An invitation to rest, ground, and be held by the Earth

with Laure Tobiaz Veltz

This deeply restorative class offers space to pause, soften, and come home — to your body, your breath, and the steady presence of the Earth beneath you. We begin with gentle, optional movement and/or soothing pranayama to support settling and ease, before resting into an extended Yoga Nidrā practice.

Yoga Nidrā, often translated as “yogic sleep,” is a guided meditative experience that supports deep rest while maintaining conscious awareness. In this class, we dedicate our practice to reconnecting with the Earth and the natural world, inviting you to sense yourself as part of our surrounding environment through embodied awareness, breath, and guided visualization. The intention is to gently cultivate a felt sense of grounding, belonging, and renewed connection with our planet — at your own pace, in your own time.

This class is an invitation to rest, restore, and reconnect, especially during times of stress, grief, or transition. All bodies, nervous systems, and levels of experience are welcome.

Cost: $27 (drop-in price) or use a class pack to register! Recording available for 30 days to all registrants

As humans, we experience intense emotions and sensations around significant life events, transitions, and losses. In our westernized, individualized world, we often feel isolated during times of transition and are taught to expect sameness rather than embracing change. We invite you to join us for a gentle, affirming yoga and reflection practice co-led by two people that have had to learn the art of embracing transition, Room to Breathe yoga teacher and therapist, Hannah, and therapist, Margy.

This virtual event will combine movement with moments for reflection and journaling around the following themes: identifying emotions during times of transition; normalizing that transitions are hard and emphasizing to build safety; and embracing change and duality rather than clinging to the desire for life to stay the same.

We encourage you to come as you are, take what’s useful, leave the rest, and enjoy connection with a community of people also living in our changing world; no prior experience with yoga needed! Recording will be available for 30 days for registrants unable to join in real time.

Cost: Tiered pricing, $40/$50/$60

An invitation to rest, ground, and be held by the Earth

with Laure Tobiaz Veltz

This deeply restorative class offers space to pause, soften, and come home — to your body, your breath, and the steady presence of the Earth beneath you. We begin with gentle, optional movement and/or soothing pranayama to support settling and ease, before resting into an extended Yoga Nidrā practice.

Yoga Nidrā, often translated as “yogic sleep,” is a guided meditative experience that supports deep rest while maintaining conscious awareness. In this class, we dedicate our practice to reconnecting with the Earth and the natural world, inviting you to sense yourself as part of our surrounding environment through embodied awareness, breath, and guided visualization. The intention is to gently cultivate a felt sense of grounding, belonging, and renewed connection with our planet — at your own pace, in your own time.

This class is an invitation to rest, restore, and reconnect, especially during times of stress, grief, or transition. All bodies, nervous systems, and levels of experience are welcome.

Cost: $27 (drop-in price) or use a class pack to register! Recording available for 30 days to all registrants

An invitation to rest, ground, and be held by the Earth

with Laure Tobiaz Veltz

This deeply restorative class offers space to pause, soften, and come home — to your body, your breath, and the steady presence of the Earth beneath you. We begin with gentle, optional movement and/or soothing pranayama to support settling and ease, before resting into an extended Yoga Nidrā practice.

Yoga Nidrā, often translated as “yogic sleep,” is a guided meditative experience that supports deep rest while maintaining conscious awareness. In this class, we dedicate our practice to reconnecting with the Earth and the natural world, inviting you to sense yourself as part of our surrounding environment through embodied awareness, breath, and guided visualization. The intention is to gently cultivate a felt sense of grounding, belonging, and renewed connection with our planet — at your own pace, in your own time.

This class is an invitation to rest, restore, and reconnect, especially during times of stress, grief, or transition. All bodies, nervous systems, and levels of experience are welcome.

Cost: $27 (drop-in price) or use a class pack to register! Recording available for 30 days to all registrants

with Em Sandberg, LSW, MSW, PhD.

A workshop for adults in their 20s and 30s who are learning to navigate performance anxiety in the workplace, school, and relationships. 

You might be familiar with a similar experience: the way your mind starts auditioning the worst version of how something could go, the work you know how to do but can't make yourself start, the way even love can start to feel like something to optimize or get exactly right. Performance anxiety, often born from the desire to be “good enough,” isn't a problem in itself — it's often a sign that something matters to you. The trouble starts when it begins to shrink your life: the opportunities you don't take, the things left unsaid, the self you don't quite let anyone else see.

