Equipose Yoga Studio

06/21/2026

Happy International Day of Yoga, Summer Solstice AND Father’s Day!! Join Lee for a relaxing Yin class at 10 a.m.🕉️

06/15/2026

This morning’s Yin class included a Reiki-infused sound healing session with Seana. Lee led everyone in a beautiful Yin practice, while Seana offered the healing sounds of crystal and Tibetan bowls, angel harps, buffalo drum, Native American flute, tuning forks, rain stick, kenari shakers, rattles and chimes.

Seana is a Reiki Master and Sound Healing Practitioner who continues to train under the talented Mark Torgeson.

06/14/2026

Dear Yogis:

I am borrowing from the teachings of Alan Watts this week. He was a British/American writer who was a student of Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Zen and Eastern Mysticism. Much of his work dealt with the belief that we have been conditioned by society to feel separate from the energy all around us. If you think for a moment about feelings you have of love, empathy, friendship and kindness, those emotions require someone or something outside the self. Watts calls our feelings of separateness "The Myth of the Self." But the topic this week is really about gratitude, which, if we practice it, may be the answer to happiness and connection to the universe's energy.

Gratitude is not simply saying "thank you." It is the recognition that you already have everything you need. You are no longer lacking so you are no longer chasing. Gratitude allows us to vibrate in the frequency of abundance. The universe does not speak in language; it speaks in resonance. Watts calls this "the song of enlightenment."

When you feel gratitude NOT for what is coming but for what already is, you become a magnet, not for things, but for the energy that makes all things possible.

I am out of the studio this Monday through Thursday. Wes's classes will meet as scheduled.

Please note that the costs of classes will increase the 1st of July:
Unlimited Pass $100
10 Class Pass $150
5 Class Pass $75
Drop-in is still $25.
Private 90-minute sessions are $100.
Also, because the first Saturday in July is the 4th, Ball Therapy will meet on the second Saturday, July 11th.

Regular Class Schedule

SUNDAY:
10AM Yin Yoga
MONDAY:
10:00AM Yin Yoga
4:30PM Vinyasa Flow Yoga
TUESDAY:
12PM Lunch Break Yoga, All Levels, 1 hr
6:00-7:30PM All Levels Flow with Wes
WEDNESDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow
5:30PM Yin Yoga [ZOOM + IN-STUDIO]
THURSDAY:
5:30 Yin [ZOOM only]
6-7:30pm All Levels Flow with Wes
FRIDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow Yoga

No need to register for classes—just come! Drop-ins are $25, and you can purchase class passes.

https://equiposeyoga.com/classes-props

06/13/2026

Dear Yogis:

ATTENTION: Lee’s classes are cancelled from June 15-18.

We are going to tackle a difficult subject tonight, one that baffled Einstein! Quantum and Consciousness/ The Observer Effect. First and foremost, consciousness is NOT physical; it is metaphysical...beyond. So, can anyone really define consciousness?

Dr. Theresa Bullard at The Quantum Learning Academy has helped me relate consciousness and quantum energy in an understandable way. Here goes. When we observe anything, a particle or wave in a state of being, that is when that particle or wave manifests in its state of being. Before we observe it, it could have been in an infinite number of states or possibilities in the quantum field. Our awareness or consciousness of that state of being is The Observer Effect. Until a being becomes aware of the state of being of that particle or wave, it's in a quantum infinite possibility kind of state of being.

So, consciousness is the key that relates to this observer effect and what it has to do with our choices.
The conscious observer chooses how he or she is going to observe a certain state of being based on possible biases or assumptions. These become filters that set up our perception, and they determine what the observer is going to get out of the observation. Choices really matter!

Consciousness is more primary because it is what initiates the manifestation of that field in the quantum. Scientists cannot pinpoint consciousness because it's not physical; it's metaphysical.

To conclude, nothing is fixed until we observe it. It is pure possibility before awareness touches it. The moment consciousness enters the field, reality takes shape. That's The Observer Effect. Awareness is not passive or random but a catalyst that pulls possibility into form.

What reality are you choosing to observe into existence?

(Quantum is the smallest possible, indivisible unit of any physical property, such as energy or matter)

Please note that the costs of classes will increase the 1st of July: Unlimited Pass $100, 10 Class Pass $150, 5 Class Pass $75, Drop-in is still $25. Private 90-minute sessions are $100.

Regular Class Schedule

SUNDAY:
10AM Yin Yoga
MONDAY:
10:00AM
4:30PM Vinyasa Flow Yoga
TUESDAY:
12PM Lunch Break Yoga, All Levels, 1 hr
6:00-7:30PM All Levels Flow with Wes
WEDNESDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow
5:30PM Yin Yoga [ZOOM + IN-STUDIO]
THURSDAY:
5:30 Yin [ZOOM only}
6-7:30pm All Levels Flow with Wes
FRIDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow Yoga

No need to register for classes—just come! Drop-ins are $25, and you can purchase class passes.

https://equiposeyoga.com/classes-props

One last thing, please vote for “Best of Warrenton.” Equipose is listed under “Health and Fitness.”

