday, Flow 1/2 via Past Tense Yoga Studio: 5:30-6:30PM
* Tuesday, Private Functional Flow Class (DM me if you want in!): 9:30-10:30AM
* Thursday, Align and Flow via Flow Yoga Center: 12:15-1:00PM
* Friday, Chakra Tune In (via Past Tense Yoga): 12:00-12:45PM
* Saturday, Continuing Education Workshop: Cueing for Yoga Teachers via Past Tense

Dreaming of the Spring Reset yoga retreat I was su

Dreaming of the Spring Reset yoga retreat I was supposed to be hosting here this weekend with my dear @nicholeferrigno 🌱
Scout and I took a long walk and then I sat for a bit on a rock and sent blessings to everyone who was due to join us. 🌱
The trees will go about their business here - I can sense the wisdom they long to share about the power of mutual aid. I hope we can learn how to embrace what it means to live as wholly connected beings in separate physical forms the way they do with such elegance and grace. Perhaps it begins with this surreal sacrifice of creating space between us, slowing way down and surrendering control. 🌱
I hope you are practicing patience with yourself and your loved ones. Adaptation takes time and can cause tremendous discomfort. If you have a moment to connect down into your feet and feel the ground, know that I am standing on this same ground sending you support through the web of energy that ties my heart to yours. ❤️

The beauty and certainty of the sunrise this morni

The beauty and certainty of the sunrise this morning was like a balm for my nervous system. May you find peace in the pause for these next several weeks. May you look up and appreciate your simultaneous smallness and how large life itself is - how connected we are to each other and the natural world. May you feel something hopeful about your ability to help others by simply surrendering to slowing down. May you sense your own resilience within that space between the difficult moments and the joyful ones.

Can’t wait to learn from @scott_moving_forward t

Can’t wait to learn from @scott_moving_forward this weekend. He is with my Path of the Practiced Teacher Advanced Training group today and then leading a public workshop tomorrow @flowyogacenter!

DC Yoga friends! @scott_moving_forward is coming t

DC Yoga friends! @scott_moving_forward is coming to Flow Yoga Center to lead a workshop aimed at yoga practitioners who want to learn more about how Functional Range Conditioning (FRC) can improve active range of motion and increase awareness of body blind spots. He is a super friendly human and passionate teacher who has found a positive way to use Instagram as a tool for learning and connecting. I met him at @jenni_rawlings workshop @circleyogadc last year and can’t imagine a more fun way to spend the weekend than with @dianazotos from @ThreesPhysiyoga at Circle on Friday and Saturday and Scott at @FlowYogaCenter on Sunday!
Intro to Functional Range Conditioning: Improving your mobility, joint health and injury resilience
March 8, 2020
1:30pm-3:30pm
In this workshop we will go through the basics of Functional Range Conditioning. We will learn the difference between flexibility and mobility. We'll discuss the benefits of Controlled Articular Rotations ("CARs"), the concept of prerequisite joint functions, and strengthening your end ranges of motion.
After the intro, Scott will take your through the morning CARs routine. Then through a 30 minute yoga-focused Kinstretch class.
All Levels.
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=736&stype=-8&sessionChecked=true

My dog recommends trying your next stillness pract

My dog recommends trying your next stillness practice in a patch of sunlight.

Mimi and I are thrilled to be teaching together fo

Mimi and I are thrilled to be teaching together for the second time on New Year’s Eve! Join us to close out the decade with a luxurious 2.5 hour “Resolve to Evolve” practice. Let’s begin again together!

How surely gravity’s law, strong as an ocean c

How surely gravity’s law, strong as an ocean current, takes hold of even the smallest thing and pulls it toward the heart of the world.
Each thing— each stone, blossom, child— is held in place. Only we, in our arrogance, push out beyond what we each belong to for some empty freedom. If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle, lonely and confused.
So, like children, we begin again to learn from the things, because they are in God’s heart; they have never left [God]. This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.
—Rainer Maria Rilke

I am so excited to announce a new teacher training

I am so excited to announce a new teacher training program I will be offering in 2020:
The Path of the Practiced Teacher - Advanced Yoga Studies "The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos
It is only when we remain open to our own process of growth and learning, when we walk through the fire of our own transformation, that we can fully alchemize the nectar of the teachings and offer it to others. This is the path of the Practiced Teacher -- it is an advancement that cannot be hurried or downloaded. It requires deep commitment to intention and attention and inquiry to live with the uncertainty and faith required to step into the flow of a greater current. It is with great humility that I invite you to reignite the fire of your practice to realize your highest teaching potential.
THE 2020 SCHEDULE:
Friday evenings and one Saturday per month for 9 months:  Fri: 6:oopm-8:00pm and Sat: 10:30am-6:00pm
JAN 31-FEB 1: READINESS MAR 6-7: KNOWLEDGE  APR 3-4: AWAKENING MAY 1-2: HARMONY JUN 5-6: DEVOTION JUL 10-11: SKILLFULNESS AUG 7-8: COURAGE SEP: 5-7: GRACE - Overnight Labor Day retreat  OCT 3: CELEBRATION POTLUCK
For more information and to apply: www.aliciamoyer.com/events.

Readying the space for opening night of teacher tr

Readying the space for opening night of teacher training. Aware of that deep lesson that sometimes the best preparation is the experience of your own practice. I could keep cramming more information into my head space this afternoon, but a walk in nature with my dog followed by chanting and sitting in silence seems like a better way to open my heart space. This is the invitation I hope to offer the students when they arrive.