In this gentle, supportive, and direct 2-hour online workshop, you're invited to join Em, one of our behavioral therapists at Room to Breathe, to:

1. Normalize, validate, and deepen your understanding of performance anxiety — where it comes from and what it's protecting you from;

2. Engage in somatic and mindfulness practices to increase your capacity to stay present in the face of pressure;

3. Learn about orientations to live with and move through anxiety;

4. Be in community with others who know what it's like to feel like they're always being watched, measured, or judged.

“Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.” -Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra.

What to expect:

• Psychoeducation on performance anxiety and the patterns that keep it going

• Somatic and mindfulness processing exercises

• Written and oral reflection, individually and in community

• All registrants receive access to the recording for 30 days, plus a follow-up email with slides and additional resources

This workshop might be for you if you have found yourself…

• staying up too late to get every detail exactly right

• saying yes to too many things for fear of punishment or not doing enough

• avoiding starting assignments because you don’t know how to do it perfectly

• constantly worried whether you are feeling, thinking, or saying the right thing to coworkers, classmates, or intimate partners

Cost: Tiered pricing, $80-60; choose the amount that aligns with your financial situation. If this doesn’t feel financially feasible for you but would like to join the workshop, please reach out to Em directly to inquire about additional sliding scale options!

An invitation to rest, ground, and be held by the Earth

with Laure Tobiaz Veltz

This deeply restorative class offers space to pause, soften, and come home — to your body, your breath, and the steady presence of the Earth beneath you. We begin with gentle, optional movement and/or soothing pranayama to support settling and ease, before resting into an extended Yoga Nidrā practice.

Yoga Nidrā, often translated as “yogic sleep,” is a guided meditative experience that supports deep rest while maintaining conscious awareness. In this class, we dedicate our practice to reconnecting with the Earth and the natural world, inviting you to sense yourself as part of our surrounding environment through embodied awareness, breath, and guided visualization. The intention is to gently cultivate a felt sense of grounding, belonging, and renewed connection with our planet — at your own pace, in your own time.

This class is an invitation to rest, restore, and reconnect, especially during times of stress, grief, or transition. All bodies, nervous systems, and levels of experience are welcome.

Cost: $27 (drop-in price) or use a class pack to register! Recording available for 30 days to all registrants

Join Room to Breathe for a free virtual info session! Explore a short practice with our lead teacher training faculty member, Whitney Pasch, ask questions, and learn more about our upcoming 225-hour Psych-Sensitive Yoga Teacher Training.

Registration is required so we know how many folks to expect. We look forward to meeting you!

An invitation to rest, ground, and be held by the Earth

with Laure Tobiaz Veltz

This deeply restorative class offers space to pause, soften, and come home — to your body, your breath, and the steady presence of the Earth beneath you. We begin with gentle, optional movement and/or soothing pranayama to support settling and ease, before resting into an extended Yoga Nidrā practice.

Yoga Nidrā, often translated as “yogic sleep,” is a guided meditative experience that supports deep rest while maintaining conscious awareness. In this class, we dedicate our practice to reconnecting with the Earth and the natural world, inviting you to sense yourself as part of our surrounding environment through embodied awareness, breath, and guided visualization. The intention is to gently cultivate a felt sense of grounding, belonging, and renewed connection with our planet — at your own pace, in your own time.

This class is an invitation to rest, restore, and reconnect, especially during times of stress, grief, or transition. All bodies, nervous systems, and levels of experience are welcome.

Cost: $27 (drop-in price) or use a class pack to register! Recording available for 30 days to all registrants

An invitation to rest, ground, and be held by the Earth

with Laure Tobiaz Veltz

This deeply restorative class offers space to pause, soften, and come home — to your body, your breath, and the steady presence of the Earth beneath you. We begin with gentle, optional movement and/or soothing pranayama to support settling and ease, before resting into an extended Yoga Nidrā practice.

