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LATE SUMMER, NEW CLASSES
This transitional season brings a NEW community class, plus more free Pilates 🌞🌎🌼
Liz Ragland Yoga
August 21, 2025
EDIT 8/23/25 — Hi team! My subbing schedule below has been shifted slightly, as have Pilates classes — updates will be sent out by email tonight!
SEASONAL TRANSITION
With dropping temperatures and the anticipation of Fall around us, my classes this season are focused on building and containing heat and then grounding our energy to regain a sense of safety, peace, stillness, and control.
NEW CLASS
Starting in September, I’m adding a third Community Yoga class:
Every Friday 4:30-5:30 pm at Yoga Union
As with all Yoga Union classes, it will be available online and in person!
FREE PILATES
Sun 8.24, 8:00-9:00am / Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park Tennis Courts (Eagle Drive Entrance) / map
Tue 8.26, 6:15-7:15pm / Virtual (Zoom) / link
JUST ADDED Wed 8.27, 8:30-9:30am / Wyman Park Dell (meet by ping pong table) / map
❌ CANCELLED, will reschedule Sunday, August 31st, 8:30-9:30am / Wyman Park Dell ❌
LATE SUMMER
Did you know that in Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are five seasons instead of the four we think of in the West? The mysterious fifth season is Late Summer, and it is special because it has characteristics of all other seasons.
late summer can be hot, cold, wet, dry, windy and stagnant from one moment to the next.
Late Summer means celebration (think Labor Day cook outs and the final few beach weekends of the year), preparation for the Fall, and embodiment of creative ideas. If we plant a seed in the Spring and it blooms in the Summer, Late Summer is when we enjoy the ripe and juicy fruit of our labors. Late Summer’s color is yellow and its element is Earth.
The Earth element gives us the power of manifestation. From the action of Fire comes the product of Earth. The materialization of money through labor of mind or body, the writing of words to create a book, or the drawing or photography of an artist to produce visual images, are all examples of the process.
Late Summer also heralds the Back to School rush and lends a sense of pressure and change to our schedules. It is Hurricane Season, bringing literal winds with the figurative winds do change. In this transitional season, we rely upon grounding and centering practices to keep our lives in balance.
My yoga classes this season are focused on building and containing heat and then grounding our energy to regain a sense of safety, peace, stillness, and control.
Adapted from a diagram in Staying Healthy With the Seasons by Elson Haas, M.D.
CLASS SCHEDULE
🗓️REGULAR SCHEDULE, Now until 9/1/25 🗓️
Mondays, 7:30-8:30pm: Community Yoga, $7, Yoga Union / in person and livestream available
Thursdays, 7:30-8:30pm: Community Yoga, $7, Yoga Union / in person and livestream available
🔔BONUS ROUNDS🔔
Subbing the following classes — great opportunities to practice at different times and check out different spaces.
➕JUST ADDED! Thu 8.28, 9:30-10:30am: Yoga Union / in person and livestream available
✅Fri 8.29, 4:30-5:30pm: Community, $7, Yoga Union / in person and livestream available
❌Sat 8.30, 9:00-10:15am: Yoga Union / Myriam will be back to teach this class!
➕JUST ADDED! Sun 8.31, 9:00-10:15am: Yoga Union / in person and livestream available
FREEBIE TEASER
Starting this Fall, each seasonal update newsletter will come with a freebie just for subscribers. I have some ideas up my sleeve, but I want to hear from you: what would be the most worthwhile and fun free content?
Quick on-demand practice videos
Longer practice videos
Pranayama/meditation recordings
Essays/articles about the theory behind our practices
iPhone backgrounds and screensavers
Let me know what would tickle your fancy!
During transitional periods, it is especially important to stay centered, a state of being in contact with the Earth that we call “grounded,” so as not to go into total chaos. If things are in motion, both inwardly and outwardly, there is nothing to hold onto.
Elson Haas, Staying Healthy With the Seasons
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