Join Kayla and Crystal for an Ecstatic Dance experience that focuses on deep gratitude! We will begin in circle with cacao ceremony and trataka - a candle gazing meditation. Then we’ll move into ecstatic dance and end in stillness in shavasana. Fill yourself with deep gratitude through this 2 hour ecstatic experience! **This event sells out, so please save your spot earlier rather than later.

Purnima, or the full moon, is a sacred time to re-align with the cosmic rhythm. It’s a time to go into yourself and allow the luminosity of the moon to reveal Truth in your being. The moon controls the manas, or the mind, so when we reach the full moon point in the cycle, our minds are more open and receptive. We allow this innate sense of receptivity to expand our awareness and illuminate areas in our lives where we can release and where we can cultivate.

What to expect:

Each ceremony will include different practices, but below are some of what you might experience.

Intention setting, journaling, meditation, asana, chanting mantra, conversation, tea or cacao, creative project, and more.

Paper and pen will be provided at every gathering, but please feel free to bring your own. We will also be creating and alter, so please bring a small, meaningful item to add to the sacred space that we will sit around in ceremony.

**Full Moon and New Moon gatherings are included in class packages and memberships; $15 drop in rate applies for non-members

In this workshop, you’ll explore subtle body anatomy, the respiratory system, and several pranayama practices as well. Kim will focus on not only the knowledge, but experience, so you will be exploring the practices of pranayama in your own body, such as nadi shodhana, ujayii, and more.

Prana is life force, and it is through pranayama that our awareness moves in closer to remembering . A yoga practice without pranayama loses its vitality and so in this workshop we will discuss and learn the importance of the breath as the vehicle for our life force energy’s flow.

Tips for Attendance:

Please do not arrive on a full stomach; eat between 1.5-2 hrs before arrival.

Please bring any comforts that help you listen and learn, including any props you like to have with you or clothes to keep you at a neutral temperature.

If you are pregnant or menstruating during the workshop, please let Kim know in advance so that she can send you additional instructions privately.

2.5 CEUs available for attending.

Join us for our New Moon ceremony! Every month we come together to celebrate the Full Moon, and now we will join again to welcome the new cycle.

The New Moon is an invitation to re-align with yourself and with the greater cosmic rhythm. It is an opportunity to reflect on what was released or revealed during the Full Moon, and commit to how you will move in the new phase.

What to expect:

Each ceremony will include different practices, but below are some of what you might experience.

Intention setting, journaling, meditation, asana, chanting mantra, conversation, tea or cacao, creative project, and more.

Paper and pen will be provided at every gathering, but please feel free to bring your own. We will also be creating and alter, so please bring a small, meaningful item to add to the sacred space that we will sit around in ceremony.

Purnima, or the full moon, is a sacred time to re-align with the cosmic rhythm. It’s a time to go into yourself and allow the luminosity of the moon to reveal Truth in your being. The moon controls the manas, or the mind, so when we reach the full moon point in the cycle, our minds are more open and receptive. We allow this innate sense of receptivity to expand our awareness and illuminate areas in our lives where we can release and where we can cultivate.

What to expect:

Each ceremony will include different practices, but below are some of what you might experience.

Intention setting, journaling, meditation, asana, chanting mantra, conversation, tea or cacao, creative project, and more.

Paper and pen will be provided at every gathering, but please feel free to bring your own. We will also be creating and alter, so please bring a small, meaningful item to add to the sacred space that we will sit around in ceremony.

**Full Moon and New Moon gatherings are included in class packages and memberships; $15 drop in rate applies for non-members

SOLD OUT

Join us at MB Johnson Park for a peaceful morning that combines the yoga asana (movement) and pranayama (breathing) with the mindful birding.

We will meet at MB Johnson Park and begin with a gentle asana class, then Amanda Booher of Audubon Great Plains will guide a mindful birding experience. We will walk as a group to a spot where we can sit and from there Amanda will guide us through a meditative experience where we mindfully observe the nature around us.

This is a great way to start the weekend and included in the ticket price is a t-shirt and water bottle from Audubon Great Plains.

Please indicate the size t-shirt you'd like in the notes when you register or email kim@downtownyogafargo.com with you size.

Registration for this event closes October 1st to ensure that we get the t-shirts in time for the event, so please don't wait to sign up. There are only 10 spaces available!

Join Kelsey of Rising Dawn Ceramics and Kim from Downtown Yoga Fargo for a mindful urban day retreat including yoga and meditation, wheel throwing, and the option to enjoy a special lunch from Moonrise Cafe! Yoga is more than just movements on the mat; it is a learning to be present and mindful in all that you do in your life. Along with the meditation and asanas of yoga, there are many ways to cultivate mindfulness in daily life, and one of those is wheel throwing! In order to create a ceramics piece that has integrity, strength, and balance, you must be centered and aware of the present, not lost in distractions or rush. Kelsey and Kim have brought the two practices together, both playing off and with each other, to bring more mindfulness, presence, and gratitude to daily life.  

