Attune to the Earth’s natural rhythms as the sun sets over the Arts Lawn, a peaceful green space for you to pause and align to nature’s transition from day to night, work to rest, the external to the internal.
Led by certified yoga instructor Rhya Moffitt, the series continues the work of our healing narrative arc from the winter, inspired by Black feminist writers. This summer, we'll contemplate the stories we've been told about ourselves and our communities and work through the narrative cycle, tying our physical practice with our energetic/spiritual work: RELEASE (hips), REMEMBER (backbends), RECLAIM (twists), REIMAGINE (inversions), and REBUILD (strength). The 15-week series will move through the cycle three times, though attendance at prior sessions isn't required.
CLASS DATES + TIMES
7:30 - 8:30pm | June 24 | July 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
7:00 - 8:00pm | August 5, 12, 19, 26
6:15-7:15pm | September 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
About Rhya Moffitt
Rhya Marlene Moffitt is a registered yoga teacher through the Yoga Alliance. She completed 500 hours of study at the Samyak Institute of Yoga and Ayurveda in Mysore, India in January of 2025 where she earned certifications to teach yoga in the styles and methods of Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Hatha, Yin, Props, Pranayama, and Yoga Nidra. Rhya’s personal practice focuses on the Ashtanga Primary Series, following the lineage of Sri Pattabhis Jois, and she practices Transcendental Meditation as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Rhya is also a Neubauer Family Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Black Studies cohort in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on Black anxiety, madness, and consciousness, and she is writing a dissertation tentatively titled, “Black Anxiety: Phenomenology, Affect, and Epistemology in the Black Feminist Coming-to-Consciousness Text.” As her work continually probes what Ntozake Shange calls the “metaphysical dilemma” of “bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored,” Rhya views her yoga practice and teaching as a necessary wellness intervention that compliments her intellectual work.