there is peaceful. there is wild. i am both at the same time. - sum
SPRING 2022 | SCHEDULE
GREETINGS, WILD SAGE FOLKS + FAMILY!
My current class schedule is below and will be updated regularly with additional offerings. Please let me know if you have any questions or requests! Thank you for your willingness to join me in getting curious and diving deeper.
I love and appreciate you!
Deneene / Neener
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WEDNESDAYS | 9AM | SLOW FLOW | 60M
Designed to be accessible for all levels to promote strength, balance, and flexibility. Increase the flow of energy through longer holds of poses and slow transitions. Bring more stillness to the mind + cultivate more awareness.
In-person + Zoom (advance registration required)
$20 Drop-in + Class Packages
THURSDAYS | 6PM | ENERGY FLOW | 60M
An invigorating, moderately-paced Vinyasa class designed to be both mindful and challenging. Focus your body’s energies to build strength, balance, and stamina. All levels are welcome, but some yoga experience might be helpful.
In-person + Zoom (advance registration required)
$20 Drop-in + Class Packages
SATURDAYS + SUNDAYS | 8AM | SALUTE + STRETCH | 60M
Awaken under the redwoods in the warmth + privacy of the tent canopy to prepare you for the day's leisure and adventure. Mats + props provided. All levels welcome.
FREE | In the Tent Canopy
Registered Guests Only
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LIVE ONLINE CLASSES @ WILD SAGE YOGA ZOOM ROOM
Next online series TBA | By Donation - Links below
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Stay tuned for more 2022 offerings--workshops, new practice videos, blog posts!
Contact me with questions/comments or to schedule a private practice.
I hope you'll find time to move, breathe, and stay connected with me this year!
Instagram: @wildsageyoga
Facebook: @wildsageyogini
YouTube: Deneene Bell
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VIRTUAL TIP JARS | If your means allow and your spirit wills, donations are greatly appreciated.
PRIVATE + SMALL GROUP PRACTICES
- Private Zoom classes or in-person practices available for individuals, couples, families, housemates, small groups + events. | $50-$200 per hour
- Customizable recorded practices for you or your kids.
- Tailored to your desired level, pace, and preference.
- Contact me for more information and for Corporate Inquiries (Mindfulness Workshops, Team Sessions, Retreats)
* In-person sessions respect all current COVID safety protocols. Clients are encouraged to provide their own mats + props, but supplies can be provided if needed for an additional fee.
COMPOST FOR THE SOUL
Root | read
GROW | listen
GROW | listen
WHAT'S BLOWING AND GROWING MY MIND.
I have been slowly wading through this beautiful work by Michelle Cassandra Johnson, social justice warrior, empath, Dismantling Racism trainer, intuitive healer, yoga and meditation teacher, and all around badass human with a megawatt smile and heart to match.
This book is an embodied experience, offering a chance to explore, welcome, accept, and feel all the grief we are dealing with individually and collectively. Through story and mindful practice, MCJ makes grief a genuine and grounded expression of the human condition and process.
Check out this book, the accompanying Sadhana practice, her podcast, and all the things at https://www.finding-refuge.com/
Find her previous work Skill In Action on the intersection of social justice and yoga at https://www.skill-in-action.com/
GROW | listen
GROW | listen
GROW | listen
WHAT'S GOT ME PAYING ATTENTION.
Where have these meditative loops of self-affirming mantras been all my life?
Loving these spirals of empowerment that imprint into my heart and resonate through my tissues. Fucking amazing.
Check out Geminelle, her super rad Mantra Loops, Vol. 1 and other recordings.
THRIVE | move
GROW | listen
THRIVE | move
WHAT'S GOT ME MOVING + GROOVING.
Dance like everyone's watching!
May we all feel this good about moving our bodies! Yasssss.
VIDEO PRACTICES
FLOWMO | SHORT, FOCUSED MOMENTS OF FLOW
30M FOCUSED FLOWS
Sit, Stretch + Salute | 30m
Sun Salutation + Warrior | 30m
60m Classes
*NEW* Grounding + Energizing Do What You Can Flow | 60m
Gentle Fearlessness Flow | 65m
Morning Gratitude Salute | 60m
Tapas Transformation Flow | 60m
Moving Meditation: Sacral Chakra | 60m
Energizing Morning Flow | 60m
Yin-Yang Flow: Balancing Effort + Ease | 60m
Meet Yourself in the Moment + Flow | 60m
Morning Flow: Curiosity, Patience + Wakefulness | 60m
Awakened Heart Flow | 60m
75+ Practices
About
my STORY
Why Wild Sage?
