Workshops

**This is a monthly event. Please see below for dates.**

Join us for a beautiful evening of kirtan, which is a call-and-response process where we chant the names of the divine, connecting ourselves to a higher spiritual power. We sing in kirtan with a common purpose of uplifting our consciousness via sacred sound and we share wisdom and stories from the yoga tradition that inspire us and give insight on how to navigate the challenges and circumstances that inevitably come in life. It doesn’t matter your background or level of experience. All that is required is an open heart and enthusiasm to connect to something beyond the material. All are welcome.

Dayal Gauranga has been on a spiritual journey leading kirtans and teaching spiritual wisdom for more than 20 years. At 18 years old, he became a monk and dedicated himself to a life of inner study, reflection, and service.  One year later he made his first trip to India and has since traveled back numerous times throughout the subcontinent, as well as to countries and communities around the world to learn, discover and share the richness of spiritual tradition that he has received. After 10 years of monastic life, he transitioned out of the monastery, met his wife Rasika, got married, and currently lives in Brooklyn with their dog Jiva. Dayal is the co-founder, along with his wife, of the Conscious Earth Institute, a spiritually based counseling, education, and training organization to help individuals heal from inner wounds in order to live life from a place of true Self.

Upcoming Dates:
Saturday, February 1st, 5-6:30pm
Saturday, March 8th, 5-6:30pm
Saturday, April 19th, 5-6:30pm
Saturday, May 17th, 7-8:30pm

With great joy we welcome our circle to reunite. Sarah and Jarrod are honored to come together to serve cacao and create a nurturing evening of healing and connection.

In this sacred ceremony, we will honor Mother Earth & expand our potential through the medicine of cacao and of sound.

The cacao spirit is a feminine and powerful teacher, who can assist us in:

-releasing old stories
-cleansing negativity
-opening your heart
-connecting to the feminine/ Mother Earth
-increasing creativity
-feeling uplifted
-remembering the divine within you!

With the Cacao Spirit and the healing power of gong and drum, let us receive divine messages and inspiration!

We will sit in a traditional circle and drink ceremonial strength cacao at the beginning of the ceremony.

Please do not eat 2 hours before the ceremony to let the cacao goddess have her full effect.

All are welcome to join!

Please register early as space is limited.

10% discount for SOUK All-In Members

Although our dear friend and teacher, Joan Suval, left her body on April 24, 2020, she left us a wealth of programs and talks. Joan dedicated her life to the teachings of Yoga and Vedanta and being a “radio” for Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati, founder of Ananda Ashram in Monroe, NY.

On the first Monday of Every Month at 8pm in the main room – join us after the 6:30pm class for Video Recordings of Ananda Ashram’s program with Joan Suval – ‘Readings from the Great Spiritual Masters’, elaborating on topics that only the enlightened ones could illumine for us in a way that is relatable & timeless.

The discussion following the video recording this month will be facilitated by Monica and Vani Devi.

A Breathwork & Sound Journey honoring International Women’s Day

This event is open to Men and Women.

Join us for a transformative Breathwork & Sound Journey in honor of International Women’s Day, a sacred space to awaken, empower, and celebrate the Divine Feminine within. Through the power of conscious breath, sound healing, and deep meditation, this experience will guide you to reconnect with your inner wisdom, release energetic blockages, and move on with ease in life.

Immerse yourself in the vibrational healing of singing bowls, gong, chimes, and other sacred instruments, harmonizing your body, mind, and soul. As you breathe deeply and surrender to the sound, you will unlock a profound sense of inner peace, self-love, and empowerment.

This journey is an invitation to honor your essence, embrace your strength, and rise in unity with women around the world. Whether you seek renewal, clarity, or a deeper connection to yourself, this experience will leave you feeling uplifted, aligned, and radiant.

 What to Expect:
Guided Breathwork to awaken and energize
Sound Healing with high-frequency instruments
Meditation for deep relaxation and empowerment
A sacred space to honor sisterhood and divine femininity

Step into your power, breathe with intention, and let the sound guide you home. This is your time to rise.

10% discount for SOUK ALL-IN Members

Primavera is Meditation and Breathwork teacher with 20+ years of experience and has added Sound Healing to her sessions to enhance the benefits of these practices.

Offer yourself the gift of this two hour sonic meditation experience to deepen your practice with breathwork, vocal toning and a soundscape developed with a range of overtone-emitting instruments including drum, chimes, antique Tibetan singing bowls, Symphonic gong, and more, created by Sound Meditation facilitator George MacPherson.

