Every Wednesday evening
7:30pm-8:30pm | July 9 - September 24
The Arts Lawn | 337 E. Garfield Blvd
As the sun sets over the Arts Lawn, join us for a grounding Hatha yoga practice designed to support deep restoration and self-connection. This slower-paced approach to the classic sun salutation welcomes all levels of experience and invites participants into a state of calm and clarity.
Each class includes gentle movement, longer-held postures, and prompts for contemplation, gratitude, and mindfulness. Through intentional breathwork and somatic awareness, this practice aims to cultivate a deep mind-body connection and encourage personal alignment—physically, emotionally, and energetically.
Led by yoga instructor Rhya Moffitt, with occasional special guest offerings throughout the season that reflect the themes of each month. Classes may include include sensory elements like Tibetan singing bowls, seasonal herbal infusions, or grounding scents rooted in herbalism and Ayurveda.
Sunset Yoga will be offered for three months, each with a specific focus:
July: “Root” will focus on grounding and creating home and stability within the body and mind
August: “Express” meditates on the power of the voice and its necessary connection to the heart to communicate truth authentically and courageously
September: “Imagine” explores the importance of the imagination within a world that strives toward oppressive conformity, emphasizing the freeing power of seeing the world anew as a necessary first step to worldbuilding and collective transformation
Drawing on connections between yoga and Black liberation struggles (ex. Rose Parks’ and Angela Davis’ yoga practices in prison), artistic practice (Alice Coltrane), and personal sustenance (Harriet Jacobs’ movement and meditative practices during her seven years in the garret while enslaved), this unique program supports self care by invoking Black radical ancestors and contemporaries (ex. Cole Arthur Riley of Black Liturgies).
All photos by J Frank Visuals
