Events and Workshops
We frequently host special guest teachers, extended classes from your favorite local teachers, music, art and other special events at PPY. If you walk away learning one thing from any of these offerings that is a good and worthy practice, and will boost your daily yoga. Make it a staycation: a regular morning weekend class, grab a healthy bite in the neighborhood and then come back for an afternoon workshop. Instant Day of Yoga Retreat! ~Please scroll down, pre-registration is recommended… 48 hours advanced notice for cancellation required for refund~
For registration assistance ~ please email us at: info@pleasurepointyoga.com
New Class! Inversion Therapy Yoga
INSTRUCTORS: Carissa Nations
DATE: Begins every Monday on November 18th
TIME: 10am
COST: Class passes Accepted (Monthly unlimited, Yearly, 10 class passes) ; $20 Drop In
New Class! Trapeze Yoga for Tweens (ages 8-12)
INSTRUCTORS: Carissa Nations
DATE: Begins every Wednesday on November 20th
TIME: 4pm
COST: $25
ALUNA Transformational Breakwork
INSTRUCTORS: Alex & Atilla
DATE: Sunday, November 24th
TIME: 12-3pm
COST: $65
LOCATION: Pleasure Point Yoga! Join us in the main yoga studio
Group size: max 10 people
What to bring: yoga mat, blanket, small pillow and your water bottle
Please* try not to eat two hours prior to the session
* wear comfortable clothes
* drink plenty of water after the session
* make sure you have no commitments after the session
* and come with an intention. What would you like to explore, transform, integrate or let go off?
Contraindications:
* recent surgery or fractures
* acute infectious illness
* pregnancy
* Glaucoma
* cardiovascular problems
* severe hypertension
* epilepsy
* history of severe mental illness or psychiatric hospitalization
About Alex & Attila:
Alex: For the past ten years Alexandra has facilitated for many to find their true bliss and purpose in life, supporting and empowering others through energy healing, massage therapy, Huna, meditation, Transformational Breath™ and plant medicine. Her greatest joy lies in guiding people to embrace themselves and their authenticity. Alexandra is a strong believer in creating your own reality. Limiting beliefs and programming are a big player in feeling stuck and not experiencing the full potential we came with. Undoing those limitations can results in a more, fulfilled and joyful life. Her work is rooted in self-forgiveness and self-love.
Attila: A former Marketing Executive for multinational companies for 25 years Attila now facilitates and coaches, committed and serving others to achieve greater spiritual and emotional awareness by transforming existing traumas, releasing limiting beliefs, getting in touch with deep emotions, to find meaning and purpose in their lives. Once being in touch with yourself, self love has the power to bloom to help each one of us to achieve anything we aspire. Thoughts manifest creation, and by giving all, you will receive all…more than you could possibly imagine. He shares his message and techniques through 1-on-1 sessions, group workshops and retreats.
Crystal Bowl Sound Journey
INSTRUCTORS: Kim Molloy
DATE: Sunday, December 1st
TIME: 7:30-8:30pm
COST: $15-20 sliding scale
Every first Sunday of the month!
Kim Molloy is a Sound Alchemist divinely gifted with
Sound and Energy Healing. She integrates Theta
Healing, Reiki, and Angelic Healing energies. Kim
channels energy and vibration from the higher dimensions into this earth plane. The Crystal bowls are the vehicle for transmitting these light codes, sounds, and energy vibrations. They are musically attuned to the chakras in the body infusing pure light vibration and harmonic sound waves that resonate into every cell.
Digestive Wellness Holistic Nutrition Workshop
INSTRUCTORS: Delaney Puhek
DATE: Sunday, December 8th
TIME: 1-2:30pm
COST: $25 in advance / $30 at the door
Join Nutrition consultant and Yoga teacher Delaney Puhek for an informative and integrative Digestive Wellness Workshop! Delaney has been working in the field of Nutrition with a special focus on digestive wellness for years and treating hundreds of people with gut-associated conditions like IBS and IBD.