This extended, guided sound meditation guides you, as the active participant, on your own journey toward the neutral, equanimous mind; an expansive, spacious state of consciousness. The focus and invitation lays the path of re-establishing harmony, within, and without.

10% off for ALL-IN Members

*Cancellations can be made up to 12 hours before a workshop – no refunds after!

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Breathwork is an active meditation practice that uses a repetitive breath pattern to drop into an altered state. A powerful self-healing practice, breathwork can help you shift out of old patterns, confront limiting beliefs, and move stuck emotions. Regular practice allows you to experience more clarity, bliss, and presence.

George Ramsay is a certified breathwork facilitator who has worked with over 500 clients and companies. He’s been invited into law firms, tech companies, nonprofits, and schools who want to integrate coaching, enneagram, and breathwork to support cultural transformation and well-being. With a background in education, George creates a comfortable environment where everyone feels fully informed of the practice. As a result, everyone gets something in return. He is known for bringing harmony and ease in the midst of big transformation. George currently lives in Asheville, NC.

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Join us at Souk on Saturday March 15th for Seva (सेवा). Seva is a Sanskrit term that means selfless service and compassionate action performed without any expectation of reward and is a powerful spiritual practice. Together, we will bring out love, hearts and creativity to make homemade cards for nursing home residents so they feel loved and remembered. This creative tribal gathering of love and card making will happen during  Maria Cutrona’s Community Circle of Breathwork and Reflection Women’s Circle.

Caring by Card strives to uplift the lives of sick, disabled and elderly people who live in nursing homes one card at a time! Individuals who live in nursing homes feel loneliness every single day. Caring by Card aims to alleviate that loneliness by inspiring volunteers to make and send homemade cards to the nursing homes we participate with eac month to help these people feel seen, loved and remembered! It is our mission to help create a just and equitable society, rooted in respecting and caring for our elderly and disabled brothers and sisters.

If you would like to learn more, please visit follow us on Instagram @caringbycard

Head to our website: https://caringbycard.com

Or email us at caringbycard@gmail.com

About Rachel:

Rachel Bennett is founder of Caring by Card and was named “New Yorker of the Week” by NY1 News for founding Caring by Card. She is a long-time yoga practitioner and devoted student to Sharon Gannon, Rima Rabbath and Monica Jaggi and is so grateful for the powerhouse-spiritual haven of SOUK. Rachel is a dancer, actress and Founder of the non-profit theater company OHM Productions INC  (https://ohmproductions.wixsite.com/my-site. She works as a yoga teacher, teaching from her home studio on the Upper West Side ((https://www.rachelbennettyoga.com/) )and was named “Top 20 New Meditation Teachers” by Insight Timer in 2021 for her guided meditation “Simple Vipassana for Mindful Awareness.” Rachel is working on an artistic heart project. She is currently getting her Masters in Social Work, planning to open up her own body-centered private practice, supporting clients to access their divine wisdom, which always lives and speaks through the body.

Move with Adrienne & Connie to support Yoga for Climate Justice at Sixth Street Community Center(SSCC) in the Lower East Side! SSCC programs and campaigns are focused on advancing climate justice while fighting environmental racism, urban sustainability, food justice and food access. Proceeds will keep Yoga for Climate Justice at SSCC free and pay-what-you-can for the LES community.

ALL PROCEEDS of this class will go to the Sixth Street Community Center!

 IG @sixthstreetyoga 

LINK for Maya Yoga Vinyasa Fusion Flow Class
This is a strong dynamic yoga class that incorporates all aspects of Maya Yoga including asana, pranayama, chanting, meditation, prayer, and deep relaxation, to leave you feeling recharged and inspired about your practice. Nicki likes to start the class slowly with poses that support the parasympathetic nervous system and then move slowly into seated chanting and pranayama. From there we will wake the body from the ground up, starting at the feet and moving through the legs, trunk, arms, and head. Sun salutations will be practiced to build internal heat and establish the harmonious flow of breath and movement known as “Vinyasa”.

Standing poses are linked with the sun salutations to create the dynamic flow that is both detoxifying and rejuvenating. What happens from there is organic and may include backbends, forward bends, arm balances, inversions or hip openers depending on the students and the energy of the day. The end of the class will bring you back to yourself and leave you feeling more centered and grounded, especially after a long savasana with Nicki reading poetry to you.