Yoga Nidrā, often translated as “yogic sleep,” is a guided meditative experience that supports deep rest while maintaining conscious awareness. In this class, we dedicate our practice to reconnecting with the Earth and the natural world, inviting you to sense yourself as part of our surrounding environment through embodied awareness, breath, and guided visualization. The intention is to gently cultivate a felt sense of grounding, belonging, and renewed connection with our planet — at your own pace, in your own time.

This class is an invitation to rest, restore, and reconnect, especially during times of stress, grief, or transition. All bodies, nervous systems, and levels of experience are welcome.

A workshop for adults (18+) who are mourning the death of a loved one, and are seeking support and tools to normalize, validate, and cope with their grief emotions and loss experiences.

When someone we love dies, it is common to feel like a part of us dies alongside them. The pain of grief is often minimized, especially in Westernized cultures, and many of us are left feeling lost, isolated, and activated in the aftermath of losing someone we love. In this intimate, supportive 2-hour workshop, you are invited to join Margy, one of our grief-focused therapists at Room to Breathe, to: 1) normalize, validate, and deepen your understanding of grief emotions and death-loss experiences, 2) learn best practices about tending to and honoring your grief and ways to care for self, 3) engage in somatic and mindfulness practice to connect with and move your emotions, and 4) be in community with others who are also mourning the death of a loved one. 

“Grief is a practice, not a problem to fix…a practice of holding on and letting go, of letting in and letting out…a practice of being human.” -Monique Minahan, The Grief Practice

What to expect:

• 90 min: brief psycho-education on grief emotions and coping tools, and individual + group reflection.

• 30 min: somatic grief mapping & mindfulness practice, with gentle movement (no previous experience with yoga or somatics required).

• All registrants will have access to the recording for 30 days following the workshop (including people who can’t attend in real time). Margy will also provide additional grief resources via email following the workshop.

Cost: Tiered pricing, $80-60; choose the amount that aligns with your financial situation. If this doesn’t feel financially feasible for you but would like to join the workshop, please reach out to Margy directly to inquire about additional sliding scale options!

An invitation to rest, ground, and be held by the Earth

with Laure Tobiaz Veltz

This deeply restorative class offers space to pause, soften, and come home — to your body, your breath, and the steady presence of the Earth beneath you. We begin with gentle, optional movement and/or soothing pranayama to support settling and ease, before resting into an extended Yoga Nidrā practice.

Yoga Nidrā, often translated as “yogic sleep,” is a guided meditative experience that supports deep rest while maintaining conscious awareness. In this class, we dedicate our practice to reconnecting with the Earth and the natural world, inviting you to sense yourself as part of our surrounding environment through embodied awareness, breath, and guided visualization. The intention is to gently cultivate a felt sense of grounding, belonging, and renewed connection with our planet — at your own pace, in your own time.

This class is an invitation to rest, restore, and reconnect, especially during times of stress, grief, or transition. All bodies, nervous systems, and levels of experience are welcome.

Hannah Lee (Room To Breathe therapist and yoga guide and Chicago Abortion Fund's board co-chair) is raising funds for Chicago Abortion Fund's annual Fund-A-Thon and invites you to join her!

Sunday, April 12th, 7-8pm CST, Hannah will lead a restorative yoga practice focused on giving us space to rest and recharge amidst our fight for a more just world. Cost is on a sliding scale of $18-30 to register and attend, with half of all proceeds going to Hannah's goal of raising $6,000 for abortion access. Registrants will have access to the recording if you can’t attend in real time!

The mission of the Chicago Abortion Fund is to advance reproductive autonomy and justice for everyone by providing financial, logistical, and emotional support to people seeking abortion services in Illinois and by building collective power and fostering partnerships for political and cultural change. Last year, CAF fielded nearly 20,000 calls for support – representing people based in 40+ states –  and distributed $10 million to directly break down barriers to access.

Practice the yoga of action with us. Let's join together and show up for abortion access together!

Cost: Sliding scale, $18-30 half of all proceeds go towards Hannah’s Chicago Abortion Fund fundraiser!

An invitation to rest, ground, and be held by the Earth

with Laure Tobiaz Veltz

This deeply restorative class offers space to pause, soften, and come home — to your body, your breath, and the steady presence of the Earth beneath you. We begin with gentle, optional movement and/or soothing pranayama to support settling and ease, before resting into an extended Yoga Nidrā practice.

