SOUL GLOW

Fall Reset:
Yoga + Acupuncture

Fall corresponds with the Metal element in Traditional East Asian Medicine, with the Lung and Large Intestine channels taking focus as the season changes. Samara opens with what that means in seasonal medicine. Candis builds the yoga practice around those same channels, moving through the upper body before slowing into longer-held postures and Yoga Nidra, a guided deep meditation. Samara closes with community acupuncture in savasana using points associated with fall.

Candis: E-RYT 200 yoga teacher and founder of Do Good Human + Very Human Social. She has spent fifteen years teaching embodied practices rooted in contemplative and somatic traditions. Her work explores the relationship between the body, culture and the systems we live inside. Samara: Doctor of East Asian Medicine and founder of Sanctuary Health. Seasonal medicine informs her clinical work and teaching.

The Pilates Pivot

The fall equinox brings balance into focus. Liz takes that idea into classical Pilates: slower work, controlled movement and enough time to feel where your body is doing the work. Over seventy-five minutes, she builds through full-body sequences with her playlist driving the room, then brings the pace back down for savasana.

This is Pilates with less rushing and more control.

Liz: Queer Latina Pilates instructor and business owner who teaches classical Pilates across bodies and fitness levels. Her classes are high-energy, precise and built to make strength feel usable.

Intro to
Thai Bodywork

The fall equinox sits at a point of exchange, and Paula’s class works through that idea physically. Over two hours, you’ll learn Thai bodywork through partner practice using assisted stretching, compression and hands-on techniques. You’ll work on another person, then switch and receive the same practice yourself.

Come with someone or get paired when you arrive. You learn by doing both sides of the work.

Paula: Thai bodywork practitioner trained through the Blue Lotus Thai Healing Studies program. Her teaching centers presence, touch and the idea that care can move in both directions.

Gongfu Cha:
A Guided Chinese Tea Tasting

Gongfu Cha closes the day at the table. Annie Xiang of Volition Tea leads two hours with four Chinese teas—white, green, oolong and red—prepared through repeated infusions. You’ll taste how the same leaves change from pour to pour while Annie brings you into the tea, its preparation and the people who produced it.

A slower close to a day built around the turn toward fall.

Annie: Founder of Volition Tea ↗, a Chicago tea company focused on single-origin tea and direct relationships with producers. She has led more than 200 public and private tastings.