Devon Penny Yoga

I’m excited to offer a benefit yoga class for the Williston Community Food Shelf this Friday, 11/24 at 9:30am at Sangha Studio Williston and online!

All donations for class will go to the WCFS. I hope you can join me!

Sign up at https://www.union.fit/events/sangha-studio-gentle-yoga-a-benefit-class-for-the-williston-community-food-shelf/performances/a4rgbu3t

Hi friends! I’m so excited to announce a sweet yoga offering my dear friend, and I are collaborating on in June!

We invite you to join us for ✨Slow Flow + Yoga Nidra✨
A summer-inspired practice of gentle movement and deep rest. We can’t wait to share this practice with you. Details below!

When: Sunday, June 25
Time: 6-7:30p
Where: 337 College Street, BTV
Cost: Sliding Scale $15-20

We are so grateful to for hosting us in her beautiful space! 🙏🏼

✨Please pre-register using the link in my bio! Space is limited.✨

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It’s true.

Happy, grateful and beyond proud of our team and community. Thank you for showing up, fam. Today was a special one.

xo

Im my moments of self doubt, I need not look further than the beautiful heart of my son to consider that maybe my deepest desire for a world full of love & kindness are possible through him. Though he’s only 8, he seems to grasp the mission that we are sharing at Sangha to create community through yoga & connection. He only has 3 yoga shapes in his practice yet he lives his yoga the sangha way through caring about others. Makes this mama’s heart sing.

We are gearing up to welcome the community in tomorrow for our Grand Opening celebration and If there’s one thing I know about my guy, it’s that he loves a party! The grand opening for Sangha Studio] is like Christmas to him. He’s helped plan and offered lots of fun ideas - “Mom, you should have people take pictures in front of the gold wall!”. Oh yeah, that’s happening. With zero prompting from me, this week he created some special greetings for our guests on the chalkboard. He knows everyone belongs Sangha Studio] and we (and all of the sangha teachers and staff) can’t wait to welcome you in to our yoga home in Williston.

We have so many awesome activities planned for y’all! You really should check out our free Buti yoga class with and music by outside at 11am! We will have some music from Jesse of (also a Sangha teacher!) at 1pm. It feels really exciting to have our kismet neighbors join us for the event as well! Don’t worry, we will have snacks and refreshments along with henna, tarot readings, sound bowls with , vision boarding….. giveaways, membership promotions. I could go on but you should really just come and experience what Sangha is all about - community (and laughter and snacks and all the gold glitter!).

I hope you’ll join us! Bring a friend or two! Sunday, 9/19 from 10am to 4pm. Come as you are, stay a short while or join us all day! We can’t wait to welcome you. ❤️

*please wear a mask inside!

Glennon Doyle coming at us with all the feels as usual. 🙏🏼

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I dove into the news cycle on Monday morning after being less engaged for a little while and it just hit me like a ton of bricks. There is so much suffering on our planet and the knowledge of it all feels especially heavy right now. After a good cry in the shower, I took pause and remembered that when the pendulum of emotions are swinging wildly I have the teachings of the yogic practice to come back to for clarity and grace. This week I’ve been leaning hard into this mantra for compassionate awareness because it makes me feel a little less helpless to consider the collective. Maybe by channeling this energy we can lighten our load a bit and lift up our friends, especially those who are suffering, all over the world.

‘Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu’

May all beings be happy and free.

May the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life somehow contribute to peace, happiness and freedom of all beings.

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Invitation to recite this mantra 3x with a hand over your heart and a hand palm up in your lap - if it resonates with you. Close with 3 deep breaths.

Love you. May you be happy + free. ♥️

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Sangha’s founder, and me doing that work thing (is it really work if you love what you do?!) to get Williston ready to welcome you in for classes starting tomorrow, 7/5.

It’s been a labor of love over the last 2 months and the whole team (with a little help from our friends and families) has poured that special Sangha goodness into this beautiful space in Williston to make it feel like home.

I am so excited to make it Instagram official that I have stepped into the role of Studio Director of Sangha - Williston. It is hard to believe this time last year I was live-streaming classes, alone in this big and beautiful studio. My heart is so so full knowing that amazing energetic exchange of community yoga is returning here.

Still pinching myself that I get to work in collaboration with a dream team of brilliant women - , , , & to expand the reach of Sangha’s mission beyond the heart of Burlington.

What has felt so aligned for me is that each person on this team deeply values the importance of Sangha’s mission to build an empowered community through the shared practice of yoga with focus on access, connection, and community — with humor , authenticity & humble radiance at the heart of it all.

If there were ever a place you belong, it is here . We can’t wait to welcome you, to practice & connect with you. It’s going to be awesome!

As always - Come as you are, pay what you can.

Welcome to Sangha - you belong here!

It felt really great to be together here tonight for Sangha’s first in-studio teacher meeting since before the pandemic. Here in a new to Sangha space but it already feels like home.

This space has been longing for laughter and breath and connection and community to pulse life back into its heart.

I love you my Sangha &
I can’t wait to welcome every body to this space. Take refuge in the sangha.

Come. Be you.
You truly belong here.

Home.

Positive energy isn’t always free flowing - this is the real world but …. You know those periods of time when life feels easeful & flowy and you’re so used to waiting for bad things to happen bc that has been your default button for so long that you forget to enjoy and breathe in sync with it all? Yeah, I’ve officially deactivated that button. Immersing myself in abundance and riding a pretty sweet wave - Running with that vibe! Byeeeee. 💃🏻✨

Gratitude to 🍀🍀🍀 - finally a 4 leaf-er found me.

As month winds down I’d like to put this out there for the sake of anyone needing to hear from another sensitive being that awareness of and attention to mental health is nothing to be ashamed of. I’m not one to share about my mental health challenges mostly because I never know what to say, how to say it and then there’s fear of judgment. I’m so complex, like many of us, and it’s never been easy for me to share vulnerably. I struggle with burdening others or being known as a 'debbie downer’. Let’s be real, I’m already socially awkward AF. 😅 Being in my head can be a really lonely and chaotic place sometimes and permission to be in that space can be elusive — honest to goodness, if it weren’t for my ever-evolving mindfulness practice, I shudder!

The perceived stigma of mental health issues has followed me around since I was a child diagnosed with ADHD, depression & anxiety at age 7.

I have always had a deep awareness of being sensitive
& different — I’ve often navigated my life from a place of lacking wholeness & belonging in the world. It’s heartbreaking to even put that into words. As an adult I have learned to step into the world from a place of strength, even if I was pulling that strength from reserves that were empty. I’ve also experienced a lot of trauma (some ongoing) in my life that I’ve only started unpacking in the last 5 years, and wow - this s**t is hard! But just as often as there are moments of pain and struggle, there are beautiful moments reminding me that being alive is better than the alternative. Yoga helps, meditation helps, therapy helps, friends & family help, awareness helps, writing helps, dog snuggles help, music helps, dancing helps, nature helps, seeing others share on social media helps & memes (sometimes help), but nothing is a total fix or a cure all. I’ll be living with this for the rest of my life and that feels heavy but not as crippling as it used to because our culture is shifting and normalizing discussion of mental health. That helps so much!

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Just in case you needed a reminder today.