Yoga Nidra is a practice of letting go of tension in the body and the mind and resetting the nervous system. This "yogic sleep" is an effortless meditation that is typically practiced lying down and is an accessible meditation for most people because of the completely supportive nature for the body, resulting in a deeply relaxing and restorative experience. You'll be shown other positions that may allow you to experience comfort and surrender more easily if lying down is not right for you, for any reason. The use of pillows, bolsters, blankets, and an eye pillow or light scarf across the eyes are wonderful ways to assist yourself in experiencing supreme comfort during this practice. Once the body does not feel the need to hold and support itself, there is potential to move into more subtle layers of the self to allow for a deep state of rest and promote healing. You will be guided throughout the practice and no experience with yoga or meditation practices is necessary. A great way to diffuse stress and recharge for the week ahead!

**The studio does offer blankets and bolsters, and eye pillows. Please dress in layers (don't forget the socks) as your body temperature will drop as you relax into the practice.

**This class is included in memberships and class packages. $15 drop in rate applies

Join David at noon this Friday and flow right into this joyful weekend in Fargo Moorhead! Pride weekend is such a blessing to our community. There is so much love and acceptance filling the air, and we want nothing more than to support that 💛

We will be making a donation to FM Pride AND catch Downtown Yoga in the Pride Parade on Sunday walking with @audubongreatplains in our snazzy sponsor t-shirts!

Drop in rate is $10 for this class and will be included in our donation to FM Pride. This offering is a part of our Seva, or practice of selfless service to the community, so DTY will not be profiting off of this class.

Join us for a 2 hour workshop devoted to rest. As the summer slowly begins to wind down, you have an opportunity here to take a breath and take a break. This hot and fiery season can take a lot out of us, whether we realize it or not, making rest practices even more important. During the rest retreat, you will practice some of yoga's most impactful teachings and give yourself a real chance to rest, heal, and emerge ready to flow through the rest of the summer season like a cool, refreshing breeze.

What to expect:

Restorative asanas (restful yoga postures with support of props)

Yoga Nidra

Pranayama (breathing practices)

Sound Healing

What to wear/bring:

Comfortable clothes (pajamas are welcome here)

Yoga mat and any props or comforts you like from home, such as your own blanket, pillow, eye covering, etc. You are also welcome to use any of the props we have at the studio

Mug/water bottle for tea and/or water

A small meaningful item

This workshop is open to ALL; no experience required.

Join Crystal with your beloved partner for an evening where you will learn and explore sensual and loving touch. This workshop is meant for the average person to learn more intentional and sweet ways of touching their partner. No experience is required for this opportunity, just an open heart and a loving partner that you would like to learn to touch with more meaning. ALL couples and lovers are welcome here.

Investment: $99 per Couple

Please arrive with your partner as Crystal will not be pairing participants for this workshop.

Only available for couples 18+.

**this is not a therapeutic massage training for massage therapists; this is a workshop for couples.

Join Crystal and Kayla for a Friday night ecstatic dance experience!



Shake off the heaviness and bloom into summer! The group will circle for a heart opening cacao and mantra ceremony followed by a guided embodiment practice that will lead to free flow dancing! We will finish with rest in Savasana and close the circle. This will be a time of gathering for the experience of loving aliveness! We will celebrate the rising energy of spring into summer and growing vitality of this season as we move our bodies to clear stagnant energy, and dance our hearts into the bright summer sun.

**This event sells out, so please save your spot earlier rather than later.

Join us for open studio from 2:30-4:00pm on Thursday, June 20th to celebrate the summer solstice with 108 Sun Salutes, or Surya Namaskar. The Sun Salutation is meant to revere the rising Sun, Surya, and celebrate the radiance, strength, and guidance it provides us from the sky and deep within our beings.

Things to Note:

This is a vigorous practice, and you are NOT required to complete 108. Simply come to enjoy the community and do as many salutes as you like. Joe will be there to provide guidance!

Tend to your body before and after the practice with massages, epsom salt baths, or other self care modalities.

Drop In Rate for this class is $5 for all who attend, even members, and the proceeds collected will go to FM Pride!

In our Yoga 101 series of pop up classes, we will dive deeper into the various aspects and traditions within the practice of yoga. This series is open to all, beginners and experienced students. Yoga is vast, and as students, we are never done learning and integrating, so come and deepen your understanding and practice of yoga. 

