Start the new year with a yoga practice to cleanse your 7 chakras (energy centers)! Start 2019 right with self care and self love this Friday night 6pm-8pm. This meditation Chakra cleanse and yoga practice will leave you feeling relaxed, recharged and rejuvenated in mind, body, and spirit.

Make 2019 your year! Year of abundance, health, and happiness!!

Cost $25 per person

Class pass accepted! Ring in the New Year with singing bowls, intention setting, and mindful flow.

Price: $35 or $40 day-of

An amazing experience of guided meditation, relaxation, cleansing, and sound. Not to be missed! This time celebrate the Winter Solstice with us! 

“For some the experience is meditative, other’s emotional, even transcendent, but in all circumstances it is a powerful and unforgettable event.”  
Gong Lab is best known for its deeply transporting blend of guided visualization, healing sound, hypnotic percussion, and otherworldly vocals. Each session carefully creates a protected space to disengage from stress and pain, so that the deep relief, bliss, and nurturance of reconnecting with the body’s natural revitalizing energies can be experienced. 
The evening begins by candlelight with a direction of intention and guided meditation as participants, reclining comfortably on the floor, are ushered into a spiraling cocoon of luminous sound. The shimmering reverberations of the Earth Gong create sound pressure waves that travel through the connective tissues which form one continuous network into all parts and systems of the body down to a cellular level. These multi-tonal frequencies facilitate the movement of “chi” or “prana” in the body and initiate the release of blocked energy that can often manifest as fear, fatigue, depression or illness. As this energetic recalibration takes place we experience the kind of reorganization of our inner resources that can help us transcend the challenging situations in our daily lives and access new templates for being.
Participants will lay comfortably on the floor for most of the experience. Please bring a mat, blanket, pillow, and any items in support of your deepest clearing and relaxation.
For More Info On GongLab:
* What might you expect in a GongLab session?:  
http://www.heartwoodcenter.com/a-review-of-gonglab-by-catherine-mcglynn

Join us for a heart-opening Thanksgiving morning practice at The Collective!

Come celebrate community, family, and giving thanks to all those in your life that make it so awesome :)

Price: only $10!

Meghan Engledow guest teaches a 5-week fall Restorative Yoga series at The Collective! Come enjoy the slowing down of the fall season in this restful practice. Poses will be gently supported by props so all you have to do is sink in, breathe, and restore yourself. The best! $15 drop-in for class, or sign-up for the whole series for just $60. Wear comfy clothing for the best way to refresh before starting a new week.

This three-hour course is for anyone who wants to be flexible but does not know where to start, or how to keep going beyond a plateau.

The Focus Flexibility program will give you all the tools you need to determine where you need to focus your efforts in order to progress quickly without sacrificing all your free time.

The GMB method is for everyone, even if you have never stretched before. Whether you are a beginner or have been practicing a physical activity for a while (yoga, dance, running, martial arts, climbing, CrossFit ...), you will learn how to implement a training plan that will allow you to improve your performance and feel good every day.

This deeply relaxing Restorative Yoga Practice is paired with healing Reiki energy work to give a complete refresh to your mind and body.  Your soul will also be nurtured by the soothing, sweet, otherworldly sounds of the Rav drum providing live vibration to take this all around blissful experience to the next level.  Not to be missed/Space is limited.  $35 Restorative Practice- Adrienne White, Reiki by Elizabeth Anne Hager, and Rav drum played by Trevor Demille

This option is for THE RIVER COLLECTIVE location on Sunday, 02Sep2018 from 10 - 11:15am

Price: $40 or $25 BYOBoard

This option is for the STONE LAKE location on Saturday, 01Sep2018 for Round 1: 10:30-11:45am

Price: $40 or $25 BYOBoard

This option is for the STONE LAKE location on Saturday, 01Sep2018 for Round 1: 9 - 10:15am

Price: $40 or $25 BYOBoard

This one day training and  certification will give you the basics of how to put together a SUP+Yoga class.  You will get two sequences and practice teaching time on the water.  You will also learn basics of teaching paddling technique, safety information for keeping your students safe, and how to create a magical experience for your guests as they practice yoga surrounded by nature!  You will receive 8 Yoga Alliance C.E.U.'s for this training  $395

Price: $35

SOUND BATH MEDITATION with HEATHER FOX + YOGA NIDRA with ADRIENNE WHITE

A sound bath can be described as “a concert for the soul.”  It is an experience in which crystal singing bowls and gongs are played together to promote a more relaxed mind, body and spirit.  The calming sounds guide listeners through a journey of inner exploration that promotes deep relaxation and peace, expansion of consciousness, and helps to open the body’s energetic system.  A sound bath can help lessen anxiety, stress and depression, and promote creativity.Each sound bath experience is unique – sometimes more physical sensations are felt, other times it feels like an emotional journey, or it may be visual with people will see colors, shapes, or images similar to a waking dream. To deepen that experience, this sound bath will be paired with a dream inducing mediation called yoga nidra (or yogic sleep) by Adrienne White.  Most people leave a sound bath feeling relaxed and rebalanced and recharged.