06/01/2026

Dear Yogis:

I thought this week would be a good time to return to FASCIA . Many of you attend Yin on a regular basis for different reasons, but along with breathwork, an important objective is to reorganize the fascia and allow it to become longer and thicker. Short yang-type of stress will not accomplish this; however, yang types of stress are necessary in order for the muscle to become stronger.

Restrictions to our movement can come from our muscles' fascia being short and tight, but fascia can restrict us in other ways too. One of the functions of fascia is to allow the sliding surfaces of adjacent muscle groups to slide. If the fascia is too dry, the sliding surfaces will start to stick together. Sometimes adhesions glue the surfaces together and mobility is lost. These adhesions are made of collagen fibers that begin as thin wisps of fuzz (1); every night when we sleep, our body produces fuzz between the muscle groups. We break up the fuzz when we move, stretch, and go to yoga. Injury or sedentary lifestyles equal more fuzz layered on night after night. These fuzz fibers start to intertwine and tangle and become significantly thicker. We become "fuzzed over,'' and our range of motion is reduced.

Other conditions can restrict our range of motion. Scar tissue can reduce our range of motion, too. It can build up between the sliding surfaces of the muscle groups or in a joint capsule. Sometimes the restrictions we feel come from deep fascia contracting by itself. It has been discovered that fascia contains contracting elements called myofibroblasts (2), living cells that act like fibroblasts (the most common cell in connective tissue) and a bit like muscle cells and contribute to wound healing. Myofibroblasts support organ function and are found in deep fascia, but this can be a problem. For example, the lumbar fascia has a high myofibroblast density, and these contracting fibers can restrict the length of our fascia, remodeling tissue, shortening it and causing chronic instability in the lower back, headaches, and fibromyalgia.

A consistent Yin practice can reduce or even correct fuzzy or contracting fascial restrictions.

1. I am borrowing the term "fuzz" from Gil Hedley. The more correct term for fuzz is loose connective tissue. You can view Gil's "Fuzz Speech" on YouTube.
2. R. Schleip,et al., 'Fascia is Able to Contract in a Smooth Muscle-loke Manner and Thereby Influence Musculoskeletal Mechanics," Journal of Biomechanics 39 [2006], p.S488.

Illustration by bendablebody.com

Regular Class Schedule

SUNDAY:
10AM Yin Yoga
MONDAY:
10:00AM
4:30PM Vinyasa Flow Yoga
TUESDAY:
12PM Lunch Break Yoga, All Levels, 1 hr
6:00-7:30PM All Levels Flow with Wes
WEDNESDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow
5:30PM Yin Yoga [ZOOM + IN-STUDIO]
THURSDAY:
5:30 Yin [ZOOM only}
6-7:30pm All Levels Flow with Wes
FRIDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow Yoga

No need to register for classes—just come! Drop-ins are $25, and you can purchase multi-class and monthly unlimited passes.

https://equiposeyoga.com/classes-props

05/28/2026

The Best of Fauquier contest is open for voting (link in comments), shining a spotlight on the local businesses and people that help make this community thrive. It’s time to show some local love. ❤️ Link in comments >>

05/28/2026

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05/26/2026

05/25/2026

05/25/2026

Dear Yogis:

The diaphragm, the organ of respiration, is actually much more! It decides whether you are safe enough to feel because it is the dividing line between the survival body and the safety body. Above the diaphragm lies the heart, lungs, and throat, below the digestive system, gut, and reproductive system. The diaphragm sits right in the middle holding tension between the upper and lower body.

If someone grows up in an environment where it was not safe to speak, feel, cry, or even take up space, the diaphragm learns to hold or brace and create a wall between what is felt below and what one is allowed to feel above.

Over time this shows up as shallow breathing, chronic anxiety, digestive issues, or tight mid-section. There is never a full exhale because a full breath would mean that person would feel the pain of everything.

If a person's nervous system still feels unsafe, breathing exercises will not retrain the diaphragm. The drainage organs, the lungs, kidneys, colon, and skin are still blocked, and there is no place for the processed emotion to go.

A full breath is not just oxygen; it's the body's signal that the threat has passed, and it's safe to feel; the survival mode can end.

To conclude, our emotions impact the movement of our diaphragm. Grief, anxiety and fear can cause the diaphragm to tighten. The diaphragm has a memory, and it learned really early that a full breath wasn't always safe; everything that lives below the surface is too much, too vulnerable, too exposed. That wall that the diaphragm makes is subtle, unconscious. That half- breath keeps you functional but never really present in your body. That wall doesn't come down with technique; it comes down with safety, which is not just a feeling. Our nervous system has to be guided into safety, slowly and gently over time. To unblock those drainage systems, one has to feel safe enough to breathe fully.

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Regular Class Schedule

SUNDAY:
10AM Yin Yoga
MONDAY:
10:00AM
4:30PM Vinyasa Flow Yoga
TUESDAY:
12PM Lunch Break Yoga, All Levels,1 hr
6:00-7:30PM All Levels Flow with Wes
WEDNESDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow
5:30PM Yin Yoga [ZOOM + IN-STUDIO]
THURSDAY:
5:30 Yin [ZOOM only}
6-7:30pm All Levels Flow with Wes
FRIDAY:
10AM Vinyasa Flow Yoga

No need to register for classes—just come! Drop-ins are $25, and you can purchase class passes.

https://equiposeyoga.com/classes-props