Yoga Nidrā, often translated as “yogic sleep,” is a guided meditative experience that supports deep rest while maintaining conscious awareness. In this class, we dedicate our practice to reconnecting with the Earth and the natural world, inviting you to sense yourself as part of our surrounding environment through embodied awareness, breath, and guided visualization. The intention is to gently cultivate a felt sense of grounding, belonging, and renewed connection with our planet — at your own pace, in your own time.

This class is an invitation to rest, restore, and reconnect, especially during times of stress, grief, or transition. All bodies, nervous systems, and levels of experience are welcome.

As humans, we experience intense emotions and sensations around significant life events, transitions, and losses. In our westernized, individualized world, we often feel isolated during times of transition and are taught to expect sameness rather than embracing change. We invite you to join us for a gentle, affirming yoga and reflection practice co-led by two people that have had to learn the art of embracing transition, Room to Breathe yoga teacher and therapist, Hannah, and therapist, Margy.

This virtual event will combine movement with moments for reflection and journaling around the following themes: identifying emotions during times of transition; normalizing that transitions are hard and emphasizing to build safety; and embracing change and duality rather than clinging to the desire for life to stay the same.

We encourage you to come as you are, take what’s useful, leave the rest, and enjoy connection with a community of people also living in our changing world; no prior experience with yoga needed! Prompts for chair yoga will be provided. Recording will be available for 30 days for registrants unable to join in real time.

Cost: Tiered pricing, $40/$50/$60

An invitation to rest, ground, and be held by the Earth

with Laure Tobiaz Veltz

This deeply restorative class offers space to pause, soften, and come home — to your body, your breath, and the steady presence of the Earth beneath you. We begin with gentle, optional movement and/or soothing pranayama to support settling and ease, before resting into an extended Yoga Nidrā practice.

Yoga Nidrā, often translated as “yogic sleep,” is a guided meditative experience that supports deep rest while maintaining conscious awareness. In this class, we dedicate our practice to reconnecting with the Earth and the natural world, inviting you to sense yourself as part of our surrounding environment through embodied awareness, breath, and guided visualization. The intention is to gently cultivate a felt sense of grounding, belonging, and renewed connection with our planet — at your own pace, in your own time.

This class is an invitation to rest, restore, and reconnect, especially during times of stress, grief, or transition. All bodies, nervous systems, and levels of experience are welcome.

A workshop for adults (18+) who are mourning the death of a loved one, and are seeking support and tools to normalize, validate, and cope with their grief emotions and loss experiences.

When someone we love dies, it is common to feel like a part of us dies alongside them. The pain of grief is often minimized, especially in Westernized cultures, and many of us are left feeling lost, isolated, and activated in the aftermath of losing someone we love. In this intimate, supportive 2-hour workshop, you are invited to join Margy, one of our grief-focused therapists at Room to Breathe, to: 1) normalize, validate, and deepen your understanding of grief emotions and death-loss experiences, 2) learn best practices about tending to and honoring your grief and ways to care for self, 3) engage in somatic and mindfulness practice to connect with and move your emotions, and 4) be in community with others who are also mourning the death of a loved one. 

“Grief is a practice, not a problem to fix…a practice of holding on and letting go, of letting in and letting out…a practice of being human.” -Monique Minahan, The Grief Practice

What to expect:

• 90 min: brief psycho-education on grief emotions and coping tools, and individual + group reflection.

• 30 min: somatic grief mapping & mindfulness practice, with gentle movement (no previous experience with yoga or somatics required).

• All registrants will have access to the recording for 30 days following the workshop (including people who can’t attend in real time). Margy will also provide additional grief resources via email following the workshop.

Cost: Tiered pricing, $80-60; choose the amount that aligns with your financial situation. If this doesn’t feel financially feasible for you but would like to join the workshop, please reach out to Margy directly to inquire about additional sliding scale options!

with Molly Page

New Year's resolutions weighing you down? Overwhelmed with the pressure of new year/new you messaging?

What if instead of focusing on all the things that need to change, we practice compassion and endurance?

When we acknowledge and honor things as they are, we ultimately experience more peace and less suffering.

Let's put some time and energy into understanding radical acceptance (what it is and what it isn't) and how we can apply it to ourselves and the things we cannot change.