Our next session in this series will be Wednesday, June 19th at 7:00pm, and we will explore Ayurvedic practices, along with yogic practices, that will keep your being in harmony this hot and humid season ahead.

Joe has practiced Ashtanga yoga for over ten years and will demystify, declutter and make the Primary Series accessible to everyone  

Week One will be an introduction to the Primary Series, giving you the foundation for the rest of the course

Week Two will focus on beginning Inversions and Arm Balances 

Week Three will introduce a lower body add on to make the Primary Series an even more full body workout 

Week Four will be a choice voted on by the class. 

Join Kayla for a candle-lit night of meditative connection. We’ll be connecting with one another in circle and connecting to our own bodies, minds and spirits through guided sensual stretch and seated meditation.

Just as a candle flame flickers, we too experience subtle and physical shifts throughout our daily lives. In meditation, we build resilience to those flickers, or changes, and learn to maintain our stability, just as the candle keeps burning despite the air shifting its flame. Overtime, we learn to respond rather than react and burnout. In this 75 minute class you have an opportunity to deeply feel the subtle shifts within your being and the inner stability that keeps your light shining.

Join us for a community gathering a couple times per month to discuss a book related to yoga, spirituality, and life itself! Bhakti Book Club is FREE, but if you would like to make a donation, you are welcome. All donations with go to the Downtown Engagement Center, a place supporting those in need in our downtown community.

We will continue discussing Eckhart Tolle’s book The Power of Now on Monday, April 29th at 7:30pm.

We will be discussing Chapters 5-10. Please join if you are interested, even if you have only read the first chapter. This is a space for us all to simply show up and hear from one another.

Tea, coffee, and light treats are provided.

This is our last discussion of The Power of Now before we move onto a new book later next month!

Join David for a buoyant and alchemizing class where we’ll dive into the essence of Spring, harnessing its energy to cultivate renewal, growth, and joy within ourselves. Drawing inspiration from Katonah Yogaⓒ theory, we’ll explore the metaphor of the body as a house made up of 3 floors, 9 rooms, and 10 doors. 

First, we’ll lay out the blueprint and groundwork for our time together. Then we’ll transition into a seated breathwork and meditation practice, integrating the insights gained as we map this metaphor onto the dimensional landscape that is our body. 

If the body is our personal abode, consider this spring cleaning - sweeping through each room, dusting out the corners, rearranging the furniture, and creating space for new possibilities and expanded vision both on and off the mat. 

This workshop welcomes practitioners of all levels, inviting you to engage in self-inquiry that will spark your imagination and unlock new dimensions within your personal practice. 

Join us in welcoming 2024 and 6 years of Downtown Yoga Fargo! We will gather at 7:00pm for Kirtan, the singing of divine names together as a practice of devotion and love. We’ll end seated or lying in savasana to allow the sounds to resonate deep into the unseeable realms of our beings before coming up and out to spend time together eating and talking, celebrating the joy of our community!

Mantras will be provided for kirtan; you do not have to sing or have any experience singing to join. This practice of Kirtan is incredibly powerful and deeply liberating, so consider doing something new and joining us for the celebration.

An anniversary cake will be provided by Moonrise Cafe, the newest local coffee shop on Broadway! And, we will have other local treats and snacks available after Kirtan.

Join us in the studio or virtually for a New Year's Meditation on January 1st!

All are welcome, from beginners and experienced meditators, to join us in starting the year by re-discovering our peace within. We will spend the 45 minutes not only meditating, but discussing and potentially writing intentions, so bring a journal if you like (paper will be available at the studio.)

Join us on Christmas Eve, December 24th, at 8:00am for an All Levels Yoga class to experience joy within! Start the last week of the year moving and breathing with intention and awareness drawn inward to experience the sweet and joyful holidays with more ease.

This class is open to all; no experience required. The drop in rate is discounted to $7, so bring a friend or loved one along for this nourishing class before the festivities begin!

Join Kayla for a candle-lit night of meditative connection. We’ll be connecting with one another in circle and connecting to our own bodies, minds and spirits through guided sensual stretch and seated meditation.

Just as a candle flame flickers, we too experience subtle and physical shifts throughout our daily lives. In meditation, we build resilience to those flickers, or changes, and learn to maintain our stability, just as the candle keeps burning despite the air shifting its flame. Overtime, we learn to respond rather than react and burnout. In this 90 minute class you have an opportunity to deeply feel the subtle shifts within your being and the inner stability that keeps your light shining.

Meet Your Guest Teacher:

Greg Hines is an experienced yoga educator with 15 years of teaching under the guidance of mentors in MN, NY and MD. In 2021, he completed his M.S. in Yoga Therapy from the Maryland Institute of Integrative Health. Postural alignment, mindfulness practice, energetic anatomy and theoretical frameworks for human health inform his therapeutic techniques and tools. Greg’s approach explores the intersections of Indian yoga philosophy, sacred geometry, five-element frameworks from Eastern healing traditions and an expanding catalog of yoga therapy research.