LINK for Passport to Your Core – A Yoga Practice to Guide You into Yourself While Turning Yourself Upside Down

What is Yoga? If we look at the literal meaning of the Sanskrit word, it means to yoke or to bring together. Real yoga is about calming the mind with all its fluctuations and agitations.

Most of our suffering and fears as human beings is between our ears, right in the middle of our consciousness. Of course there is also plenty of suffering and pain that we experience in our physical and emotional bodies as well. The poses of yoga are great because they not only lengthen and strengthen the muscles in our body but they offer us key insights into the workings of our minds. The poses reveal what is already there. It is a beautiful mystery how the poses become keys that unlock deep hidden parts of ourselves, parts that we have kept locked way and that we repress. It is the dark areas of our consciousness that have so much to teach us about ourselves. Maya Yoga teaches a way of practicing yoga that is as much about aligning the physical body as it is about learning how to love yourself more everyday. This class will use asana and pranayama to examine the mind body connection more deeply.

The focus will be on the group of poses known as Inversions – the upside down poses. Through an intelligent sequence of poses we will practice Handstands at the wall whether you are a pro already or a complete novice. Forearm balance will be done at the wall as well and headstand and shoulderstand will be introduced and shared as well. We will complete the class with the most restful pose, Viparita karani, legs up against the wall. This class will be taught in a supportive compassionate environment with the focus on the process of yoga and not necessarily on the final pose.

LINK for With Faith Comes Courage – A Yoga Practice to Build Confidence and Grace

Two of the foundational pillars of a consistent yoga practice are Shraddha – Faith , and Virya – Courage. The only way these can be established is through steady consistent personal practice. What happens on the mat in yoga should actually not stay on the mat but should follow us out the door and into our lives where we need it most. Yoga is a life support system and the poses are transformational tools that can touch us deeply both at a soul level and as a practical means of keeping our bodies fit and healthy. We need yoga in these hectic stressful lives that we lead.

This class will be a combination of both active and restorative asana. We will be more active in the first half of the class to open the body and mind and to get the breath flowing and the heart beating and establish Faith in the efficacy of the practice. Nicki will teach an engaged asana class that includes standing poses and hip openers, pranayama, and some backbends and twists. The second half of the class will be more reflective in nature and slower.

Restorative and supported poses will take you from the active side of the practice into the calming quieting side of yoga. Courage is having the strength to listen and speak from the heart and these softer poses will give you the opportunity to get in touch with what you’re feeling on the inside. Slowly you just may find what you’re looking for.

ENTIRE WORKSHOP SERIES

About Inside Flow: In Inside Flow you are singing a song with your body. We move with the music and embody the energy of the song. A yoga sequence choreographed in perfect harmony with a specific song to help you to experience a flow-like state of mind without any resistance.

It’s a revolutionary step in Vinyasa Yoga!

Masterclass 1 LINK- Saturday May 3rd 5pm -90min

Gentle and soulful – Surrender to the music, connecting body, mind and heart. Explore how the serene music makes you feel and express it with your practice.

Masterclass 2 LINK – Sunday May 4th 5:45pm – 90min

Uplifting and powerful – There ́s nothing more connecting and inspiring than flowing and feeling together.

Let’s move to uplifting beats to feel joyful and empowered as we move as one.

About Julia: Julia is an Inside Flow Senior Teacher, an internationally known yoga teacher and part of the leading personalities in the Inside Flow yoga scene. With countless hours of Inside Flow training, hundreds of hours experience teaching Inside Flow she is spending her time teaching Inside Flow and Inside Yoga full time! As a multifaceted trained yoga teacher, personal trainer and professional dancer,
Julia is an expert in well-being and soulful existence. Focusing on body mind and soul she supports people in immersing themselves in
their very personal flow state. Her love for music and graceful movements represent her unique style of teaching.
Creative and harmonious flows, combined with energetic impulses that will give you space to look beneath the surface and connect to your feelings – to strengthen the connection to yourself. Julia leads teacher trainings, workshops and retreats.

Website: www.flow-and-grow.com
Instagram: @julia_flowandgrow

Nikki Costello is an educator with 30+ years of teaching and training experience. Nikki is a Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher (Level 3-CIYT) and a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT). In 2013-2014, she was a contributing editor at Yoga Journal, writing the magazine’s “Basics Column,” and in 2016, Nikki was named one of the 100 Most Influential Teachers in America. She is the featured Iyengar Yoga teacher on GLO. Nikki holds an MA in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation from SOAS, University of London and is currently a PhD student in Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Since 2020, Nikki has taught weekly online Yoga and Meditation classes at Nikki Costello | The Practice. To learn more, visit Nikki’s website .