Why Wild Sage?
I am a freelance writer-editor and certified yoga teacher living in Sonoma County, CA, on Kashaya, Southern Pomo, and Graton Rancheria indigenous lands.
I facilitate yoga classes, healing arts workshops, and women’s circles based on belief in the transformative, healing, and empowering nature of embodied expression in all forms: writing,
I am a freelance writer-editor and certified yoga teacher living in Sonoma County, CA, on Kashaya, Southern Pomo, and Graton Rancheria indigenous lands.
I facilitate yoga classes, healing arts workshops, and women’s circles based on belief in the transformative, healing, and empowering nature of embodied expression in all forms: writing, art, breath, movement, ritual, and meditation. I am by nature a collaborator and relationship builder. I write, practice, teach, volunteer, and facilitate to energize, awaken, inspire, and co-create personal and communal (rev)elation + (r)evolution.
My background is in education—teaching literacy skills and expository + creative writing. Over the last 25 years, I have worked with students of all ages, levels, backgrounds, and abilities.
My longtime yoga practice, cultivated in the crucible of grad school and a sweaty Bikram studio 20 years ago, yielded into a daily devotion that naturally evolved into teaching as well.
I was trained and certified by Sienna Smith in Shri Yoga, a synthesis of Hatha traditions rooted in the eight limbs and based on principles of Anusara (consciousness) and Viniyoga (adaptation).
[Krishnamacharya-Desikachar Lineage]
I have also received direct teachings from Sally Kempton, Michelle C. Johnson,
Dianne Bondy, Amber Karnes,
Anusha Wijeyakumar, Reggie Hubbard, Shiva Rea, Seane Corn, Hala Khouri,
Suzanne Sterling, Nikki Myers, Sadie Nardini, Stephanie Snyder, Amy Ippoliti, Christina Sell, Chinnamasta Stiles, Mirka Kraftsow.
Why Wild Sage?
Why Wild Sage?
Why Wild Sage?
wild
adjective: untamed;
living + growing in a natural environment
noun: a natural or uncultivated state
sage
adjective: wise through reflection + experience
noun: a medicinal + culinary herb; a wise person
In addition to the obvious connotations of badassery and wisdom, Wild Sage is a combination of my kids' names, Wilder + Sage. I dedicate
wild
adjective: untamed;
living + growing in a natural environment
noun: a natural or uncultivated state
sage
adjective: wise through reflection + experience
noun: a medicinal + culinary herb; a wise person
In addition to the obvious connotations of badassery and wisdom, Wild Sage is a combination of my kids' names, Wilder + Sage. I dedicate my practice to them,
as well as to the final leaf of our unruly branch, my partner in love and life, Chris.
PHILOSOPHY
Why Wild Sage?
PHILOSOPHY
My studentship and teaching is rooted in deep respect and appreciation for yoga's roots and its 8 limbs.
I operate from an ever-growing understanding that yoga is a living, mutable practice, at once physical, soulful, and
unique to each individual.
Whatever the reason for coming to the mat, yoga is a great gift of self-wisdom available to
My studentship and teaching is rooted in deep respect and appreciation for yoga's roots and its 8 limbs.
I operate from an ever-growing understanding that yoga is a living, mutable practice, at once physical, soulful, and
unique to each individual.
Whatever the reason for coming to the mat, yoga is a great gift of self-wisdom available to every body and every being.
Through breath, movement, and dedication, yoga works to calm the mind, engage the body, and cultivate an awareness which helps us to accomplish great feats of humanness:
CONNECTION, PEACE,
STRENGTH, FLEXIBILITY,
HEALING, BALANCE,
FOCUS, VIBRANCY.
Yoga is not only good exercise and personal medicine, it is an expression of how we each live our lives—providing us with
challenges, choices, insights, and rewards both on and off the mat.
Partnerships + Affiliations
