Summer 2021 | July-August | Class Offerings
Greetings, beautiful people!
You can find me for in-person (yippee!)/online-hybrid classes at the new bright, airy, and beautiful Sol Rio Studio in Guerneville starting Wednesday, July 21, 9-10:15am!
Midweek Morning Salute | Wednesdays | 9am-10:15am
Drop-in: $18 + Class Passes Available | Register + reserve online w/PunchPass
* Online pre-registration is required for hybrid/Zoom classes.
Saturday and other weekly hybrid classes are still to be determined.
Message me if you have a scheduling request!
Continue to visit WildSageYoga.com for schedule updates and class info/links.
Check out the links below for recorded video practices.
Gratefully and with love, Deneene
VIRTUAL TIP JARS
VENMO @Deneene
Root. Grow. Thrive.
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
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.
“My term “minor feelings” is deeply indebted to theorist Sianne Ngai, who wrote extensively on the affective qualities of ugly feelings, negative emotions—like envy, irritation, and boredom—symptomatic of today’s late-capitalist gig economy. Like ugly feelings, minor feelings are “non-cathartic states of emotion” with “a remarkable capacity for duration.”
“The indignity of being Asian in this country has been underreported. We have been cowed by the lie that we have it good. We keep our heads down and work hard, believing that our diligence will reward us with our dignity, but our diligence will only make us disappear. By not speaking up, we perpetuate the myth that our shame is caused by our repressive culture and the country we fled, whereas America has given us nothing but opportunity. The lie that Asians have it good is so insidious that even now as I write, I’m shadowed by doubt that I didn’t have it bad compared to others. But racial trauma is not a competitive sport. The problem is not that my childhood was exceptionally traumatic but that it was in fact rather typical.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
GROW | listen
GROW | listen
GROW | listen
WHAT'S GOT ME PAYING ATTENTION.
I have 3 words for you: Sonya. Renee. Taylor.
Listen to her on Instagram (before she moves to Patreon) the Fierce Womxn Writing Podcast discuss her book and philosophy "The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love."
"When our personal value is dependent on the lesser value of other bodies, radical self-love is unachievable.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, Quotes
THRIVE | move
GROW | listen
THRIVE | move
WHAT'S GOT ME MOVING + GROOVING.
Balance Practice: Improve Your Balance and Core Strength with Vinyasa Yoga w/Dianne Bondy "Balance is critical at every stage of life. From learning to walk as a child to becoming an elder, a strong sense of balance will help us stay strong and upright. Today's vinyasa yoga practice works on poses that test our balance, giving us the opportunity to play and explore what our body can do."
Dianne's philosophy:
Yoga Is for
Every Body
No exceptions.
Yoga has become a practice reserved exclusively for the privileged few: wealthy, thin, young, flexible, white and able-bodied. But yoga benefits all bodies, regardless of their shape, size, age, ethnicity or ability.
You can do yoga.
Visit Dianne's website and YouTube channel and practice with her online!
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
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 hubby Chris.
PHILOSOPHY
Why Wild Sage?
PHILOSOPHY
My studentship and teaching is rooted in deep respect and appreciation for yoga's roots and all of its limbs, which I strive to learn and integrate into my life on the daily.
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 fo
My studentship and teaching is rooted in deep respect and appreciation for yoga's roots and all of its limbs, which I strive to learn and integrate into my life on the daily.
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:
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