Mysore Practices, Workshops and Led Ashtanga (Primary Series) + Conference w/ Kino MacGregor

Full Workshop – 5 part Series (Saturday 5.24 through Monday 5.26): $275

Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga

• Sat. 5/24 Short Mysore: 7am-8:45am: $65
• Sun. 5/25 Mysore: 8:30-10:45am : $65

Immerse yourself in the indescribable experience of the Ashtanga Yoga Mysore Style method. Under Kino’s guidance, you will learn how to practice and work each pose without forcefulnesses. Let Kino expand your understanding on asanas you find challenging and assist you in adjustments to improve the strength, flexibility and determination to practice every day. Through this experience you will learn something new each time you step on the mat.

Workshops

Saturday 5/24 Journey to Handstand (1-2:45pm): $70

Yoga is all about practice, not about the goal. This class gives you a roadmap to follow on your journey to handstand. No matter where you are along the path, you’ll find technique, alignment and strength-building tools to support you on each step. If you’re inspired by handstands but feel intimidated about where to start, this class is great for you. And if you train handstands already you’ll take it to the next level. Leave with a feeling of pure joy and playfulness. Be prepared to sweat and be upside down!

The journey of strength is equal parts physical, mental and spiritual. Rather than brute force alone, strength in yoga is a balance between effort and surrender. More than just a handstand, strength is about so much more! In this class you will explore strength from every possible angle, break down the anatomical foundation of challenging arm balances and investigate the spiritual benefits of daily practice. Build stamina and endurance while flowing through key strength postures and learn solid technique so you can practice with safety. Attune yourself to true spiritual strength through the practice of yoga and celebrate every breath!

Sunday 5/25 Backbending Technique (1-3:30pm): $70

If you have always wanted to deepen your backbends this class is for you! Unlock the secret to backbends and explore spinal flexibility with sound anatomical technique. Whether you are an established practitioner looking to refine your approach to asana or a newbie wishing to understand the dynamics of backbends, you will find kernels of wisdom to better inform your practice here. Start off with discussion and anatomy and then integrate the theory with practice and application. Expect to be pleasantly challenged.

Led Ashtanga

Monday 5/26 Led Primary Series (7:30-9am) + Conference (9:15-10:30am): $65

Surrender to the traditional Ashtanga Yoga method with careful emphasis on the traditional vinyasa method and have fun along the journey. Experience the integrity and purity of the Ashtanga Yoga practice and be prepared to sweat. After practice, we will have a talk on yoga and we will wrap up with a conference and Q&A session!

Kino MacGregor is a Miami native who is happiest on the beach with a fresh coconut and a poet at heart who always stops to smell the flowers. She is the founder of Omstars—the world’s first yoga TV network. With over 1 million followers on Instagram and over 500,000 subscribers on YouTube and Facebook, Kino’s message of spiritual strength reaches people all over the world. Sought after as an expert in yoga worldwide, is an international yoga teacher, inspirational speaker, author of four books, producer of six Ashtanga Yoga DVDs, writer, vlogger, world traveler, co-founder of Miami Life Center.

Saturday June 7 ~ 1-2:30 $40

CocoYoga Classic

The class is an inward journey using the science of Raja Yoga. Explore Sun Salutations with bandhas and ujjayi breath, fundamentals of the Ashtanga yoga system. Follow intelligent sequencing from the Ashtanga and Iyengar traditions. The poses are held to explore expansion and extension and to allow the student time to incorporate B.K.S. Iyengar principles of precision and alignment. The teaching adjusts to the individual, a belief practiced in Viniyoga. This transcendental method of involution to achieve evolution will bring us in contact with our layers of existence, koshas, to realize awareness and consciousness necessary to experience sukkha.

Sunday June 8th 1-2:30 $55

ChakrAsanas

This is an invitation to participate in the spinning action of the universal life force. Accessing the vortexes of energy arranged along the spinal column enables the ability to unlock stagnant emotions. Utilizing mindful actions, asanas, and mindful breathing, pranayama, experience the freedom that arises from influencing the flow of energy. The chakras have the power to vitalize the body and mind.

10% Discount for ALL IN Members