Upcoming Events
Yoga Deep Dives
Unlocking Backbends with Mallory Riess
Oct. 26 | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Backbends are some of the most empowering and heart-opening poses in yoga—but they can also feel intimidating without the right tools. In this Yoga Deep Dive workshop, you’ll learn how to approach backbends with strength, safety, and confidence.
Together, we’ll explore:
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Anatomy of Backbends – Understand how the spine, shoulders, and hips work together so you can move into deeper postures safely.
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Strengthening the Back – Build the muscles that support your spine and protect your lower back.
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Opening the Heart & Shoulders – Learn effective stretches and techniques to create freedom in the upper body.
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Progressions into Deeper Poses – Step-by-step guidance to move from foundational backbends into more advanced variations.
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Breath & Alignment Practices – Discover how breathwork and mindful alignment can transform your practice.
Whether you’re newer to yoga or looking to take your practice further, this workshop will give you practical tools to create more ease, strength, and openness in your backbends. You’ll leave with a personalized approach you can bring into any class or your home practice.
📍 Who this workshop is for:
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Yogis wanting to safely deepen their backbends
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Students seeking more confidence in poses like Cobra, Bridge, Wheel, and Camel
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Anyone curious about how backbends can improve posture, spinal health, and energy flow
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Come ready to move, learn, and unlock new possibilities in your body and heart.
Investment: $40
Rock & Roll: Oils + Crystals for Healing
Essential oils are powerful tools for everyday health. In this class, you’ll learn how to use oils with confidence and ease to support your body, mind, and home.
Get ready to rock & roll with the magic of essential oils and crystals! 🌿✨ In this fun, hands-on class, we’ll explore how oils and crystals can be combined for physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing. You’ll learn about the unique properties of both, how they complement each other, and how to use them in your everyday life to bring more balance, energy, and harmony.
✨ What you’ll experience:
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Education on the healing benefits of essential oils and crystals
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How to pair them for specific intentions and support (stress relief, grounding, energy, heart opening, and more)
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Space to explore your own favorite blends and crystal allies
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The option to create your own Crystal + Oil Roller for just $10 each — your personalized healing tool to take home!
Whether you’re brand new to oils and crystals or you already love them, this class is a beautiful way to deepen your knowledge and walk away with tools you can use immediately.
📍 Perfect for anyone curious about natural wellness, holistic healing, and Wrightwood essential oil classes. Come with curiosity, leave with inspiration (and maybe a new roller or two!).
Class is FREE! If you want to make an oil roller its $10 per roller.
Just show up!
Upcoming Sound Bath Dates:
Saturdays, October 11 & 25
5:00 pm - 6:15pm
A Sound Bath is an acoustic journey in which sounds from various instruments are played, bathing the body with vibration and frequencies.
Studies have found that sound baths may be relaxing, release stress and anxiety, calm the nervous system, promote better sleep, remove toxins from cells, release blocked energy, and raise overall vibrations in the body.
For this sound bath, we will begin with some light seated stretching, grounding, breathing and intention setting. You will then be invited to lie down and get cozy, relaxing into the sounds. Instruments will include a gong, Tibetan bowls, drums and chimes. The Sound Bath will conclude with warm local tea and community.
Upcoming Dates for Deep Roots Meditation Group
Sundays, Oct 5 & 19
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Mindfulness is a skill that can be learned, and when honed, it is an inner energy that you can call upon to heal yourself. Mindfulness can help improve the quality of your life and the well-being of those around you. The many physical, emotional, and psychological benefits of mindfulness have decades of confirmation by hundreds of research studies, including those listed in various branches of the National Institutes of Health.
In this workshop seasoned mindfulness and meditation practitioners, Wan and Marshall, will employ ways to nurture and practice mindfulness through meditation, wisdom (dharma) teaching, and group sharing. Using an interactive design approach to best serve the interests of the participants in the moment, this workshop is dynamic, participatory and intended to encourage you to co-create a more peaceful world by cultivating peace in yourself.
Mindfulness meditation is uncomplicated. The purpose of meditation is not to torture ourselves into stiffness nor to forcefully silence the incessant thoughts in our minds but to learn to be calm and care for ourselves with kindness and compassion. Meditation is a form of self-therapy. You are invited to enjoy walking, sitting, and even laying down postures as long as these are comfortable for you. Several short practices will be offered and you are welcome to participate or just silently observe.
The dharma teaching will arise from questions, concerns, and insights of participants who choose to share them in the moment. The facilitators will guide the teaching while demonstrating deep listening and loving speech which they have learned from decades of daily practice and that is informed by the teachings of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Wisdom masters throughout the ages will also be referenced as appropriate.
Yogi Book Club
with Mallory
First Book Club meeting: Tuesday, Oct 28 | 5:15pm - 7:00pm
We will pick out our first book at this meeting!
Come join us for a new community offering at Love Roots Yoga Shala: Yogi Book Club! Each month we’ll gather to explore a yoga text or spiritual book, diving into its wisdom and discussing how we can bring these teachings into our daily lives.
✨ What to Expect:
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Guided discussion on selected yoga and spiritual texts
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Space to reflect, share insights, and ask questions
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A welcoming circle that blends study, practice, and community connection
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Yogi Book Club is designed for all levels of curiosity—whether you’re brand new to yoga philosophy or have been studying for years. Together, we’ll explore timeless teachings that inspire mindfulness, compassion, and personal growth.
Bring your book, a journal, and your favorite tea. This is more than a book club—it’s a space to deepen your practice, connect with others, and live yoga off the mat.
📍 Perfect for anyone looking to join a spiritual book club in Wrightwood and be part of a community rooted in growth and self-discovery.
FREE!