During this workshop, you will discover how to Eat for Digestive Wellness. You will find out how to…
Break down digestive physiology and why digestion is an important component of overall health
Reduce toxic and inflammatory foods that might be wreaking havoc on your digestion
Fine-tune your diet to support your microbiome
Discover Mindful eating practices, intuitive eating, and using nutrition as a holistic approach to healing to create LASTING change.
New Year – Best You Yet Reboot
INSTRUCTORS: Alisha Slaughter
DATE: Every Sunday in January
TIME: 12-1:30pm
COST: $160 for full series (includes yoga), $48 for a drop in (includes yoga), $35 for nutrition drop in only
Commit to kicking off the year right by recommitting to your health and wellness. The intention of this reboot is to give you support, inspiration and knowledge to set you up for the best year yet and easy to incorporate tools to support you in living the healthiest and happiest life possible. Join us at the studio every Sunday for the month of January for Sweaty Flow followed by a 1.5 long nutrition and wellness workshop.
Join each session separately or commit to the whole month for a discount. Those that sign up for the whole month also get a FREE hour long 1:1 nutritional consulting session (phone/virtual). Each class is limited to 20 participants. Leave each session with clear actions you can take to be healthier immediately and tools to incorporate into your life that will enable lifelong health. We will also be building out individual meal plans for each week so you could go to the store later that afternoon or night and be ready for a great week.
Issues we will address: digestion, fatigue, extra weight, inflammation, and balanced mood
Commit to all four weeks: $160
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Yoga class $15
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Nutrition Class: $25
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Includes 1:1, 60 minute nutritional consulting session (phone/virtual)
Cost for drop in: $48 (includes yoga class)
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Yoga Class $18
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Nutrition Class $30
Cost for drop in nutrition class $35
The 4 weekly sessions will cover:
Jan. 5th – Nutrition Basics and How to Build a Healthy Meal
Jan. 12th – Deep Dive on Digestive Health
Jan. 19th – Stress Management and Eating for Happiness
Jan. 26th – Ditch Diets – Learn to Eat Intuitively (Build your personal, whole-life, health toolbox)
Format:
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4, 90 minutes in person sessions
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Materials needed: journal and a commitment to show up and do the work needed to create lifelong healthy habits
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Facebook support group
Restorative Yoga + Live Music w/ Girish
INSTRUCTORS: Leslee Bassin
DATE: Saturday, January 11th
TIME: 6-7:30pm
COST: $30 in advance, $35 at the door
FREE! Community Flow
INSTRUCTORS: PPY Faculty
DATE: Sunday, November 3rd
TIME: 12-1pm
COST: FREE!
Free yoga asana class taught by PPY’s 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training graduates. Offered weekly on Sundays from 12-1pm.
Check out our rotating schedule below to see who’s teaching!
Sunday, November 3rd ~ Jeff D’Arpino
Sunday, November 10th ~ Shanie Gill of Yoga For All Movement
Sunday, November 17th ~ no class!
Sunday, November 24th ~Shanie Gill
Satsang, weekly
INSTRUCTOR: Sherry Cassedy
DATE: Every Monday
TIME: 7:30 – 8:30am
COST: Free and open to all!
Pleasure Point Yoga’s Monday morning Satsang is a unique (and free) opportunity to delve deeper into the esoteric teachings of Yoga in the company of one another. It is a great introduction for anyone who is curious to learn more, and an open invitation to revisit and share in the supported space of the Sangha as we deepen our practice. We will be taking up the Yamas and Niyamas starting July 16, exploring each of the qualities as a practice in and of itself. Patanjali calls the Yamas (nonviolence, truth, non stealing, chastity, non hoarding) the Great Vow or Mahavratam. This is a wonderful time to join the circle and you are always feel free to drop in as we share the path of yoga. “Satsang” is a Sanskrit word derived from “sat”, meaning truth, and “sanga”, meaning community. In Satsang, we gather together, in community to seek truth or, more simply, to be with the truth. We create the space with chanting, light, and intention, gentle rituals that help us to dedicate this hour to our study and practice and to one another.