HEATHER FOX BIO

Heather Fox is an energy healer who has devoted her life to helping others to grow, heal and transform.  Heather is a certified Reiki Master Teacher in the both the traditional Usui System of Natural Healing and Karuna Reiki®.  Heather has studied, practiced and taught Reiki and energy work throughout the United States, concentrating on Los Angeles and Chicago.  Heather is also a certified Pranic Healer®, Soundbath Practitioner, Angel Intuitive® and Holographic Memory Resolution Practitioner®.

FAQs

What is provided and what should I bring?  We provide one yoga mat per person.  Sound bathers may enjoy bringing a pillow, eye mask or blanket – whatever makes you most comfortable.  Prepare to lay on the floor – if this is difficult for anyone please contact us in advance and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.

How should I dress? Arrive in your comfiest clothes so you can achieve complete relaxation.

A Restorative Yoga Training

Restore. is meant to be an overview of the basics of Restorative Yoga and a “how to” introduction for teaching restorative classes. You will learn about the subtle energy flows in the body during restorative poses as well as how to create a restorative experience for your students.  You will gain the tools to make your own restorative practice, how to incorporate poses into your classes, create personalized programming for your private students, and build your own practice.

“Restorative Yoga with Adrienne left me feeling confident and ready to share her teachings. Adrienne’s warm, encouraging, honest way, combined with her vast yogic knowledge made this training a huge inspiration!  The time flew, leaving my practice greatly enhanced! ”

— Dave Ursprung

Is This for You?

We would say the practice of restorative can be for practically anyone, and so can this training, but it will be especially aimed at teachers who desire to know more about the process of creating restorative sequences, how to use props, when to make adjustments, and insight on working with students who need a little extra help! If you have no desire to teach, this can still be a wonderful experience for you and you will be able to make your own programs, plus walk away with a sequence built by Adrienne :) 

What to Expect

Anecdotes, lecture, hands-on practice, questions & answers, a training manual, and insight into common poses, plus how to use props.

Specifics of the Course

• Science behind Restorative Yoga

• How the energetic body correlates to the nervous system

• Ethics and philosophy

• Sequence construction

• Use of basic props

• Cues and adjustments

What You’ll Walk Away With

• A Certification of Completion worth 8 CEU’s for Yoga Alliance

• Special sequence by Adrienne for you to use

• Easy-to-use manual / guide

• Access to Adrienne anytime you need to ask questions!

• An understanding of love and compassion for your students as well as yourself

Learn how to use assists in a safe and intelligent way to facilitate a deep physical, emotional, and spiritual release in your students.

We will cover physical and energetic assists, as well as how to effectively use your voice as a tool of inclusion and compassion.

Assisting your students is one of the best ways to help them expand their awareness of self, and gain control over their body, mind, and spirit.

Price: $30

Whether you call it locomotion, movement, primal patterns, or crawling - it's all the rage these days...and for good reason!

This sort of "mindful movement" can help to balance your body and bulletproof your joints, tendons, and ligaments for more radical training and sports regimens. 

Essentially, this is the missing link in your training and exercise! Learn the basics of the GMB method and prepare your body to handle whatever life throws at it.

What: Locomotion Workshop
When: May 19, 2018 @ 1030 - 1230
Where: Factory Coffee, Kalamazoo, MI 49007

Price: $25

Journey through the Fourth Chakra with us in this special event!

Have you ever wanted to learn the basics of [proper] Kettlebell training? Are you interested in strength training for Yoga? Do you enjoy a cup o Joe? Then this is the workshop for you!

This workshop includes a manual that will include the following:
- Proper Vinyasa Yoga Flow
- Specific drills to target commons weaknesses and imbalances
- How to Plank...for real
- Basics of Handstanding
- The Goblet Squat
- The Get-up
- The Swing
- Seriously helpful extras!
- Recommended programming

This is meant to be an overview and introduction to properly executed training so there’s a TON of information. Even if you’ve been training with all the above for a while, this workshop can still be very useful!

Kettlebells & Coffee will be held at Factory Coffee in Kalamazoo!

Price: $35

Price: $25

Journey through the third Chakra with us in this special event!

Donations Only: pay what you can!

Another Full Moon meditation coming at you this Wednesday, don't miss it!  This time it's an even more rare "blue moon" which is like Double-blue-MOONey!

Price: 25

Journey through the Second Chakra with us in this special event!

Price: $25

Price: $25

Price: $15

A soothing and peaceful practice to start your Holidays right! Come chill out, stretch out, bliss out... then head out on your way to family and fun!