SUM + BODY Workshop on Saturday, November 18th, will be held at Yuj here in Fargo. Learn more below:

Life is all about how things add up. 

The form and function of your body is the summation of your daily habits and techniques. Just as ballerinas expressively dance, sailors tie knots, and cooks finely chop, each of us engage in unique practices that take shape in our lives and bodies.

It’s in how you choose to use your time and inhabit your body that constructs character; makes you SOMEBODY!

In this 3-hour workshop, Greg and David will sequence Katonah Yoga theory with interactive yoga breaks; moments to observe and consider how our personal math might be different from someone else’s. 

We’ll combine well-informed adjustments and prop-supported poses to help quantify our approach like a protractor or calculator aids the mathematician. Illuminating unexamined yoga habits and unrealized potential, participants will come to appreciate their practice reveals a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

A local artist and member of the Downtown Yoga Community is filming a documentary, and for that documentary, he wants to include you!
The lovely Christina will be teaching.

Join us for this free class where all we ask is that you bring a non-perishable food item for a local school's food pantry and be a part of this local project.

There are 20 spots available, so sign up soon before it fills up.

**By coming to the class, you are approving the filmmakers to use the footage, which may include you, in the documentary.**

Purnima, or the full moon, is a sacred time to re-align with the cosmic rhythm, and this month, connect with the feminine divine. It’s a time to go into yourself and allow the luminosity of the moon to reveal Truth in your being. The moon controls the manas, or the mind, so when we reach the full moon point in the cycle, our minds are more open and receptive. We allow this innate sense of receptivity to expand our awareness and illuminate areas in our lives where we can release and where we can cultivate.

What to expect:

Each ceremony will include different practices, but below are some of what you might experience.

Intention setting, journaling, meditation, asana, chanting mantra, conversation, tea or cacao, creative project, and more.

Paper and pen will be provided at every gathering, but please feel free to bring your own. We will also be creating and alter, so please bring a small, meaningful item to add to the sacred space that we will sit around in ceremony.

**Full Moon and New Moon gatherings are included in class packages and memberships; $15 drop in rate applies for non-members

Learn, through the principles and techniques of Yoga and Ayurveda, how to stay grounded during the dry airy months!

Light Ayurvedic fare provided.

Join us for a Full Moon Ceremony and Kirtan! Purnima, or the full moon, is a sacred time to re-align with the cosmic rhythm. It’s a time to go into yourself and allow the luminosity of the moon to reveal Truth in your being. The moon controls the manas, or the mind, so when we reach the full moon point in the cycle, our minds are more open and receptive. We allow this innate sense of receptivity to expand our awareness and illuminate areas in our lives where we can release and where we can cultivate.

This month we will enjoy the devotional, Bhakti, practice of kirtan to seal our ceremony. Mantras will be provided, and no experience is required. Kirtan, like all practices of yoga, simply require you to show up for yourself in whatever capacity brings you ease and stability. You are not required to chant or dance, but you are welcome. Kirtan is a lively experience, even when you remain still and just receive, so give yourself this opportunity to experience the power of devotion and yoga as a tool to re-ignite your spirit and enliven your rhythm.

What to expect:

Each ceremony will include different practices, but below are some of what you might experience.

Intention setting, journaling, meditation, asana, chanting mantra, conversation, tea or cacao, creative project, and more.

Paper and pen will be provided at every gathering, but please feel free to bring your own. We will also be creating and alter, so please bring a small, meaningful item to add to the sacred space that we will sit around in ceremony.

**Full Moon and New Moon gatherings are included in class packages and memberships; $15 drop in rate applies for non-members

In our Yoga 101 series of pop up classes, we will dive deeper into the various aspects and traditions within the practice of yoga. This series is open to all, beginners and experienced students. Yoga is vast, and as students, we are never done learning and integrating, so come and deepen your understanding and practice of yoga. 

Our next session in this series will be Tuesday, September 26th at 5:30pm, and our theme is Sadhana, or daily spiritual practice. Our daily routines set the tone for the action in our daily lives, and when don’t set aside time for our practices, our life starts to become overwhelming and exhausting. We then live from a place of depletion, rather than fullness. In this 1 hour class, we will discuss the deeper reasoning for Sadhana and learn how we can make time in our days for spiritual practices.

This specific session will be a preview of sorts for a Sadhana series coming in the fall, so don’t miss this opportunity as it might be just what you need to make the commitment to yourself, your life, and your yoga journey.