HeartBeat Dance Fitness
INSTRUCTOR: Danu
DATE: Monday and Wednesday nights beginning January 2nd
TIME: 6-7pm
COST: Regular class pricing
LOCATION: Pleasure Point Movement, PPY’s 2nd Studio located a few doors down at 3603 Portola Dr.
Advance enrollment via MindBody is Required and Will Sell Out!
Come dance and sweat with us! This hour long adults’ dance fitness class blends high and low intensity dance moves, toning calisthenics and feel good music to work your body and feed your soul. All levels welcome!
Regular class schedule to begin January 2nd : Monday and Wednesday nights 6-7pm!
Danu Schoeck is back on the Santa Cruz Dance scene and excited to bring you Heartbeat Dance Fitness! This class combines heart pumping cardio dance in hip hop, street jazz and world dance styles with fitness movements to tone and strengthen. Danu is a well known local dance and fitness choreographer and teacher. She has over 9 years of experience teaching dance and fitness classes and a strong belief in movement as medicine. Come see what the buzz is about!
A message from PPY’s Owner (Megan McAllister): Danu is BACK on the Dance Scene and joining the line up of classes at Pleasure Point Movement (Pleasure Point Yoga’s new and forming second studio). Pleasure Point Movement has crafted its class offerings to inspire students to get out of their heads and back into their hearts – – all centered around movement of some sort (stay tuneded for much more!!!). Danu is one of my favorite dance teachers of all time (Hip Hop, Street Jazz, Zumba). Danu is such a talented dancer and a prolific teacher. She may be small in size but her dance moves are HUGE! She is such a light – – her radiant personality, contageous smile, encouraging teaching style, and dope choreography had classes packed when she was teaching!! No matter the level of dance experience, Danu will make it FUN!! Get ready to drop it like it’s HOTT!!!
Monthly Monday Night Yoga for Social Justice Book Club
INSTRUCTOR: Gwen Benjamin
DATE: 1st Monday of every month – Beginning December 3rd
TIME: 7:15 – 8:30pm
COST: FREE!
LOCATION: Pleasure Point Movement, PPY’s 2nd Studio located a few doors down at 3603 Portola Dr..
This monthly reading and discussion group is a safe container to hold difficult conversations about social justice issues in the yoga world. Through examining modern yoga’s relationship to race, class, gender, colonialism, activism, trauma, body positivity, and agency, we will explore a variety of complicated topics that inform the ways in which we in the West consume and create yoga culture.
Each month when the new book is announced, participants will receive a list of guided questions to accompany the readings. The Yoga for Social Justice Book Club is 90 minutes long and open to all bodies, all ways.
Yoga for Social Justice Book Club – Reading List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rb_8magvutAVN7V_KkXyG319jFADOFmv9K1BjWA1FDk/edit
Monthly Monday Night Yoga Nidra
INSTRUCTOR: Kayla Copeland
DATE: 2nd Monday of every month
TIME: 7:15 – 8:00pm
COST: Regular class pricing
When the body is relaxed and the nervous system is in a ‘resting state’, we are much more apt to heal from within. Sometimes in our busy lives we don’t always have the time to “hurry up and relax” or sometimes finding relaxation itself can be a challenge.
This class is designed to guide you into a deep and conscious relaxation of body and mind, to a place between dreaming and waking. Yoga Nidra is often referred to as ‘Yogic Sleep’. It is said that 45 mins of Yoga Nidra is equivalent in benefits to 4 hours of traditional sleep.
Join Kayla Copeland for a sweet start to your week! 2nd Monday of every month
Monthly Monday Night Kirtan
INSTRUCTOR: Emily Perry & Friends
DATE: 3rd Monday of every month
TIME: 7:30 – 9:30pm
COST: $10-20 Suggested Donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Creativity Flow Yoga & Art Mash Up
INSTRUCTORS: Ilana Ingber
DATE: Tuesdays
TIME: 1-2:30pm
COST: Regular class pricing
Creativity Flow! (Meditation, Yoga, Art making Mash up) ~ For Adults of all ages!
