there is peaceful. there is wild. i am both at the same time. -sum
there is peaceful. there is wild. i am both at the same time. -sum
2021 | VIRTUAL CLASS OFFERINGS
Namaste, Wild Sages!
I BELIEVE in the good things coming! Like more ROOTING, more GROWING, more THRIVING! Let's compost and integrate all that this past year has brought us and continue forward with strength, resolve, and love.
I AM SO GRATEFUL TO YOU for making the space in your life to share your practice with me and others from hOMe. I hope that these live + recorded opportunities to anchor and connect are as inspiring and sustaining for you as they are for me. As the world continues to unfold and progress mindfully, I will continue to offer these online practices and hope that you continue to join me.
These classes are my wholehearted offering to you and our collective wellness.
If your means allow and your spirit wills, donations are greatly appreciated.
$5-20 sliding scale.
VIRTUAL TIP JARS:
VENMO @Deneene
STAY STRONG | STAY LOVING | STAY CONNECTED
WEEKLY CLASS SCHEDULE
midweek morning salute WEDNESDAYS | 9-10AM PST
midweek morning salute WEDNESDAYS | 9-10AM PST
midweek morning salute WEDNESDAYS | 9-10AM PST
Yin-Yang SLOW FLOW thursdays | 5:30-6:30PM PST
midweek morning salute WEDNESDAYS | 9-10AM PST
midweek morning salute WEDNESDAYS | 9-10AM PST
weekend warrior flow SATURDAYS | 10-11AM PST
midweek morning salute WEDNESDAYS | 9-10AM PST
weekend warrior flow SATURDAYS | 10-11AM PST
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.
* In-person sessions respect all current COVID safety protocols. Clients must provide their own mats + props. New, still-wrapped, beginner mats available for $20.
COMPOST FOR THE SOUL
Root | read
GROW | listen
GROW | listen
WHAT'S BLOWING AND GROWING MY MIND.
Darkness
is only the absence of light
like loneliness
is the reason we fight
and fear
is the reason we might never know
what it'd be like
if we all realized the meaning of our lives
and lived as if life depended on the gifts
we tried to hide.
-- Listen to Climbing Poetree (Naima Penniman + Alixa Garcia)+ Rising Appalachia speak and sing "Awakening"
GROW | listen
GROW | listen
GROW | listen
WHAT'S GOT ME PAYING ATTENTION.
New Release from Rising Appalachia : Hungry World (feat. Aja Black of The Reminders)
Listen also to Aja on the Fierce Womxn Writing Podcast discuss writing and creativity.
THRIVE | move
GROW | listen
THRIVE | move
WHAT'S GOT ME MOVING + GROOVING.
30-minute beginner yoga practice with the sassy, inspiring badass Jessamyn Stanley.
About
my STORY
Why Wild Sage?
Why Wild Sage?
I am a freelance writer-editor and certified yoga teacher based in Sonoma County, CA. 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.
My background is in
I am a freelance writer-editor and certified yoga teacher based in Sonoma County, CA. 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.
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, gradually yielded into a daily devotion that naturally evolved into teaching. I was trained and certified in Shri Yoga, a synthesis of Hatha traditions rooted in the eight limbs of yoga and including principles of Anusara (consciousness) and Viniyoga (adaptation).
I am by nature a collaborator and relationship builder. I write, practice, teach, volunteer, and facilitate workshops to energize, awaken, inspire, and co-create personal and communal
(rev)elation + (r)evolution.
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
We already have everything we need within ourselves. We are all raw potential. We all have natural wisdom. The true essence of yoga is to
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
We already have everything we need within ourselves. We are all raw potential. We all have natural wisdom. The true essence of yoga is to discover (root), cultivate (grow), and sustain (thrive) them both.
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 hubby Chris.
PHILOSOPHY
Why Wild Sage?
PHILOSOPHY
I strive to learn and integrate yoga philosophy into my life and teaching on the daily, and believe I am only as good a teacher as I am a student.
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
I strive to learn and integrate yoga philosophy into my life and teaching on the daily, and believe I am only as good a teacher as I am a student.
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 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:
FOCUS, STRENGTH, FLEXIBILITY,
PEACE, HEALING, BALANCE,
VIBRANCY, CONNECTION.
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.
Affiliations + Inspirations
Yin-Yang Slow flow | NOW Offered on Thursdays @ 5:30-6:30pm
A gentle and accessible class balanced between the week and the weekend, designed to help you decompress and find harmony.
* This class is moving from Sunday to Thursday., and will no longer be offered on Sundays.