Join Us for a Weekend of Growth, Fun & Deep Relaxation! Bring your yoga mat, blocks, yoga belts, blankets and sandbags—and get ready to breathe, move, and relax!
When: April 25-26, 2026
Days: Saturday & Sunday
Regular Registration by April 18, 2026: Pay online below, Venmo @Kari-Tomashik-1 , or by mail. Email or text Kari if you plan to attend and how many sessions.
Regular Registration: $50.00 each session. $200.00 all four sessions.
Dharma Registration after April 18, 2026: Pay online below, Venmo @Kari-Tomashik-1 , or by mail. Email or text Kari if you plan to attend and how many sessions.
Dharma Registration: $55.00 each session. $220.00 all four sessions.
Location: In-Person at The Center for Physical Arts, 247 West Nine Mile Road, Ferndale, MI 48220
Parking: Parking available in parking structure across the street. Feel free to drop off yoga props at The Center for Physical Arts back door then park.
Yoga Lessons Available: Contact Kari to schedule a yoga lesson.
Why You’ll Love This Weekend Workshop
All Levels Welcome: Whether you’re a first-timer or a seasoned yogi, these sessions are designed for everyone.
Pranayama, Asanas & Restorative Magic: Each class features breathwork, active poses, and relaxing restorative poses.
Transformational Work: Expert feedback that helps you take your practice to the next level.
Fun & Supportive Atmosphere: You’ll be surrounded by a welcoming yoga community where everyone’s here to grow, have fun, and feel amazing.
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Saturday Yoga Sessions – April 18, 2026
Inspiration:
“The practice of asanas lubricates the joints and increases mobility, bringing awareness to each muscle, joint, and organ. Different combinations of asanas improve the range of movement for each muscle and joint, helping align the left and right sides of the body.” — B.K.S. Iyengar
Saturday, 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Session A
Yoga for Bone Health
Yoga for bone health involves weight-bearing, strengthening yoga poses that increase bone density and can reduce fracture risks. particularly beneficial for osteopenia and osteoporosis.
Benefits:
Transformational Work:
Awaken your inner strength and flexibility through guided feedback, helping you evolve in both body and mind.
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Saturday, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Session B
Breath.Vitality. Digestive Health.
Increase Vitality, Aid Digestion, and Decrease Stress with Breathing Techniques and Asanas.
Deep, mindful breathing helps the body to rest and digest. Breathing deeply and mindfully takes us out of the flight-fright-fight response that causes blood to move from the gut to other larger muscles in body. Being in a constant flight-fright-fight response interferes with digestion and weakens the immune system and can increase inflammation.
In this class, we will practice alternate nostril breathing to encourage slow, mindful breathing to help the body and mind relax, so the nervous system experiences calm feelings and a sense of safety.
We will also connect to the body’s gut-brain axis, by practicing diaphragm breathing and abdominal breathing (belly breath), to bring more concentrated blood into the belly and gut area of the body to improve digestion.
The asanas (yoga postures) we practice will aid our digestion process and improve our immune response.
Benefits include:
Transformational Work: Unlock your body’s potential with guided feedback, creating space for energy flow and relaxation.
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Sunday Yoga Sessions – April 26, 2026
Inspiration:
“Asanas make your body supple and bring alertness to your mind, while soothing your nerves and glands, relaxing your brain, and maintaining physical, physiological, and emotional balance.” — B.K.S. Iyengar
Sunday, 9:00 am – 11:00 am | Session C
The Art of Practice
Description: The Art of Practice is a yoga journey of self-discovery and personal transformation that requires discipline, effort, and a commitment to being present in the moment. Mindful movement and yoga flow cultivates inner peace, balance, and self-awareness, so you can connect with your true essence.
This class includes meditation, breathing, chanting, and body awareness.
Challenge yourself
Start your practice by challenging yourself with difficult movements, and look for new challenges each day.
Be present
Let go of the past and the future, and focus on your practice in the moment.
Embrace the journey
The art of yoga practice is about accepting the process of self-discovery, not about achieving perfection in poses.
Physical, Mental, and Emotional Benefits:
Transformational Work:
Feel the positive energy flow, and receive expert feedback to enhance your body’s foundation and alignment.
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Sunday, 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Session D
Yoga to Relax the Nervous System
This is a nurturing and soothing yoga practice that supports the nervous and immune system, restores homeostasis (optimal functioning within), and recharges the body’s energy system, so that you can rest deeper and more peacefully.
This sequence is designed to include gentle backbends, supported forward bends, and supported inversions and restoratives to calm the nervous system and recharge the energy system. The result is to experience deeper levels of breathing and relaxation.
As the body releases stress and tension, the body, mind, emotions, and spirit can relax into a safe space of inner stillness, so you can connect with your peaceful and beautiful inner self.
Benefits
Pranayama: Alternate nostril breathing
Asanas: Asanas that support and nourish the nervous system and immune system
Restoratives: Restoratives that calm the nervous system such as Setu Bandha Sarvangasana and Savasana
Transformational Work:
Transform your body and mindset through expert feedback that enhances both physical and emotional well-being.
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Healing Injury? For those who have a history of injury or trauma and notice that the effects of the minor/major injuries are beginning to interfere with your everyday lives, please note that all of the yoga classes are naturally healing.
Each yoga class is designed to help release stored pain, anxiety, stress, or tension you may be experiencing so that vital, healing energy – prana – can move freely through the entire body. When vital energy is flowing freely (not obstructed), you experience positive emotions, revitalized energy, mental clarity, lightness, pain relief, and an overall sense of well-being.
ALL ARE WELCOME
Whether you have attended any of my yoga classes or workshops in the past or not, you are welcome to attend any or all of these classes.
SKILL LEVEL
Beginner – with at least 6 months of yoga experience
Intermediate
Advanced
PROPS
One yoga mat, necessary
One or two yoga blocks, necessary
Two firm bolsters or two firm blankets
One yoga belt
One or Two sandbags, if you have
Dharma wheel, if you have
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