This 75-minute session will include a slow, meditative physical practice, and some quiet time for contemplation and journaling. Bring all of your pillows and props for some yin poses and an extended and partially-guided savasana. 

Cost: Tiered pricing, $30-40

As humans, we all experience grief emotions around painful life events, transitions and losses. In our westernized world we often minimize expressing our grief and tending to it in a healthy way, and many of us feel isolated and crave being in community with people who are also grieving. We invite you to join us for a grief-centered gentle, affirming yoga and reflection practice co-led by Room to Breathe yoga teacher and therapist, Erica, and therapist, Margy.

This virtual event will combine movement with moments for reflection and journaling around the following themes: normalizing grief emotions and experiences, reflecting on how and where we feel and hold grief emotions in our body, and offering space and opportunity for release and renewal in community with others.

We encourage you to come as you are, take what’s useful, leave the rest, and enjoy connection with a community of those who are navigating grief; no prior experience with yoga needed! Recording will be available for 30 days for registrants unable to join in real time. All registrants will also receive an email with additional grief resources following the workshop.

Cost: Tiered pricing, $40-60

Join Sierra for a donation practice to benefit the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. ICIRR is dedicated to promoting the rights of immigrants and refugees to full and equal participation in the civic, cultural, social, and political life of our diverse society.

Practice is free to attend; we ask that you donate an amount that makes sense for you directly to ICIRR at https://illinoiscoalitionforimmigrantandrefugeerights-bloom.kindful.com/?campaign=1242232

with Hatie Parmeter

Look inward this November with Yoga and Journaling with Hatie. This slow, low-to-the-ground practice will be inspired by nature and the seasonal need to rest and reflect. Bring paper and writing utensils and cozy up your space for this all-levels practice. Expect a grounding practice with some self-massage and opportunities to meditate or write/draw.

Cost: Tiered pricing, $30-40

with Whitney Pasch

Ayurveda is an ancient Indian science that is often practiced in tandem with yoga. The word Ayurveda means the study of life, and it offers holistic lifestyle practices based on the concept that every person has a unique blueprint made up of the five elements: fire, water, earth, air, and ether.

This workshop is presented as part of our Going Deeper program, designed for current yoga teachers and/or students of yoga who want to continue to study the ancient roots, philosophy and psychology of yoga from a trauma-informed lens⁠. Learn alongside our current YTT cohort in this special workshop.

Cost: Tiered pricing, $75-95

**this workshop will not be recorded to maintain the integrity of our training cohort; please plan to attend live!

with Hannah Lee

If you’ve been here for a while, you know that Hannah is a Wintering fanatic and has been leading Yoga and Journaling on this theme for a minute. This year, we are turning towards the early chapters of Katherine May’s book to “make ready” for metaphorical and seasonal winter.

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the approaching winter might feel like the lurking “Jaws” theme track – ominous, dark, and isolating. Chicagoans know all too well the frantic energy with which we pack in the summer weekends and evenings as if we are trying to store up for the impending cold and shortened days. But what if we accepted winter, both the season and the emotional periods of life where we might retreat from the world, do less, allow ourselves to rest. What if this season has something to offer us, a permission that we don’t often take? 

Katherine May writes, “We may never choose to winter, but we can choose how.” Come explore what that might look like for you as we practice gentle movement and quiet reflection together on October 19th.

Cost: Tiered pricing, $30-40

The Yoga Sutras are ancient scriptures written by Maharishi Patanjali, and they describe detailed instructions for transcending suffering and living in freedom and harmony. In this online workshop with Whitney Pasch, we will discuss interpretations of the Sutras and how to study them for practical usage.⁠ ⁠

This workshop is presented as part of our Going Deeper program, designed for current yoga teachers and/or students of yoga who want to continue to study the ancient roots, philosophy and psychology of yoga from a trauma-informed lens⁠. Learn alongside our current YTT cohort in this special workshop.

Cost: Tiered pricing, $75-95

**this workshop will not be recorded to maintain the integrity of our training cohort; please plan to attend live!

with Molly Page

As the busy summer months come to a close, life just keeps on life-ing. Let’s take time to digest some of what we've been chewing on, and then rest for a while.