As the summer sizzle begins to fade, @nicholeferri

As the summer sizzle begins to fade, @nicholeferrigno and I are dreaming of Autumn! Our next yoga retreat, “Rooting to Recharge”, will be perfect pause in our busy lives to tap into our deepest source of energy before winter calls us into the quiet. All levels of practice welcome! 🍁🍂🌿
Join us the weekend of October 25-27! 🍁🍂🌿
Registration link in bio: aliciamoyer.com/events.

The Early Bird deadline is fast approaching for ou

The Early Bird deadline is fast approaching for our fall Living Yoga Teacher Training cohort @pasttensestudio. I love teaching group asana classes but there is something extra special about having the time and space to share the other practice tools - especially to sing together and build a deeply connected community rooted in learning and growing. If that sounds a lot like preschool it’s because we really do have that much fun and it really does feel like a rare opportunity to begin again. . . .
Yoga welcomes you as you are but rarely leaves you feeling like you did when you began. This program is like a high voltage dose of that experience.
. . .
https://pasttensestudio.com/living-yoga-teacher-training/

View from our practice space and view from our Air

View from our practice space and view from our Airbnb. This trip has been more than I could have ever imagined so far. In awe of the mountains and the river and the trees and, of course, the teachings of @christinasell108
#mtprincetonco #livethelightofyoga #practicemakespractice #ihopeicancomebackhere

Met this beauty 28 years ago at Oberlin College an

Met this beauty 28 years ago at Oberlin College and felt instantly drawn to her unique combination of strong badassery and innocent curiosity. It’s no wonder she came into teaching movement so early in life and I’m only sorry it took me so long to understand what she knew even back then: The body is a temple for our spirit so we best take good care. Also, movement, especially dancing, is just plain fun. If you ever find yourself near Boulder, check out her functional approach to Pilates and strength building @clubpilateslafayette. She’s been at this a while and knows some stuff you probably don’t.
Love you @rocksteadymovement. And thanks for the Pilates Reformer intro - I might be hooked! #yogaandpilatesteachersmakegreatfriends #didntmarryandobiebutdidmakesomefriendsforlife

Another retreat down with this amazing being @nich

Another retreat down with this amazing being @nicholeferrigno. Thankful for the extra set of hands and the beautifully led meditation by @meaganestep . . .

We could not have asked for a more wonderful group of people to have joined us for some deep spring renewal work. 🐛🦋 We asked our bodies to settle and feel the full range of our feelings, inquire about the source of our personal fire and release the tension the creates resistance to pausing. The real antidote to FOMO seems to be Loving Presence, not JOMO. Choosing to accept and embrace where we are, choosing to not miss out on your own life by numbing or wishing things were different, settling into what is and not being addicted to perpetual transformation. There was truly nowhere I would have rather been this weekend.
#simplebutnoteasy #playwithfirewisely #parisva #springrenewal

Spring is still just in the early stages on the mo

Spring is still just in the early stages on the mountain at Still Rock. Can’t wait to share this place with the Joyful Yoga Teachers group next weekend! It will be bittersweet for this group to come to an end - it has been such an honor to work with these amazing yoga teachers and experience the power of collective wisdom in such a supportive and honest way. I love this work so much - “joy” looks a lot like gratitude to me these days!

Opening day of the Joyful Teacher Project. Such an

Opening day of the Joyful Teacher Project. Such an incredible group of souls coming together to raise each other up, reflect back the beauty we see in one another and recharge our power sources! Grateful to @christinasell108 for showing me how it’s done and @mimirieger for co-piloting this experiment (her lovely presence was sorely missed this weekend but felt in spirit). So much love for this group already. Feeling so much possibility and hope for our teacher community. 🙏♥️🦋 #compassioneverydamnday #dcyogateachertraining #dcyoga #selfstudyisyoga

Join Mimi and Alicia for a deep dive into cultivat

Join Mimi and Alicia for a deep dive into cultivating teacher community, exploring new levels of knowledge in functional movement, teaching methodology and tapping into uncomfortable areas, which will increase your authenticity as a teacher and heighten your presence on and off of your yoga mat. Offered to yoga teachers who are craving the support of a cohort and a platform to share questions, ideas, fears, goals and dreams for further professional growth as a teacher and/or to create space to consider a total life shift. 🦋
We will meet over five Saturday afternoons and culminate our journey with a two-day spring retreat designed to lift our spirits and fill our resource tanks. Sessions will contain asana and functional movement practice, anatomy/biomechanics exploration, professional development, pranayama and meditation/mantra work. You will also be invited to participate in our Yoga Book Club, which will provide additional support for the final weekend retreat, where we will rest, cook, sing, practice and commune in nature together on a private retreat home in Paris, VA. 🌲
Above all, we have created this offering to support, encourage and inspire each other to take bigger risks, stand up against thoughts of inadequacy as a facilitator and garner Joy as we Celebrate this opportunity to grow and shine in exciting and invaluable ways. *******
Prerequisites: Capacity to commit to attending all sessions and show up with curiosity, courage and compassion. $499 early-bird covers the weekend practices and the 2-day retreat in Paris, VA. ******
For more information PM or send an email to mimi@mimiriegeryoga.com or livingyogadc@gmail.com.

I guess this skeleton has sat through enough teach

I guess this skeleton has sat through enough teacher trainings by now he figured he could teach. 😬

@soulfulelephant I snapped this during your awesome session on shoulders. Thank you so much for sharing a bit of the incredible knowledge you have absorbed from @julesmitchell 🤓
#livingyogateachertraining #dcyogateacher #yogaanatomy #skeletonsareteacherstoo

So excited to teach my last class of the year with

So excited to teach my last class of the year with @mimirieger! Get your practice in before going out to celebrate! 🎉💃🥳 @flowyogacenter

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