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong” Joseph Chilton Pearce
Release fear and come practice creating with non-attachment and non-judgement in the loving PPY environment! This class is a meditation, yoga, art making mash up for anyone who wants to enhance their creative thinking skills and let go of self-limiting beliefs/blocks. Class begins with a warm up (infusing practices from qi gong, kundalini, and hatha yoga). We will center our minds, awaken our bodies, and focus on expanding our second chakra, our creativity center. Students will then be led in creativity enhancing meditations or journal exercises to help heal our relationship with our inner artist/child and open our inner channels of inspiration, intuition, and imagination. Finally students will be guided into an art exploration (or given time to explore art materials freely based on comfort level) in community. Let’s use our art practice as an opportunity to increase our inner friendliness, compassion, and positive self talk muscles. This class is open to beginner artists, recovering perfectionists, and experienced artists. All are welcome!
Bio:
Ilana Ingber, founder of Happy HeART Studio and Happy HeART Teacher Mentorship program, is an expert on teaching mindfulness and creative thinking through art and yoga. She has her masters in Art and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and her 200-hour yoga certification from YogaWorks. She has been a dedicated yoga practitioner since 2011. Ilana has taught as an educator in public school, private school, museums, as well as yoga studios and national conferences. She has over 1000 students from Kindergarten to adults. She began her career in New York City where she worked for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Learning through Art Program and Creativity Institute. She later taught at Success Academy Charter School and became the Art Content Lead, providing mentorship and professional development for art teachers across the network of Success Academy schools. Ilana is an active member of the National Art Education Association and has presented at National Conventions on topics such as: Teaching Collaboration Skills through Painting Curriculum, Assessing Creativity, and Infusing Mindfulness Practices into the Art Studio. Additionally Ilana attends neuroscience, experiential education, and mindfulness conferences every year as part of her ongoing learning. Overall, Ilana is most committed to teaching herself and others how to find inner love, joy, and creativity, to create a more compassionate and peaceful world.
Peace Warriors Kids Yoga (all ages 5+)
INSTRUCTORS: Ilana Ingber
DATE: Tuesdays beginning September 24th
TIME: 3:45-5:15pm
COST: $150 for 6 sessions; $30 drop in
LOCATION: 3603 Portola Dr. located a few doors down and to the left of our main yoga studio
Pleasure Point Yoga is excited for the return of Kids Yoga (all ages) with Ilana Ingber! Beginning EVERY Tuesday afternoon on September 24th 3:45-5:15pm
Peace Warriors-in-training will practice cultivating a kind and compassionate inner voice as they are guided through yoga, mindfulness, martial arts, and art activities in a safe and supportive environment. Each week will focus on a different theme.
Peace Warrior students will:
- Build inner and outer strength
- Flexibility and creative thinking skills
- Students will be guided through breathing exercises, flowing sequences, balancing poses, martial arts
- Art exploration
Classes will focus on balancing effort and ease, ending in a deep relaxation. Finally, students will be guided into art exploration as meditation. Through the blend of yoga and art making, students will focus on building self-awareness, confidence, positive self talk, and compassion.
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Monthly
INSTRUCTOR: Cat McDaris
DATE: 2nd Tuesday of every month
TIME: 7-8:30pm
COST: FREE! Donations accepted but not expected
LOCATION: Pleasure Point Movement, located a few doors down at 3603 Portola Dr.
Tribal Fusion Belly Dance (all levels)
INSTRUCTORS: Kaelin Bovee
DATE: Begins every Wednesday Nov. 6th
TIME: 7:15pm
COST: Regular class pricing
This class focuses on American Tribal Fusion technique and isolation drills, use of props followed by combinations. Come learn sensual movement to feel the benefits of moving your body intuitively while stretching and strengthening abdominal muscles. Strong encouragement of your creative expression and a likely boost of confidence.
Bio:
Kaelin began Egyptian Belly Dance at eight years old with Melanie Kareem in Topanga, California. She fell in love with this dance form for its freedom of expression and exotic costumes. She danced professionally in Los Angeles for a few years and went on to study with the highly respected Rachel Brice, Zoe Jakes and Gina Bruno. Kaelin still performs but truly enjoys teaching and creating community through dance.