This 75-minute session with Molly will combine gentle yoga postures to help promote physical digestion, and thoughtful journal prompts to aid in mental digestion. We’ll end our session with an extended shavasana and guided meditation. 

Join us as we slow down and set the stage for cozy season.

Cost: Tiered pricing, $30-40

with Erica Schweitzer and Margy Brill

As humans, we all experience grief emotions around painful life events, transitions and losses. In our westernized world we often minimize expressing our grief and tending to it in a healthy way, and many of us feel isolated and crave being in community with people who are also grieving. We invite you to join us for a grief-centered gentle, affirming yoga and reflection practice co-led by Room to Breathe yoga teacher and therapist, Erica, and therapist, Margy.

This virtual event will combine movement with moments for reflection and journaling around the following themes: normalizing grief emotions and experiences, reflecting on how and where we feel and hold grief emotions in our body, and offering space and opportunity for release and renewal in community with others.

We encourage you to come as you are, take what’s useful, leave the rest, and enjoy connection with a community of those who are navigating grief; no prior experience with yoga needed! Recording will be available for 30 days for registrants unable to join in real time. All registrants will also receive an email with additional grief resources following the workshop. 

Cost: Tiered pricing, $40-60

Join Room to Breathe for a free virtual info session! Explore a short practice with our lead teacher training faculty member, Whitney Pasch, ask questions, and learn more about our upcoming 225-hour Psych-Sensitive Yoga Teacher Training.

with Candice Tindell

Celebrate the longest days of the year with a special Summer Solstice Yoga + Journaling class designed to honor the sun, embrace the light, and energize your spirit. This fiery practice combines mindful movement, breathwork, and journaling to align with the vibrant energy of the solstice.

Together, we’ll flow through sun salutations, grounding poses, and moments of stillness to reconnect with nature and the fire within. Whether you're a seasoned yogi or new to the mat, this class welcomes all levels to bask in warmth, reflect on growth, and step into the second half of the year with clarity and purpose.

Cost: Tiered pricing, $30-40; recording available for 30 days to all registered attendees

with Sam Allweiss

This Mental Health First Aid training is designed for non-therapists in our community who are looking for ways to better support friends, family and neighbors who may experience a mental health crisis.

We want to make this information practical and applicable to everyone, so Samantha will not be using clinical jargon or diagnoses. Instead, we focus on helping you identify signs of a mental health crisis and offer language and resources for responding as alternatives to calling the police. You will also learn how to de-escalate a crisis and care for self so you can sustain your well-being while supporting others.

It is more important than ever that we care for one another and Samantha looks forward to offering wisdom gained through prior community mental health and current private practice work.

Cost: Tiered pricing, $30-50

with Mirella Silva

Join us for a gentle, trauma-informed Yoga + Journaling workshop centered around the theme: Feel Your Feelings. In a world that often asks us to stay strong and keep moving, this space invites you to slow down, soften, and reconnect with what’s really going on inside. Through grounding movement, breathwork, and guided self-inquiry, we’ll explore what it means to truly feel—without judgment, pressure to fix, or the need to be anywhere other than where you are. No yoga experience necessary—just a willingness to show up as you are.

This 75-minute session will blend accessible, choice-based yoga with reflective journaling prompts designed to gently surface and hold your emotions with compassion. Whether you're navigating grief, joy, numbness, anxiety, or anything in between, this is a space to practice honoring your inner landscape with kindness. Expect a supportive, shame-free environment where you can listen inward, feel freely, and leave with tools for emotional presence that you can carry off the mat and into your life.

Cost: Tiered pricing, $30-40

with Hannah Lee and Kath Katsikeas

Depression is isolating, painful, and very common. It can impact our lives in subtle and overt ways alike. We invite you to join us for a gentle, affirming yoga and reflection practice led by Kath and Hannah, two yoga teachers and therapists. 

This virtual event will combine movement with moments for reflection and journaling around the themes of: hypoarousal, or the experience of fatigue and depletion; hyperarousal, or overstimulation from life or overwhelm from challenges personally or in the world; isolation; and balance. 

We encourage you to come as you are, take what’s useful, leave the rest, and enjoy connection with a community of those that live with depression. No formal diagnosis needed! Recording will be available for those unable to join in real time.

Cost: Tiered pricing, $40-60